Conflicts & Crises
Current and recent conflicts, escalation risks, and battlefield updates.
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A New Myanmar Is Emerging: How a Stalemated Civil War Became a Victory for Beijing
After five years of war, Myanmar's rebellion is fracturing, the Tatmadaw is regaining ground, and the only real winner sits across the border in China.
Pakistan Besieged: How the Balochistan Insurgency and Afghan War Are Converging at Once
Pakistan faces a hardened Baloch insurgency, an undeclared war with Afghanistan, the TTP, and IMF dependency—all at the same time, with no clean exit.
Has Israel Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew? The Strain of a Seven-Front War
Israel's near-continuous war across seven fronts is exposing manpower shortages, interceptor depletion, and a coalition collapse over the draft and settler violence.
Iran's Sleeper Cells Weren't Real. The Alternative Is Worse.
Iran's threatened sleeper cells never materialized during the Iran War. What emerged instead was a gig-economy sabotage campaign that's harder to stop.
Will the RSF Defections End the War in Sudan?
As founding RSF commanders defect to Sudan's army with men, weapons, and intelligence, the SAF gains its best chance to break the stalemate — at a steep moral cost.
Cuba at Zero Day: How a Fuel Collapse Became Washington's Next Regime-Change Gamble
Cuba has run out of fuel as the US tightens a post-Maduro squeeze, indicts Raúl Castro, and courts his grandson for a negotiated transition.
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South Sudan on the Verge of Collapse: Economic Crisis Threatens to Reignite Civil War
South Sudan faces economic collapse after pipeline rupture. With 120% inflation and unpaid soldiers, civil war risks returning. Humanitarian crisis deepens
The Rise of the Houthi Rebels: From Insurgents to Global Geopolitical Threat
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When Nepal Caught Fire: How a Social Media Ban Ignited a Gen Z Uprising
A localized Kathmandu protest swelled into a national reckoning that toppled Nepal's government, exposing decades of corruption and a generation's fury.
South Korea's Martial Law Was Nearly So Much Worse
Inside South Korea's failed coup attempt: the military orders, close calls, and ordinary people who prevented democratic catastrophe.
Inside Ethiopia's Growing Drone War: How UAVs Are Devastating Civilian Populations in Amhara and Oromia
How Ethiopia's drone campaign against insurgencies is killing hundreds of civilians in marketplaces, schools, and hospitals with no military effect.
Life After Assad: Syria's Uncertain Path to Reconstruction and Peace
Explore Syria's path forward after Assad's fall: territorial control, HTS leadership, Kurdish tensions, reconstruction costs, and international involvement