The man claimed he was taken from his home in Homs, arrested three months ago, and interrogated about his phone contacts.

The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.

He was right about Salama's job, if not the circumstances under which he ended up in that cell. It wouldn't be the first time CNN was apparently bamboozled in its war reporting. Last year ...

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 ...

A report by CNN's Clarissa Ward about a freed Syrian prisoner provided some dramatic scenes, but the network has since found ...

CNN admitted Monday it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported in a viral segment to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail. CNN’s Clarissa Ward's news segment spread ...

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 ...

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 ...

The man told CNN he was Adel Gharbal from Homs, and claimed he had been locked up for three months, but a Syrian fact-checking group later cast doubt on those assertions and said it had identified him ...

Ward confirmed the man was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza, who was a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence. CNN's report said he was known for extortion and ...