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OPCW found "a chemical warfare agent and its degradation product" in a sample "collected in August 2025 from deteriorated barrels buried under the soil" at a Chemical Weapons related location previously not declared by the Assad regime opcw.org/sites/defaul... [pdf]

airstrike on a buried shipping container geolocated google.com/maps?ll=35.6... ~9km northwest of al-Tabni youtube.com/watch?v=qbcD...

US/Coalition airstrikes also targeted a number of caves google.com/maps?ll=34.8... ~35km north of Palmyra

US/Coalition airstrike on a building geolocated in Zalaf google.com/maps?ll=32.9... ~75km east of Suwayda

Israeli military base on the summit of Mount Hermon (جبل الشيخ) at an altitude of 2810m google.com/maps?ll=33.4... (29 Oct 2025) bsky.app/profile/obre...

it is not the first time the Jordanians have done so, they're trying to stop drug smuggling across the border

map of the Jordanian airstrikes in southern Suwayda on 24/25 Dec 2025 bsky.app/profile/fare...

another location in the Syrian desert ~15km north of Sukhnah google.com/maps?ll=35.0... targeted by US/Coalition airstrikes on 19 Dec 2025 link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/ahml

difference between the Yellow Line on the map (idf.il/158008/) and how it was implemented on the ground (dashed line) in Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza on satellite image from 13 Dec 2025 google.com/maps?ll=31.5... (Planet satellite image via @avischarf.bsky.social)

US/Coalition airstrike geolocated ~30km north of Palmyra google.com/maps?ll=34.8...

hard to tell, we don't know much more than that www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-...

another airstrike in the same area ~40km northeast of Palmyra www.google.com/maps?ll=34.8... visible on Sentinel-2 satellite image today link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/joaq

US/Coalition airstrike on a number of caves geolocated ~45km northeast of Palmyra google.com/maps?ll=34.8...

Eilat to Johannesburg via Nairobi on these two chartered flights: fr24.com/data/flights... and fr24.com/data/flights... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

playing basketball in Damascus google.com/maps?ll=33.5...

Israeli troops also took over the tower overlooking the area that once was a forest about 150m north of their base in Jubata al-Khashab google.com/maps?ll=33.2...

Bashar's luxurious residence in exile in Moscow maps.app.goo.gl/Lzt6HADLALix... where "Assad's family owns around 20 apartments in the left tower" according to @zeit.de archive.is/fh5IX

we prefer to call them infographics instead bsky.app/profile/obre...

in addition to the pretty 3D animations this kind of textbook propaganda also applies to misleading maps, diligently labeled as "illustrations", which the IDF publishes with the same goal of making the public believe they were showing something real

ten years ago today Russia started its campaign of airstrikes and lies in Syria in an attempt to save the Assad regime with a strike on Jaish Al-Izza in al-Lataminah google.com/maps?ll=35.3... claiming they had destroyed an ISIS HQ youtube.com/watch?v=hiA0...

similar to the "Al Maliha" chemical weapons production facility (allegedly used to produce ricin) which was destroyed and "all debris removed" on 7 Jun 2018 google.com/maps?ll=33.4...

it is the only building which was "razed to ground level and all debris removed" in the area of Tell Kurdi that day

"Tel Kurdi" chemical weapons production facility (CWPF) as declared by the Aassad regime and destroyed on 23 Jun 2018, reported by the OPCW ("all declared buildings had been razed to ground level and all debris removed") opcw.org/sites/defaul... [pdf] google.com/maps?ll=33.5...

Exclusive: Israel-Syria talks hit snag over humanitarian corridor, sources say Efforts to reach a security pact between Syria and Israel have hit a last-minute snag over Israel's demand that it be allowed to open a "humanitarian corridor" to Syria's southern province of Sweida, four sources familiar with the talks said.

it seems the Israeli govt is free to support the humanitarian corridors that are already established by WFP/ICRC if it cared about the Druze in Syria www.reuters.com/world/middle...

hard to keep track since the OPCW reported in August that "nine of these locations have already been visited by the DAT, during the deployments in March and April 2025" but "in March and in April 2025, the DAT visited four declared locations and five suspected locations" in the 142nd report in July

Russian field hospital in Homs since 2021 google.com/maps?ll=34.7... disappeared around 20 May 2025

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

“In a quote that was not on the recording but was cited by Ynet, Halevi appeared to suggest that the main importance of Israel’s military lawyers was to convince the outside world of the legality of the IDF’s actions.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Aframax tanker "Nissos Christiana" anchored near the oil terminal in Tartus link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/p46j to load the first cargo of Syrian crude oil since the lifting of sanctions (~0.5mbbl) archive.is/kBtVB

Israeli airstrikes on the military base east of al-Kiswah last night google.com/maps?ll=33.3... aimed to close off the area by targeting roads and access points to the base and the hilltop

geolocation of the building in Tarnaja village google.com/maps?ll=33.2... that was shelled by the IDF today killing a civilian sana.sy/locals/22716...