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from changing/removing a watermark and inserting flying projectiles to removing half a building and growing palm trees, subtle AI manipulations are eroding trust in user generated content and verifying becomes increasingly tedious xitter.cf/ILRedAlert/status/2111…
nevertheless we can geolocate that ammo depot explosion to this PMU compound in northern Baghdad google.com/maps?ll=33.413145…
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The settlers are to Israel what the shabiha were to the Assad regime. My advice: treat them the same way. Put your highly qualified visual forensics team to work, confront them with the evidence, and use your enormous reach to expose their actions and ramp up the pressure.
OPCW confirmed in its latest monthly report opcw.org/sites/default/files… [pdf] that hexamine, a signature chemical of Sarin produced by the Assad regime, was among the undeclared chemicals that were discovered last May in Syria as reported previously by Reuters xitter.cf/azelin/status/20593312…
Remnants of Assad's chemical weapons program recovered, Syrian official says reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
old footage of IAEA inspection on 5 June 2025 media.un.org/unifeed/en/asse… of which Grossi tweeted pictures and mentioned "Marj as-Sultan, which used to be a very important facility where uranium conversion processing and fuel fabrication [..] was taking place" xitter.cf/TheGoodISIS/status/209…
ALT https://x.com/rafaelmgrossi/status/1930559908925092114
ALT https://x.com/rafaelmgrossi/status/1930561675037425919
ALT WorldView-3 satellite image of the Marj as-Sultan facility captured on 5 June 2025 https://www.google.com/maps?ll=33.494965,36.440780&q=33.494965,36.440780&hl=en&t=h&z=17
NEW: Video footage from the IAEA visits in Syria shown on The World is One News in August 2026 confirms that Director General Rafael Grossi visited the Marj as Sultan compound in addition to the buried Al Kibar reactor site. The image of him inside a building can be correlated with a secondary building at the compound. The IAEA video narration appears to point to the Marj as Sultan site as the “second location that was previously undeclared," which lines up with the IAEA report identifying the second undeclared location as “a fuel fabrication plant where the nuclear fuel for the reactor at Dair Alzour [aka Al Kibar reactor] was manufactured.”
The Institute published a photo in 2013 of the same chemical processing hall that Grossi visited. The image the Institute acquired in 2013 shows the hall as it appeared in about 2005, before operation, and it shows equipment being installed. Prominent is a large metal column with windows described by the source as equipment for the cleaning or purification of solutions, i.e., a scrubber or solvent extraction column. This, and other equipment in other images, is likely part of an integrated chemical processing system to convert yellowcake into uranium tetrafluoride.
In last year’s NPT safeguards report, the IAEA had reported on taking environmental samples at a location where many uranium particles were present, and where analysis specifically pointed to the conversion of uranium ore concentrate to uranium oxide. In the most recent safeguards report, the IAEA concluded that the entire fuel manufacturing process took place in Syria. Given that no new site for this was identified by the IAEA, this strongly indicates that the entire multi-step process from uranium ore concentrate to UO3, the reduction to UO2, the fluorination to UF4, and the reduction to uranium metal, as well as the alloying, melting, extruding into fuel rods and cladding with magnesium alloy took place in the various buildings at the Marj as Sultan site.
The images from the IAEA visit show that the interior has been completely stripped. It is the responsibility of Syria to explain where the critical and contaminated nuclear fuel production equipment now resides.
reading something like 34°24'9"N / 38°13'8"E which is somewhere south of Palmyra google.com/maps?ll=34.4025,3…
Syrian Air's newly acquired A320 [YK-AKI] from Baku to Damascus yesterday, second one [YK-AKJ] still in Baku
الخطوط الجوية السورية تستلم أول طائرتين ضمن برنامج تحديث أسطولها
في خطوة جديدة ضمن برنامج تحديث وتطوير أسطول الخطوط الجوية السورية، تم استلام أول طائرتين من أصل ثماني طائرات من عائلة إيرباص A320، وذلك ضمن الالتزامات المرتبطة بمشروع تطوير مطار دمشق الدولي مع أورباكون القابضة، والذي يتضمن في أحد مساراته دعم وتحديث أسطول الناقل الوطني السوري.
