Reports

CIR verified 81 incidents across Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon between 1 July and 28 September 2026, which indicate that Israel’s government and military appear to be pursuing a systematic expansion of its territory.

CIR has found that A7 appears to be setting up payment services for international customers through front companies, in a significant and concerning new step. CIR identified three online platforms that allow users to transfer money across borders by exchanging cryptocurrency. These platforms target users in Africa, Asia, the UAE, and Brazil.

Since April 2023, conflict-related sexual violence has been perpetrated across Sudan by armed actors on both sides of the war. CIR's open-source investigation identifies five hotspots and 25 commanders for whom there are reasonable grounds to believe are directly or indirectly responsible. The report traces how commanders moved between hotspots, and documents a rare case of explicit incitement to rape.

CIR conducted open-source investigations to identify which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are being used in the ongoing war in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). This factsheet details which UAVs are being used by which actors, and where the UAVs are being manufactured.

CIR has found that Russia’s state-owned Promsvyazbank, a main financer of its military procurement, is drawing residents of occupied Ukraine into Russia’s financial system through lucrative offers and social payments, while consolidating personal data that occupation authorities can use for surveillance.

On 28 September 2026, a reported airstrike in Kyauktaw town, Rakhine State, caused widespread damage in a civilian area and reportedly resulted in more than 50 deaths. Myanmar Witness investigation examines available evidence relating to the incident, including damage and reported civilian impact.

Myanmar Witness has documented 170 reported landmine and ERW incidents across 12 regions and states between April 2025 and March 2026. Landmines and other types of explosive remnants of war (ERW) continue to affect civilians across Myanmar, not only in areas of conflict but also elsewhere in everyday life.

Children continued to be harmed throughout Myanmar's 2025-2026 military-led election period. Myanmar Witness documented 214 child casualties across 96 reported incidents, which highlights the ongoing risks children continue to face in conflict-affected civilian areas.

CIR's new investigation reveals open-source evidence linking Kyrgyz payments company Tsunami Payments to A7A5, the sanctioned stablecoin underpinning Russia's A7 sanctions-evasion network, and traces its directors' and owners' ties to politically connected cryptocurrency ventures across Kyrgyzstan's financial sector.

This investigation documents open source evidence connecting The OneGate, an international money transfer platform, to TGR, a transnational organisation previously investigated for money laundering by UK and US authorities. It also identifies newly uncovered links to Novatum, a second payments network with apparent ties to sanctions evasion activity involving Russia and Belarus.

Myanmar Witness has examined the Myanmar military government's 2026 crackdown on scam compound Shwe Kokko and found growing discrepancies between official claims and available evidence.

CIR's latest investigation traces a five-month pattern of burning, looting and displacement across Jonglei State, South Sudan, as SPLM/A-IO and SSPDF forces clash for territory.