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

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...

"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...

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...

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

“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...

geolocation of the building that was raided last night google.com/maps?ll=36.3... in Atmeh

human remains were found among the rubble geolocated in the Karam Zaytun neighborhood of Homs google.com/maps?ll=34.7...

Zaiter's burning Cadillac geolocated in Baalbek google.com/maps?ll=34.0...

German Air Force A400M conducting an airdrop of humanitarian aid over northern Gaza today gettyimages.com/detail/22272...

remains of a tank destroyed between 27 and 29 Oct 2017 on the side of the road halfway between Damascus and Palmyra www.google.com/maps?ll=33.9...

geolocation of a mass grave google.com/maps?ll=32.6... southeast of Suwayda

scorched-earth policy of complete and total destruction visible from space (unpaywalled archive.is/rvmJb)

Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria between 14 and 17 Jul 2025 mapped from Sentinel-2 satellite images and geolocated footage (h/t @elkangoo.bsky.social)

Israeli troops geolocated near the archaeological site of Burqush google.com/maps?ll=33.4... ~25km west of Damascus idf.il/302272

IDF fortifications and roadblocks next to al-Mantara dam in Quneitra google.com/maps?ll=33.1... newlinesmag.com/spotlight/is...

IDF demolished some farms google.com/maps?ll=33.3... and Assad regime military outposts in Syria which they deemed a threat to Israel on 10/11 June 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=kX_E... www.idf.il/301235

geolocation of the Israeli drone strike on a car on the highway just south of Beirut airport google.com/maps?ll=33.7...

geolocation of the drone strike south of Atmeh google.com/maps?ll=36.2... on 10 Jun 2025. at least four R9X Hellfire missiles were fired

most of Iran's fancy early warning radar installations in the west and center of the country got targeted by Israeli strikes

Israeli airstrike ~6km north of Tartus google.com/maps?ll=34.9... on Sentinel-2 satellite image today link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/p0sh

IRAM in a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in Qusayr google.com/maps?ll=34.5... that was bombed by Israel on 31 Oct 2024 economist.com/1843/2025/05...

geolocation of the Jordanian airstrike on a building in Sheab last night google.com/maps?ll=32.4... (link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/o4iy)

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

crude oil tanker CARL captured on Sentinel-2 satellite image near Baniyas today link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/n5h4

controlled demolition by IDF in Syria geolocated near Qalaat al-Jandal google.com/maps?ll=33.4... claiming to have located and dismantled "the central headquarters of the former Syrian regime on Mount Hermon" idf.il/294285 on 28 Apr 2025

geolocation of a possible Israeli airstrike about 3km southwest of Suwayda google.com/maps?ll=32.6...

geolocation of an Israeli airstrike in the northeastern outskirts of Sahnyah yesterday google.com/maps?ll=33.4...

Turkish military is remaining and expanding its presence in northern Iraqi Kurdistan with at least 136 military bases and outposts as of Dec 2024. a string of new outposts was set up for example just north of Bamerne in 2024 google.com/maps?ll=37.1... bbc.com/news/article...

An important investigation into Turkish military bases inside #Iraq and a hidden war that has killed 100s of people and designated a large swath of northern Iraq a ‘forbidden zone’ - with the Kurdish KDP’s help www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVU...

More than just an archaeological site: the hill of al-Muntar, the highest point in Gaza city, is named after the shrine of Sheikh Ali al-Muntar at the top of the hill, which long hosted an important mawsim (festival) of the region.

maybe this was a CW production facility? google.com/maps?ll=34.5... since it would match the description in @columlynch.bsky.social's piece foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/16/c... (archive.is/IGi4K) of an "underground [CW] facility about 25 miles west of Homs"

Iranian Qeshm Fars Air cargo B747 [EP-FAB] from Tehran Mehrabad via Bandar Abbas to Port Sudan on 9/10 April 2025 fr24.com/data/aircraf... (also on 16/17 March 2025)

Israeli GPS spoofing over the past few months made everyone train at Beirut or Amman airport, according to tracks on the current Strava heatmap

Barbados flagged tanker SABINA delivering Russian oil to Syria spotted near Baniyas today

"Last year, Israel launched airstrikes on several Syrian regime facilities where chemical weapons were known to have been held" - it seems only five chemical weapons related facilities were targeted (red), roughly 4% of about 950 strikes conducted in Syria in Dec 2024/Jan 2025

Barzeh scientific research centre (SSRC) in Damascus wasn't targeted this time but the air defense site on the hill above google.com/maps?ll=33.5...

Iran has recently built a new Ghadir OTH radar about 140km NW of Tabriz www.google.com/maps?ll=38.7... along with a string of similar systems www.google.com/maps?ll=27.8... on the coast of the Persian Gulf

another tanker delivering Russian oil to Syria captured on Sentinel-2 satellite image today

last update to my datasets/maps of Israeli airstrikes in Syria 2013-2025 since Carto is retiring their legacy free accounts and all my stuff there will go offline by the end of the month - go grab it while it's hot! sami-r.carto.com/builder/d5f6...

On Repeat.

Barbados flagged tanker AQUATICA delivering Russian oil near Baniyas today link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/i1l1

IDF bulldozers razing the former Russian military outpost geolocated west of Nawa google.com/maps?ll=32.9... (gettyimages.com/detail/22052...)

IDF infographics vs actual places targeted by the airstrikes in southern Syria last Monday (geolocated from Sentinel-2 and Planet satellite images)