Modern Conflicts

For 4 long years, the largest city in Syria was torn apart in one of the largest and most ferocious battles of the 21st century. This is the story of how and why Aleppo was so fiercely fought over between the regime of Bashar al-Assad and his allies on the one side, and various rebel factions and their allies on the other.

In 2008, Russia initiated a full-scale invasion into Georgia in what became the first European war of the 21st century.

Across the 1990's and early 2000's, the Republic of Chechnya attempted to secede from Russia and achieve independence.

In 2003 the US and its allies invaded Iraq under the pretext of dismantling Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

Russia’s intervention in the Syrian Civil War to assist Assad’s regime lead to a triumph in geopolitics for the Kremlin.

The war fought between Moldova, the breakaway state of Transnistria, and Russia.

Since 2017, China has been carrying out the largest genocide of the 21st century, targeting the Uyghur people East Turkestan.

The longest war in American history was the one fought for nearly 20 years in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021.

The first phase of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the February 24 when the Russians first attacked to the April 7, 2022.

After failing to capture Kyiv the Russian army began to refocus everything on the eastern front and the battle for the Donbas.

In 2014, Yemen descended into an initially two-sided civil war between the Shia-adjacent Houthis & the largely Sunni government.

Libya was once among Africa's most prosperous nations until 2011 when the country descended into chaos and instability.