{"id":29774,"date":"2019-03-05T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=29774"},"modified":"2019-03-05T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:12:44","slug":"amar-ujala-uses-an-image-of-2014-us-air-strike-to-represent-iafs-air-strike-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/amar-ujala-uses-an-image-of-2014-us-air-strike-to-represent-iafs-air-strike-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar Ujala uses an image of 2014 US air strike to represent IAF\u2019s air strike target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, Amar Ujala published a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarujala.com\/india-news\/balakot-air-strike-madrasa-student-told-relative-that-heard-massive-exploding-army-evacuated-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> report<\/a> titled, <em>&#8220;\u092c\u093e\u0932\u093e\u0915\u094b\u091f: \u092e\u0926\u0930\u0938\u093e \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0928\u0947 \u092c\u0924\u093e\u092f\u093e- \u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0925\u093e \u091c\u092c\u0930\u0926\u0938\u094d\u0924 \u0927\u092e\u093e\u0915\u093e, \u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u0938\u0947\u0928\u093e \u0928\u0947 \u0939\u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u091a\u093e\u092f\u093e (Balakot: A Madrasa student told that &#8211; A tremendous explosion had happened at night, Pakistani army evacuated us -translated)&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>The article also carried a photo with a target symbol on a building, while the text below the photo said, <em>&#8220;\u0935\u093e\u092f\u0941\u0938\u0947\u0928\u093e \u0915\u093e \u091f\u093e\u0930\u0917\u0947\u091f (Air Force&#8217;s target)&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1990\" height=\"1844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939.jpg 1990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939-768x712.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939-1024x949.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939-990x917.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_939-1320x1223.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1990px) 100vw, 1990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>U.S air strike in Syria (2014)<\/h3>\n<p>The image attached to the <em>Amar Ujala&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amarujala.com\/india-news\/balakot-air-strike-madrasa-student-told-relative-that-heard-massive-exploding-army-evacuated-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> pertains to an U.S air strike aimed at ISIS targets in September 2014. A report published by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2780286\/U-S-airstrikes-Al-Qaeda-linked-Khorasan-Group-failed-leaders-managed-escape-dangerous-explosives-officials-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em> on October 4, 2014 stated,<em> &#8220;The targets of the strikes were fighters from the Khorasan Group, which is how the U.S. government refers to a cell of al Qaeda veterans who had relocated to Syria from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em> In accordance to the article, the caption below the image states, <em>&#8220;Strike: In September a US-led coalition launched air strikes in Syria against members of ISIS &#8211; the extremist Islamic group occupying territory in Iraq and Syria &#8211; but also went after a little-know group called Khorasan&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938.jpg 1706w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938-990x756.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Selection_938-1320x1008.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A video of the air strike against the ISIS, carried out by the U.S military was released by the U.S Department of Defense, can be seen<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/news\/video-1122157\/New-video-U-S-launches-airstrikes-against-ISIL-Syria.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, an image pertaining to an U.S air strike in Syria was misleadingly shared as of IAF air strike on Balakot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5, Amar Ujala published a report titled, &#8220;\u092c\u093e\u0932\u093e\u0915\u094b\u091f: \u092e\u0926\u0930\u0938\u093e \u091b\u093e\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0928\u0947 \u092c\u0924\u093e\u092f\u093e- \u0930\u093e\u0924 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0925\u093e \u091c\u092c\u0930\u0926\u0938\u094d\u0924 \u0927\u092e\u093e\u0915\u093e, \u092a\u093e\u0915\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u0938\u0947\u0928\u093e \u0928\u0947 \u0939\u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u091a\u093e\u092f\u093e (Balakot: A Madrasa student told that &#8211; A tremendous explosion had happened at night, Pakistani army evacuated us -translated)&#8221;.\u00a0The article also carried a photo with a target symbol on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":29828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-29774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-news","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Army1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29829,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions\/29829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}