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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  2. 2 hours ago

    Jalbul wall seems to be defending this stretch of road from ATGM's. Gubele/Jubbali seen at the top of the hill

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  3. 2 hours ago

    ANHA with higher quality footage of the Kimar and Jalbul portions

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  4. 2 hours ago

    full video here, second and third should be geolocations

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    بعد القتل والتنكيل والسرقات والأتاوات والاعتقال…
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  5. 3 hours ago

    A more recent SOHR video showed bits of wall having gone up in the vicinity of Kimar, Jalbul, and Maryamin

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  6. 3 hours ago

    This area has seen the most anti-TSK/TFSA attacks throughout the Afrin insurgency, particularly by the YPG (Mar - Dec) and HRE (Dec - present). (map by )

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  7. 3 hours ago

    A pro-PYD account shared another video showing concrete barriers and reported them going up between Barade and Kimar, and Maryamin and Jalbul

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  8. 3 hours ago

    SOHR recently shared a video of demolitions taking place on western side of the town, presumably in preparation.

    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…
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  9. 3 hours ago

    A map shared on a pro-opposition Telegram channel showing the Afrin-Shahba front lines and a wall being constructed in the town of Jalbul. Despite recent rumors, the wall will not separate Afrin from Idlib, but rather attempt to stem insurgent attacks in the area.

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    Apr 22

    Our first report for the examines an attack on the al Fayoush market, which occurred on 6th July 2015.

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  11. 21 hours ago

    no one: bored Afrini Apocis in 2015:

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  12. 21 hours ago

    Great listen

    I spoke to ⁦⁩ about how the pre-ISIS underground insurgency networks in Mosul were established in 2003, and how they're attempting to revive today. Have a listen ⁦…
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    Apr 22

    tired: jet fuel can’t melt steel beams wired: wood isn’t flammable

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    Apr 22

    Imagine being a tankie

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    Apr 22

    The thing with this “new” Armenian tabur is that it’s actually not all that new a phenomenon—especially given its affiliation to TiKKO (TKP/ML) rather than SDF directly, it continues on Turk-Kurd-Armenian radical leftist collaboration as was seen in Lebanon during the civil war.

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  16. Apr 22

    Absolutely pathetic. Just because the Right’s memes about global Christian oppression are clearly BS attempts to paint themselves as victims does not AT ALL mean that Christians are not targeted for their faith in other parts of the world. Avoiding saying it is disgusting

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  17. Apr 22

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  18. Apr 22

    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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