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Reade Levinson
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On Aug 25, Israeli defense forces attacked a Gaza hospital, killing our colleague Hussam al-Masri. We spent the last few weeks reviewing footage and interviewing witnesses. The visual evidence contradicts Israel’s official story.
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Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital
Israeli troops say they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device belonged to one of the news agency’s journalists. An Israeli official now says troops fired without required approval. The five journalists who died in the strike are among 200 killed by Israel that it has yet to fully explain.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
readelev.bsky.social
Our latest story about a major coltan exporter in Rwanda ... www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Major Rwandan coltan exporter bought smuggled minerals, a UN report says
Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an insurgency in that vast African country, according to a confidential report by a group of United Nations experts that was reviewed by Reuters.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Our visual analysis shows the remnants of at least three American GBU-39 bombs at the site of the Yemeni migrant detention center that was bombed on Monday. Dozens of migrants died in the strike.
From @arijetalajka.bsky.social and me.
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Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
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May 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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@reuters.com read piles of abandoned embassy papers about Tehran’s economic strategy in Assad-era Syria. Turns out the Iranians just got robbed and scammed until they wept, like everyone else.

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Iran had imperial ambitions in Syria. Secret embassy papers show why it failed
Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy in Damascus reviewed by Reuters show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
May 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Our first investigation based on papers uncovered after the fall of Assad is out today, w/ John Davison and @allisonmartell.bsky.social
readelev.bsky.social Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · May 1
Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
May 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A U.N. panel of experts is investigating how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the United Arab Emirates ended up in a supply convoy for Rapid Support Forces fighters in Sudan.

Great exclusive by @dglewis.bsky.social and @readelev.bsky.social
Exclusive: UN panel investigates Emirati links to seized weapons in Darfur
A U.N. panel of experts charged with monitoring sanctions in Sudan is investigating how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the United Arab Emirates ended up in a supply convoy for Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia fighters, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
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April 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Exclusive: UN panel investigates Emirati links to seized weapons in Darfur
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Exclusive: UN panel investigates Emirati links to seized weapons in Darfur
A U.N. panel of experts charged with monitoring sanctions in Sudan is investigating how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the United Arab Emirates ended up in a supply convoy for Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia fighters, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I'm on BBC's Newshour today with Tim Franks talking about our investigation into the private jet C5-SKY that flew out valuables and cash from Syria in December

(last five min)

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BBC World Service - Newshour, US holds talks on Ukraine with European allies
Trump’s top officials hold talks on ending Ukraine war with its European allies
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April 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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NEW: We traced the private jet C5-SKY that flew in and out of Syria 4x the weekend Assad fell.

Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables
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Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables
As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Hi! We're running a workshop on #OSINT investigations in Italy on April 9, just before the International Journalism Festival. @readelev.bsky.social and I will dive into new satellite imagery tools, corporate data, practical geolocation techniques and much more 🤓
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Full-day OSINT Masterclass
Take your open-source investigative skills to the next level. Join CIR in Perugia for a full-day masterclass!
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March 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Text from Reuters story: “On Saturday evening, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security arrested Khalil in front of his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, in their building's lobby, telling him his student visa had been revoked, according to Amy Greer, a lawyer for Khalil. “Khalil has held a U.S. permanent residency green card since 2024, Greer said in a statement. His wife showed the agents Khalil's green card and they also threatened to arrest her if she did not leave her lobby, Greer said. “They then said the green card was also revoked, declining to give a reason, and handcuffed Khalil, Greer said. “Hours before his arrest, Khalil told Reuters he was concerned that the government was targeting him for his high-profile comments about what he calls an anti-war movement to the media.”
March 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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dglewis.bsky.social
Was is spreading in #Congo. There is a array of players involved, including three neighbouring armies.

We'd had a crack at explaining some of this with the help of the graphics team at @reuters.com

With @readelev.bsky.social @soniarolley.bsky.social

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A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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NEW from us, with maps: With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional war.

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A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.
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March 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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bendobrown.bsky.social
Our team at @cen4infores.bsky.social has documented almost 1500 incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, OPTs and Israel since October 2023. All of that verified data is available on our public map, linking back to every bit of footage.
March 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits and other weaponry to Israel, the Pentagon said in statements on Friday.

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US State Dept okays potential sale of munitions to Israel for estimated $2.7 bln
The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of munitions, guidance kits, and munitions support to Israel in two packages worth an estimated $2.7 billion, the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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NEW from us: Sudan's RSF operating drones from Darfur base, pictures show

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Sudan's RSF operating drones from Darfur base, pictures show
Satellite images show at least three drones and the construction of hangars at an airport in South Darfur held by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), evidence of the continuing stream of increasingly advanced weapons fuelling a devastating war.
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February 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. They were stripped of their passports and most of their cellphones, they said, and then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers and told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle. At the hotel, at least one person tried to commit suicide, according to several migrants. Another broke his leg trying to escape. A third sent a plaintive missive from a hidden cellphone: “Only a miracle can save us.”
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We're running an OSINT investigations workshop in Perugia, Italy on April 9, just before IJF25. It's a day full of satellite imagery, social media, data analysis, automation and more. Learn from @cen4infores.bsky.social & @readelev.bsky.social from Reuters. Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/osint-mast...
OSINT Masterclass
Take your investigative skills to the next level. Join CIR masterclass with investigators!
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February 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed.

"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

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February 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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“My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people’s bodies and you cannot leave them,” Dr. Mansoor said. “For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line.”

Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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February 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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“It is not hype or conjecture or hand wringing or even contested use of stats to say that hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die without USAID." A comprehensive, urgent report on the global consequences of cutting off US aid.
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Halt in U.S. aid cripples global efforts to relieve hunger
The Trump administration’s effort to slash and reshape American foreign aid is crippling the intricate global system that aims to prevent and respond to famine.
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February 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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NEW: The interim U.S. attorney in Washington put his name to a motion dismissing Jan. 6 charges against a person he represented as a defense lawyer, likely violating a swath of conflict rules. "You can't do that," one ethics expert told us.

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February 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM