List of ongoing military conflicts
The following is a list of ongoing military conflicts that are taking place around the world and which continue to result in violent deaths. This list is for the sole purpose of identifying present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_2011%E2%80%93present
1,000+ deaths per year
1948 | Internal conflict in Burma | Asia | Burma | 210,000 | 12,000+ (civilians) | |
1964 | Colombian conflict (1964–present) | South America | Colombia | 600,000 | | |
1991 | Somali Civil War | Africa | Somalia
Somaliland | 500,000+ | 2,620 | |
1992 | Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen | Asia | Yemen | 2,207+[citation needed] | 2,321[citation needed] | |
2001 | War on Terror | Asia | Afghanistan
Pakistan | 329,745+ | 8,398+ (Afghanistan)
6,211 (Pakistan) | 2,280 (Pakistan) |
2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | Mexico | 86,391+ | 18,161+ (by November) | 3,200+ |
2009 | Sudanese nomadic conflicts | Africa | South Sudan
Sudan | 5,641 | 3,200 | 291+[citation needed] |
2011 | Syrian civil war | Asia | Syria | 70,000 | 41,895 | 14,52 |
2011 | Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) | Asia | Iraq | 6,083 (excluding insurgents) | 4,573 (excluding insurgents) | 1,122 (excluding insurgents) |
2012 | Northern Mali conflict (2012–present) | Africa | Mali | 3,461[citation needed] | 2,065[citation needed] | 1,396[citation needed] |
Other conflicts - Fewer than 1,000 deaths per year
There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that are currently causing a smaller number of violent fatalities each year. Several ongoing military conflicts arose as part of the Arab Spring, though the phenomenon has included mostly peaceful protests. Italics indicate disputed territories and unrecognized states.
1918 | Iranian–Kurdish conflict | Asia | Iran | 34,000+ | 8[citation needed] | |
1942 | Communist insurgency in the Philippines | Asia | Philippines | 43,388+[citation needed] | 182 | 25+ |
1948 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Asia | Israel
Palestine | 20,000[citation needed] | 239-256[citation needed] | 7 |
1948 | Balochistan conflict | Asia | Iran
Pakistan | 16,765–17,065+ | 779[citation needed] | |
1950 | Korean War(Ceasefire since 1953)[34] | Asia | North Korea
South Korea | 4,500,000 | 2 | |
1953 | Nigerian Sharia conflict | Africa | Nigeria | 15,000+ | 792 | 244+ |
1963 | Papua conflict | Oceania | Indonesia
Papua New Guinea | 400,000 | 1+[citation needed] | 8+ |
1964 | Insurgency in Northeast India | Asia | India | 25,000 | 317 | 67 |
1967 | Naxalite–Maoist insurgency | Asia | India | 13,812 | 367 | 132 |
1969[52] | Islamic insurgency in the Philippines[53] | Asia | Philippines | 120,000 | 114 | |
1970 | Western Sahara conflict | Africa | Morocco
Algeria
Mauritania
Western Sahara | 14,000–21,000[citation needed] | 1 | |
1980 | Internal conflict in Peru | South America | Peru | 70,000+[citation needed] | 40+[citation needed] | |
1982 | Casamance conflict | Africa | The Gambia
Senegal | 5,000 | 8+[citation needed] | |
1987 | Lord's Resistance Army insurgency | Africa | Uganda
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Central African Republic
South Sudan | 200,000 - 500,000 | 50+ (civilians) | 25+ (civilians) |
1989 | Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir | Asia | India | 43,293–68,000 | 117+ | 22 |
1994 | Cabinda conflict | Africa | Angola | 1,000 - 1,500 | | |
1998 | Dissident Irish Republican campaign | Europe | Republic of Ireland
United Kingdom | 42[citation needed] | 4[citation needed] | |
2002 | Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) | Africa | Algeria
Morocco
Mali
Tunisia
Chad
Mauritania
Niger
Western Sahara | 6,000 | | |
2004 | Shia insurgency in Yemen | Asia | Yemen | 25,000 | 600+ | |
2004 | Conflict in the Niger Delta | Africa | Nigeria | 4,000–10,000 | 30+[citation needed] | 150+[citation needed] |
2004 | South Thailand insurgency | Asia | Thailand | 5,469+ | 535 | 17+ |
2009 | Insurgency in the North Caucasus | Asia | Russia | 2,198+ | 574+ | |
2009 | South Yemen insurgency | Asia | Yemen | 1,554+[ | | |
2010 | Tajikistan insurgency | Asia | Tajikistan | 110[citation needed] | 81[citation needed] | |
2011 | Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) | Africa | South Sudan
Sudan | 1,500-2,557+ | 633 (by October) | |
2011 | Bahraini uprising (2011–present) | Asia | Bahrain | 98[citation needed] | 5+[citation needed] | |
2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa | Egypt | 95-103[citation needed] | 63–71[citation needed] | |
2011 | Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon | Asia | Lebanon | 128-129[citation needed] | 89+[citation needed] | 4 |
2011 | 2011–present Libyan factional fighting | Africa | Libya | 1,371 - 1,397[citation needed] | | |
2012 | M23 rebellion | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 391+ | 391+ | |
2012 | Central African Republic conflict (2012–present) | Africa | Central African Republic | 488+[citation needed] | 391+[citation needed] | 97+[citation needed] |
2013 | 2013 Lahad Datu standoff | Asia | Malaysia | 84 | - | 84 |