New — almost a year after Levi Kabakov pushed Troy McLeod out of his wheelchair in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Black residents are still demanding hate crime charges be added. Randi Richardson reports: offbeatresearch.com/2026/02/an-a...
New: Documents leaked in the aftermath of the Assad regime’s collapse in December 2024 reveal years of previously undisclosed collaboration between Israel, the Assad regime, and its Russian guarantors. Patrick Hilsman and Nizar Al-Rifai report -- offbeatresearch.com/2026/01/the-...
New: An anonymous author conducts a retrospective analysis of the political, economic, and social situation in Jammu and Kashmir since the Indian government’s revocation of the territory’s special status in 2019.
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Waters also traced Kabineh’s history from 2011 onwards, from peaceful protests to transitory armed resistance, when the town emerged as a key element in various coastal offensives before ultimately serving as a stalwart against the regime’s push on Idlib in 2020.
Waters interviewed locals and once-displaced former residents, some of whom have slowly begun trickling back into the town in an effort to rebuild their lives years after Kabineh was forcibly depopulated by aerial and artillery bombardment.
New: Gregory Waters reports from Kabineh, a ghost town in the mountains of Jabal al-Akrad which for years served as a hub of fierce resistance against the Assad regime. offbeatresearch.com/2025/12/kabi...
NEW: @jimmyrushton.bsky.social sits down with Bohdan Krotevych, the decorated former commander of the Ukrainian National Guard's elite Azov Brigade, for a wide-ranging interview on the current state of Ukraine's leadership and military operations. offbeatresearch.com/2025/11/i-kn...
New: @neilphauer.bsky.social reports from Sumy, a city which has grown increasingly war-weary as the threat of constant drone attacks and bombardments drag on the daily lives of its residents.
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New: Dylan Burns reports alongside Ukrainian night drone teams on the front between Dnipro and Donetsk, where the evolution of drone operations has changed the face of warfare for better and worse.
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In Kafrnabl, Gregory Waters explores the stories of local residents who lived and often resisted through the Assad regime’s decimation of life, and life’s ultimate resurgence, in the town and longtime revolutionary hub. offbeatresearch.com/2025/08/the-...
New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social and @devinsanluis.bsky.social follow the 59th Brigade's "Shkval" battalion of prisoners while they train to hold the line as Russian forces threaten to advance further into Dnipro. offbeatresearch.com/2025/07/the-...
For OBR, Devin Woodall followed the 113th as they utilized several unique systems, including a retrofitted ZU-23-2 and a stolen Russian chaingun, in defense of cities and towns across Kharkiv whose residents live under the ever-increasing threat of Russian drone warfare.
New: @devinsanluis.bsky.social reports alongside the 113th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade 'Phoenix Squad', whose volunteer defenders work night and day to hunt down Russian drones intent on terrorizing locals in Kharkiv. offbeatresearch.com/2025/06/from...
New: Gregory Waters reports from the towns of Suqaylabiyah and Qalaat al-Mudiq in Syria's al-Ghab plain, where displaced residents are slowly returning despite pervasive reminders of the death and destruction wrought by years of relentless regime bombardment. offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/recl...
New op-ed by Aisha Malik: India’s weaponization of climate change and water rights in Kashmir exists in pursuit of a policy which seeks to systematically oppress Kashmiri women and advance a total erasure of Kashmiri identity. offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/indi...
NEW: Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized was the pinnacle of European cooperation, but mass desertions nearly derailed the effort before it began. @dylanburnstv.bsky.social spoke to a deserter about his time in training and his decision to go AWOL during training in France offbeatresearch.com/2025/05/dysf...
ICYMI: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...
New by Juwayriah Wright: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...
New by Juwayriah Wright: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government offbeatresearch.com/2025/03/the-...
Patrick Hilsman reflects on life and resilience in the towns surrounding Kyiv during the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. offbeatresearch.com/2025/02/3-ye...
New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social tours a town on the front line in Sumy oblast, where local residents and the town's civic life have shown remarkable resilience despite nearly three years of constant, indiscriminate Russian bombardment. offbeatresearch.com/2025/01/gove...
ICYMI:
Happy New Year's Eve! New from @dylanburnstv.bsky.social today is a (snowy) report from his recent embed with Ukraine's 100th Mechanized Brigade as their crews field several unique Western-provided IFVs, including the German-made "Marder". offbeatresearch.com/2024/12/wint...
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New: @dylanburnstv.bsky.social embeds with a Grad artillery team near the crucial front line city of Pokrovsk, where Russian advances threaten to topple one of Ukraine’s major logistical hubs. offbeatresearch.com/2024/11/russ...
The wreckage of a technical vehicle reportedly belonging to the pro-regime Liwa al-Quds, after being targeted by opposition forces in Syria. / Photo credit: Omar Albam
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition forces are reportedly leafleting in various areas across the Aleppo countryside, warning regime forces to defect or face death.
As part of the ongoing Aleppo countryside offensive, local fighters are seen defacing a propaganda poster featuring Bashar al-Assad.
Scenes show opposition forces fighting to seize artillery positions held at "Base 46", the long-prized position from which members of the Assad regime's 46th regiment carry out indiscriminate artillery shelling on nearby towns. / Photos credit: Mohamad Kazmooz
