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Welcome back to the BDB Afternoon Bulletin.

If you've been reading the headlines lately, it may feel like war is breaking out in more corners of the world than ever before.

And as it turns out, researchers say, yeah, that's what's happening.

A new study found that 2025 recorded the highest number of conflicts between countries since World War II.

And 2025 takes the award as the deadliest year of warfare since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Congratulations, 2025.

You're a winner.

Sweden's Uppsala, which is just fun to say, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, which is widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on organized violence, identified 65 active conflicts around the world last year.

Now, on its own, that number is certainly jarring.

But what's really caught researchers' attention isn't simply the number of wars taking place, it's who's fighting them.

For much of the post-Cold War era, the world's bloodiest conflicts tended to be civil wars, insurgencies, terrorist campaigns, or battles between governments and rebel groups.