5 January 2025

10 Conflicts to Watch in 2025

Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood

In these unsettled times, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House looks set to shake things up further. But how does a disrupter deal with an already disrupted world?

In the Middle East, a chain reaction set off by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel has propelled a year of staggering change. Israel has buried Gaza under rubble; degraded Iran’s regionwide network of nonstate proxies; demolished Tehran’s own defenses; and, inadvertently, set the stage for Islamist rebels to topple the Assad family’s half-century-old dictatorship in Syria.

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