Reade Levinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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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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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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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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.
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Videos posted online and verified by Reuters show crowds gathering by the plane's burning wreckage. Reuters geolocated the site to northern Nyala, about 1 km from al-Mustaqbal neighborhood.

(Satellite images of the crash site from Planet)
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Three aircraft experts said the downed plane was very likely an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane - similar to one downed in North Darfur in October - based on footage showing pieces of the engine and landing gear.

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An RSF source and a Western security analyst said the downing of an army plane on Sunday evening demonstrated new RSF anti-aircraft capabilities at Nyala. A local humanitarian source said the aircraft bombed the airport twice before it was shot down by anti-aircraft fire.
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Sudan's army has repeatedly targeted Nyala and its airport, including with air strikes that have killed civilians, according to local activists and humanitarian workers in the area.
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Analysis by the defence intelligence company Janes determined that the drones pictured are Chinese-manufactured CH-95s, capable of long-range surveillance and strikes at a distance of up to 200 km.
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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.

(Maxar images of the hangars Jan 14 and Feb 18)