Trump's assertion is false. As @bellingcat.com reported earlier this year, authenticated videos from the strike on the Minab's girl school clearly show that the munitions that impacted the site were Tomahawk missiles. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

This month, we're highlighting the work of our Toolkit Guardians. However, building open-source tools and maintaining the Toolkit wouldn't be possible without your support. If you'd like to help sustain this work, please consider making a donation here: www.bellingcat.com/donate-belli...

Google Lens is fastly becoming a go-to reverse image search tool, allowing for easy geolocations in minutes. However with any AI tool it can make mistakes! Here’s how best to use it: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

PimEyes, a paid tool, lets users upload pictures of a person and conducts an AI search to find pictures of faces that look similar. The results contain photos of similar looking people and link to websites where those pictures show up online. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Toolkit Guardian @anisashabir.bsky.social manages our Image and Video analysis category in the Bellingcat Toolkit. Here’s what they think about these open source resources:

The InVID Verification Plugin is a toolkit designed to assist journalists in verifying content on social networks. It can help segment keyframes and extract metadata and much more. When verifying an image, use more than one verification tool to ensure accuracy. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

RootAbout is a reverse image search tool that pulls indexed images from the Internet Archive, comparing an uploaded image with a dataset of over 37.3 million archived pictures bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Analysing an image or video for an investigation? Your work can be enhanced with help from open source tools which we have a collection of in our Bellingcat Toolkit. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/cate... Here are a few of the tools we use and how you can get involved 🧵

Satellite imagery shows that at least 46 towns and villages in southern Lebanon have been heavily damaged or, in some cases, entirely flattened by the Israeli Defence Forces. Bellingcat’s interactive map reveals the scale of the destruction: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05...

Trump literally tells you not to believe the evidence of your eyes and ears. Too late.

Analysis by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself for @newlinesmag.bsky.social reveals that the U.S.-Israeli coalition has employed so-called double tap strikes, showing a callous disregard for civilians and a pattern of airstrikes seeking to inflict reckless harm on Iranians.

Interesting flight in the air now south of Baghdad (32.939, 44.628) likely using bogus hex codes. PAPA04 (039c43) PAPA15 (039c4a) PAPA03 (0374bb) PAPA01 (0374ba)

The @journalismfestival.com is right around the corner. As always, the 2026 programme includes a range of sessions that are particularly relevant for (aspiring) open source researchers. Here is an overview of sessions you shouldn’t miss: t1p.de/mod4u. Most sessions are also live-streamed.

How the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have left its schools and hospitals in ruins Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We're in a weird time with open source and commercial satellite imagery right now and Iran is under a 40-day internet blackout. As a workaround, @bellingcat.com has adapted Ollie Ballinger's remote sensing work to more easily find damaged areas in Iran: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Israel struck a building today opposite Rafik Hariri University Hospital, approximately 80 meters from a 2024 impact site it also struck, geolocated at 33.861761, 35.491060, in a densely populated area of Jnah in Beirut.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

US has posted several photos showing jets equipped with dispensers that can dispense BLU-91/B mines, which Bellingcat previously identified in an Iranian village on March 26. These photos were taken on April 2, so it appears the US may be continuing to deploy these mines in Iran.

Looking around for this with @aric.bsky.social and @gbrumfiel.bsky.social, geolocated at 30.835153, 50.589567 north of Dehdasht (~30 miles north of Behbahan). Rough annotation with matching terrain + building area in the foreground. CC: @geoconfirmed.org Map link: www.google.com/maps/place/3...

Even with the two week delay in Planet imagery, can already start to see mass demolition of homes in southern Lebanon in PlanetScope imagery from March. Rab El Thalathine and Al-Aadaissah, both near the border, have seen widespread destruction when comparing imagery from March 3 and March 18.

NEW: On the first day of the war with Iran, the United States used a new ballistic missile. It was untested in combat. Our analysis shows it struck a sports hall, an elementary school, and residential areas — killing at least 21 people, including children. w/ @johnismay.bsky.social

Bellingcat found 31 posts with AI-generated imagery shared on social media by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam and West Bengal in December that appeared to meet the United Nations’ definition of hate speech. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Videos of explosions have fueled misunderstanding and misinformation in the conflict with Iran, with munition types incorrectly identified amongst claims of “mystery” weapons. What can types of explosions really tell us? Read @easybakeovensz.bsky.social‘s latest: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Pakistan announced that it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from the U.S. or Iran, and it was unclear whether the talks would be direct or indirect.

