Sources
The monitor ingests RSS feeds from 82 international outlets covering armed conflict, diplomacy, humanitarian crises, cybersecurity, and security policy. Articles are fetched continuously and processed through the AI pipeline every ingest cycle.
Sources are not treated equally. Each feed carries a credibility weight between 0 and 1 that scales the AI-generated confidence score for events derived from that source. Wire services, UN bodies, and established research institutes sit near the top. Specialist blogs and regional outlets sit lower. State-affiliated sources (Xinhua, TASS) are included for completeness but carry the lowest weights — their presence in the data is visible but downweighted. No source is authoritative on its own: the value is in the overlap across multiple independent outlets reporting the same event.
Some feeds fail silently on a given day — timeouts, paywalls, format changes. When a source goes quiet, its events drop from the live window. This is an honest limitation: the map shows what the feeds say, not what is happening.
Current sources
- ReliefWebVery High
- UN NewsVery High
- The New HumanitarianHigh
- Amnesty InternationalHigh
- Human Rights WatchHigh
- BBC News WorldVery High
- New York Times WorldVery High
- NPR WorldVery High
- CNN WorldHigh
- Al JazeeraModerate
- Deutsche WelleHigh
- France 24High
- CBC News WorldHigh
- Sky News WorldHigh
- Fox News WorldModerate
- Time MagazineHigh
- The Guardian WorldHigh
- The Independent WorldHigh
- Wall Street Journal WorldHigh
- Financial TimesVery High
- The EconomistVery High
- Foreign PolicyVery High
- Foreign AffairsVery High
- RAND CorporationVery High
- Just SecurityVery High
- War on the RocksHigh
- The Cipher BriefHigh
- Geopolitical FuturesHigh
- The Soufan CenterVery High
- Foundation for Defense of DemocraciesHigh
- C4ADSHigh
- BellingcatVery High
- Defense NewsHigh
- Breaking DefenseHigh
- Military TimesModerate
- Long War JournalModerate
- The AviationistModerate
- Naval NewsHigh
- Overt DefenseModerate
- Defense BlogLow
- SOFREPModerate
- Task & PurposeModerate
- Dark ReadingHigh
- The Hacker NewsHigh
- Bleeping ComputerHigh
- Krebs on SecurityVery High
- CyberScoopHigh
- EuractivHigh
- Politico EuropeHigh
- Le Monde in EnglishHigh
- El Pais in EnglishHigh
- Der Spiegel InternationalHigh
- The Local SwedenModerate
- Middle East EyeModerate
- Times of IsraelHigh
- Arab NewsModerate
- Africa NewsModerate
- AllAfricaModerate
- Mail & GuardianHigh
- South China Morning PostModerate
- The DiplomatHigh
- NHK WorldHigh
- The Japan TimesHigh
- Yonhap News AgencyHigh
- The HinduHigh
- Times of IndiaModerate
- NDTV WorldModerate
- Dawn (Pakistan)Moderate
- The Express Tribune (Pakistan)Moderate
- Straits Times (Singapore)High
- The Star (Malaysia)Moderate
- Bangkok PostModerate
- Sydney Morning HeraldHigh
- RNZ (New Zealand)High
- EurasianetHigh
- MercoPressModerate
- Buenos Aires TimesModerate
- TASS (Russia)Very Low
- Xinhua (China)Low
- Global VoicesLow
- European Eye on RadicalizationModerate
- ClearanceJobs NewsModerate
Event context (country data, economic indicators, active crises, Wikipedia extracts) is sourced from Wikidata, REST Countries, World Bank Open Data, and ReliefWeb — all free, open APIs with no registration required.