Curated playlist
2020s conflicts
- Gaza warOn the morning of the 7th of October 2023, Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Within a span of 20 minutes, it fired between 3,000 and 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. The date fell on Shabbat, during the…
- Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)Russia expected Kyiv to fall within days in February 2022, but it held.
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)The war in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 to 2021, and it became the longest war in United States military history. It ran six months longer than the Vietnam War. A United States-led coalition launched it under the name Operation Enduring…
- Haitian conflictThe Haitian conflict is a struggle over control of Port-au-Prince that has run continuously since 2020. By 2023, Haitian officials were speculating that gangs controlled up to 90% of the capital. The city holds the national palace, the…
- Sudanese civil war (2023–present)Two generals who staged a coup together were fighting each other within two years. Sudan's war began in April 2023.
- Russo-Ukrainian warOn the morning of the 24th of February 2022, Russia's president Vladimir Putin announced what he called a “special military operation” to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine. He also claimed that Russia had no plans to occupy the country.…
- Second Cold WarIn May 1998, George Kennan warned that expanding NATO was "the beginning of a new cold war".
- Iran–Israel proxy conflictThe Iran-Israel proxy conflict reached a strange moment in June 2025. The two states fought a 12-day war that drew in the United States. News outlets noticed something odd about it. The militias Iran had armed and funded for years stayed…
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.
- Gaza–Israel conflictThe Gaza-Israel conflict is a long run of wars over one small territory. Israel and Palestinian militant groups have fought 15 of them in the Gaza Strip since 1948. The most recent, the Gaza war that began in 2023, had killed more than…