Context before conclusions.
Current Status Wars is an independent project making conflicts around the world easier to understand.
A clearer view.
The atlas brings conflict profiles together in one place. Each profile is a home for background, dated developments and concise text and video recaps.
We are building our coverage gradually. The number of profiles is the number of areas covered by this project, not a count of all wars in the world. A profile does not imply that fighting is occurring everywhere within its borders.
Conflict and war.
“Conflict” is our broad coverage term. Current Status Wars is the project name; inclusion in the atlas is not a current-year war classification.
For annual intensity categories, we use UCDP’s research definitions for state-based armed conflict: fighting over government or territory between parties including at least one state government, causing at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar year.
- Minor armed conflict: 25–999 battle-related deaths that year.
- War: 1,000 or more battle-related deaths that year.
These include civilian and military deaths in fighting, but not indirect deaths from hunger or disease. Lifetime totals do not establish an annual category. Non-state conflicts and one-sided violence are separate UCDP categories.
Any annual classification we publish must identify the conflict, year and supporting source. Without that evidence, intensity remains unclassified; missing data does not imply peace. Historical names and attributed source wording retain their context.
UCDP definitions, Uppsala University
Sources, close to the claims.
Recaps link to the reporting they draw on. We distinguish confirmed developments from attributed reports and disputed claims. Automated drafts need editorial review before publication.
We do not reproduce a third-party news feed. References are provided so that readers can examine the evidence and read further.
Images with context.
AI-generated cover illustrations are labelled on recap cards and article pages. Their photorealistic style does not make them documentary photographs or evidence of the events described.
Dates matter.
Briefings show when they were published. Background profiles are not live situation reports. An absence of new reporting does not mean an absence of fighting.