List Of Ongoing Armed Conflicts
Criteria
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:
- Armed conflicts consist in the use of armed force between two or more organized armed groups, governmental or non-governmental. Interstate, intrastate and non-state armed conflicts are listed.
- This is not a list of countries by intentional homicide rate, and criminal gang violence is generally not included unless there is also significant military or paramilitary involvement.
- Fatality figures include battle-related deaths (military and civilian) as well as civilians intentionally targeted by the parties to an armed conflict. Only direct deaths resulting from violence are included for the current and previous year; excess deaths indirectly resulting from famine, disease, or disruption of services are included along with violent deaths in the cumulative fatalities count when available.
- Listed conflicts have at least 100 cumulative deaths in total and at least 1 death in current or in the past calendar year.
- Fatality totals may be inaccurate or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus symbol, indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 455+ indicates that at least 455 people have died).
- Location refers to the states where the main violence takes place, not to the warring parties. Italics indicate disputed territories and unrecognized states.
- A territorial dispute or a protest movement which has not experienced deliberate and systematic deaths due to state or paramilitary violence is not considered to be an armed conflict.
The 5 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.
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2023 fatalities | 2024 fatalities |
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1948 | Asia | Myanmar | 28,672–180,000+ | 3,065–15,773 | 7,264 | |
1948 | Asia | Israel Palestine Egypt Lebanon Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia Jordan Yemen |
230,000–241,000+ | 23,424–32,519 | 16,274–19,186+ | |
2002 | Africa | Burkina Faso Mali Niger Benin Togo Algeria Tunisia Chad Ivory Coast Mauritania Ghana Nigeria Cameroon Morocco Libya |
70,000+ | 14,728 | 7,232 | |
2014 | Europe | Russia Ukraine |
100,000–220,000+ | 71,235–95,088+ | 20,548 | |
2023 | Sudanese civil war | Africa | Sudan | 100,000-150,000 | 7,757–13,225 | 5,271 |
The 15 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. Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
The 18 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.
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2023 fatalities | 2024 fatalities |
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1918 | Asia | Iran Iraq |
15,200–58,000+ | 198 | 228 | |
1921 | Asia | Turkey Iraq Syria |
120,100+ | 136 | 19 | |
1943 | Jamaican political conflict | North America | Jamaica | 1,400+ | 397 | 22–157 |
1947 | Asia | India Pakistan |
200,700–2,000,000 |
706 | 290 | |
1948 | Asia | Pakistan Iran |
21,400+ | 600 | 350 | |
1954 | Asia | India Myanmar Bhutan |
40,500 | 540 | 180 | |
1962 | Papua conflict | Asia | Indonesia | 100,100–500,000 | 179–403 | 54 |
1967 | Naxalite–Maoist insurgency | Asia | India | 13,100–14,369+ | 360 | 200 |
1969 | Asia | Philippines | 165,500–213,000 | 259–580 | 215 | |
1988 | Ethnic violence in Papua New Guinea | Oceania | Papua New Guinea | 15,000–20,000 | 1–337 | 174 |
1999 | Asia | Bangladesh | 1,800+ | 12–328 | 164 | |
2003 | Africa | Nigeria Cameroon |
2,600 | 150 | 480 | |
2006 | Conflict for control of favelas in Rio | South America | Brazil | 700–14,383 | 41–2,288 | 10 |
2012 | Central African Republic Civil War | Africa | Central African Republic Cameroon |
14,500+ | 546 | 329 |
2016 | Philippine drug war | Asia | Philippines | 32,200 | 269 | 100 |
2017 | Insurgency in Cabo Delgado | Africa | Mozambique Tanzania |
6,300+ | 275–321 | 288 |
2021 | Asia | Azerbaijan Armenia |
39,800–49,000+ | 462–594 | 6 | |
2022 | Honduran gang crackdown | North America | Honduras | 100+–700 | 112–647 | 249 |
The 16 conflicts in the following list have caused fewer than 100 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.
Deaths by country
See also
- 2020s in military history
- List of wars: 2003–present
- List of number of conflicts per year
- List of civil wars
- List of proxy wars
- List of terrorist incidents
- Lists of active separatist movements
- List of active rebel groups
- List of rebel groups that control territory
- List of designated terrorist groups
- List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity
- Frozen conflict
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- Casualty recording
- Failed state