WORLD WAR 3 RISK INDEX i

Verified situation report across 9 tracked conflicts, from open-source reporting to Sunday 23 August 2026, 17:00 UTC. North Korea launched ten short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan during joint United States–South Korea military exercises. Concurrently, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed a trilateral security agreement establishing mutual defense commitments. In Eastern Europe, Ukrainian forces struck Russian fighter aircraft at Vityazevo airfield and destroyed a border-deployed Iskander ballistic missile launcher.