Reade Levinson
Visual investigations at Reuters
- We spoke to 26 witnesses who saw RSF fighters kidnapping children during their takeover of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October and in other attacks in the Darfur region over the course of Sudan's civil war, in some cases killing their parents first. Our story: www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- And the Arabic version: www.reuters.com/ar/world/NA3...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonThe gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonFederal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- On Aug 25, Israeli defense forces attacked a Gaza hospital, killing our colleague Hussam al-Masri. We spent the last few weeks reviewing footage and interviewing witnesses. The visual evidence contradicts Israel’s official story. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
- Our latest story about a major coltan exporter in Rwanda ... www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonOur visual analysis shows the remnants of at least three American GBU-39 bombs at the site of the Yemeni migrant detention center that was bombed on Monday. Dozens of migrants died in the strike. From @arijetalajka.bsky.social and me. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
- Reposted by Reade Levinson@reuters.com read piles of abandoned embassy papers about Tehran’s economic strategy in Assad-era Syria. Turns out the Iranians just got robbed and scammed until they wept, like everyone else. @johndrtrs.bsky.social @readelev.bsky.social @allisonmartell.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonIran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
- Our first investigation based on papers uncovered after the fall of Assad is out today, w/ John Davison and @allisonmartell.bsky.social
- Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
- Iran dreamed up a US-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy show how that plan went spectacularly wrong with the fall of Bashar al-Assad reut.rs/3Ypri76
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonA U.N. panel of experts is investigating how mortar rounds exported from Bulgaria to the United Arab Emirates ended up in a supply convoy for Rapid Support Forces fighters in Sudan. Great exclusive by @dglewis.bsky.social and @readelev.bsky.social
- Exclusive: UN panel investigates Emirati links to seized weapons in Darfur www.reuters.com/world/un-pan...
- I'm on BBC's Newshour today with Tim Franks talking about our investigation into the private jet C5-SKY that flew out valuables and cash from Syria in December (last five min) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
- NEW: We traced the private jet C5-SKY that flew in and out of Syria 4x the weekend Assad fell. Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables www.reuters.com/world/middle...
- Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonHi! We're running a workshop on #OSINT investigations in Italy on April 9, just before the International Journalism Festival. @readelev.bsky.social and I will dive into new satellite imagery tools, corporate data, practical geolocation techniques and much more 🤓 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-day-o...
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- Reposted by Reade LevinsonWas is spreading in #Congo. There is a array of players involved, including three neighbouring armies. We'd had a crack at explaining some of this with the help of the graphics team at @reuters.com With @readelev.bsky.social @soniarolley.bsky.social www.reuters.com/graphics/CON...
- NEW from us, with maps: With three neighbouring armies already on the ground, a conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is evolving into a wider regional war. @dglewis.bsky.social @soniarolley.bsky.social @pkddapacific.bsky.social
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonOur team at @cen4infores.bsky.social has documented almost 1500 incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, OPTs and Israel since October 2023. All of that verified data is available on our public map, linking back to every bit of footage.
- The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits and other weaponry to Israel, the Pentagon said in statements on Friday. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
- NEW from us: Sudan's RSF operating drones from Darfur base, pictures show www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- Satellite images show at least three drones and the construction of hangars at an airport in South Darfur held by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), evidence of the continuing stream of increasingly advanced weapons fuelling a devastating war. (Maxar images of the hangars Jan 14 and Feb 18)
- Analysis by the defence intelligence company Janes determined that the drones pictured are Chinese-manufactured CH-95s, capable of long-range surveillance and strikes at a distance of up to 200 km.
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View full threadVideos posted online and verified by Reuters show crowds gathering by the plane's burning wreckage. Reuters geolocated the site to northern Nyala, about 1 km from al-Mustaqbal neighborhood. (Satellite images of the crash site from Planet)
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- Reposted by Reade LevinsonWe're running an OSINT investigations workshop in Perugia, Italy on April 9, just before IJF25. It's a day full of satellite imagery, social media, data analysis, automation and more. Learn from @cen4infores.bsky.social & @readelev.bsky.social from Reuters. Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/osint-mast...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonThe lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- “My first thought when I saw this order was, There are rings in people’s bodies and you cannot leave them,” Dr. Mansoor said. “For me ethics and participants come first. There is a line.” Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
- Reposted by Reade Levinson“It is not hype or conjecture or hand wringing or even contested use of stats to say that hundreds of thousands of malnourished children could die without USAID." A comprehensive, urgent report on the global consequences of cutting off US aid. www.reuters.com/world/halt-u...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonNEW: The interim U.S. attorney in Washington put his name to a motion dismissing Jan. 6 charges against a person he represented as a defense lawyer, likely violating a swath of conflict rules. "You can't do that," one ethics expert told us. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonNew: Well known Italian migrant sea rescuer Luca Casarini has been targeted with Paragon spyware, according to an alert issued by Meta which Casarini shared with me. Casarini is the second Italian to have gone public as a target of the no-click surveillance software. www.reuters.com/world/italia...
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonMusk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
- We looked at some of the videos emerging of acts Sudan's army called "individual violations" after it recaptured Wad Madani, the state capital of El Gezira, from the RSF: www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- In a video shared on social media but not verified by Reuters, a civilian pleads with soldiers who surround him and accuse him of being in the RSF. Then one soldier backs the man up against a brick wall and shoots him multiple times. Graphic warning: x.com/Mgd_SD/statu...
- In another, a young man is pushed off of a bridge by a group of men. Video here: x.com/KHOYousif/st...
- One of the men was wearing a jacket with the insignia of the al-Baraa ibn Malik battalion, an Islamist militia allied to the army. Reuters located the video to Hantoob bridge in Wad Madani but was not able to confirm the date.
- Reposted by Reade LevinsonA remarkable day of @reuters.com coverage on a deepening hunger crisis around the world. A 🧵 of multiple important stories reported by colleagues in multiple cities.
- NEW: For the last year, dglewis.bsky.social and I have been tracking planes at Amdjarass airport in eastern Chad. Using satellite imagery and data, we identified 170 flights by cargo planes based in the UAE that headed on the route towards Chad since April 2023: www.reuters.com/world/uae-fl...
- The flights continued as recently as October this year.
- Half of the flights were operated by 4 airlines that a UN panel of experts accused of channelling military support from the UAE to Libyan general Khalifa Haftar in 2019-2020. They are: ZetAvia and FlySky Airlines LLC, based in Ukraine, and FlySky Kyrgyz and Sapsan Airlines, based in Kyrgyzstan.
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View full threadThe UAE government said it had sent 159 relief flights with more than 10,000 tonnes of food and medical aid. "We firmly reject the baseless and unfounded claims regarding the provision of arms and military equipment to any warring party since the beginning of the conflict," the statement said.
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- We verified video footage in Kabkabiya, North Darfur, where human rights groups say more than 100 people were killed after barrel bombs hit the market on Monday. One man is heard saying "People are dying wholesale" Sudan's army denied responsibility for the attack. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
- Satellite imagery taken Dec. 9 shows three vessels in Russia's Mediterranean fleet are anchored 13km northwest off Syria's coast, after Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Tartous www.reuters.com/world/satell...
- The top Democrat on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee will introduce legislation today that would sanction leaders on both sides of Sudan’s war and prohibit the sale of weapons to countries fueling the conflict, according to a summary of the bill seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/world/senior...
- Citing a recent escalation of violence in Darfur, a Democratic Foreign Affairs staffer said the RSF would be unable to continue fighting at the same intensity without "significant" foreign military support.
