Jessica Purkiss

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Jessica Purkiss covered drone strikes in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia for the Bureau and now runs our Shadow Wars project. Previously she was a staff writer and editor for Middle East Monitor and reported from Palestine. Jessica has an MA from Kingston University in human rights and genocide.

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04.09.20

Shadow Wars

Eleven airstrikes. 117 people dead. More than 70 children killed.

A five-month collaborative OSINT investigation reveals the devastating reality of the US air war in Afghanistan

03.06.20

Shadow Wars

The families paying the price for the war in Afghanistan

There is a deeply worrying lack of transparency around civilian casualties in Afghanistan almost 20 years after US operations began

03.06.20

Shadow Wars

Finding the faces of Afghanistan's slaughtered civilians

The Bureau and Bellingcat spent two months uncovering mounds of evidence from a list of 21 strikes believed to have killed civilians

04.11.19

Shadow Wars

The Afghan officials' families with luxury pads in Dubai

Senior Afghan officials and their families have owned luxury offshore property in Dubai, the Bureau can reveal

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