List of ongoing wars and conflicts

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Sites of ongoing armed conflict around the world
  •  Wars and conflicts with 10,000 or more deaths per year
  • Wars and conflicts with 1,000 to 9,999 deaths per year
  • Wars and conflicts with 100 to 999 deaths per year
  • Wars and conflicts with 10 to 99 deaths per year

    • This list includes wars and armed conflicts that have continued uninterrupted from their inception until today.

    A war is a conflict carried out with the use of considerable arms and violence , in which several collectively proceeding collectives are involved. The aim of the parties involved is to resolve the conflict by militarily achieving superiority.

    Based on the Hungarian peace researcher István Kende , a war on this list defines itself as a violent mass conflict with all of the following features:

    • two or more armed forces are involved in the fighting, at least one side of which is regular armed forces ( military , paramilitary groups or police units ) of a government;
    • There must be a minimum of centralized organization of the belligerents and the struggle on both sides, even if this means nothing more than organized armed defense or planned raids ( guerrilla operations , partisan war , etc.);
    • the armed operations occur with a certain continuity and not just as occasional, spontaneous clashes. This assumes that both sides operate according to a planned strategy , regardless of whether the fighting takes place in the territory of one or more societies and how long they last.

    The armed conflict is a violent conflict in which not all of the characteristics of war are fully met. These are either sporadic, more random and not strategically justified armed clashes, cases in which no state actor is involved with regular troops, or conflicts in which one of the parties does not have a centrally controlled organization.

    Wars and conflicts are considered to have ended when they have been officially settled by a peace treaty or the fighting is ceased permanently, i.e. for a period of at least one year.

    Current situation

    There are currently armed conflicts on 5 out of 7 continents (excluding Australia and Antarctica ). In 2014, 164,000–220,000 people around the world died directly from fighting, more than in 26 years. In 2015, at least 167,000 people died in conflict areas.

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    Major wars with 10,000 or more deaths this year or last

    Conflicts in the list below have resulted in at least 10,000 violent deaths in the current or past year.

    Beginning conflict Explanations Location Absolute fatalities Fatalities 2018 Fatalities 2019
    2011 civil war in Syria In the civil war, opposition members fight against the ruler Bashar al-Assad . In addition to the democratic national coalition of Syrian revolutionary and opposition forces , the jihadist militias al-Nusra Front and Islamic State as well as the Kurdish armed forces are involved in the war and are sometimes fighting each other. The Iran is next to the Syrian army and Hezbollah , the third largest force on the part of the Assad government, while Russia uses less of your own ground troops. Military influence continues to be exerted on the conflict: the USA , Turkey , France , Great Britain and Israel . Syria ( Asia ) ~ 570,000 23,000 11,244
    1978 War in Afghanistan

    ( Since 2001 )

    		The conflict began in April 1978 with a coup by the Communist People's Party , which sparked an uprising among large sections of the population. In December 1979 the Soviet Union intervened militarily and set up a new communist leadership. A ten-year conflict then began between the Soviet-backed central government and mujahideen resistance groups supported by the United States , Pakistan and Saudi Arabia . After the Soviet withdrawal, an internal Afghan civil war followed in the early 1990s , in which the Taliban movement took control of most of the country until 1996. The Taliban government, which is closely allied with Al-Qaeda , was overthrown in the fall of 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th by a US-led intervention in favor of the remaining armed opposition. Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces continues in parts of the country. Afghanistan (Asia) 1,240,000-2,000,000 35,941+ 16.008
    2011 Yemen crisis Yemen fighting Huthi -Rebellen, al-Qaeda in Yemen , individual clans and the regular army each other. The takeover of power by the Houthis in early 2015 led to military intervention by Arab states . Yemen , Saudi Arabia ( Western Asia ) approx. 120,000 25,705 20,882
    2006 Mexico drug war Conflict between the Mexican (possibly also US-American) police, military and drug cartels competing with one another, such as the Gulf cartel, Juárez cartel and others Mexico ( North America ) 230,000+ 22,500 35,000

    Wars and conflicts with 1,000 to 9,999 deaths in the current or past year

    Conflicts in the list below have resulted in at least 1,000 to 9,999 violent deaths in the current or past year.

