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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The Highway of Death: The Most Controversial Event of the Gulf War Explained
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Russian Museum Tanks on the Frontlines: Separating Fact from Fiction in Ukraine
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B-2 Stealth Bombers Strike Yemen as US and Russia Escalate Operations in Syria
US deploys B-2 stealth bombers against Houthi targets in Yemen while Russia intensifies bombing in Syria. Multi-front escalation raises conflict risks.
The Failure of the Syrian Civil War and Assad's Return to Power
Explore the catastrophic outcomes of the Syrian Civil War, the rise of ISIS, the ongoing refugee crisis, and Bashar Al-Assad's return to regional power.
Israel's Strike on Iran: Operation Days of Repentance and the Widening Middle East War
How Israel's October 2024 strike on Iran was engineered to punish without escalating, while the grinding war in Lebanon pushed the region toward a wider conflict.