In an awkward reversal, the U.S. military withdrew a video by Islamist militants that it had released earlier Friday as evidence that a fatal raid in Yemen by American special forces was a counterterrorism success.
An expert in radical Islamist media said the footage had been released by unknown jihadis 10 years ago.
It is the latest controversy surrounding the raid on a branch of al-Qaida in Yemen, the first such operation authorized by President Donald Trump as commander in chief.