Conflict and diplomacy
7 dated, sourced timelines.
US vs Iran 2026
Eight months after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, the United States and Israel struck Iran on February 28, 2026, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran...
Russia-Ukraine peace talks
Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since 2022 in Istanbul in May 2025, producing large prisoner exchanges but no ceasefire. US envoys then pursued a...
Trump vs Zelensky
Donald Trump's July 2019 call with Volodymyr Zelensky led to Trump's first impeachment. In Trump's second term the two clashed in the Oval Office in February 2025...
Maduro vs Trump
Across two Trump terms the United States moved from sanctions on Nicolás Maduro and his government to recognising a rival interim president, indicting Maduro and, in...
Sudan army vs RSF
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, rose together after Omar al-Bashir's removal in 2019 and jointly ran Sudan after the 2021 military...
Ethiopia vs TPLF
War between Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front began in November 2020 and ended with an African Union brokered cessation of...
Kenya-led Haiti mission
Kenya offered in July 2023 to lead a multinational police mission against armed gangs in Haiti, and the UN Security Council authorized it that October. After a Kenyan...