ودخلت الطائرتان رسمياً في السجل الوطني السوري للطائرات، وحصلتا على التسجيلين الوطنيين:
YK-AKI
إيرباص A320-214
السعة: 156 مقعداً، منها 12 مقعداً لدرجة رجال الأعمال و144 مقعداً للدرجة السياحية.
YK-AKJ
إيرباص A320-232
السعة: 156 مقعداً، منها 12 مقعداً لدرجة رجال الأعمال و144 مقعداً للدرجة السياحية.
وقد تم الاستحواذ على الطائرتين من السوق العالمية للطائرات بعد اختيارهما بناءً على حالتهما الفنية، وسجلات الصيانة، وتاريخهما التشغيلي، وجاهزيتهما للخدمة.
وسبق تشغيل الطائرتين في السوق الأوروبية ضمن بيئة تشغيلية ورقابية تخضع لمتطلبات ومعايير السلامة وصلاحية الطيران الأوروبية، وبما يتوافق مع الأطر التنظيمية المعتمدة لدى الوكالة الأوروبية لسلامة الطيران (EASA). كما خضعتا، قبل استلامهما، لعمليات فحص وصيانة وتقييم فني شاملة، شارك فيها مهندسون وفنيون وطنيون مختصون إلى جانب شركتين عالميتين متخصصتين في صيانة وفحص الطائرات، وشملت مراجعة حالتهما الفنية وسجلات الصيانة وتاريخهما التشغيلي، للتحقق من جاهزيتهما الفنية والتشغيلية واستيفائهما متطلبات صلاحية الطيران ومعايير السلامة المعتمدة قبل دخولهما الخدمة ضمن أسطول الخطوط الجوية السورية.
ووصلت الطائرة YK-AKI اليوم إلى مطار دمشق الدولي، حيث ستنضم إلى أسطول الخطوط الجوية السورية تمهيداً لدخولها الخدمة ضمن شبكة الناقل الوطني.
أما الطائرة YK-AKJ، فقد توجهت إلى مركز متخصص لتنفيذ أعمال الطلاء وتطبيق الهوية البصرية الجديدة للخطوط الجوية السورية، والتي سيتم الكشف عنها رسمياً بالتزامن مع وصول الطائرة إلى سورية خلال الفترة المقبلة.
أما الطائرات المتبقية ضمن البرنامج، فيجري حالياً استكمال الإجراءات الفنية والمالية والقانونية اللازمة لاستلامها وإدخالها تباعاً إلى السجل الوطني السوري، تمهيداً لانضمامها إلى أسطول الخطوط الجوية السورية.
ومع استكمال استلام الطائرات الثماني، سترتفع القدرة التشغيلية للناقل الوطني بصورة ملموسة، بما يدعم افتتاح وجهات جديدة، وزيادة الترددات على الخطوط القائمة، وتحسين انتظام الرحلات، وتوفير خيارات أوسع للمسافرين من وإلى سورية.
ويأتي تحديث أسطول الخطوط الجوية السورية ضمن خطة متكاملة لتطوير الناقل الوطني ورفع كفاءته وقدرته التشغيلية، بالتوازي مع تطوير المطارات السورية، وتوسيع شبكة الوجهات، وتعزيز الربط الجوي لسورية مع محيطها الإقليمي والدولي، بما يدعم استعادة قطاع الطيران المدني السوري لدوره في خدمة المسافرين ودعم النشاط الاقتصادي وحركة التجارة والسياحة والاستثمار.
both former Azerbaijan Airlines A320 via Heston Airlines like LY-MAU xitter.cf/BenjaminFeve/status/20…
Did you know that Syrian Airlines does NOT have a license to fly to, from, or over Europe?
The EU Aviation Safety Agency also confirmed it to me.
Yet Syrian Airlines still managed to fly from Amsterdam to Damascus and back. How did it do so?
