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Evidence verified by CIR shows a sharp escalation in Israeli military activity across Lebanon, with nearly 100 airstrikes documented in one week alongside confirmed ground incursions north of the Blue Line.

Using open-source analysis, CIR has sequenced key incidents during the RSF's takeover of El Fasher in October 2025, identifying human rights violations and linking senior RSF commanders to specific operations, detention sites, and executions. This is the first time open-source information about the RSF takeover of El Fasher has been presented in an in-depth chronological analysis.

New Sudan Witness analysis documents an escalation in indications of violence in Sudan’s Kordofan region, as pro-RSF calls for violence online coincide with satellite evidence of fighting, displacement, and trench construction around key cities.

CIR Co-Founder Ross Burley reflects on why CIR is documenting the war in Gaza and Israel, how we work in a hostile information environment, and what sustained open-source analysis is revealing about civilian harm and accountability.

On 1 December, the RSF captured the 22nd Division base in Babanusa, West Kordofan, after signalling their advance online and carrying out a destructive assault verified by satellite imagery and multiple videos. The takeover consolidated RSF control in western Sudan and restricted civilian reporting, raising concerns over further moves toward SAF-held areas.

As Grok’s AI image tool is used at scale to generate abusive content, a rapid analysis by CIR investigators draws out five emerging lessons for platforms, regulators and policymakers. Based on a review of over 1,600 abusive prompts, the findings highlight how even basic safeguards can have a substantive effect in limiting the ease, scale and severity of abuse.

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.