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 United States Wants Out of Iran. Can It Actually Leave?
As the war in Iran enters its fifth week, Trump signals he wants out, but a blocked Strait of Hormuz, an unbroken Iran, and rising battlefield stakes complicate any exit.
The Islamic State's Quiet Resurgence: A Global Network Rebuilt for the Shadows
Stripped of its caliphate, the Islamic State has gone global, online, and underground—expanding from Somalia to Syria to the Sahel while the world looks away.
Why Taking Iran's Kharg Island Could Be an American Trap
Kharg Island handles up to 90% of Iran's oil exports, making it a tempting target—but seizing it with the forces inbound risks America's worst defeat in generations.
The Houthis Enter the Iran War: A New Front and a Buried Ground Plan
Yemen's Houthis open a second front in the Iran war as a secret Mossad-Kurdish ground plan collapses and Lebanon defies an Iranian ambassador's expulsion.
America Enters Ecuador's Drug War: Joint Strikes, a Border Crisis, and the Civilians in Between
U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launched joint strikes against drug-trafficking gangs in March 2026, opening a new phase in a war that has made Ecuador one of Earth's deadliest nations.
Trump Blinked on Iran. Will Friday's New Deadline Be Different?
Day 27 of the Iran war. Trump let his ultimatum lapse, oil cratered, and a new Friday deadline looms as the Gulf turns against Tehran.