CNN says it is investigating the background and identity of a man featured in a stunning recent report that appeared to show his discovery in a Syrian prison and his subsequent release. The report, ...

CNN confirmed Monday that it had been deceived about the identity of a man featured in a viral news report last week appearing to show the moment he was found in a Syrian prison and freed. The man ...

CNN confirmed it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail as CNN cameras rolled after a local fact-checking group said he was ...

Not everything was as it seemed when CNN captured the release of a prisoner from a Damascus jail. The man was not who he said he was. He was actually a lieutenant in the Bashar al-Assad regime’s Air ...

(CNN) — A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary ...

A man CNN described in a viral report as a rebel prisoner of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s totalitarian regime has turned out to be a notorious ex-intelligence officer for the former ...

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. A resident of the ...