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Islamic State-Yazidi conflict.

Cold · 0/100Conflictfrozen4 dispatches indexed
Escalation
0
·Stable · /100
Events · 24h
2
-3 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
46
+22 vs prior 7d
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Iraq
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
598
total events across belligerents · 82 daily data points
Annotated milestones
3 of 4
SPEICHER MASSAIS BOMBINGYAZIDI GENOCID2026-06-012026-07-152026-08-26
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
238
single-side data only
2026-06-012026-08-2465
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week13 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
SeverityDateEventCountries
10.0Aug 4Yazidi GenocideIQ
9.0Aug 15Saudi Arabia attacks IraqIQ
9.0Aug 13Soleimani AssassinationIQ
9.0Aug 11US-Iran war affects IraqIQ
9.0Aug 4US Invasion of IraqIQ
9.0Jul 31Conflict ExpansionIQ
9.0Jul 31US-Saudi AirstrikesIQ
8.0Aug 24Kurdistan Region AttacksIQ
8.0Aug 18Drought in IraqIQ
8.0Aug 17Iranian Drones Target KurdistanIQ
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Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 4KRIQKUH-1arms salecontracted
Nov 11TRIQmodern water infrastructure projectstech transfercontracted
USIQmunitionsarms saleannounced
USIQmunitionsarms saleannounced
TRIQKORKUT· qty 20arms salecontracted
KRIQCheongung-II· qty 8arms salecontracted
TRIQground-to-air defence systemsarms saleproposed
KRIQK2 Black Panther· qty 250arms saleproposed
DEIQchemical bombsarms saledelivered
USIQchemical bombsarms saledelivered
Top 10 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
SulphurIraqmining
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 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.