Dylan Burns interviews 'Flint', an infantry platoon commander with the 100th Separate Mechanized Brigade, as they hold the front against Russian forces on the Kostyantynivka axis. offbeatresearch.com/2026/05/the-...

"This is what a genocide looks like." @thomasvlinge.bsky.social profiled residents of Sudan's El Fasher amid the city's fall. They told of life under siege while living through famine and atrocity; now they're missing, captured, or dead. Read their testimony: offbeatresearch.com/2026/04/they...

As the Iran war exposes gaps in the defensibility of military infrastructure, a $16 million Russian helicopter’s downing on March 20 by a small Ukrainian FPV drone showcases the sheer cost disparity of modern warfighting. offbeatresearch.com/2026/03/a-uk...

New — almost a year after Levi Kabakov pushed Troy McLeod out of his wheelchair in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Black residents are still demanding hate crime charges be added. Randi Richardson reports: offbeatresearch.com/2026/02/an-a...

New: Documents leaked in the aftermath of the Assad regime’s collapse in December 2024 reveal years of previously undisclosed collaboration between Israel, the Assad regime, and its Russian guarantors. Patrick Hilsman and Nizar Al-Rifai report -- offbeatresearch.com/2026/01/the-...

New: An anonymous author conducts a retrospective analysis of the political, economic, and social situation in Jammu and Kashmir since the Indian government’s revocation of the territory’s special status in 2019. offbeatresearch.com/2026/01/revi...

New: Gregory Waters reports from Kabineh, a ghost town in the mountains of Jabal al-Akrad which for years served as a hub of fierce resistance against the Assad regime. offbeatresearch.com/2025/12/kabi...

NEW: @jimmyrushton.bsky.social sits down with Bohdan Krotevych, the decorated former commander of the Ukrainian National Guard's elite Azov Brigade, for a wide-ranging interview on the current state of Ukraine's leadership and military operations. offbeatresearch.com/2025/11/i-kn...

New: @neilphauer.bsky.social reports from Sumy, a city which has grown increasingly war-weary as the threat of constant drone attacks and bombardments drag on the daily lives of its residents. offbeatresearch.com/2025/11/year...

New: Dylan Burns reports alongside Ukrainian night drone teams on the front between Dnipro and Donetsk, where the evolution of drone operations has changed the face of warfare for better and worse. offbeatresearch.com/2025/10/supp...

In Kafrnabl, Gregory Waters explores the stories of local residents who lived and often resisted through the Assad regime’s decimation of life, and life’s ultimate resurgence, in the town and longtime revolutionary hub. offbeatresearch.com/2025/08/the-...

New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social and @devinsanluis.bsky.social follow the 59th Brigade's "Shkval" battalion of prisoners while they train to hold the line as Russian forces threaten to advance further into Dnipro. offbeatresearch.com/2025/07/the-...

New: @devinsanluis.bsky.social reports alongside the 113th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade 'Phoenix Squad', whose volunteer defenders work night and day to hunt down Russian drones intent on terrorizing locals in Kharkiv. offbeatresearch.com/2025/06/from...

New: Gregory Waters reports from the towns of Suqaylabiyah and Qalaat al-Mudiq in Syria's al-Ghab plain, where displaced residents are slowly returning despite pervasive reminders of the death and destruction wrought by years of relentless regime bombardment. offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/recl...

New op-ed by Aisha Malik: India’s weaponization of climate change and water rights in Kashmir exists in pursuit of a policy which seeks to systematically oppress Kashmiri women and advance a total erasure of Kashmiri identity. offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/indi...

NEW: Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized was the pinnacle of European cooperation, but mass desertions nearly derailed the effort before it began. @dylanburnstv.bsky.social spoke to a deserter about his time in training and his decision to go AWOL during training in France offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/dysf...

ICYMI: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...

New by Juwayriah Wright: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...

New by Juwayriah Wright: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...

Patrick Hilsman reflects on life and resilience in the towns surrounding Kyiv during the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. offbeatresearch.com/2025/02/3-ye...

New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social tours a town on the front line in Sumy oblast, where local residents and the town's civic life have shown remarkable resilience despite nearly three years of constant, indiscriminate Russian bombardment. offbeatresearch.com/2025/01/gove...

ICYMI:

Happy New Year's Eve! New from @dylanburnstv.bsky.social today is a (snowy) report from his recent embed with Ukraine's 100th Mechanized Brigade as their crews field several unique Western-provided IFVs, including the German-made "Marder". offbeatresearch.com/2024/12/wint...

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New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine’s major logistical hubs. offbeatresearch.com/2024/11/russ...

Towns including Sheikh Aqil, Anjara, and Urum al-Kubra were reportedly seized by Syrian opposition forces in Aleppo as part of a major offensive intended to counter indiscriminate regime shelling on towns in the region. / Photo credit: Kawalees Syria (كواليس سوريا) via Facebook

The crew's commander, Jäger, launches a single rocket at a Russian position near the front before the team quickly departs the area to avoid any potential retaliatory fire. Read Burns' full report here: offbeatresearch.com/2024/11/russ...

New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine’s major logistical hubs. offbeatresearch.com/2024/11/russ...

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New from @arabukrainian.bsky.social: Tracking the adoption, proliferation, and increased use of glide bombs by Russian and Ukrainian forces since 2022 offbeatresearch.com/2024/11/the-...