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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,848 published reviews in this topic

FactcrescendoWar & conflict

আজানরত অবস্থায় প্যালেস্তাইনের একটি মসজিদ বোমা মেরে ধ্বংস করলো ইজরায়েল

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a 17-second video said to show Israel bombing a mosque in Palestine while the call to prayer is sounding. The review identifies the footage as showing a different event: the destruction of the Veysel Karani tomb in Raqqa, Syria, in 2014, attributed in the review to ISIS. It therefore says the video has been recirculated with a false Palestinian setting and attribution. To trace the footage, the investigators divided it into key frames using InVID WeVerify and performed a reverse-image search on Google. They report finding the video in a CNN Türk article dated June 24, 2014, which identifies the structure as the Veysel Karani tomb in Raqqa, not a mosque. The review also cites a June 9, 2014, report by Turkish outlet ABNA about the same video, and a Mint video uploaded in 2015 that it says describes the destruction of the tomb by ISIS. The review’s conclusion rests on the footage’s earlier identification and reported Syrian provenance: the video does not document the claimed bombing of a Palestinian mosque by Israel. The supplied excerpt describes the investigation and its cited corroboration, but does not include the underlying CNN Türk, ABNA, or Mint materials themselves.

Fact Crescendo CambodiaWar & conflict

នៅ​ឆ្នាំ​១៨៤៤ ស្ដេច​យួន​បាន​បញ្ជា​ឱ្យ​កាត់​ក្បាល​ខ្មែរ​កម្ពុជា​ក្រោម ដែល​ងើប​បះបោរ​ប្រឆាំង​នឹង​យួន មាន​មេ​ស្រុក និង​ប្រជាជន​ខ្មែរ​ជាច្រើន ត្រូវ​យួន​កាត់​ក្បាល

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Fact Crescendo CambodiaWar & conflict

ប្រវត្តិសាស្ត្រ​ខ្មែរ៖ យួន​ឈ្លាន​ពាន​កាន់​កាប់​ទឹក​ដី​ខ្មែរ ធ្វើ​ទុក្ខ​បុក​ម្នេញ ជិះ​ជាន់​កាប់​សម្លាប់​ពលរដ្ឋ​ខ្មែរ​តាម​គ្រប់​រូបភាព​រាប់រយ​ឆ្នាំ​ហើយ ពិសេសស​ខ្មែរ​ក្រោម

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

FACTLYWar & conflict

Video of Spain police snipers rescuing a woman from an ISIS terrorist

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video presented as showing Spanish police snipers rescuing a woman from an ISIS terrorist. FACTLY’s review identifies the footage as a different incident: a 1998 hostage rescue in Cúa, Venezuela. It reports that 18-year-old Hector Duarte tried to rob a bakery, took a woman hostage after police arrived, and was shot by Venezuelan police during the rescue. The review says the incident had no connection to Spain or ISIS. (“This video shows Venezuela police snipers shooting down a robbery accused in 1998. This incident took place in Cua city, Venezuela.”) (S1) To investigate the video’s provenance, the review says it performed a reverse image search using screenshots from the circulating clip. That search found a similar video in a Military.com article, which the review says also placed the incident in Cúa in 1998 and described Duarte as taking a woman hostage after a robbery attempt. This supports the review’s identification of the footage as Venezuelan, rather than evidence of an operation in Spain. (“On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a similar video was found in an article published by the ‘Military.com’ website.”) (S1) The review also points to other accounts that it says matched the Venezuelan setting: a Dolar Today YouTube description and reporting by AP News. It notes a difference in the woman’s name in the accounts it recounts: the opening account names Mercedes Lopez, while the AP account identifies the hostage as Nancy Lopez. That discrepancy does not change the review’s central finding about the video’s location and event. The excerpts provided do not establish the clip’s full original publication history, but the reported reverse-image-search match and the related accounts support the conclusion that it does not show the claimed Spain-and-ISIS incident. (“The ‘Dolar Today’ news website had published the same video on their YouTube channel with a similar description.”) (S1)