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.

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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.

Pakistan bombed Kabul overnight, as well as two other provinces, as tensions rose with Afghanistan’s Taliban government. Planet SkySat imagery obtained by Bellingcat shows the aftermath of the strikes on a military base in Kabul.

Reporting from @tolonews.bsky.social and online statements from Afghanistan's Taliban government spokesperson suggest the Taliban is currently attacking Pakistan in the border region between the two countries (aka the Durand Line). Spokesperson: x.com/Zabehulah_M3... TOLONews: x.com/TOLOnews/sta...

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A nice article about how my Friesonesian namesake — and cousin, if you didn’t know yet — @trbrtc.bsky.social combines social media sleuthing and traditional reporting to piece together complex stories for the Times’s Visual Investigations team.

My latest covering some of the strikes using US-made munitions used in Gaza.

Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?

Carney at Davos: "And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself." Trump at Davos:

It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.

Great job, Nobel Committee.

NEW: Police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even ICE—can follow the location of your smart phone without a warrant. Yet, we know little about how this software has been used. via @texasobserver.org + @pulitzercenter.org www.texasobserver.org/texas-police...

New iMEdD interview on how open-source work grew from peer-to-peer info, why our verification and deliberation systems are failing, and how that collapse fuels splintered realities, Trump-era politics, and pressure on investigative journalism. lab.imedd.org/en/eliot-hig...

This Saturday, November 22 I'll be streaming a 12-hour gaming session to raise funds for Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children via @extralife4kids.bsky.social! That's right: I'll be playing video games from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM EST. Come join and donate for a good cause! www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel

Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...