Europe & Central Asia

Published on: On 17 September 2024, ACLED updated its Ukraine dataset by incorporating events from several new military sources. This update enhances ACLED’s coverage of the ongoing conflict, particularly in the border regions of Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kherson.…

Coding decisions on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and more Published on: | Last updated:  The Central Asia and the Caucasus regions (referred to as CAC collectively) are made up of eight now-independent former Soviet republics spanning across a large area of central Eurasia.…

Coding decisions on security forces, militias, and more Published on: | Last updated:  Background Northern Ireland has a long history of conflict. The most recent violent period is known as ‘the Troubles’, which started in the late 1960s and ended with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.…

Coding decisions on state forces, fatality counts, and more Published on: | Last updated:  Background Prior to the invasion, trench warfare between the Ukrainian armed forces and Russian-led separatists was limited to parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (also collectively known as the Donbas) after a hot war in the wake of the Euromaidan protest movement in Ukraine in 2013-14, which Russia had framed as a Western-inspired coup d’état and used as a pretext to annex Crimea in March 2014.…