Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

ind. researcher/ma. student ME studies CUNY GC. bellingcat/popular front. syria:rebels/afrin. osint. left politics. talkin abt being from ny too much. memes.

Queens, NY
Joined March 2016
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  1. 6 hours ago

    Seventy Years of the New York Times Describing Saudi Royals as Reformers via

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  2. 9 hours ago

    most the other teams are named for Northern Syrian towns, some are exiled from other parts of Syria (ie Palmyra) and one is the “Baza’ah Police” club

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  3. 9 hours ago

    ‘Northern Syria Free Athletes Movement’ soccer league includes a Jaysh al-Islam affiliated team (“The Army Club”)

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Active Turkish/rebel base on this summit SW of Kafr Mize. This general area has been the location of a number of YPG infiltration operations. YPG Press Office claimed a couple martyrs here in late May and late June

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  5. 15 hours ago

    no satellite imagery more recent than June but this position has probably been abandoned then in favor of urban bases

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  6. 15 hours ago

    reports have mostly mentioned either Yezidi shrines/graveyards or those of YPG/YPJ martyrs

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  7. 15 hours ago

    Turkish military position built on top of a cemetery in the Sheikh al-Hadid area of western Afrin in early March (soon after capture). There have been reports of desecration of graves in the region, this is the clearest example I've seen

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  8. 16 hours ago

    The other two appear to have been directly targeted during the fighting, perhaps indicated official PYD/YPG usage prior

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  9. 16 hours ago

    These buildings around Rajo have all been demolished. Each suffered damage during OB. The building in Pic 1 was marked as a school on Wikimapia.

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  10. 16 hours ago

    Concrete barriers (~15 ft tall) brought in from Turkey went up around this cluster of buildings in early August

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  11. 16 hours ago

    Re-purposing and demolition of several properties within Rajo. Most appear to have been either schools or municipal/party buildings. This compound has appeared in local police/security forces media. several military vehicles on the property in pic 2 (Aug)

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Interestingly, these two plots of land east of Bulbul that appeared to have been re-purposed to create IDP camps in late May were never used

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  13. 16 hours ago

    A number of tents were seemingly taken down in the Deir Balut IDP camp, between Aug 1 and Sept 26. Perhaps points to recent IDPs moving into permanent structures within Afrin, or leaving the area for ES region.

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  14. 16 hours ago

    bump

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    New episode out now: tells us all about the Wrath of Olives assassinations in . …
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  15. 19 hours ago

    gotta match podcast appearances with corresponding tattoos

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  16. 20 hours ago

    we out here on SoundCloud too, rip lil peep

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    geolocation of excavators digging trenches in Raqqa (allegedly a new French base)

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  18. 21 hours ago

    also, s/o who often pays closer attention than me to events in the area

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  19. 21 hours ago

    this is the recent article that came up at one point during recording, by

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  20. 21 hours ago

    Check out the new episode in which I talk with Jake about the situation in Afrin: the YPG/Ghadab al-Zaytoun insurgency and what’s occurred post-Olive Branch in general.

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