OSINT folks: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Bellingcat are asking for your help to gather key information on over 20 airstrikes in Afghanistan. See this thread for more information.

Thanks to all the over 150 people who signed up to help us dig into civilian harm allegations from strikes in Afghanistan. Real progress has already been made. The link to join this effort is in the thread below.

Thanks to the The Tip Off podcast for having us on to talk about one of our stories

For all those who also want to reflect on something positive in these challenging times… we couldn’t be more proud of the difference our investigations made last year. Read all about it in our 2019 annual report! 🔎📝 tbijreport2019.co.uk

Big news from Africom

The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) news comes just hours ahead of Amnesty International's report showing evidence of civilian casualties from strikes in Somalia in Feb: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

You can read that article - with more on Hemedti's family's gold company, and his younger brother's apparent RSF front companies (including Tradive), here: /ENDS globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/c…

Coming tomorrow: "Afghanistan: Civilian Loss in the US Air War". We worked with Fault Lines to look at accountability for airstrikes in Afghanistan

A phenomenal, and devastating, piece of work by Jessica Purkiss and many others

Fault Lines reports on how civilian deaths from airstrikes in Afghanistan are investigated and remembered, in partnership with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. We speak with families who lost loved ones to airstrikes and ask what options they have to seek justice. Watch here: youtu.be/qQFvVLkXeUE

With their valuable contribution, +150 OSINT volunteers such as (but not limited to) Line of Actual Control @marksnoeck, Thomas Eydoux cody, seter, colan, ile, basti, biosboii, eydoux joined the efforts in gathering evidence of civilian harms in 21 incidents we looked into.

For the last 6 months The Bureau of Investigative Journalism have been investigating airstrikes in Afghanistan. It found evidence that in just 10 strikes, 115 civilians were killed, including 70 children. We teamed up with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and have published a case study of one of these strikes. bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-w…

We've been busy! This thread details our latest investigations, what we did and who we worked with. Please take a look:

To finish, we want to thank those who shared stories and the reporters whose work has had such a powerful impact: Chris Woods, Alice Ross, @jackserle, Abbie Fielding-Smith, Crofton Black, Jessica Purkiss, Payenda Sargand پاینده څرګند, Ruhullah Khapalwak روح الله, Mohammad Jawad Alizada, Abbie Cheeseman, ناصر علي الصانع, Namir Shabibi