There is a huge media coverage of recent conflicts. I don't want to write about one because there are so many:
www.oneworld.net/ (general information about things going wrong right now),
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/index.html ('contemporary conflicts'),
http://www.warreports.com/ ("There is always this urge to go have a look and see what is happening, to my left, to my right, further forward. I can't resist it." Larry Burrows (1927-1971); updated daily).