How Wars Actually End

Conflict read through escalation, leverage and the terms of any exit — not the day's body count.

The largest oil supply disruption on record

4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-22

US and Iran sign 14-point memorandum to end the war

4 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-19

Harfuch says the CJNG is fracturing into regional factions after El Mencho's death

7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-16

Petro's 'Total Peace' ends as 'Total War', armed groups stronger at his exit

8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-15

Macron's Évian G7 turns Trump toward Ukraine, drops the joint communiqué

7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-17

India and China deepen the LAC thaw while New Delhi protests Chinese roads in Shaksgam

16 takes ·9 lenses ·2026-06-22

Trump signs the US–Iran deal at Macron's Versailles dinner

9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-17

Israel-Hezbollah truce renewed, but disarmament is rejected and strikes go on

12 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

MBZ pivots from war footing to Arab coordination as Hormuz reopens

9 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Merz hosts the E5 in Berlin to align before the NATO summit in Turkey

9 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-23

Putin says the fuel crisis won't change the war — Ukraine's strikes say otherwise

7 takes ·5 lenses ·2026-06-24

Putin's summer offensive stalls as Ukrainian deep strikes bite the home front

7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-12

Putin rebuffs Zelensky's summit call: 'no point', and Europe is not a mediator

7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-04

Report: UAE secretly struck Iran's Lavan refinery during the war

7 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Erdoğan plays 'active neutrality' broker in the Iran war

8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Von der Leyen unveils the EU's 21st Russia sanctions package

7 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-09

The MoU's $300bn rebuild pledge becomes a who-pays fight

8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Oil falls ~20% off its wartime peak as Hormuz reopens

9 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Sharif signs the 'Islamabad MoU' as guarantor of the US-Iran ceasefire

13 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-18

Poland and Germany sign a defence pact to extend the Eastern Shield

8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-17

An 'exhausted' IDF holds Lebanon and Syria as Israel counts the damage

8 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

Merz signals German minesweepers could secure the Strait of Hormuz

3 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-06-15

OPEC+ approves a second symbolic output hike Hormuz makes un-deliverable

10 takes ·1 lenses ·2026-06-24

After Maduro's capture, Delcy Rodríguez holds a contested interim presidency

11 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-01-05

Israel sets 27 October vote — Netanyahu's first ballot since 7 October and three wars

5 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-05-20

Lebanon postpones its May 2026 election by two years as war with Israel rages

8 takes ·3 lenses ·2026-03-09

Sharif puts 'the ball in the Taliban's court' as the Afghan border war reignites

7 takes ·4 lenses ·2026-06-10