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Russia’s defence ministry has tried to pass off what appear to be stills from a mobile phone military simulation game as “irrefutable evidence” of cooperation between US forces and Islamic State militants in Syria.

The photographs were appended to social media posts from the ministry’s official accounts posted on November 14 morning, which accused the Americans of providing air cover for an Isis convoy with the aim of using Isis fighters to further US interests.

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