Cyber armies, info wars and fake news add to Syria's suffering

By Matt Wade
Updated November 7 2017 - 12:43am, first published 12:36am
Moademiyeh. A severely ill child is evaculated by ambulance by Syrian Arab Red Crescent first aiders from the besieged city during a joint aid operation by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the ICRC.
"Fake news" in the Syria war. Photo: KRZYSIEK, Pawel
Moademiyeh. A severely ill child is evaculated by ambulance by Syrian Arab Red Crescent first aiders from the besieged city during a joint aid operation by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the ICRC. "Fake news" in the Syria war. Photo: KRZYSIEK, Pawel
"Fake news" in the Syria war.
Rural Damascus, Madaya. head of ICRC delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, speaks to residents as they gathered around an aid convoy.
Photo Australian Red Cross
"Fake news" in the Syria war. Rural Damascus, Madaya. head of ICRC delegation in Syria, Marianne Gasser, speaks to residents as they gathered around an aid convoy. Photo Australian Red Cross

An intense information war being waged alongside armed hostilities in Syria is affecting efforts to help victims of the conflict, a senior humanitarian official says.

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