Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

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

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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    7 hours ago

    Fighters in Turkish-backed factions operating in northern Aleppo dispatched forces today toward northern Hama to participate in battles against the regime, a first for these factions. The groups sending fighters are Shuhadaa' Badr, al-Jabha al-Shamiya & Ahrar al-Sharqiya.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    wow can’t believe they abolished the Monarchy and introduced a Democratic Confederalist 🇬🇫 system at the end of Game of Thrones

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  4. 14 hours ago

    short thread on the town of Qibare (Afrin), recent grave desecrations, the historical Yezidi presence and local shrines

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    Graves desecrated in the Yezidi cemetery of Qibare, Afrin. The town is reportedly occupied by rebel factions Liwa al-Mu'tasim () and Faylaq al-Rahman (AlrahmanCorps)…
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  5. 14 hours ago

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    May 18

    Chelsea Manning had just as much of an impact on the culture, if not more, as her brothers Peyton and Eli did

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  7. 14 hours ago

    More on graveyard/shrine desecrations in post-Olive Branch Afrin here

    THREAD: Since the start of Olive Branch many reports of desecration of Afrin's religious sites and cemeteries have come out. Last year 's Jamie O'Connell published a great report compiling such claims which I will be expanding on here. (1/25) …
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  8. 14 hours ago

    Here's the Hecherka shrine as seen on Google Earth. it appears to have a point dome on top, which unlike in Iraq and the Jazira is rare for Yezidi shrines in Afrin. These shrines are regularly visited on Wednesdays and host the Yezidi New Years celebrations in April.

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  9. 14 hours ago

    There are 3 Yezidi shrines in the vicinity of Qibare cemetery: Malik Adi, Jil Khana/Chilxane, and Hecherka Sheikh Husayn. I've only been able to find photos of the first two. photos 2-4 are Jil Khana

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  10. 14 hours ago

    (from Sebastian Maisel's Yezidis in Syria. The Yezidi school was apparently only open for 10 years)

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  11. 14 hours ago

    Pre-war Qibare, or 'Arshqibar, had a population of ~6,000, half of which were Yezidi (it was one of the few Afrin towns with a Yezidi mukhtar). It's name had been changed in 70s Arabization efforts to 'al-Hawa'

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  12. 14 hours ago

    A view of the Qibare graveyard from Google Earth

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Recent Faylaq al-Rahman showed them using this old military facility just north of Qibare location:

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  14. 14 hours ago

    Graves desecrated in the Yezidi cemetery of Qibare, Afrin. The town is reportedly occupied by rebel factions Liwa al-Mu'tasim () and Faylaq al-Rahman (AlrahmanCorps) Cemetery location:

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  15. 15 hours ago

    waited til the end to take the food pic bc ramadan

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  16. 15 hours ago

    huge s/o to this cart on fresh pond rd, one of the few good halal carts on this end of the m. north brooklyn halal trash, imo and i'm not even sure there's another one in ridgewood

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  17. 15 hours ago

    rt’d for the first part of the sentence 💯

    People fetishizing and getting excited weapons is by far my least favorite part of open source/conflict-watching Twitter, but this is the best Wile E. Coyote thing I've ever seen: a Belarusian grenade launcher drone. …
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  18. 15 hours ago

    hot sauce white sauce green sauce

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    18 hours ago

    Somebody PLEASE HELP ME lmaooo

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  20. 18 hours ago

    classic AJ

    Arabic content versus English content 🤦🏻‍♀️
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  21. May 18

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