Investigative Reporting Shifting Shadows: How Washington Abandoned Global Leadership on Civilian Harm Mitigation—And How Europe Stepped In September 10, 2026 Pevita Pearce BRUSSELS — Three years ago, the corridors of the Pentagon echoed with an ambitious, hard-fought vision. Forged in the bloody crucible of post-9/11 "forever wars" across Iraq and Afghanistan, the…
Open Source Intelligence From Manual Sifting to Algorithmic Precision: How Bellingcat Revolutionized Civilian Harm Tracking July 19, 2026 Azzam Bilal Chamdy Between February 2022 and September 2025, the digital landscape of the war in Ukraine became an unrelenting deluge of information. For open-source intelligence (OSINT) researchers, the task of documenting civilian…