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Since early 2024, pro-Russian channels and occupying authorities in Kherson Oblast have declared a 60 km² “red zone,” placing civilians and civilian infrastructure at extreme risk. Since July 2024, CIR has verified 316 Russian drone attacks on likely civilians, civilian infrastructure, and emergency workers in this area, mapped to document the growing civilian toll.

Myanmar Witness continued its investigation into KK Park following further claims that hundreds more buildings were due to be destroyed within the heart of the scam centre.

After our No Safe Scroll report exposed the scale of gendered hate on TikTok and YouTube in Ethiopia, TikTok reached out to engage directly with the findings. Together, we co-hosted a forum in Addis Ababa, bringing together media, civil society, and community voices to tackle tech-facilitated gender-based violence and push for safer digital spaces.

Working to make ethical, secure, and survivor-centred approaches central to OSINT investigations into gender-based violence.

This study exposes how far-right extremists on TikTok use evolving coded language, from emojis and numbers to symbols and historical references, to slip past moderation and strengthen in-group identity. These cues are then used to spread hate, disinformation, and even incite violence in mainstream spaces.

Several Starlink devices have reportedly been confiscated by the Myanmar military following a raid on a scam centre on 19 October 2025.

Myanmar Witness investigated a reported paramotor attack on a candlelight gathering in Bon To Village, uncovering evidence of fatalities, injuries, structural damage, and a likely nighttime strike.

On 9 September 2025, Ukrainian pensioners were collecting payments in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast, when a Russian aerial bomb struck, killing at least 12. This strike marks the highest loss of life in a single incident that CIR has verified since Russian ballistic strikes killed 44 in Sumy on 13 April 2025.

With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine well into its third year, Russian strikes have reached unprecedented levels. Despite Russian engagement with peace efforts, CIR analysis reveals that so far 2025 has seen some of the highest levels of destruction and civilian harm since the start of the full-scale invasion.

Footage posted online show that unarmed individuals in Gaza and the West Bank have been shot at since the outbreak of the recent conflict in October 2023, with CIR's analysis uncovering a wider pattern of incidents.

Evidence links a reported airstrike that killed more than 20 civilians, wounding dozens more, to the Myanmar Air Force

One year on from the Southport and Bondi Junction knife attacks, CIR researchers explore the narrative trajectories that emerge in the wake of violence, and the implications of what is left unsaid.