🇺🇸🇸🇾❌🏴 — It turns out Ahmad al Badri was not ISIS and was actually a member of Syrian (HTS) intelligence.
Per local sources, Coalition forces initially apprehended him after injuring him, but released him, knowing they made a mistake. He later succumbed to his wounds. The raid was done with local Bedouin tribesmen as informants.
🇺🇸🇸🇾❌🏴 — It turns out Ahmad al Badri was not ISIS and was actually a member of Syrian (HTS) intelligence.
Per local sources, Coalition forces initially apprehended him after injuring him, but released him, knowing they made a mistake. He later succumbed to his wounds. The raid was done with local Bedouin tribesmen as informants.
Now safely in France with his spouse and three of his children, Kliuchnikov scrolls through Telegram to learn about the devastation happening in his home country. As the war in Ukraine rages, the messaging app Telegram has emerged as the go-to place for unfiltered live war updates for both Ukrainian refugees and increasingly isolated Russians alike. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Ukrainian forces have since put up a strong resistance to the Russian troops amid the war that has left hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, including children, dead, according to the United Nations. Ukrainian and international officials have accused Russia of targeting civilian populations with shelling and bombardments. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read."
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