Section opened
10 August 2026
State of play
A field guide to the confusion.
Deep explainers for a region that refuses to be simple. Each file is a living page: faction dossiers, one relationship grid, the flips, the sources, a visible date. When the news changes, the file changes, and the changelog says so.
§ 01The current file
built · open
The War Scorecard
Declared versus actual, actor by actor.
Six actors, what each one says, what each one is doing, and where the fighting or the bases actually are, read side by side, with three chains of contradiction the official language is built to hide.
- Actors
- Six
- Since
- 28 Feb 2026
- As of
- 11 Aug 2026
- Sources
- Reuters · Associated Press · ACLED
§ 02Also open
Updated 11 Aug 2026 4 files
Libya, Year Twelve of the Transition
How the oil money flows while the state is split.
Sudan, the War Nobody Explains
Faction cards, rival governments, one humanitarian catastrophe.
The Axis, Before and After
One network in 2023. One altered network in 2026.
Gaza: An Org Chart of Nobody
Everything exists. Almost nothing operates inside Gaza.
Updated 10 Aug 2026 3 files
Syria: Everyone Shook Hands, Nobody Agreed
Ten actors, forty-five relationships, one grid.
The June 26 Deal, Decoded
Withdrawal for disarmament, step by dependent step.
§ 03In the pipeline
- 09 One People, Four Columns The Kurdish question across four states. planned
- 10 Everyone's Friend The Gulf's simultaneous games, mapped. planned
Every fact on this page lives as text, never only in the art. Each plate carries its own as-of date and source list; when a file changes, its changelog records what moved.