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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We spoke to 26 witnesses who saw RSF fighters kidnapping children during their takeover of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October and in other attacks in the Darfur region over the course of Sudan's civil war, in some cases killing their parents first. Our story: www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Sudanese paramilitary force abducting children in Darfur, witnesses say
Paramilitary fighters kidnapped children during their takeover of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October and in other attacks in the Darfur region over the course of Sudan's civil war, in some case...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
The gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our latest story about a major coltan exporter in Rwanda ... www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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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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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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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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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@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. @johndrtrs.bsky.social @readelev.bsky.social @allisonmartell.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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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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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/05/2025
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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Exclusive: UN panel investigates Emirati links to seized weapons in Darfur www.reuters.com/world/un-pan...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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 www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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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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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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 🤓 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-day-o...
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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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Allison Martell @allisonmartell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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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.”
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David Lewis @dglewis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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 www.reuters.com/graphics/CON...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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. @dglewis.bsky.social @soniarolley.bsky.social @pkddapacific.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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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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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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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
NEW from us: Sudan's RSF operating drones from Darfur base, pictures show www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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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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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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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.”
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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OSINT Masterclass
Take your investigative skills to the next level. Join CIR masterclass with investigators!
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“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...
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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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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“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. www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
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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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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 05/02/2025
New: Well known Italian migrant sea rescuer Luca Casarini has been targeted with Paragon spyware, according to an alert issued by Meta which Casarini shared with me. Casarini is the second Italian to have gone public as a target of the no-click surveillance software. www.reuters.com/world/italia...
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Italian sea rescue activist targeted with spyware, according to Meta alert
Meta Platforms warned a well-known Italian migrant rescue activist that he was recently targeted with spyware, according to a screenshot of the alert shared with Reuters, making it the second such case made public in Italy so far.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 02/02/2025
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We looked at some of the videos emerging of acts Sudan's army called "individual violations" after it recaptured Wad Madani, the state capital of El Gezira, from the RSF: www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Sudan's army condemns ethnically-targeted killings of civilians in El Gezira
The Sudanese army on Tuesday condemned what it called "individual violations" in Sudan's El Gezira in recent days after rights groups blamed the army and its allies for ethnically-targeted attacks on civilians.
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Ryan McNeill @mcneill.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A remarkable day of @reuters.com coverage on a deepening hunger crisis around the world. A 🧵 of multiple important stories reported by colleagues in multiple cities.
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
NEW: For the last year, dglewis.bsky.social and I have been tracking planes at Amdjarass airport in eastern Chad. Using satellite imagery and data, we identified 170 flights by cargo planes based in the UAE that headed on the route towards Chad since April 2023: www.reuters.com/world/uae-fl...
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Dozens of UAE flights head to airstrip UN says supplies arms to Sudan rebels
Since civil war erupted in Sudan last year, dozens of cargo planes from the United Arab Emirates have landed at a small airstrip in Chad that some U.N. experts and diplomats suspect is being used to funnel arms across the border into the conflict, flight data and satellite images show.
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We verified video footage in Kabkabiya, North Darfur, where human rights groups say more than 100 people were killed after barrel bombs hit the market on Monday. One man is heard saying "People are dying wholesale" Sudan's army denied responsibility for the attack. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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At least 127, mostly civilians, killed in two days in Sudan bombardments
At least 127 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Sudan on Monday and Tuesday by barrel bombs and shelling from the warring sides, rights activists said.
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Satellite imagery taken Dec. 9 shows three vessels in Russia's Mediterranean fleet are anchored 13km northwest off Syria's coast, after Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Tartous www.reuters.com/world/satell...
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Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The top Democrat on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee will introduce legislation today that would sanction leaders on both sides of Sudan’s war and prohibit the sale of weapons to countries fueling the conflict, according to a summary of the bill seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/world/senior...
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Senior US Democrat mounts new push for peace in Sudan
The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will introduce legislation on Tuesday that would sanction leaders on both sides of Sudan’s civil war and prohibit the sale of American weapons to countries fueling the conflict, according to a summary of the bill seen by Reuters.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/11/2023
In North-east Nigeria one young man’s execution-style killing is captured on camera. Here’s how Bellingcat and Reuters traced the young man in blue shorts to find out where he was killed www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11...
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The Young Man in The Blue Shorts: Execution-Style Killing Inside a Nigerian Military Barracks  - be...
Footage showed the killing of a young man at an unknown location; we tracked it down to a Military Barracks in Nigeria.
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