Why this exists
There is no shortage of information about this war. There is a shortage of
information you can rely on. Claims move faster than anyone can check them,
every side has an interest in what you believe, and the same wire story
reprinted by nine outlets looks like nine sources confirming each other.
Dahsas is built around one idea: separate what is known from what is
claimed, show the working, and say plainly when the answer is that we do not
know. That last part is the hard one, and it is the reason to trust the rest.
Who runs it
Dahsas is produced by the Dahsas team. We are independent, not funded by
any government, party, or armed group, and not aligned with any side in this
conflict.
What you can expect
- We publish slowly. A record appears when there is something to say
about it, not when it would get attention.
- We rate confidence on a published scale with fixed probability bands,
so our words mean the same thing every time.
- We archive every source the moment we cite it, because posts get
deleted and news stories get rewritten after publication.
- We state the limits of our own evidence. When a satellite could not
have seen the thing in question, we say so rather than letting a blank
result look like a finding.
- Every record carries its revision history. When we are wrong, we mark
it on the record instead of quietly editing it.
What we will not do
We do not publish precise coordinates for active military positions, and
we do not publish anything that could identify the person who filmed or
photographed something. We do not adjudicate claims we have no means to
check — where foreign involvement is asserted, we record who is asserting it
and leave it unresolved rather than take a side by implication.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it on the record. A
correction is not an embarrassment; publishing a mistake and leaving it is.