Alexander McKeever

@AKMcKeever

Independent researcher/MA student Contributor Syria: Opposition/Afrin, OSINT New Yorker, 🏴

Queens, NY
Joined March 2016
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    Nov 11

    THREAD: New report for I worked on detailing how a Turkish-backed group in Afrin recently used the famous Iron Age temple of 'Ain Dara, believed to date back as early as 1300 BC, for a live fire training exercise in late September. (1/12)

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  2. 41 minutes ago

    Turkish military establishing outposts south of Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê including some Leopard 2 tanks
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    20 hours ago

    Extensive new report showing that Ahrar al-Sharqiya, a Turkish-backed faction, murdered Kurdish feminist politician Hevrîn Khelef The photo of her body (p. 24) is similar to 1 sent to me by an Ahrar member who witnessed her extra-judicial killing

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    Dec 10

    Failure to end by the in paved the way for further abuses during the military operation in northeast .

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  6. 20 hours ago

    download a pdf of the 37 page report here:

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  7. 20 hours ago

    's new report on Hevrin Khalaf murder: includes exclusive testimony and evidence (such as an image of the victim's corpse), in-depth background information on Ahrar al-Sharqiyah, as well as some OSINT analysis I contributed.

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    Dec 9

    The expected passing of the Caesar Syria Civil Protection Act as part of the NDAA represents a political victory for the international campaign for accountability and against the normalization of the Assad regime. It will also further devastate what remains of the Syrian economy.

    When the Caesar Bill becomes law, it will make the current sanctions on the Assad regime seem like child's play. …
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    Dec 9

    trail reveals funding rivals Expert comment from ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ & additional reporting ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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  10. Dec 9

    random Afrin tidbit: local historian Dr. Muhammed ‘Abdo ‘Ali believes the town name Ma’betli/Mabata derives from a Kurdish bastardization of “al-bayt,” referring to the inhabitants Alevi faith - followers of the family of the Prophet

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  11. Dec 8

    Russian and Turkish militaries at the al-Mabroukah station right as part of the M4 deal. I'm not aware of heavy fighting that took place to capture this, I believe OP is talking about M4 fighting 20km east. location:

    Délégation militaire turco-russe à la centrale électrique d'Al-Mabrouka. Il est à noter qu'il n'y avait pas de présence de la milice de l'armée nationale malgré la perte de morts lors de…
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  12. Dec 8

    on 5 Dec, sources within the SNA reported that 251 of its fighters had been killed in Operation Peace Spring (meaning a whole 20% are Homs natives). has recorded 276 SDF/MFS/Asayish KIA, though older deaths are still being reported

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    Dec 7

    geolocation of today's R9X strike on a car north of Afrin

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    Dec 7

    Public service announcement to everyone writing, speaking, or reporting about armed conflicts: if you are not currently a serving member of the U.S. military, you are not obliged to use their dorky acronyms for what normal humans refer to as "bombs" and "car bombs."

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  15. Dec 6

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    Big news for our small team. and have officially joined Visual Investigations full-time. Check out their impressive body of reporting in just six months.
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  16. Dec 5

    just came across this unimportant but mildly interesting tidbit but this al-Jisr video from April 2019 purportedly shows jets from Tabqa airbase being transported into the KRG to be sold for scrap

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  17. Dec 5

    not only does this have nothing to do with the search i inputed, the man feeding the crocodiles does not appear to be the assyrian in the title, the video is not in aramaic, and the crocodiles barely react... completely waste of time

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  19. Dec 5

    (from Engseng Ho's 'The Graves of Tarim,' a beautiful book about the Hadrami sayyid diaspora that over the last 500 years spread from Yemen to places across the Indian ocean, from East Africa to India to Malaysia, and still conducts yearly pilgrimages back to Wadi Hadramawt)

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  20. Dec 5

    imagine reading books before google earth...

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    Dec 3

    NYU culture is having a class about the ethics of capitalism inside the literal triangle shirtwaist factory

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    Dec 4

    Happy December 4th, Pete Buttigieg! Today marks the two-year anniversary of the demolition of this homeless encampment, under freezing temperatures, one of the many acts of class warfare that you directly ordered as Mayor. Oddly, you were nowhere to be seen here. Too cold out?

