{"id":9126,"date":"2024-12-02T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:55:20","slug":"old-video-spreads-claiming-to-show-russian-targeting-of-opposition-gatherings-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/old-video-spreads-claiming-to-show-russian-targeting-of-opposition-gatherings-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video circulates as Russian targeting of opposition gatherings in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media\u00a0accounts<\/a>\u00a0recently posted a video of a huge fire, claiming that it was the result of Russian airstrikes targeting opposition faction gatherings in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the video via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d tool and found that it is old and wrongly linked to Russia\u2019s recent targeting of opposition factions\u2019 gatherings. The video documents fires resulting from targeting oil refineries in the Aleppo countryside in March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Asharq Al-Awsat account for Syria<\/a> posted the video on Facebook on 3\/5\/2021, accompanied by the following text: \u201cA missile attack targets the oil market in the Tarhin area in the city of Al-Bab in the Aleppo countryside, and strong explosions shake the area, coinciding with a similar attack targeting the oil market in the Al-Hamran area in the Jarablus countryside in the Aleppo countryside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot from Asharq Al-Awsat account dated 5\/3\/2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On 5\/3\/2021, Al-Ghad channel<\/a>\u00a0published\u00a0a TV report on YouTube that included the circulated video. The channel stated in the video description that \u201cexplosions were heard in the cities of Al-Bab and Jarabulus in northern Syria as a result of a missile falling on an oil refining area north of the city of Al-Bab in the areas controlled by the armed opposition in the northern Aleppo countryside.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot from Al-Ghad Channel dated 5\/3\/2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces account<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook also published\u00a0the video on 5\/3\/2021, with the following text: \u201cBombardment with dozens of missiles targets oil refineries in the town of Tarhin in the countryside of the city of Al-Bab, east of Aleppo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A report published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0on 5\/3\/2021 stated\u00a0that \u201cthe death toll rose to 4, and 24 others were injured with varying degrees of severity and burns, in addition to information about other deaths and injuries, as a result of targeting refineries and an oil market in both Tarhin and Al-Hamran, within the areas of influence of the Turkish forces and the factions loyal to them in the northern countryside of Aleppo, with surface-to-surface missiles from Russian warships, and military barracks affiliated with the regime in Aleppo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian army<\/a>\u00a0announced on Sunday 1\/12\/2024 that it \u201cis helping the Syrian army repel opposition factions in three northern provinces of the country, as part of Moscow\u2019s support for President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian and Syrian fighter jets<\/a>\u00a0targeted the city of Idlib with air strikes on Sunday\u00a0and Monday<\/a>\u00a02\/12\/2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification<\/td><\/tr>
Russian Federation News<\/a>

Russian Brief<\/a>

Mohammed<\/a>

Yahya Mohammed Yahya Al-Houthi<\/a>

Lord Bebo<\/a>

SHORT NEWS<\/a>

dana<\/a>

Amjad Abdul-Sada<\/a>

Ahmed Sultan Ahmed<\/a><\/td>		Asharq Al-Awsat – Syria<\/a>

Al-Ghad Channel<\/a>

The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces<\/a>

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights The <\/a>Free<\/a>

Middle East Gateway <\/a>Anadolu Agency<\/a>

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Social media\u00a0accounts\u00a0recently posted a video of a huge fire, claiming that it was the result of Russian airstrikes targeting opposition faction gatherings in Syria. Kashif verified the video via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d tool and found that it is old and wrongly linked to Russia\u2019s recent targeting of opposition factions\u2019 gatherings. The video documents fires resulting from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[692,683,130,131,56,141,685,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-9126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facts-in-english","8":"tag-alassad","9":"tag-bashar-alassad","10":"tag-claim","11":"tag-fact","12":"tag-kashif","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-syrian-opposition","15":"tag-verified"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9130,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}