A list of what’s still pumping and what’s not in Libya’s war-torn energy industry, complete with map.

Around 200 Islamic State fighters have pushed the remaining Libya Dawn-aligned Misrata militiamen out of Sirte, consolidating their hold on the hometown of former dictator General Gaddafi.

A look at which fields are still pumping oil in Africa’s energy powerhouse turned failed state.

Two maps that help explain Islamic State's Ramadi offensive.

Recent movements, attacks, and territory shifts in the Syrian civil war.

A map of the major antagonists in Yemen following the recent fall of Taiz to Houthi rebels.

Though the ISIS presence in Afghanistan is as yet nowhere near that of Iraq and Syria, the militant group is making inroads into what was formerly the sole domain of the Taliban.

Afghanistan’s vast resource wealth is supposed to take over the reins of economic development when foreign aid dries up. But three of the biggest joint ventures in the country’s mineral and energy sectors suggest that this won’t be the case.

A persistent flaw of Western policy towards Afghanistan is treating the country as a unitary whole, the way democratic optimists imagine it to be, instead of a patchwork of competing ethnic and tribal identities – the way it actually is.