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A six-second clip presented as the moment a Houthi missile struck Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport circulated on social media from September 20, 2026, and it is generated by artificial intelligence, according to a fact check by Agence France-Presse published on September 22, 2026. A reverse image search led to a longer version of the video posted on March 19, 2026, by Yemeni politician Ali Hussein Al-Bujairi and labelled “manipulated media” by X itself; the fact check points to signs of synthetic origin, among them a man apparently walking through a glass door at the three-second mark and a mobile phone floating by another man’s ear at the eleven-second mark. There were no official reports of an attack on the airport: the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted the missile, and the fire on September 19, 2026, consumed a Saudi Aramco fuel tank at a depot next to the terminal, according to The Jakarta Post and the BBC. A fact check by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on September 17, 2026, identified another clip, nine seconds long and with more than 340,000 views, presented as strikes on Abha and also generated by artificial intelligence, along with a video of an ambush that is in fact April 2024 footage with commentary from a 2018 football match spliced in; in both cases, the detection platform Hive Moderation flagged the imagery as synthetic. The Deutsche Welle fact check notes that the difficulty of observing the conflict independently leaves room for this kind of content, and a Misbar verification on September 21, 2026, examined the same Riyadh airport video.
22 Sep · 05:05
Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced across seven governorates in Yemen since the Houthi offensive on the Red Sea coast began, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM): the agency’s latest data, from September 20, 2026, record 129,438 displaced people, or 21,573 households, against 118,086 counted on September 18 — an increase of 11,352 people in three days. Taiz hosts the largest number, with 73,494 displaced people, followed by Lahj, Aden and Al Hodeidah, and by Sunday evening, September 20, 3,106 people had crossed the Red Sea to Djibouti. “The numbers keep climbing,” said Othman Belbeisi, IOM Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, who said many families have already been displaced more than once. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said 28 airstrikes hit three provinces in the previous 24 hours and put the cumulative total since the escalation began at 760 — a figure without independent confirmation.
22 Sep · 04:35