This Site Tracks the Guns Going Into Syria - Defense One: A group of Kurdish People’s Protection, YPG, forces have just pushed a unit of Islamic State, or ISIL, fighters into retreat. As the Kurds move in to secure the hard-won territory, they are followed by two British weapons monitors armed only with cameras and notepads. The monitors fan out across the terrain to investigate the abandoned ISIL positions and find the shell from an M79 or “thumper” shoulder-mounted grenade launcher, the type produced in the United States for decades and still used around the world. They document the find and upload pictures of it to a database. From there, it lands on a website called iTrace and on computers and phones around the world, along with facts about its pedigree and other pertinent information.
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