Start from geography
Some conflicts are easiest to understand from where they happen: a strait, a corridor, a border, a coastline. Choose a theatre and Vigil opens its map — terrain and analytical areas, located infrastructure, and the records behind each marker.
Map basis — authored terrain, areas and located infrastructure · not routes, positions or current activity
Choose a theatre
Each opens the geography of that conflict inside Explore. Every other way of working through the system — actors, forces, logistics, timeline — stays one click away from there.
Vigil currently covers 6 conflicts: Ukraine–Russia in Eastern Europe; Sahel in Central Sahel / West Africa; Caucasus in South Caucasus / North Caucasus; Syria in Levant / Eastern Mediterranean; Taiwan in Indo-Pacific / East Asia; Iran–Gulf in Gulf / West Asia. Each is listed in full below, with its latest review.
Coverage orientation only — markers are approximate regional anchors for the conflicts Vigil publishes, not conflict extents or current activity.
Ukraine–Russia
An interstate war reshaping European security.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-06
Sahel
One conflict system across three states, with no single front.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-06
Caucasus
Unresolved wars inside a changing regional system.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-06
Syria
A civil-war legacy shaping a regional transition.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-06
Taiwan Strait
A pressure system where deterrence, not fighting, is the subject.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-06
Iran–Gulf
A regional system where energy, water and security run through one strait.
Conflict reviewed 2026-09-04
Where this fits
Geography is one mode of Explore, not a separate product: the same records, entered from place rather than from actor or force. The written analysis those records belong to is the conflict coverage. Markers are approximate published locations with their own sources and confidence — never positions, movements or activity; see the methodology.