Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

Independent researcher/MA student /Contributor . Syria: Opposition/Afrin. OSINT. 🏴.

Queens, NY
Joined March 2016
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 11

    My new piece for investigating cases of desecration and destruction inflicted on shrines and other cultural sites in post-Olive Branch Afrin

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  2. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Oil security status: variable

    Another 'securing the oil' photo op, this time by the SAA near Derik/al-Malikiyah. Seems both the US and the regime are patrolling this same NE corner at different times
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  3. 19 hours ago

    2 more TSK killed in 'Peace Spring' OP. Brings total that have been killed in NE-ES-Afrin since Oct 9 up to 14.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    Given that we haven't seen fighting in the sparsely populated plains/M4 south of Mabrouka I think it's safe to assume these 5 Division 20 were all killed E. of 'Ain 'Issa (last 3 weren't reported with a location). From Rif Dimashq, Hama Deir ez-Zor, Homs, and Ras al-'Ain

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  5. 20 hours ago

    's latest, an interview with someone in Division 20's (1st Legion) media office...reiterate that they're a recently formed faction made up of easterners, 5 KIA in NE, active from Mabrouka to E. 'Ain 'Issa front

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  6. 20 hours ago

    House seized by Furqat al-Mu’tasim (2nd Legion) in Serêkaniyê

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  7. 20 hours ago

    Judging by NPA footage, today's Russian/Turkish 'joint patrol' began at this Turkish border outpost east of Kobani

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  8. 21 hours ago

    Another 'securing the oil' photo op, this time by the SAA near Derik/al-Malikiyah. Seems both the US and the regime are patrolling this same NE corner at different times

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  9. 21 hours ago

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    Kurds throw stones, eggs and other stuff at Turkish armored vehicles, which were conducting the first joint Russian-Turkish patrol east of Kobani, Syria.
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    Nov 5

    Livemap of the Deir Ezzor insurgency US troops are being deployed into via and the

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  11. 21 hours ago

    A convoy of armoured vehicles patrols the village of Ein Diwar in Syria's northeastern province on November 4, 2019. Delil SOULEIMAN /
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  12. 21 hours ago

    Another SDF ATGM fired on the Tel Tamer/Zirkan front reportedly hitting an APC

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    Dîrok 5 Mijdar 2019 Demjimêr 14:00 Çeteyên artêşa dagirker a Tirk êrîşî gundê TIL Werd yê girêdayî Zirgan kirin Di encama de wesayîtek zirxi (BMB) hat ruxandin...
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  13. 21 hours ago

    SDF advancing E. of 'Ain 'Issa

    SDF recaputered Al-Masaudiyah on M4
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  14. 21 hours ago

    this guy again

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    "Bi perê wan êrîşî me dikin, zarokê me dikûjin. Em hemû şervan in. Ka em bi hev re heyiyê wan qût bikin."
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    23 hours ago

    . just deleted the Popular Front account without warning. We had 22,000 followers there. It was a great way to react and interact with supporters. This is riduculous.

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  16. Nov 4

    SAA artillery is currently shelling SNA positions north west of Tall Tamir. The SDF/YPG recaptured 10-15 villages along those axis in the last two days.
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  17. Nov 4

    2 Faylaq al-Rahman KIA on Serêkaniyê/Tel Tamer front. With the recent entrance of them and Jaysh al-Islam seems the whole “2nd Corps” is active on this front.

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  18. Nov 4

    Pro-opposition Raqqa Post documents theft of cows, cars, batteries of cell towers, cash, and looting of an entire village by Turkish-backed factions in the inappropriately named "Safe Zone" these forces occupied in NE Syria Pillaging is a war crime
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  19. Nov 4

    As for the 03 November ,military position of Tel Tamir region in northern Syria. Evaluation of the developments will be updated.
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  20. Nov 4

    American patrols around Qahtaniyah as seen on snapchat

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  21. Nov 3

    at an oil station north of Qahtaniyah/Tirbespî on the border to Turkey
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  22. Nov 3

