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Sri Lanka civil war.

Elevated · 46/100Civil Waractive91 dispatches indexedlatest event May 11, 2026
Escalation
46
·Stable · /100
Events · 24h
1
-2 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
704
no prior baseline
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Sri Lanka
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
208
total events across belligerents · 70 daily data points
Annotated milestones
3 of 4
2019 EASTERUS SUBMARINEFLOOD2026-02-212026-04-082026-05-13
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
2,328
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-11799
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
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Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
SeverityDateEventCountries
9.0May 7Cyclone DitwahLK
8.0May 6Sri Lanka Financial TurmoilLK
8.0May 5US Submarine AttackLK
8.0May 3Global Crisis DeepensLK
8.0Apr 24Hackers steal $2.5m from Sri Lankan finance ministryLK
8.0Apr 24Sri Lanka Finance Ministry HackedLK
8.0Apr 23Hackers steal $2.5 million from Sri Lanka governmentLK
8.0Apr 19US Naval Strike on Iranian VesselLK
7.0Apr 27Ransomware attacksLK
7.0Apr 16Sri Lanka Rupee DepreciationLK
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Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 4INLKnaval_vesselarms saledelivered
Mar 29INLKfuel· qty 38000arms saledelivered
Mar 29INLKPetroleum Shipment· qty 38000arms saledelivered
JPLKunmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)arms saleproposed
FRLKAirbus planes· qty 10arms saledelivered
Top 5 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
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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 LK as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.