{"id":9500,"date":"2025-03-20T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:32:18","slug":"old-photo-mistakenly-linked-to-wreckage-of-us-drone-that-was-recently-shot-down-in-yemeni-dhamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/old-photo-mistakenly-linked-to-wreckage-of-us-drone-that-was-recently-shot-down-in-yemeni-dhamar\/","title":{"rendered":"Old photo mistakenly linked to wreckage of US drone that was recently shot down in Yemeni Dhamar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media accounts<\/a>\u00a0posted\u00a0a photo of an aircraft, claiming it was an American drone that was recently shot down in the Yemeni province of Dhamar. The photo was accompanied by the following text: \u201cImage of the wreckage of the American MQ-9 drone that was shot down by Yemeni air defenses in Dhamar province.\u201d\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 Google Images search and found it to be old and falsely linked to the recent downing of an American MQ-9 drone by the Ansar Allah group (Houthis). The image was circulated in May 2024 and has no connection to the recent downing of the American drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple news websites, including \u201c\u00a0Al-Abri News<\/a>\u201d and \u201cPress Bee,<\/a>\u201d published the circulated image on 17\/5\/2024, as part of news reports with the following title: \u201cGaint plane crashes in Marib.\u201d The websites indicated that according to \u201cthe images of the plane\u2019s wreckage circulating on social media platforms, its size and the model of its remote control cockpit suggest it is likely an MQ9 or MQ7 combat drone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo via Al-Arabiya News website – published on 17\/5\/2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Yemeni War Media<\/a>\u00a0announced in a statement published on 17\/5\/2024, that the Yemeni Armed Forces shot down a US MQ-9 spy drone in the airspace of Ma’rib Governorate on Thursday,16\/5\/2024. The statement added that the US drone was targeted by a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RT website<\/a>\u00a0reported today, Thursday, 20\/3\/2025, that a Yemeni military source informed the RIA Novosti agency that the air defenses of the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) were able to shoot down an armed American reconnaissance plane while it was flying over the city of Ma’bar in the Jahran district, north of Dhamar Governorate, using a surface-to-air missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification<\/td><\/tr>
magazine azhar
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Jupran Machyudin<\/a>

Rida Saad<\/a>

Abdullah Jaafar<\/a>

<\/a>Al\u00a0<\/a>-Anzi Amjad Abdul Sada\u00a0<\/a>The Useful <\/a>

Summary\u00a0<\/a>
Ahmed Nasser Alsharif<\/a>
\u00a0<\/a>Jubran Saad Allah New Account<\/a>
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<\/a><\/td>		Hebrew News<\/a>

Press<\/a>

Yemeni War Media<\/a>

RT website<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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