War reporting
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Really crazy story: A complete investigation that proves how photographers working for the New York Times, CNN, AP and Reuters moved with the Nohva forces from the first moments o...
🧵Now that day has broken, and we're getting better evidence, I'm willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, n...
They've edited this post to remove the videos, which show the rockets being fired at approximately 17:00 GMT, yet Al-Jazeera had already reported the hospital bombing at 16:49 GMT:...
The 47th is such a joke; trained abroad, articles and TRAILERS made, enthusiastically entered the fray in a NATO styled frontal assault, some of the most traumatic and embarrassing...
🧵Today, I want to discuss and share interesting details about the inadequate training of russian troops. This insight is based on my conversations with multiple officers across the...
Twenty years ago today I stood in Baghdad's Firdos Square and watched U.S. Marines tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein. The toppling was portrayed by the American media as a symbo...
There's been a lot of heated pushback on my complaint that there has been a major lack of verified war footage from Ukraine in the U.S. news. Why do I want actual verified war foo...
In the spring of last year, during a tentative ceasefire, I traveled to Ethiopia to witness the ravages of a war that would be more deadly than Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Crimea...
I translated an interview with a Ukrainian tank battalion commander fighting in the South Donetsk/Vuhledar area with some interesting insights. Although this is not specified, i pr...
1/ The Italian journalist Cristiano Tinazzi @tincazzi, who's been reporting from Ukraine, has posted a long and informative eyewitness testimony of her experiences in Ukraine in re...
Data and tech influencers going to war zones to get sympathy. And engagement. This is as degenerate as war influencers. Both, like the cowards they are, only go when the fighting...
Was on one of the panels of the @e4mtweets ENBA media awards with @gauravcsawant @SwetaSinghAT @malhotravineet7 @msharma179 discussing Indian war reporting in #Ukraine️. Did you kn...
Day 19 of the #US - #Russia war on #Ukrainian soil: In over dozens of wars I have covered, I have never seen so much disinformation campaign, speculation and false narratives from...
If I can add on to this & name some of the investigations from Afghanistan that I think helped shatter the myths of this war, here are just a few: https://t.co/27hB2zSW3O
I can top this. In 1996 I was interviewed by Charlie Rose about my Bosnia book, and when he visited the green room beforehand to say hello, he looked at me and the other person th...
On this day 29 years ago, my first story on the Bosnia war was published in the Wash Post -- "Muslims Flee Bosnia Over Trail of Terrors." A refugee told me she phoned relatives in...
Who are the forces fighting each other in Tripoli? Is this a war between an “army” and “the militias”? A thread about social media, access for researchers and journalists, and na...
