The US military blamed Iran for attacks on their bases in Iraq and Syria after an Iran-based militia group claimed responsibility for the attack. Against the backdrop, a viral post claims that the visuals are from the recent attack on US military bases in Syria.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with the following caption:
Attack on US forces in the Al-Omar oil field in Syria.
US forces are illegally occupying parts of Syria — no UN mandate and no invitation from the Syrian govt.
If the US wants to blame attacks by armed groups in the ME as a pretext for war, then that will be a very easy pretext to conjure up.
Syria, a fractured and invaded country like Iraq, is rife with armed groups after years of failed US intervention.
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— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾 JUST IN: Images of the attack on Al-Omar oil field, housing U.S. troops
H/t @Middle_East_Spectatot
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be false.
A Reverse Image Search of both the images, to know more about them, explains:
Image 1:
A stock image on Alamy, dated November 12, 2018. The image matches exactly with the viral picture and the description informs that a ball of fire and smoke rise above the building housing the television station al-Aqsa TV during an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. A similar and clearer version of the image was also published on the same day in a news article in Haber — a Turkish media outlet.
Image 2:
Getty Images, dated February 20, 2023. According to the description of the image, it is a ball of fire following an Israel airstrike at Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early on February 23, 2020.
The Guardian also reported on the bombings and displayed the same image in its article.
We could not find a single credible link relating the two images to either US or Syria. Both of them show bombings in Gaza by Israel at two different times.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming to show visuals from the recent attack on US military bases in Syria, is false.
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