Mayday: How the White Helmets and James Le Mesurier got pulled into a deadly battle for truth
The British man behind the Syrian civil defence group, the White Helmets, found himself at the centre of a battle to control the narrative of the Syrian war. Russian and Syrian propagandists accused his teams of faking evidence of atrocities - and convinced some in the West. The battle for truth formed the backdrop to James Le Mesurier's sudden death in Istanbul in November 2019./ With the setting sun reflecting in the water and the lights of Istanbul twinkling on the horizon, the wedding guests sat around lantern-lit tables: diplomats from ...
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