Fighting IS propaganda online


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 17 Aug 2016

A picture of a little boy with his mouth covered with “blood” holding a dismembered hand with the caption “A picture of reality from Aleppo, Syria. A child is saved from the bombings of Syrian President Bashar Assad.”

The bloody image appeared in a radical news website, stirring the emotions of many, a tool for the militant Islamic State (IS) to recruit members. 

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