Centre for Information Resilience

CIR has identified strong evidence connecting an international money transfer service known as The OneGate to TGR, a transnational organisation which has been the subject of money laundering investigations, arrests and seizures by officials in the UK, the United States and other law enforcement partners. The OneGate presents itself as “the control room behind a company’s money.” It offers a variety of financial services to transfer money internationally as both digital fiat and cryptocurrency.

Executive Summary On 25 May 2026, the Myanmar military government announced a crackdown on Shwe Kokko, a known scam compound. The operation was carried out by the Myanmar military with support from the Karen National Army (KNA), formerly the Karen Border Guard Force (KBGF). State media reported that 77 out of the 322 buildings identified as illegal were targeted for demolition, with the operation continuing until  26 July 2026.

On the night of 22 May, a Médecins Sans Frontières Ebola isolation tent was set alight at Mongbwalu General Hospital, Ituri, eastern DRC, as 18 patients believed to have contracted the disease reportedly fled the hospital. This echoes the 2019 outbreak, when two Ebola treatment centres in North Kivu were completely burned to the ground, and underscores the deep reserves of fear and mistrust that have pervaded recent Ebola outbreaks in DRC.

CIR has conducted an open-source digital investigation into incidents of violence and human rights violations in Jonglei State, South Sudan, from 23 December 2025 to 30 April 2026. This period saw an escalation in conflict between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO, or IO) and the South Sudanese military, the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF).

An AW investigation into enforcement across institutions, provinces, and restriction types Executive summary Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, numerous restrictions have been imposed on women and the media. Although these restrictions have been well documented, less attention has been given to their practical implementation and thereasons behind the variability in their implementation across Afghanistan.

By Tom Jarvis Warning: This article discusses image-based sexual abuse, including abuse involving children and includes graphic source screenshots from CIR’s investigation. Readers may find the content distressing Telegram deepfake bots are only the visible face of a wider abuse business. CIR’s analysis found referral networks, backup websites, payment routes and upstream generation providers that can keep the ecosystem alive after one bot disappears.

Strikes on Sumy 330 kV substation, posted by Lost Armour on Telegram CIR’s Eyes on Russia project has been tracking Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid for years. We spoke to investigator Joshua Scriven about how Russia chooses its targets, why winter is the critical period, and what open-source data reveals about a campaign aimed at civilian life.

Over the past year, footage of Israeli armoured vehicles, bulldozers and raids inside the Jenin, Nour Shams, Tulkarm and al-Fara’a refugee camps has surfaced regularly on social media. Much of it captures Operation “Iron Wall”, the large-scale military operation Israel launched in Jenin on 21 January 2025 and soon expanded across the northern West Bank.

In February 2024, Myanmar’s military authorities activated the People’s Military Service Law, giving them a legal basis to conscrupt men and women of eligible age into a conflict the military has struggled to sustain. In practice, much of this recruitment appears to be carried out through detention, coercion, and disappearance rather than formal call-up, and often without notice to families.

The SAF capture of Al Kurmuk is part of a wider trend of increased conflict activity in Sudan’s Blue Nile state since May 2026. This state, which sits on the border with Ethiopia, is one of the areas where CIR documented the most conflict-related activity in 2026, alongside North Kordofan and West Darfur. CIR mapped the SAF’s presence through the Blue Nile state between 28 May and 8 July.