INTEL FOCUS https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Mines, money and middlemen: inside the Taliban’s resource deals with Beijing-linked firms Geolocated: suspected TTP fighters filmed operating checkpoint near Peshawar Afghanistan is drying out and flooding at the same time Can the youth of Afghanistan shape the future of AI? | Zia Yousufi How “Precision Strike” became the go-to word of modern war Green branding but dirty sourcing: How selective disclosure sustains the clean energy transition while exporting harm Explainer: how to spot AI-generated law enforcement videos  How old phone networks became tools for modern surveillance Rivers, land and livelihood: the cost of Afghanistan’s gold mining Contact Home The importance of fact-checking for activists and human rights defenders “These values are not idealistic”: can the EU still defend its principles? | Dr Berit Ebert How Fact Checkers Fight Back About How Syria’s War Crimes Are Investigated? Kornelia Georgieva Explains How neuroscience can help us combat misinformation and cognitive bias with Faissal Sharif Who controls the data, controls the future: AI in Afghanistan | Alireza Hussaini Sanctions exposure in Kazakhstan What leverage Pakistan really has over the Taliban? | Rustam Ali Seerat I wanted to be brave in 2026, and going freelance was part of that. | Gergana Krasteva Why are many fact—checkers less optimistic today If Afghanistan is “stable”, why are we still seeing terror signals? States can know the truth, but can’t show it | Kate Millar Benin’s Abortive Coup and the Commander Who Led It Voices from Venezuela: Personal Stories Under Maduro Dead cow claims trigger controversy in Denmark OSINT reveals Taliban Supreme Leader’s location Inside the Afghanistan-Pakistan bureau | Elian Peltier Inside the Future of Information Warfare & AI Before 2030 With Sohan Dsouza This Is The Invisible War We Are All Losing, Daniel Iriarte Explains The Biggest Lie You’ve Been Told About the Dark Web, Shay Maman Explains How open-source intelligence shapes modern investigative journalism with Ben Heubl Most People Doing OSINT Do Not Understand OSINT | Baptiste Robert When Truth Looks Like Misinformation: Nazi Salutes Witnessed at Bangladesh’s Gaza Protests Afghanistan after 2021: how IS-KP and TTP are reshaping the militant landscape under Taliban rule Debunked: how nationals of Afghanistan are labelled as Mossad agents The Evolution of the Turkistan Islamic Party Diplomacy Without a State With Mahmoud Saikal, Former Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations Escalation of Israeli Ceasefire Violations in Southern Lebanon Tracking Money, Misogyny, and Misinformation with the OSINT Lens of Sarah Cammarata Lynzy Billing on Investigating Afghanistan’s Darkest Corners OSINT, AI, and the Emotional Cost of Watching Everything with Jenna Dolecek The Review series: Israel’s ‘Operation Rising Lion’ against Iran explained Poland’s New Border Vigilantes and the Aesthetic of Nationalist Self-Staging How Intelligence Operations and Militancy Evolve in a Post-Taliban Afghanistan with Sarah Adams When Journalism Loses Funding, Authoritarianism Gains Ground Citizen Journalism & Grassroots Investigations with Neus Vidal Martí from SEEK Initiative Migration and Human Rights Journalism with May Bulman from Lighthouse Reports Fact check: why the image claiming to show Nicolás Maduro’s capture cannot be verified