The prisoner CNN escorted out of jail after he was freed by Syrian rebels was actually Salama Mohammad Salama , a notorious member of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, who tricked the ...

An image obtained by CNN on Monday now points to the man’s real identity – said to be a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, Salama Mohammad Salama.

CNN told HuffPost earlier on Monday it was investigating if the man gave a “false identity.” “We can confirm the real identity of the man from our story last Wednesday as Salama Mohammed ...

CNN is facing widespread criticism after a Syrian prisoner freed in a high-profile rescue effort led by journalist Clarissa Ward was revealed to be Salama Mohammad Salama, a notorious torturer for ...

Verify-SY reported the prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza, who was a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence notorious for torturing young men. (CNN ...

However, Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact-checking organization, later identified the man as Salama Mohammad Salama, a resident of the central Syrian city of Homs and a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s ...

UPDATED: CNN’s Clarissa Ward said that a man identified in her report as a prisoner under the brutal regime of Bashar ...

Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence — allegedly misled rebels and CNN’s Clarissa Ward into leading him out of prison last week in a harrowing video ...