Two new videos have emerged showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound, as well as an adjacent girls’ school, in Minab, Iran. By geolocating and verifying the footage, Bellingcat found two waves of attacks, occurring hours apart. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Trump calls on Bessent, and Bessent promptly starts kissing Trump's ass

In this particular case the watch helps us to Geolocate a Munition Remnants Pictured at Site of Deadly Chad Strike . The Munition Match A Weapon Previously Used by Sudan’s RSF www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Never forget to check the watches worn by people in videos/images you analyze. It is always of tremendous help for verifying footage and be able to geolocate by understanding shadows , timelines and more. @bellingcat.com

Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @wammezz.bsky.social, and myself.

Journalist Steve Sweeney was reporting from the ground in Lebanon when a projectile exploded directly behind him. There is a video of him receiving aid in a medical facility, so he survived.

A Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation centre on March 16 in Kabul killed at least 400 people and injured 250 others, according to Afghan officials. But online accounts claim that the strike targeted military infrastructure. Here's what open sources can tell us...

Urlscan lets you analyse suspicious websites without directly interacting with them. You can also use the tool to look into signals that potentially connect individual sites to coordinated networks. Learn more in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Heavy casualties feared as Kabul accuses Pakistan of strike on hospital

Afghanistan's Taliban government has accused Pakistan's military of targeting civilian homes in overnight airstrikes in Kabul and the southern province of Kandahar, saying children were among those killed.

Join me on my Twitch channel tonight at 7:00 PM EST where I'll be playing GREEN HELL, a game where you have to survive infection, disease and (I think cannibals?) in a jungle. I'm doing this to raise funds via @extralife4kids.bsky.social for Toronto's SickKids hospital! www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel

Thank you to @slair.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social for taking the time to provide their expertise for this piece.

Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. On Tuesday Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and stressed that Iraqi airspace and territory should not be used.

A review by @ntabrizy.bsky.social and myself of post-strike videos, images, satellite imagery and mapping data shows that a civilian park hosting an EMS base in Shiraz was directly hit, killing at least 20 and raising questions about mistaken targeting.

I spoke to CTV news about our @bellingcat.com analysis showing that a US Tomahawk missile struck the IRGC base near the Minab girls' elementary school on February 28, adding to evidence that the US was responsible for the deadly attack on the school. youtu.be/Vi6VIDlyiRc?...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Two experts told me they hadn't seen a bomb before in Israeli service, that it could be a bomb designed to destroy chemical weapons. The US and IDF declined to answer specific questions about it, including if they assessed Iran had a chemical weapons program. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Here's what Bellingcat has been up to this week: Bellingcat analysed imagery and reporting from the first days of the conflict with Iran to identify US, Israeli and Iranian munitions now being deployed. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

I plotted the location of the Minab school (green dot) onto the map shared by the U.S. military during a press conference this week at the Pentagon, for those interested.

Grateful to @ntabrizy.bsky.social for mentioning me in this @newlinesmag.bsky.social piece, which underscores how collaborative open-source investigation is, and why researchers working together matters now more than ever.

Quick piece mapping this police station strike as well as 14 other police stations visibly damaged or destroyed in PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com with a few geolocated by @geoconfirmed.org. Check out the March 1-3 map made by @obtusatum.bsky.social. Link: www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

As the war enters it's fourth day, more remnants and misinformation continues to be posted online. There's a couple that didn't make it into the article.

I've never seen anything like this before. There are currently at least 14 (fourteen!) KC-135R Stratotankers on their way to the Middle East. Inbound from bases across the United States. They're used to refuel other aircraft in the air.

Bellingcat is monitoring the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. We've verified several videos of explosions in Jordan, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. You can help us monitor and stay informed in our Discord server. Link to the server in the Bellingcat thread here ⬇️

Further damage from Pakistan airstirkes visible in Feb 27 2026 SkySat imagery from @planet.com in Kandahar, as noted by @easybakeovensz.bsky.social. First set of images show destroyed warehouses near 31.4766, 65.8707. Second set is to the west and shows destroyed buildings near 31.4794, 65.8516.