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    Dec 4

    New report by Physicians for Human Rights () on how Syrian security forces have targeted, jailed, and tortured medical professionals for providing care to injured anti-Assad demonstrators or fighters.

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    Dec 4
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    the blob fantasy isnt intervention, its primacy without intervention. and when presented in those terms i think its all too easy to get the public on board

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    Dec 4

    Truly one of the great mysteries of the Syrian war how all the FSA rebels suddenly disappeared in October 2019 and were replaced by Turkey-backed militants who coincidentally sit in their bases, obey their commanders, and use their names, flags, and tanks.

    The identifies as the "," but at its core, it is a wholesale proxy of . The is not a 30,000-man force of fighters trained in earlier years…
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    Dec 4

    PDR Yemen stamps from 1983 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Radfan revolt of October 14, 1963, where the NLF-led anti-colonial war of liberation was born. Within four years, the revolution defeated British colonialism and created the only Marxist state in the Arab World.

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  27. Dec 4

    Huge funeral procession in Tel Rifa'at for the Afrini IDPs killed by TR/TFSA shelling on Monday, among the victims were 8 children

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    Onbinler, Efrinli çocukları uğurladı...
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    Dec 4

    It’s been called a “bonkers tale of…a murky DC demi-monde”, a “swashbuckling scheme” “a who's-who of DC's Syrian rebel lobby” and an “insane story”. told me over the phone that it “sounds like a Cohen Brothers movie.” Go read it now!

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  29. Dec 4

    the creek of my childhood :)

    The agency tasked with overseeing the cleanup of Newtown Creek recently approved a proposal put forth by the city to limit the amount of raw sewage entering the waterway — but residents say the plan falls short.
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    Dec 3

    McKinsey consultants “proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees,” and “looked for ways to accelerate the deportation process.”

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    Dec 3

    After signing deals with its own puppet state in occupied northern Cyprus and with the pseudo-government in Libya's Tripoli, Turkey declares that it owns half of the eastern Mediterranean.

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  32. Dec 3

    Check out this monograph a classmate of mine just published reexamining the brief legacy of Egyptian public sector film production from 1960 to 1971 (available on Kindle)

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  33. Dec 3

    Last week, the 'General Political Body for Homs Governorate' named 50 men from the area killed fighting for Turkish proxies in NE Syria

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    Dec 3

    Here’s the latest episode of with talking about Syria, Turkey and sectarianization. This is well worth your time!

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    Dec 2

    Shelling on Tal Rifaat, controlled by local fighters, took place as students were leaving school. Wrapped in thick wool blankets, the corpses of the deceased were lined up on the floor of an empty room in a nearby medical facility - via

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  36. Dec 1

    never try to look for parking in queens at 9pm on a sunday, even if alternate sides parking is suspended the next day. never want to see another driveway, garage or hydrant again fuck

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    Dec 1

    There are two subreddits for iran, r/iran and r/iranian, the latter being created because r/iran was so terrible, and yet both of them are still filled with some of the dumbest people alive

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  38. Dec 1

    SANA pics showing SAA at the silos today as well

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  39. Dec 1

    fascinating piece by on Catholic theological divides playing out in South America, particularly of interest in the wake of the Bolivian coup

  40. Dec 1

    Turkey seems to have reached an agreement with Russia regarding the M4 and has reportedly removed its proxies from parts it controls near Tel Tamer to make way for Russian MP al-'Aliya Silos located here:

    First moments of Syria army entering the Al-Liya silos after turkey handed over to Syria army, in escort by Russian militar police.
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  41. Dec 1

    NYT VI team continues their amazing recent work using “cockpit tapes” to verify Russia’s targeting of hospitals and residential buildings in Idlib. This report finds them responsible for 2 of the year’s deadliest attacks in Idlib, including the bombing of IDP housing

    The previously proved Russian responsibility for bombing Syrian hospitals. Now, we use the “cockpit tapes” to investigate two of the deadliest airstrikes on civilians in Syria this year.
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