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Q&A / Afghanistan

Are the Taliban on a Path to Victory?

With the Taliban sweeping through provincial capitals, and massing near Kabul, the Afghan government is thus far vowing to resist. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Laurel Miller and Andrew Watkins explain that outside powers’ priority should now be to minimise further human suffering.

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power
Commentary / Europe & Central Asia

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power

Ankara believes it has reaped strategic benefits from military involvement in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. Yet it has paid a price as well, discomfiting both allies and adversaries. Now, Turkey hopes to rebuild ties so as to consolidate its new gains.

Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine
Report / Middle East & North Africa

Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine

Also available in العربية, עברית
Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections
Briefing / Africa

Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections

Eastern Africa's Jihadis: The Roots
Podcast / Africa

Eastern Africa's Jihadis: The Roots

Videos & Photography

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Five Conflicts the EU Can Help Address

The Spring Update of the Watch List 2021 includes entries on Myanmar, Yemen, Bolivia, Nigeria and Ukraine.

 
Video / Africa

What Data Says About Herder-Farmer Violence in Nigeria

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

Also available in Español
 
Video / Africa

What is Happening in South Sudan?

 
Video / Asia

Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse Following Coup

 
Video / Middle East & North Africa

Peacemaking in Yemen Needs Women's Voices

 
Video / Africa

Resolving the Insurgency in South Sudan's Equatoria Region

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Fighters for Peace: The Struggle of Latin America’s Women Activists

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia

 
Video / Africa

A New Strategy to End the Sahel's Wars

 
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Video – 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021

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Trends for Last Month July 2021

Deteriorated Situations

EthiopiaSouth AfricaZambiaAfghanistanBosnia And HerzegovinaArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaUkraineCubaHaitiSyriaTunisia

Improved Situations

Central African RepublicCôte d’Ivoire

Outlook for This Month August 2021

Conflict Risk Alerts

EthiopiaZambiaArmeniaAzerbaijan

Resolution Opportunities

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Gender and Conflict

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Gender and Conflict
Podcast / Gender and Conflict

Gender and Conflict

For an International Women’s Day special episode of Hold Your Fire!, Naz Modirzadeh and Richard Atwood talk to Azadeh Moaveni, Crisis Group’s gender and conflict expert, about the Women, Peace and Security agenda and Crisis Group’s work on gender and conflict.

Briefing / Gender and Conflict

A Course Correction for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Briefing / Middle East & North Africa

Exiles in Their Own Country: Dealing with Displacement in Post-ISIS Iraq

Also available in العربية
Podcast / Global

War & Peace: Why Gender Matters in the Fight Against Terrorism

Visual Explainers

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

An early-warning platform to monitor, analyse, and provide regular updates on the key and increasingly tense flashpoints between Iran and the U.S. or their respective allies that could lead to a direct or indirect confrontation, or generally to a dangerous regional escalation. Read more...

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer

In The News

9 Aug 2021
There is still no sign of a broader reset in South Sudanese politics [...] instead, the divisions just keep mounting. New York Times

Alan Boswell

Senior Analyst, South Sudan
9 Aug 2021
After August 31, I fear the war [in Afghanistan] could carry on as intensely or even more than it has the past three months. Bloomberg

Andrew Watkins

Senior Analyst, Afghanistan
9 Aug 2021
The Taliban [in Afghanistan], I think, would prefer to have legitimacy and financial assistance from the international community. But their number one preference is gaining power. AFP

Laurel Miller

Program Director, Asia
7 Aug 2021
This is a deep, deep economic crisis [in Myanmar]. It’s a confidence issue — confidence in the regime, the banks and the economy. The New York Times

Richard Horsey

Senior Adviser, Myanmar
2 Aug 2021
So the majority of the [Iranian] population is either disillusioned with the system or, at this point, completely alienated, and we have huge parts of the society that almost have nothing to lose. Foreign Policy

Ali Vaez

Senior Adviser to the President & Project Director, Iran
29 Jul 2021
[President Biden] judged that, although undesirable, that deterioration of conditions in Afghanistan is tolerable for U.S. national security interests. The Independent

Laurel Miller

Program Director, Asia

Regional Updates

Global

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council
Commentary

Learning to Live with a Limited Security Council

Commentary

Seven Points for the G7

Podcast

The Under-loved Logic of Nuclear-free Zones

Africa

Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections
Briefing

Building on Somaliland’s Successful Elections

Podcast

Eastern Africa's Jihadis: The Roots

Q&A

The Dangerous Expansion of Ethiopia’s Tigray War

Asia

The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan
Podcast

The Taliban’s Advance in Afghanistan

Podcast

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Briefing

Pakistan: Shoring Up Afghanistan’s Peace Process

Europe & Central Asia

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power
Commentary

Turkey Recalibrates Its Hard Power

Commentary

Visualising the Dynamics of Combat and Negotiations in Donbas

Commentary

Turkey in the Sahel

Latin America & Caribbean

Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination
Q&A

Handling the Aftermath of Haiti’s Presidential Assassination

Op-Ed

If sanctions failed to solve Nicaragua’s crisis, will more sanctions succeed?

Report

The Pandemic Strikes: Responding to Colombia’s Mass Protests

Middle East & North Africa

Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine
Report

Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine

Report

Iran: The Riddle of Raisi

Commentary

Picking Up the Pieces One Year After the Beirut Port Blast

United States

Putting AUMF Repeal Into Context
Op-Ed

Putting AUMF Repeal Into Context

Podcast

Biden in Europe

Statement

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized

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