OLD ARTICLE. Look at the date of it.
“12/03/2020 is European for “March 12, 2020” They do it different over there.
Here is another article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51842744
No... look again. It can’t be old if it’s still months in the future. That’s just a different style of writing the date. Americans are fairly unique in using mm/dd/yy, other countries use dd/mm/yy