Region-Specific Methodology

This table lists each country covered by ACLED data, and the date when coverage began.

Published on: | Last updated:  About ACLED & Background on US Coverage What information is captured? ACLED systematically collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all political violence and demonstration events in the US using a methodology consistent with our global coverage of conflict and disorder around the world.…

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.…

Published on: | Last updated:  On 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated land and air assault on multiple border areas of Israel. The attack and Israel’s retaliatory response with airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza have resulted in the deadliest chapter in the Israel-Palestine conflict thus far.…

Published on: 9 January 2023 The incorporation of new data from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiations Affairs Department news sources adds valuable nuance and detail to specific types of events in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.…