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Wed, Feb 13, 2019

Meddling in a Middle East Summit

Hashtag created ahead of U.S.-led summit on Middle East coopted by Iran-related messages

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Mon, Feb 11, 2019

#YemenCrisis: Houthis and High-Precision Missiles

Houthi forces published video showing precision missile strike against Sudanese military base

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Thu, Feb 7, 2019

#PutinAtWar: Admiral Kuznetsov’s Untimely Departure

Open-source imagery confirmed the incident during which Russia’s only aircraft carrier was damaged

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Mon, Feb 4, 2019

#InfluenceForSale: Venezuela’s Twitter Propaganda Mill

Venezuelan government benefits from coordinated hashtag propaganda

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Mon, Feb 4, 2019

#BreakingSyria: Missiles Fired From Iran Strike Targets in Syria

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched six missiles into Syria, allegedly targeting ISIS positions

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Mon, Jan 21, 2019

#BreakingSyria: Idlib In Sight

Open-source data on the build-up of Assad’s forces and Russian bombing of Idlib

by Lukas Andriukaitis

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Wed, Jan 9, 2019

#PutinAtWar: Recent Military Developments on Fortress Crimea

New Russian S-400 missile systems saturate the Crimean Peninsula

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Mon, Jan 7, 2019

#MinskMonitor: Disinformation Tactics Extend to Kerch

The 4Ds of disinformation in pro-Kremlin media following the Russian escalation in the Kerch Strait

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Fri, Dec 21, 2018

#BreakingSyria: The Fall of ISIS’s Volcanic Stronghold

The battle for the Safa volcanic field, one of the last ISIS footholds in Syria, is over

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Thu, Dec 20, 2018

#MinskMonitor: American Reportedly Found Dead in Occupied Donbas

After disappearing in 2015, Rostov news site reports that William Paul Reilly’s grave has been found

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Tue, Nov 27, 2018

#MinskMonitor: Russian Escalation in Kerch

An open source summary of what we know and don’t know about the escalation in the Kerch Strait

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Tue, Nov 27, 2018

#MinskMonitor: Russia’s Great British Fake Off

Russian and “separatist” reports of “British Military Advisers” in the Donbas for a chemical attack

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