{"id":9293,"date":"2024-12-18T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T16:46:36","slug":"iraq-explosion-circulates-as-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/iraq-explosion-circulates-as-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq explosion circulates as in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Accounts<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cX\u201d recently published\u00a0a photo showing an explosion, claiming that it’s in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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

Kashif verified the image via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d and found that it is old and was incorrectly linked to the recent targeting of the city of Deir ez-Zor. The image documents smoke rising above the presidential palace complex in Baghdad during an air raid launched by US forces on the Iraqi capital in March 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP published the circulated photo and explained that it dates back to 21\/3\/2003, and accompanied it with the following description: \u201cSmoke covers the presidential palace complex in Baghdad during a massive US-led air strike on the Iraqi capital. An\u00a0AFP<\/a>\u00a0correspondent said smoke rose from a number of targeted sites, including one of President Saddam Hussein\u2019s palaces.\u201d The agency reported that the photo was taken by photojournalist Ramzi Haidar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of AFP published photo on 21\/3\/2003<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The United States of America<\/a>\u00a0invaded Iraq on 20\/3\/2003, and US President\u00a0George Bush<\/a>\u00a0announced \u00a0on 1\/5\/2003 the end of military operations and his country’s victory in the Iraq War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0reported\u00a0that an unknown drone launched an airstrike today, Wednesday 18\/12\/2024, targeting the radar battalion on the mountain adjacent to Deir Ezzor military airport. It added that an unknown warplane launched an airstrike on Tuesday on the radar station on Mount Harabesh overlooking the city of Deir Ezzor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Mayadeen <\/a>reported\u00a0on Tuesday 17\/12\/2024 that an Israeli warplane targeted the radar battalion in the mountains overlooking Deir Ezzor airport and the Harabesh neighborhood near the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification<\/td><\/tr>

World Events<\/a>

AHMED | Ahmed<\/a><\/td>
AFP<\/a>

france24<\/a>

RT<\/a>

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights <\/a>Al Mayadeen Channel<\/a>
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Accounts\u00a0on \u201cX\u201d recently published\u00a0a photo showing an explosion, claiming that it’s in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.\u00a0 Kashif verified the image via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d and found that it is old and was incorrectly linked to the recent targeting of the city of Deir ez-Zor. The image documents smoke rising above the presidential palace complex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,776,89,131,57,73,44,56,141,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-9293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facts-in-english","8":"tag-claim","9":"tag-deir-ezzor","10":"tag-explosion","11":"tag-fact","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-iraq","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-kashif","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-verified"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","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=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9296,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}