Iraqi civil war.
High · 59/100Insurgencyactive17,095 dispatches indexedlatest event May 12, 2026
Escalation
59
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
5
·0 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
6
▲no prior baseline
Media divergence
—
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Iraq
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
886
total events across belligerents · 88 daily data points
Annotated milestones
1 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
16,349
single-side data only
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
No daily brief has been generated for this conflict yet. Briefs are produced for the highest-activity conflicts first; this one becomes eligible as coverage volume climbs.
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
Critical resource exposure · pipeline pending
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No dispatches indexed for this conflict in the last 30 days.
Methodology
This brief was drafted daily by Claude Opus/Haiku under an ICD 203 analytic-tradecraft prompt: bottom line up-front, calibrated probability language (“likely,” “highly likely”), explicit confidence levels, and alternative-analysis sections. Drawn from 0 dispatches across 0 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.
Event volume and casualty counts key off IQ as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.