List of ongoing military conflicts

  Major wars, 1,000+ deaths per year

  Minor wars and conflicts, 10-1,000 deaths per year

For recent conflicts that are no longer significantly ongoing, see List of wars 2003–2010 and List of wars 2011–present.

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.

Fatality figures include both civilian and military deaths. Military conflicts which no longer produce violent deaths are not listed here, but can be found in the historical list of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

1,000+ deaths per year

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1,000 violent deaths per year, a categorization used by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program^[1] and recognised by the United Nations.^[2][3] The UN also use the term "low intensity conflict," which can overlap with the 1,000 violent deaths per year categorisation.^[4]

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities	Fatalities in 2010/11
1953	Nigerian Sharia conflict	Nigeria	10,000+	1,017+[5][6]
1964	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	150,000–200,000[7]	1,000+[8]
1967	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency	India	~11,200	1,174+[9]
1978	Afghan civil war	Afghanistan	600,000–2,000,000	10,461+ [10]
1991	Somali Civil War	Somalia	300,000[11]–400,000[12]	2,318+[13]
2003	Iraq War	Iraq	102,344–1,455,590[14] [15]	4,571+[16]
2004	War in North-West Pakistan	Pakistan	30,452[17]	7,435[18]
2004	Shia Insurgency in Yemen	Yemen and  Saudi Arabia	25,000[19]	8,000
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	43,270+[20]	24,374[21]
2011	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict	Sudan	1,500+[citation needed]	1,500+
2011	2011 Yemeni uprising	Yemen	1,580–1,782 [22][23]	1,580–1,782
2011	2011 Syrian uprising	Syria	2,550[24][25][26]–4,200[27]	2,550–4,220

Other conflicts

There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that are currently causing a smaller number of violent fatalities each year. Several short-lived violent conflicts have arisen as part of the Arab Spring in 2011, though the phenomenon has included mostly peaceful protests.

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities
1948[28][29]	Korean Conflict	North Korea and  South Korea	2,000,000-4,000,000
1948	Internal conflict in Burma	Burma	100,000-121,000
1948	Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel and  Palestinian territories	14,500+[30]
1964	Insurgency in Northeast India	India	~25,000[31]
1969[32]	Insurgency in the Philippines[33]	Philippines	~120,000[34]
1969	Papua conflict	Indonesia	75,000 - 100,000
1975	Western Sahara conflict	Mauritania,  Morocco, and Western Sahara	13,000 - 24,000
1975	Insurgency in Laos	Laos	100,000+
1978	Turkey – Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict	Turkey and  Iraq	45,000–[35] 100,000[36][37][38]
1980	Internal conflict in Peru	Peru	~70,000
1982	Casamance conflict	Senegal	5,000[39]
1987	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency	Uganda,  South Sudan,  DR Congo and  Central African Republic	~12,000
1989	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~68,000[40]
1994	Cabinda Conflict	Angola	1,000-1,500 [41]
1998	Dissident Irish Republican campaign	Northern Ireland,  Republic of Ireland,  England	143
2002	Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa	Kenya,  Somalia,  Ethiopia,  Sudan,  Eritrea,  Djibouti,  Seychelles,  Yemen,  Tanzania,  Mauritius,  Madagascar,  Mozambique,  Burundi,  Rwanda,  Comoros,  Chad,  DR Congo,  Uganda	~212
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb	Algeria,  Chad,  Mali,  Mauritania,  Morocco, and  Niger	6,000+
2004	Conflict in the Niger Delta	Nigeria	4,000–10,000[42]
2004	Balochistan conflict	Iran and  Pakistan	2,500+
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Thailand	~4,100
2008	Cambodian–Thai border dispute	Cambodia and  Thailand	40–200+
2009	Sudanese nomadic conflicts	Sudan  South Sudan	2,000–2,500[43]
2009	Insurgency in the North Caucasus	Russia	1,110+
2009	South Yemen insurgency	Yemen	1,554+[44][45]
2010	Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown	Yemen	1,115-1,168
2011	2011 Kosovo–Serbia border clashes	Kosovo	2+
2011	2011 South Sudan clashes	South Sudan	125-600

See also

• List of wars (including historical wars)
• Modern warfare
• Declaration of war
• List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
• List of modern conflicts in North Africa
• List of rebel groups
• List of terrorist incidents

References

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10. ^ [1] 2,412+ civilians, 711 foreign troops, 1,292 Afghan police, 821 Afghan soldiers and 5,225 insurgents kileld in 2010
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19. ^ Page 2
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22. ^ 150 protesters and 154 soldiers killed (by 21 May)[5] 150 killed in the ammo dump explosion,[6] 170 protesters and soldiers killed (18-25 September),[7] total of 624 killed outside of the street fighting
23. ^ 253-273 reported killed during the Battle of Sana'a, 616-762 during the Battle of Zinjibar, 50-86 during the Ta'izz clashes, 2 in a militant attack in Loder (27 May),[8] 5 in a tribal-Houthi clash (1 June),[9] 9 in a militant attack in Abyan (5 June)[10] 4 in a militant attack in al-Habilien (8 June),[11] and 8 in a militant attack in Loder (11 June),[12][13] 9 in militant attacks in Lahj (16-17 June),[14] total of 956-1,158 reported killed during the street fighting
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32. ^ This is disputed as some roots of the conflict originate back in the early 1900's
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36. ^ Los Angeles Times TURKEY: Kurdish teenager convicted as terrorist for attending demonstration
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45. ^ [16]

External links

• PeaceReporter coverage of ongoing wars
• Global Security coverage of ongoing wars
• BIPPI coverage of ongoing wars
• History Guy's coverage of 21st century wars
• Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK)
  • Conflict Barometer - Describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements
• Insight on Conflict - Database on peace-building initiatives in areas of conflict
• Crisis Group conflict analysis
• Iraqi Death Total Over 600,000
• UCDP database - Database on armed conflicts from 1975 including death estimates, conflict actors, negotiations and peace agreements