Who is named on the ground

Groups, units and organisations named in footage geolocated by GeoConfirmed and in the Telegram and X posts it cites. For each: who leads it, what it belongs to, who it appears with.

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images naming one

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Telegram and X naming one

with a public record

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01Most named

An image counts once per actor, whether it is in GeoConfirmed's unit list, in the description or in the original post. Trend: against the 30 days before.

#	Actor	Images	Posts	Trend	Leadership	Mostly seen
1	Islamic Statecaliphate · Iraq	1	1	new	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi	Syria
2	ISISOther · Syria	1		new	no record	Syria
3	Jordan security forcesCorps, armies, forces	1		new	no record	Jordan
4	Syrian Armed ForcesCorps, armies, forces · Syria	1		new	record to read	Syria

02Records of the first twenty

Leadership, founders and affiliations from Wikidata; allies and opponents from the English Wikipedia infobox. A unit without a record is shown as GeoConfirmed names it.

Islamic State

caliphate · Iraq · since 1999 · HQ Raqqa

1images
1 posts
new

Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group.

Leadership: Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Leader of the Islamic State)
Founded by: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (died 2006), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (died 2019)
branches and subsidiaries: Islamic State in Libya, Islamic State – Yemen Province, Islamic State – Sinai Province, Islamic State – Khorasan Province, Islamic State – Caucasus Province, Islamic State – Najd Province, Islamic State – Central Africa Province, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
Designated terrorist by: Russia, United States, Syria, European Union, Iraq, Iran, Germany, United Nations, Japan, United Kingdom
Appears with: ISIS (1)other side
Syrian Armed Forces (1)other side
Mostly seen: Syria (1) · Oct 22
Latest images: Oct 22, Rankos (Syria)

Sources : Wikidata Q2429253 · Wikipédia

ISIS

Other · Syria

1images
new

Name given by GeoConfirmed : « ISIS ». No record attached : no public record under this name.

Appears with: Islamic State (1)other side
Syrian Armed Forces (1)
Mostly seen: Syria (1) · Oct 22
Latest images: Oct 22, Rankos (Syria)

Jordan security forces

Corps, armies, forces

1images
new

Name given by GeoConfirmed : « Jordan security forces ». No record attached : no public record under this name.

Mostly seen: Jordan (1) · Oct 27
Latest images: Oct 27, Al-Judayyda (Jordan)

Syrian Armed Forces

Corps, armies, forces · Syria

1images
new

Name given by GeoConfirmed : « Syrian Armed Forces ». Attached to Wikidata record Q849180, read at the next run.

Appears with: ISIS (1)
Islamic State (1)other side
Mostly seen: Syria (1) · Oct 22
Latest images: Oct 22, Rankos (Syria)

03Named together

Pairs of actors named in the same images: often the unit striking and the one struck, sometimes two units on the same side.

Syrian Armed Forces · ISIS	1
Islamic State · ISISopposing sides	1
Islamic State · Syrian Armed Forcesopposing sides	1