Freelancers @cbtfreelancers

Freelancers is a media and research collective dedicated to covering modern conflicts with a soft focus on foreign fighters. conflictfreelance.rs Joined March 2020

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Freelancers @cbtfreelancers

2 years ago

Tohir Yo'ldosh, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and a former Soviet serviceman in Afghanistan with his followers in an undisclosed location, 2000. He was a key leader opposing US forces during Operation Anaconda until he was killed in an US airstrike on 2009.

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2 years ago

Pictures of Tajik fighters from Tajik AQ-affiliated group Jamaat Ansorulloh operating in Afghanistan, 2020s.

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2 years ago

Photo of an Azerbaijani volunteer on the Ukrainian side during the War in Donbass.

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2 years ago

Russian-speaking fighter showing his Berezka camouflage effectiveness somewhere in Greater Idlib, Syria. The sniper rifle shown in this picture is a locally modified Mosin-Nagant.

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3 years ago

Video taken from a private account showing Russian-speaking HTS fighters watching a column of Turkish MRAP’s patrolling the M4 Highway in Idlib, 2020. The last picture shows one of the fighters appearing to be talking to a Turkish soldier.

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3 years ago

Video showing the infamous Chechen ISIS fighter Magomed-Ali Israilov AKA Abu Sayfullah Al Shishani with his followers somewhere at Mosul, 2017. Magomed-Ali was a very popular Chechen ISIS fighter who became the battlefield religious leader and died in a suicide attack in 2017.

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3 years ago

Men of the French Foreign Legion in the 1980’s.

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3 years ago

Footage of Joint Turkish-Azerbaijani troops during their security mission at the Kabul Airport, 2021.

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3 years ago

Russian PMC in Central African Republic

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3 years ago

Footage of Joint Turkish-Azerbaijani troops during their security mission at Kabul Airport, 2021.

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3 years ago

Alleged footage of Ukrainian security contractors watching Taliban fighters releasing prisoners out of a prison near Kabul, 2021.

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3 years ago

Picture of American security contractors during the evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021.

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3 years ago

Pictures of Brazilian Pro-Russian separatist fighters during the War in Donbass circa 2014-2015. The names of the fighters in order of appearance from left to bottom right are Luizz Davi, Rodolfo Magayver, and Rafael Lusvarghi.

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3 years ago

Slava Do Yuriyovich, AKA “The Korean” is an ethnic Korean from Uzbekistan and a master of Taekwondo (black belt) who fought with the Aidar Battalion in the Luhansk region from 2014-2016 during the War in Donbass. He survived two heart attacks and later died of a stroke in 2019.

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3 years ago

Footage of AQ/T-ban affiliated Russian-speaking fighters scouting and sniping towards an ANA outpost in Paktika, Afghanistan, 2013.

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3 years ago

An HTS-affiliated German foreign fighter nicknamed “Abu Fatimah” talking about donations with which he bought kit and weapons somewhere in Hama, Syria, 2019. Hundreds of German citizens have gone to Syria to join militant groups, with the vast majority joining ISIS

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3 years ago

Footage from the 1996 Shatoi Ambush during the 1st Chechen War, led by Arab jihadist commander Ibn al-Khattab. Khattab’s detachment of 43 men nearly entirely destroyed an entire Russian armored column, killing at least 100 while taking less than 10 casualties.

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3 years ago

Pictures of leftist foreign fighters in the ranks of the YPG in Syria. Since 2014, thousands of foreigners from diverse political backgrounds (communist, anarchist, socialist, conservative, apolitical, liberal, etc) have joined the YPG to fight against IS!S.

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3 years ago

Pictures of fighters from The Syrian Turkmen Brigade armed with locally-converted Bullpup AK platform rifles.

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3 years ago

On 22nd of June, the Afghan NDS arrested a Pakistani Army Officer identified as Azim Akhtar in Paktia Province. According to the news, the officer confessed that he was sent to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban and conduct “destructive activities” in the country.

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I make many, many podcasts for Cool Zone Media. You can find things I've written at Bellingcat, New Lines Magazine, Rolling Stone, Business Insider, and more.

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Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan

4 years ago

I’m in a JUUL prison and I don’t think I’ll ever get out.

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Brodie K. - Analyze & Educate @AnalyzeEducate

4 years ago

More great work coming from the boys

Freelancers @cbtfreelancers

4 years ago

The weapons systems used by SOF units can be some of the most interesting to study in the small arms world. Today, we're taking a look at the AK-101 and AK-102 rifles used by Indonesia's BRIMOB special police unit. freelancersconflictblog.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/gun…

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Jake Hanrahan @Jake_Hanrahan

4 years ago

New @PopularFrontCO bonus episode out now: We speak to CL at @cbtfreelancers about jihadist airsoft teams and ISIS merchandise in #Indonesia. > patreon.com/popularfront