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The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
This list of ongoing armed conflicts identifies present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict. The criteria of inclusion are the following:
The 6 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct, violent deaths per year in battles between identified groups, in the current or previous calendar year.[2]
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2024 fatalities | 2025 fatalities |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1948 | Asia | Myanmar | 28,672[3]–199,000+[4][5] | 19,715[5] | 813[6] | |
1948 | Asia | Israel Palestine Lebanon Syria Iraq Iran Yemen |
242,000–251,000+[7] | 30,386[5][8][9][10][11][12] | 1,670+[13][14][15] | |
2002 | Africa | Burkina Faso Mali Niger Benin Togo Algeria Tunisia Chad Ivory Coast Mauritania Ghana Nigeria Cameroon Morocco Libya |
464,345+[5][16][17][18][19][20] | 20,667[14][21] | 846[14] | |
2008 | Africa | Sudan South Sudan |
500,000–550,000[3][22][23][24][25] | 16,575[5] | 998[14] | |
2014 | Europe | Russia Ukraine |
172,226[26]–350,000+[27][28][29] | 77,633[5] | 4,099[14] | |
2018 | Africa | Ethiopia | 500,000[3]–610,000+[30] | 10,179[5][14] | 140[14] |
The 10 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.[2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[31]
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2024 fatalities | 2025 fatalities |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1964 | South America | Colombia Venezuela Ecuador |
43,000[3]–457,700+[32] | 2,273[14] | 115[14] | |
1978 | Asia | Afghanistan Pakistan |
380,000[3]–2,697,800+[33] | 3,208[14] | 158[14] | |
1991 | Africa | Somalia Somaliland Kenya |
365,500–1,000,000+[34][35] | 6,206[14] | 293[14] | |
1998 | Africa | Nigeria | 104,200+[36][37][38][39][40][41] | 3,374[14] | 150[14] | |
2004 | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Burundi Uganda |
211,600+[42][43][36][44][45][46][47] | 4,471[14] | 201[14] | |
2006 | North America | Mexico | 127,000[3]-415,200[48][a] | 8,260[14] | 365[14] | |
2011 | Asia | Syria Israel |
410,000[3]–625,800+[50] | 6,887[14] | 554[14] | |
2014 | Asia | Yemen Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates Israel |
382,100[51] | 1,826[14] | 131[14] | |
2017 | Anglophone Crisis | Africa | Cameroon Nigeria |
9,200+[52] | 2,228[14] | 24[14] |
2018 | North America | Haiti | 10,000+[53][54][55][56] | 5,601[5][57][58][59][60] | 29[14] |
The 16 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100, and fewer than 1,000, direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.
The 10 conflicts in the following list have caused fewer than 100 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2024 fatalities | 2025 fatalities |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1948 | Korean conflict | Asia | North Korea South Korea |
3,000,000 | 30[5] | 0[14] |
1970 | Africa | Morocco Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic |
14,000–21,000+ | 42[14] | 4[14] | |
1980 | Peruvian conflict | South America | Peru | 70,000[87] | 43[14] | 2[14] |
1981 | Africa | Egypt | 6,000–7,353+[36][88][89] | 15[14] | 0[14] | |
1982 | Casamance conflict | Africa | Senegal | 5,000+[90] | 19[5] | 0[14] |
1988 | Asia | Armenia Azerbaijan |
39,800–49,000+[91] | 6[5] | 0[14] | |
2004 | South Thailand insurgency | Asia | Thailand | 7,300[92] | 49[14] | 3[14] |
2005 | Insurgency in Paraguay | South America | Paraguay | 150+[c][42] | 6[14] | 0[14] |
2018 | South America | Ecuador | 14,250+[citation needed] | 77[93][94][14] | 3[14] | |
2022 | Salvadoran gang crackdown | North America | El Salvador | 250+[95] | 22[5] | 0[14] |
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