Conflict Research
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Irish 🇮🇪 Remote Operations Security Advisor. Based in Africa, monitoring conflict principally in North Africa & the Sahel Region. (Remote_Ops on X but mostly for research purposes) https://www.instagram.com/conflict_watch68
#BurkinaFaso JNIM issued statements claiming to have seized 04 Security Forces positions north of Djibo & another in Gorgadji. Videos circulating confirm that the 22nd Rapid Intervention Brigade repelled an attack on at least 01 of the Djibo posts killing a large number of JNIM fighters.
#BurkinaFaso 04.08 An unidentified group carried out an IED attack on supply convoy to Essakane resulting in 10 members of the Security Forces being killed & 15 seriously injured. Security Forces responded by carrying reprisals killing 50 (provisional toll) civilians from villagers nearby.
#Mali 03.08 / 04.08 Security Forces issued a communique that on the 03.08 / 04.08 they conducted airstrikes on an FLA/JNIM gathering near Abeibara, a logistics depot in Kidal, and multiple locations around Tessalit.
#Mali 04.08 According to local sources, a missile launched by the Africa Corps from the Feheron camp landed in the city of Gao shortly after launch.
"The Turkish role in Mali has transformed over 8 years from an economic partnership and tools of soft influence to military support that enabled the military council to possess one of the largest drone fleets in Africa,
The killed/missing the Heer alone suffered in France during Fall Rot amounted to 27,701 of whom 118 were missing. There were probably another 60-70,000 wounded during this period so total casualties likely >100,000. One presumes Pochin believes in her pea brain that they all stubbed their toes.
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · yesterdayI will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
I will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is profoundly upsetting
"New math"
Wizard of Oz: Man Behind the Curtain
ALT: Wizard of Oz: Man Behind the Curtain
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Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.” theintercept.com/2026/08/04/u...
#BurkinaFaso 04.08 Local sources report that JNIM has just attacked the town of Dargo in Namentenga province with initial reports that there's been a large number of casualties. Dargo is located about 140km from Ouagadougou.
#Mali 03.08 Reports are emerging that Security Forces have targeted Mauritanian nationals travelling between the two countries after 20 Mauritanians were arrested near Bamako while travelling by bus which broke down near Kati.
#Mali 03.04 Security Forces announced that they carried out airstrikes that it destroyed a logistics truck in Arch Henda area, northwest of Timbuktu, and a base in the Fina Forest near Soribougou.
People who think the UK has taken more refugees than any other country in Europe. 🤝 People who also don't understand Per Capita. 🤝 People who think the the European Convention on Human Rights is bad
It appears Germany is currently undergoing a flood of AI generated fake videos across social media ahead of some key state elections, more than 180 fake videos have been detected across X, BSky etc by anonymous investigative collective Antibot4Navalny.
A historic US-Saudi nuclear deal appeared all but done - until Trump added a new condition: normalise relations with Israel
Local sources have said that the target of the attack was the local health center with a security guard being killed along with another civilian. It was targeted again last night in another drone strike.
Conflict Research@conflictwatch.bsky.social · 4d ago#Mali 30.07 Dramatic footage taken from inside the Algerian border of FLA (Azawad Liberation Front) positions under drone attack and engaging them until they were shot down.
#Mali 01.08 Security Forces have issued a statement that on the 01.08 they carried out airstrikes on a militant a base in Kouakourou & a facility in Tessalit killing a large number of militants. On the 02.08 an airstrike targeted a gathering on militants in the Kidal sector.
1/ Kosovo’s acting Interior Minister, Xhelal Svecla, said on Sunday that another mass grave has been discovered in the Zubin Potok municipality in northern Kosovo. Last Tuesday, Kosovo authorities announced the discovery of a mass grave in Mala Kaludra. ⬇️
Kosovo minister: Another mass grave discovered in northern Kosovo
Kosovo’s acting Interior Minister, Xhelal Svecla, said on Sunday that another mass grave has been discovered in the Zubin Potok municipality in northern Kosovo.
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#BurkinaFaso 03.08 JNIM has issued a statement claiming to have seized 02 pro-government VDP posts near Bam.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry has confirmed that the entry of at least 50,000 people into Ceuta was not spontaneous. It was orchestrated through an online mobilisation & disinformation campaign, which they say was largely driven from outside Morocco. At least 72 have been confirmed dead.
Not that they give a fuck, but it's a war crime.
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 4d agoIsraeli airstrikes bombed medical warehouses near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Saturday 1 August. The strikes destroyed at least half of the facilities and extensively damaged nearby tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, witnesses said.
Interesting info-graphic representing 3 years investigations by Cap'Ivoire Info. Over 5,000 civilians killed in Mali since 2023 with nearly half of the attacks involving Russian mercenaries. (Data from ALCED).
#Mali July JNIM has claimed responsibility for 36 attacks in Mali for the month of July stating that they caused with hundreds of Security Forces (including pro-government militias) / Africa Corps.
#Mali 02.08 JNIM has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Dozo militia position at Dansa in the Mopti region. The group posted images of captured weapons, ammunition & motorcycles & stated that members of the militia had been killed bu not how many.
Meanwhile Laura Loomer is fending off accusations that she’s a trans woman. Participating in right wing political discourse just melts people’s brains.
Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · 3d agoMax Miller now insinuating that Bernie Moreno only is going after him now to deflect from the gay rumors. Everything is just peachy.
#BurkinaFaso 02.08 Security Forces have reported entered the town of Nadiagou, close to the borders with Togo and Benin, for the first time since it was abandoned in 2021.
#Mali 01.08 Security Forces issued a statement that they had carried out airstrikes against joint a FLA / JNIM gathering point near Sandaré.
#Mali 02.08 According to local sources an IED attack destroyed a Security Forces vehicle in a patrol convoy near the town of Sévaré, in the Mopti region.
