Dylan Burns embeds with a Ukrainian mid-range drone strike team, whose successful use of the evolving technology has both patched and exposed critical gaps in Ukraine’s offensive against Russian suppl...

An interview with “Flint”, an infantry platoon commander with the 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade, as they hold the front against Russian forces on the Kostyantynivka axis.

For over 500 days, they told the world about life under siege in the Sudanese city of El Fasher while living through famine, relentless shelling, and brutal atrocities across an ever-shrinking pocket ...

In the early afternoon of March 20th, a Russian Ka-52M helicopter belonging to the 17th Army Aviation Brigade was brought down by a Ukrainian FPV drone, in an incident which highlights the changing fa...

Levi Kabakov, a 31-year-old Jewish father of two, is charged with assault for pushing Troy McLeod, who is Black, out of his wheelchair, video shows.

OP-ED: After years of rumors, leaked documents revealed after the fall of the Assad regime expose previously untold depths of collaboration between Russia, Israel, and the former Syrian government.

A retrospective analysis of the political, economic, and social situation in Jammu and Kashmir since the Indian government’s revocation of the territory’s special status in 2019.

Gregory Waters reports from Kabineh, a Syrian ghost town in the mountains of Jabal al-Akrad which for years served as a hub of fierce resistance against the Assad regime.

Jimmy Rushton sits down with Bohdan Krotevych, the decorated former commander of the Ukrainian National Guard’s elite Azov Brigade, for a wide-ranging interview on the current state of Ukraine’s leade...

Neil Hauer reports from Sumy, a city which has grown increasingly war-weary as the threat of constant drone attacks and bombardments drag on the daily lives of its residents.

Dylan Burns reports alongside Ukrainian night drone teams on the front between Dnipro and Donetsk, where the evolution of drone operations has changed the face of warfare for better and worse.

In Kafrnabl, Gregory Waters explores the stories of local residents who lived and often resisted through the Assad regime's decimation of life, and life's ultimate resurgence, in the town and longtime...

Dylan Burns and Devin Woodall follow the 59th Separate Assault Brigade's "Shkval" battalion of prisoners as they train to counter the Russian advance into Dnipro.

Devin Woodall reports alongside the 113th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade ‘Phoenix Squad’, whose volunteers spend their days hunting for Russian drones which constantly seek to disrupt the lives ...

Gregory Waters reports from the towns of Suqaylabiyah and Qalaat al-Mudiq in the al-Ghab plain, where displaced residents are slowly returning home despite pervasive reminders of the death and destruc...

OP-ED: Women in Kashmir are at the forefront of the climate crisis, and India’s weaponization of climate change and water rights exists in pursuit of a policy which seeks to systematically oppress Kas...

Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized Brigade was positioned as the pinnacle of inter-European cooperation - but mass desertions and institutional ineptitude nearly derailed the project before it began. OffBeat ...

For years, US policy in Syria has led from behind. In the shadow of HTS's evolution and the country's new reality, a pragmatic policy reassessment is long overdue.

For years, US policy in Syria has led from behind. In the shadow of HTS's evolution and the country's new reality, a pragmatic policy reassessment is long overdue.

For years, US policy in Syria has led from behind. In the shadow of HTS's evolution and the country's new reality, a pragmatic policy reassessment is long overdue.

A retrospective on the lives of townspeople in Kyiv oblast during the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion and failed attempts to encircle Kyiv.

Dylan Burns tours Bilopillya - a front line town in Sumy oblast, whose residents have shown remarkable resilience amid nearly three years of indiscriminate Russian bombardment.

Dylan Burns observes training movements from the 100th Mechanized Brigade’s IFV “Marder” crew outside Toretsk, in Donetsk oblast.

Dylan Burns embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine's major logistical hubs.

Dylan Burns embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine's major logistical hubs.

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Critical open-source conflict reporting from the Offbeat Research team and our contributors, plus field reports from front lines around the world.

Tracking the adoption, proliferation, and increased use of glide bombs by Russian and Ukrainian forces since 2022.