AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
The Netherlands’ largest newspaper, De Telegraaf, recently published an interview with a woman claiming to organise her own evacuation flights from Dubai, selling seats…
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Tracing Tomahawks: US Missiles Bound for Iran Spotted Over Iraq
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here. Bellingcat has geolocated footage of multiple Tomahawk cruise missiles…
Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the…
New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions
This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Kinahan cartel leaders Daniel and Christy Kinahan have…
The Incendiary Bomb Never Seen in Israel Before
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has dropped 5,000 bombs on Iran since the United States and Israel launched an attack last week, according to a statement by the IAF on March…
Using Bellingcat’s New Open Source Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data
Flight tracking data is an important tool in open source research, but with 100,000 daily flights, it can be difficult to contextualise what a particular aircraft’s…
Eight Journalists Receive Alicia Patterson Fellowships for In-Depth Reporting in 2026
WASHNGTON, DC; March 5, 2026 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism today announced that eight accomplished journalists have been awarded Alicia Patterson Fellowships…
Satellite Imagery Reveals Strikes on Iranian Police Stations
US President Donald Trump said on January 2 that the US was “locked and loaded and ready to go”. Trump was talking aloud about intervening in Iran if it continued a…
“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East
The United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday morning, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as several senior regime figures and…
How Russia’s War Has Devastated Civilian Life in Ukraine
In the tiny town of Krasnopillia in rural Ukraine, the stillness of the night is shattered by the whine of a Russian drone. Seconds later, a community hospital bursts…
Viral Child Soldiers on TikTok: The ‘Disney Stars’ of Sudan’s Civil War
To stay up to date on our latest investigations, join Bellingcat’s WhatsApp channel here. You can read an Arabic version of this investigation on Radio Dabanga’s site…
Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All
A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia – all three incidents involve ageing vessels, operating with false papers…