Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
552
total events across belligerents · 85 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
426
single-side data only
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week13 weeks
Bottom Line
We assess with high confidence that the Kurdistan conflicts dimension has been subsumed into a broader regional conflagration — the 2026 Iran war — which has closed the Strait of Hormuz, triggered renewed Israel-Iran hostilities, and forced Iraq to redirect oil exports through Syria, fundamentally altering Baghdad's strategic posture and the security environment across Kurdish-populated areas of Iraq.
Key Developments (last 24–48 hours)
Jun 8 — Israel and Iran exchange
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
Top 1 shown · global share % = country’s share of worldwide production at this stageFull dataset via API · contact
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 20 dispatches across 17 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.