Read: syriadispatch.com/i/20462348…
geolocation of the drone strike google.com/maps?ll=32.465944… west of Jenin
Three Palestinian terror operatives, including a commander, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin this afternoon, the military announces.
The strike had targeted Qais Bitawi, who, according to the Shin Bet, was the head of Hamas's activities in the Jenin refugee camp.
IDF troops and members of the police's elite Yamam unit launched an operation to kill Bitawi, following information provided by the Shin Bet of his whereabouts.
After Bitawi and two of his accomplices were spotted exiting a car next to a structure in Jenin, the Israeli Air Force carried out a drone strike against them, killing the trio, according to the IDF.
The military says troops later located a weapon inside the car.
Bitawi had acted to advance "significant terror activities and was involved in directing, financing, and carrying out attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces," the military and Shin Bet say, adding that he also "maintained ties with Hamas in Gaza and Hamas abroad."
The IDF adds that the slain commander is also a relative of Nour Bitawi, a previous commander of a terror network in Jenin, who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in May 2025.
graves in the area of al-Melabiya between the former regiment 121 base and the grain depot ~10km south of Hasaka google.com/maps?ll=36.385830… majority of them still open/unused
مصدر أمني في الحسكة #لعنب_بلدي: عثرت قوى الأمن الداخلي خلال أعمال إنشاء على مقبرة جماعية تضم عددًا كبيرًا من الجثث قرب صوامع الميلبية. وتقع بجوار مقر للفوج 121 التابع لقوات النظام، سيطر عليه تنظيم "الدولة" عام 2014 ثم "قسد" حتى مطلع 2026. وتشير المعاينة إلى أن الدفن حديث نسبيًا.
Israeli drone strike on a car geolocated in Mazraat Beit Jin google.com/maps?ll=33.312322…
Pleiades satellite images of the Israeli airstrike on the Abu Duhur Airbase google.com/maps?ll=35.735028… via @Reuters reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
Syrian Government Dassault Falcon 900 [YK-ASC] was sold and ferried to Oklahoma on 16 Feb 2026, registered in the US as N900PR instagram.com/p/DUy7StDETeq/
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raid on an IS cell geolocated in Khan Arnabah google.com/maps?ll=33.180075…
Second #ISIS cell dismantled in S. #Syria within a month.
9 members, inc. the leader, were arrested in #Quneitra province during an operation carried out with the Intelligence Service.
The leader was an IS veteran who previously worked with Abu Abdul Rahman Iraqi and operated in the central desert (Badiya), Damascus province and Daraa.
The cell was logistics-oriented, collecting weapons & explosives and facilitating the movement of other cells.
IDF strike geolocated in Tebnine google.com/maps?ll=33.195651… on a prayer room in the town's cemetery
Syrian security forces rounding up an IS cell geolocated ~9km south of al-Rai google.com/maps?ll=36.531537…
The Interior Ministry has released the video of raids carried out by Intelligence Service and Security forces busting #ISIS cells in E. #Aleppo countryside.
Acting on precise intelligence, they seized an arsenal containing 2 different kinds of IEDs: cooking pots packed with metal fragments - an unusual design intended to maximize casualties in terror attacks - & smaller devices prepared for targeted assassinations.
A similar design was used in an attempted assassination of a military commander 2 weeks ago in Al-Rai:
xitter.cf/QalaatAlMudiq/status/2…
It remains unknown if the bomb maker was among those arrested - arguably the most important figure to be captured from these cells.
there are no guardrails to restore trust. it's about Google compromising the tool and destroying trust in its product, on top of satellite image providers enhancing resolution by using ML, blurring/manipulating images to hide sensitive places, shifting coordinates, etc.. already
Samir retweeted
"...while we work on implementing stronger guardrails."
In my opinion, this is no longer worth pursuing. You can't turn a turd into chocolate.
Re: our statement on Image Generation in Google Earth:
“We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world. We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we’ve also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies. So we’re rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails. It's important to note that generated images didn’t appear in the main Google Earth experience for others to see and were watermarked as AI generated.”