WHO IS FIRING AT WHOM.
A wireframe Earth with the twelve hand-curated countries that drive most of the world's current conflict signal, and the eight tracked conflict pairs that link them. Glowing arcs are symbolic of active relations, not literal flight paths. The arcs are weighted by editorial intensity, the dots by composite country stress. Drag to rotate; scroll to zoom; click a node to read its profile.
Hand-curated, not auto-generated
Every country profile is hand-written by the author and cites the outlets used. There is no scraping of "official news in every country" behind this site. When more profiles exist, they will be added the same way, and this number will go up here.
Editorial, not algorithmic
Pairs are picked because they are the most consequential active relationships, not because an algorithm ranked them. The categorisation (active war / proxy / standoff / cold war) is a judgement, not a feed. Disagree and write in.
The eight tracked pairs
- Russia – UkraineSINCE 2014 · 10/10
Full-scale invasion since February 2022; the largest land war in Europe since 1945. Continues with extensive Western support to Ukraine and Iranian/North Korean munitions support to Russia.
- Israel – Hamas / GazaSINCE 2023 · 9/10
Israeli military operation in Gaza following the 7 October 2023 attacks. Tens of thousands of civilian casualties, mass displacement, ICJ provisional measures, and an active genocide case at the ICJ. The arc on this map links Israel to its primary state adversary (Iran) since Hamas is non-state.
- Israel – HezbollahSINCE 2023 · 7/10
Sustained cross-border exchanges since October 2023 escalating to direct strikes inside Lebanon and Hezbollah's leadership decapitation, with periodic ceasefires holding for short periods only.
- Israel – Iran (direct)SINCE 2024 · 8/10
Direct missile and drone exchanges between Israel and Iran began in 2024 and have continued in escalating waves, including Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear-adjacent facilities.
- US – China (Taiwan / Pacific)SINCE 2010 · 6/10
Strategic competition centred on Taiwan; daily PLA incursions of the Taiwanese ADIZ, US Freedom of Navigation operations, semiconductor export controls. Not a shooting war, but the most dangerous standoff on Earth on most analyses.
- India – PakistanSINCE 1947 · 5/10
Recurring crises over Kashmir, with two nuclear-armed neighbours and a publicly low Pakistani first-use threshold. Active line-of-control exchanges; periodic large escalations (Pulwama 2019).
- Korean PeninsulaSINCE 1953 · 5/10
Armistice without peace treaty. North Korean ICBM and tactical-nuclear capability matured; US-ROK Combined Forces command and frequent exercises sustain the deterrent equilibrium that the Russia-DPRK partnership has begun to erode.
- NATO – Russia (sub-threshold)SINCE 2022 · 8/10
Active proxy war via Ukraine, plus persistent sub-threshold attacks (sabotage, GPS jamming, undersea cable interference, election interference) attributed to Russia inside NATO countries. The risk of direct contact via incident on the eastern flank is the highest since 1989.