Twitter is the new battlefield

27 July 2015 - 09:58
By ©The Sunday Telegraph

In His former life Abu Rafiq, a short, stocky 35-year-old who was born and raised in Damascus, ran a successful business selling groceries across Syria. Now he heads to work each day equipped with a camera phone. He walks the streets of Raqqa, the Syrian city that has become the self-styled capital of Islamic State, taking clandestine photographs and videos of anything that exposes the terrorists' lies: bombed-out buildings, empty food stalls, homeless families.

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