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 Death of Yevgeny Prigozhin: Inside the Crash That Ended Wagner's Warlord
How Yevgeny Prigozhin's jet fell from the sky two months after his march on Moscow, who likely killed him, and what it means for the Wagner Group.
Counting the Dead: How Many Russians Have Really Died in Ukraine?
How many Russians have died in Ukraine? From official denials to BBC investigations and statistical analysis, the methods behind counting the true toll.
The "Happy Times": Hitler's U-Boat Campaign in the Battle of the Atlantic
How Germany's U-boat wolfpacks nearly starved Britain into surrender, and how Allied technology and tactics turned the tide in the Atlantic.
Verdun: The Most Brutal Battle of World War I
How the Battle of Verdun became the longest and deadliest single engagement of WWI, grinding French and German forces for nearly a year.
Ukraine's Counteroffensive: Has It Failed?
The sun sets over the Dnieper, casting an eerie glow on the battered landscape of Eastern Ukraine. Two months into Kyiv's much-anticipated counteroffensive
The Rise of Tito: How Yugoslavia Created the Most Successful Resistance of World War II
How Josip Broz Tito led the Yugoslav Partisans to become WWII's most effective resistance, liberating their nation before Allied forces arrived.