    Russian Military Police watching a U.S. military convoy passing by at the roundabout in Tell Tamr , : . Seems the convoy is heading southeast in the direction of Hasakah. Video…
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    Nov 3

    Fascinating details in this report with 's brother-in-law about the hunt to the ISIS leader. Interesting insights on how ISIS used sheep herders to move around, and how these shepherds ended up stealing about $70m from an ISIS hideout: Thread:

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  24. Nov 3

    next you’ll tell me the SCP isn’t a Bekdash family ponzi scheme but in fact a committed Marxist vanguard

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  25. Nov 3

    (unnecessarily prefaced: i’m completely unsympathetic to the group but..) How can one actually think the Ba’ath would empower an ideologically driven actor within their own state?!? The “Ba’ath” since Hafiz haven’t even had an ideology of their own besides power maintenance

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  26. Nov 3

    You’d think the fact that they were banned in 1955 (purged by the Ba’ath/SCP for allegedly plotting coups with the West/CIA) but legalized and brought into the NPF in the 00s would be of note

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  27. Nov 3

    Contemporary ‘Syria analyst’ discourse on the SSNP is essentially taking a wikipedia summary of their founding ideology and attaching it to them on x frontline. 0 engagement w/ the group’s actual history or attempts to understand their relation to the regime

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    Nov 2

    The symbolism, it hurts my eyes.

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    Army-control over Oil fields in north eastern near Rumelan /east of
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    Nov 2

    Iraqi protests are probably the most remarkable regional event in half a decade, with remarkable implications. But it’s astonishing how under-reported they have been in mainstream media. good articles but truly amazing how this isn’t covered play by play.

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  30. Nov 2

    the homie was just on cashcab (which apparently still exists) and lost all his money referring to whirling dervishes as "yaht-zidis" lmaooo

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    Nov 2

    . showed this and said "Posadism lives in Chile!" Very weird but cool.

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  32. Nov 1

    The 2nd Division of the Syrian "National Army" justifies handing over regime POWs to Turkey by admitting that they're not the ones in charge. "The central role of the Turkish Army in administering the offensive can not…
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  33. Nov 1

    Several fighters from the Turkish-backed Syrian "National Army" and one sub-group of displaced fighters from Homs defected from the SNA following handover of regime prisoners multiple calls online for executing…
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    Nov 1

    Two Dutch nationals - ISIS wives - along with 3-4 children, presented themselves to the Dutch Embassy in Ankara, after escaping al-Hol camp in NE Syria. One of them had been stripped of Dutch citizenship and are under arrest of Turkish police.

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  36. Nov 1

    Our reporter: The Russian-Turkish joint patrol of 4 military vehicles for each side, continue to roam in the countryside of…
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  37. Nov 1

    Excellent and timely thread wrote in december on the history of the Jazirah specifically the regions complex 20th C ethnoreligious dynamics

    Upper Jazira was sewn onto Mandatory Syria by the French in large part for this reason—rapidly transformed from a restless frontier of wandering tribes to a modern breadbasket by a planned “civilisation” project which could occupy the waves of refugees pouring in from Anatolia. …
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  38. Oct 31

    pt English version here

    A school, a clinic and civilian houses were the targets of the on the village of Qesirdib in Al- /Derik on 10 and 11 October 2019. …
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  39. Oct 31

    To these types Syrian Kurdish politics started in 2011 and are primarily about ‘Turkish security concerns’ and ‘countering Iran.’ The parties that are “legitimate” and “organic” are the ones run along familial and clientelist lines, orientated towards Barzani

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  40. Oct 31

    fuck dril, orton is the funniest account on this platform

    It was that brokered the movement of cadres into in 2012, FYI, after handed the PKK the areas of northern to destabilise the rebellion and its external backers. For Tehran, it drained away the "" threat and propped up their client in Damascus.
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  41. Oct 31

    Report on Turkish shelling from the first 3 days of operations hitting a school and civilian houses in border villages outside Derik. Includes geolocation work of mine. Follow , truly outstanding unbiased work

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