‘Assassin’s Creed’ image mistakenly used to illustrate news story on Syria

Does this look like Damascus? Journalists at Denmark's TV2 channel thought so when they chose to run it to illustrate a news report about the country.

But, as some avid gamers know, the shot is actually from an Assassin’s Creed video game.

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TV2 head of news Jacob Nybroe made a statement this weekend, admitting that the image was used mistakenly after employees found it online and thought it showed Damascus. Photos of Syria, peppered with crumbling walls and sparse greenery, aren't always stunning. So it's easy to get excited about an Arabian Nights-style image. You can see it featured behind the anchor in the video here.

"Nybroe says it was a terrible mistake and a 'reminder to us all of the importance of verifying the sources of pictures,'" the Times of Israel reports.

Speculations about the origins of the image spread through social media websites and had since made international headlines.

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Well, at least the people at BBC can now stop feeling bad about using an image of Iraq to illustrate a report on Syria.

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