Local conflicts become regional wars when the fighting starts to affect the interests, territory, or internal stability of nearby states. Once cross-border attacks, proxy involvement, refugee pressure ...

MINSK, 7 May (BelTA) - Once the conflict in Ukraine is over, a new armed conflict may erupt in Central Asia, which will be a terrorist war in fact, Russian historian, director of the Institute for ...

"That level of spatial detail documenting conflicts over such a long time span hasn't really existed before in a dataset," Bagwell said. "It allowed us to look at how climate variability affects ...

The Trump administration's dismantling of U.S. foreign assistance institutions has left the country less prepared to respond ...

Violence has been a fact of life for decades in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A war that erupted in the late 1990s killed more than 5 million Africans in the following decade. Although ...

Climate change is contributing to the escalation of existing local conflicts in Africa. A new WZB study by Ruud Koopmans, Daniel Meierrieks, and Daniel Tuki uses the example of pastoralist conflict ...

The eight-year civil war in Yemen has created what has been called the world’s worst manmade humanitarian crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have been killed and some four million people ...