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Taliban insurgency.

High · 66/100Insurgencyactive293 dispatches indexedlatest event May 11, 2026
Escalation
66
·Elevated · /100
Events · 24h
10
+1 vs 7d avg
Fatalities · 7d
1,464
+1,444 vs prior 7d
Media divergence
·Divergence
Primary belligerent
Afghanistan
Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
617
total events across belligerents · 81 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
WAR CRIMEUS OVERTHROWS2026-02-182026-04-032026-05-13
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
22,477
single-side data only
2026-02-092026-05-119,453
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
SeverityDateEventCountries
10.0May 5US Overthrows TalibanAF
10.0Apr 25Ben Roberts-Smith charged with war crimesAF
10.0Apr 23Murder ChargesAF
10.0Apr 23Murders in AfghanistanAF
10.0Apr 23Alleged war crimes by Ben Roberts-SmithAF
10.0Apr 22Kabul airport attackAF
10.0Apr 17Australian soldiers execute unarmed civiliansAF
10.0Apr 13Humanitarian crisis in AfghanistanAF
9.0May 13Afghan-Pak conflictAF
9.0May 12Taliban-Pakistan ClashesAF
Top 10 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
Top 10
Strategic transfers
Arms, tech, and equipment flows where seller or buyer is a belligerent
DateFlowEquipmentTypeStatus
Apr 3USAFvehiclearms saledelivered
AFCNlithium, rare earths, copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, antimonycritical tech transferdelivered
IRAFmobile phone applicationtech transferdelivered
Top 3 shownFull dataset available via API · contact for access
Top 10
Critical resource flows
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
MineralCountryStageReservesGlobal %
Critical mineralsAfghanistanmining30.0%
Rare EarthsAfghanistanmining
Top 2 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 AF as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.