FACT CHECK: Video Show­ing Rock­et Fire Is Not Relat­ed To Recent Syr­i­an Rebel Offen­sive

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FACT CHECK: Video Showing Rocket Fire Is Not Related To Recent Syrian Rebel Offensive

A video shared on X claims to show Syr­i­an Arab Army (SAA) heavy rock­et fire from the Syr­i­an rebels offen­sive in Alep­po.

Ver­dict: Mis­lead­ing

The video is from 2020 and was tak­en dur­ing fight­ing in Idlib, which is not in Alep­po. It was also fight­ing between the Turk­ish mil­i­tary and the SAA.

Fact Check:

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Social media users are claim­ing to show the SAA hit­ting rebel posi­tions in the west­ern part of Alep­po coun­try­side. One user wrote,”The Syr­i­an Arab Army is tar­get­ing HTS posi­tions in the west­ern Alep­po coun­try­side with MLRS rock­ets.”

This claim is false. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that that the video is from 2020. It was post­ed to CNN Turkey’s web­site amidst clash­es between the Turks and the Syr­i­an regime’s forces with the headline,”Breaking news… Tar­gets in Idlib were hit like this.”

“Fol­low­ing the clash in Idlib in which 4 of our sol­diers were mar­tyred and 9 of our sol­diers were injured, footage of the Turk­ish Armed Forces hit­ting Regime ele­ments with how­itzers and mor­tar shells was released. Pres­i­dent Erdoğan stat­ed in his state­ment that around 30–35 Regime ele­ments were neu­tral­ized,” reads the report­ing.

Mis­Bar and DFRAC both debunked the claim. There­fore, we rate this claim false. (RELATED: Can Bri­an Kemp Par­don Don­ald Trump?)