WAR BLOG
Thailand–Cambodia border fighting: latest situation brief Fighting has again flared along the Thailand–Cambodia frontier, with both sides trading accusations over who fired first and whether a ceasefire still exists. Tha…
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Benin’s Foiled Coup and the Return of Françafrique Benin has just lived through its most serious security crisis in decades: a dawn coup attempt in Cotonou on 7 December that saw mutinous troops seize state TV, attack th…
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Chaman–Spin Boldak: Ceasefire in Ashes The Chaman–Spin Boldak crossing has gone hot again. On the night of 5–6 December 2025, a two-hour exchange of fire between Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces shattered an already-f…
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Bamako is being throttled—not by a thunder run, but by a patient vise. A coalition of al-Qaida–aligned factions has spent the past month turning Mali’s capital into an island, striking fuel convoys and key road junctions…
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Strategic Military Review: The Russian Encirclement of Pokrovsk and Mirnograd (October 2025) Overview: As of October 2025, the Russian military has made significant strides in encircling two key towns in the Donetsk regi…
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Strategic Military Review: The Russian Advance on Seversk (October 2025) Overview: As of October 2025, the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine continues to see major shifts in territorial control, with Russia making sign…
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The pressure on Shakhovo built the way these eastern fights often do—first as a hum in the tree lines, then as a series of sharp knocks on the same doors. Russian forward elements started by feeling along the approaches …
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The fight for Dronivka has unfolded as a slow clamp tightening along the river bends and shelterbelts that link Serebrianka, Yampil and the approaches to Siversk. Russian units have worked the area methodically, using SR…
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Over the past seven days the front around Yampil has been noisy, close-in, and attritional. Russian assault groups have been feeling for weak points along the tree lines that guard the settlement’s eastern and northeaste…
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Tension spiked after reports that Pakistan struck targets inside Afghanistan around 9–10 October, allegedly aiming at TTP figures. Kabul publicly bristled; Islamabad neither fully confirmed nor denied specific strikes, b…
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