Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

Independent researcher/MA student , . contributor/ guest. Syria: Opposition/Afrin. OSINT. Left politics.

Queens, NY
Joined March 2016
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    Mar 1

    My new piece for , documenting and analyzing the anti-TSK/FSA insurgency in Afrin, from March 2018 to January 2019. Big shout out to for the great maps.

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  3. 54 minutes ago

    Reminder to go back and reread ’s awesome piece on Armenians in NE Syria

    The first all Armenian battalion has been formed in Northern Syria. Fighting under the YPG, the group will be officially announced on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24th.
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    Apr 21

    8. With this attack, the target selection doesn’t seem to point to Buddhist extremists (not sure what they would get out of killing tourists).

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    Apr 21

    7. There have been rumours of Muslims in the country being radicalized and groups being funded by KSA/gulf states since at least the early 90s (including the group that is being linked to this attack). And it has been used as an excuse to preemptively attack Muslim communities

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    Apr 21

    1) One of the church suicide bombers is reportedly Zahran Hashim. In late 2017 I did some research on pro-Islamic State Sri Lanken Facebook accounts. His was one of the accounts I looked at, where he was a self styled 'Islamic Preacher' who held some pro-IS views.

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  7. Apr 20

    The destruction of these buildings took place almost immediately after TSK/TFSA captured the city. R- 3/17/18 (day before) L- 3/22/18 Unclear whether this was caused by an airstrike during the battle, or was destroyed afterwards, but it's obvious the building was targeted.

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  8. Apr 20

    The site was located here: One can see the total extent of the damage done in this 3rd picture, taken from inside the schoolyard to the north (part of the wall had been destroyed as well)

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  9. Apr 20

    The 'Yezidi Association of Western Kurdistan and Syria' was opened sometime before 2015. In June of 2018 pictures came out showing what was alleged to be the same site, with the buildings completely destroyed.

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  10. Apr 20

    Map of Yezidi villages in Afrin c. 1936 (from Roger Lesco's The Yezidis in Syria and Mt. Sinjar)

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    Apr 19

    Totally out of the blue, a Liwa al-Quds convoy moving through the Sukhna area came upon a besieged SAA position in al-Kawm, surrounded by forces, and relieved them in a pitched battle. The besieged SAA suffered heavy casualties. Two IS technicals, pictured here, knocked out.

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    Apr 16

    جولة في مخيم الباغوز حيث داعش تكبّد الفشل الذريع على يد قوات سوريا الديمقراطية والتحالف الدولي وكل ما بقي من احتلال الإرهابيين هي القمامة والالغام

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  13. Apr 15

    Town names of the Afrin subdistrict in Kurdish and Arabic alphabets, including the new names given in Ba'athist 'Arabization' efforts (in italics). Will post the other subdistricts later. From a book on Afrin's geography by a Dr. Mohammed Abdo Ali

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    Apr 15

    Turkish army and allied armed factions have been building walls between villages of Sherawa town in occupied in an attempt to cut the roads between Shahba and Afrin to avoid attacks by Afrin Liberation Forces []

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    Apr 12

    We aren't Myrotvorets, we're not Wikileaks, we're not pro or anti NATO (personally, I think its existence/purpose should be seriously reexamined), we're not pro or anti Russia, and we're not pro or anti Ukraine. Strongest trend is that I guess we're anti far-right.

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    Apr 12

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    Apr 12

    Ben Norton has me blocked on here, but can someone please tell him that if I catch him commenting his conspiracy theories on a Popular Front video one more time I'm going to come to his house and pour all his Rogaine down the sink.

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  19. Apr 10

    a map of shrines in Afrin - both Muslim and Yezidi

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  20. Apr 10

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    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published a video that monitors house and facilities demolitions by the Turkish forces and its backed rebels in Jalbal village of Afrin's countryside. …
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  21. Apr 10

    Video allegedly showing buildings destroyed in Jalbal (eastern Afrin). It was shot looking SW from across front lines, from SDF territory. One can make out the posts on top of this building's walls. One of the few videos of the front lines I've seen.

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