This vehicle was destroyed in Saudi Arabia, not in Afrin

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Publish: 2018-02-26 , 6:13 AM

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تعديل: 2025-03-19 , 10:31 PM

Claim

Pro-PYD social media news pages and personal accounts shared a recording video showing tank explosion in a mountain area.

Video's publishers said that the video shows the YPG destroying a Leopard tank belongs to the Turkish army in Qotan village in Afrin enclave.

Verify-Sy has searched for the video source, turned out that it is from Saudi Arabia and posted on pro-Hothi "Ansarullah" militias' "War media" channel on YouTube in 27/8/2015 entitled with "The army and popular committees destroying a Saudi Abrams tank in al-Khoba in Jizan 27/8/2015

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