    Beginning conflict Explanations Location Absolute fatalities Fatalities 2018 Fatalities 2019
    2003 Iraq war After the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq , there were increased attacks by militant groups against the Shiite majority population in the country, which resulted in the 2014 Iraq crisis and the rise of ISIS . As a result, the lines between the war in Syria and that in Iraq are blurred. Iraq (Asia) 242,000-1,000,000 4,861 ?
    2009 Sharia conflict in Nigeria The Sharia conflict in Nigeria is an armed conflict over the Islamization of the country between militant groups, various representatives of religious groups and the Nigerian government. Nigeria , Cameroon , Chad , Niger ( Africa ) 51,567+ ?
    2016 Drug war in the Philippines Conflict between the military and police of the Philippines, the communist CPP , the rebel organizations MILF and MNLF , as well as rival drug cartels and street gangs. Philippines (Asia) 2,126-7,118 ?
    1988 Somali civil war The civil war erupted in 1988 after the Somali Democratic Redemption Front (SSDF) and the Somali National Movement (SNM) intensified their attacks against the army of Siad Barré, which they had carried out only sporadically since the early 1980s . The retaliatory measures taken against the Isaaq people included arbitrary executions, the deliberate destruction of wells and pastures and culminated in the bombing of Burao and Hargeysa . It can be assumed that around 50,000 people perished and hundreds of thousands had to flee to Ethiopia . After the fall of the Barre regime in 1991, the ensuing war raged between the units of the clans (including JVA , SPM ) for state power. The internationally recognized federal government controls only part of the country. As Somaliland, northern Somalia has been de facto independent since 1991 , as have the officially autonomous states of Puntland and Galmudug . In much of the rest of the area, local clans and warlords rule. On December 27, 2006, the Union of Islamic Courts , which controlled the capital and large parts of southern and central Somalia, had to leave Mogadishu under pressure from Ethiopian troops . The terrorist militia Al-Shabaab , which emerged from the Union, continues to fight the German government. Fourteen peace talks that have been internationally sponsored since 1991 and the missions of the United Nations ( Operation Restore Hope , UNOSOM I and II ) ultimately failed because of the attempt to create a government structure in the form of a single state authority. Somalia (Africa) 500,000 ?
    2014 War in Ukraine since 2014 Pro-Russian separatists are fighting for the secession of eastern Ukraine and the sovereignty of the proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and their annexation to Russia . As during the Crimean crisis , special troops from Russia were involved. According to the assessment of a commander of such a unit, the war in eastern Ukraine did not originate from the Donbass residents themselves, but from these armed units. Russia supports these militias by infiltrating rioters and delivering anything from heavy weapons to tanks. Media close to the Kremlin confirmed the presence of Russian soldiers "on vacation". Ukraine ( Europe ) 12,800-13,000 ?
    2004 Conflict in Northwest Pakistan The conflict in northwest Pakistan is an armed conflict between the Pakistani army and Islamists, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). It began in 2004 when tensions escalated over the Pakistani army ’s search for al-Qaida members in Waziristan . Pakistan

    ( Asia )

    		60,366 ?
    2013 Civil war in South Sudan since 2013 Members of the Dinka ethnic group , to which President Salva Kiir Mayardit also belongs, are fighting the Nuer ethnic group . South Sudan (Africa) 50,000+ ?
    2013 Libya Civil War 2011 Libya (Africa) 13,549 ?
    2011 Sinai uprising Egypt (Africa) 3,541 ?
    1984 Conflict between the Republic of Turkey and the PKK The aspirations for an independent Kurdistan go back to 1920 between the Entente and the Ottoman Empire closed Treaty of Sevres , the broad autonomy for the Kurds in Turkey envisaged. After the Turkish War of Liberation , these specifications were revised in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and the result was the first Kurdish uprisings (including the Sheikh Said uprising and the Ararat uprising ) between 1925 and 1938, all of which were bloodily suppressed. In 1973 the group "Kürdistan Devrimcileri" (Kurdistan revolutionaries) was formed, which carried out the first armed actions in various cities in Eastern Anatolia . The PKK was formally founded in 1978 and has been waging a guerrilla war with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state ever since . The fights between 1984 and 1998 were particularly costly and characterized by large flows of refugees. After the PKK announced a unilateral ceasefire on September 1, 1998 and its chairman ( Abdullah Öcalan ) was arrested, the situation eased, although the Turkish military continued to attack the PKK guerrillas. On June 1, 2004, the unilateral ceasefire was terminated and the military conflict has escalated again since then. Turkey (Asia) 45,000+ ?
    2011 Fight for Abyei 2011 Sudan (Africa) 5,350 ?
    2003 Darfur conflict The civil war is a conflict between rebel groups who come from ethnic minorities and the central government in Khartoum . Sudan (Africa) 300,000+
    2016 Rohingya conflict Conflict between the Muslim Rohingya minority and the majority Buddhist population in Rakhine State (Myanmar) Myanmar (Asia)
    2012 Conflict in Northern Mali Mali (Africa) 3,300+ 1,285 130+

    See also

    Individual evidence

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    2. ↑ In 2015, 167,000 people died in conflict zones. In: orf.at , May 5, 2016, accessed on November 21, 2017.
    3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
    4. ↑ https://projects21.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/ps21-conflict-trends.pdf
    5. ↑ Megan Specia: How Syria's Death Toll Is Lost in the Fog of War . In: The New York Times . April 13, 2018, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 30, 2019]).
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    7. ↑ Nearly 585,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
    8. ↑ Timothy C. Dowling: Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO, 2014, ISBN 978-1-598-84948-6 , p. 7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
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    11. ↑ WORLD: Violence: Murder rate in Mexico 2019 higher than ever since the count began . In: THE WORLD . January 21, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed April 29, 2020]).
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    17. ↑ Volker Matthies: The Horn of Africa - Violent Conflicts, Anti-Terror War and Peace Perspectives in a Chronic Crisis Region
    18. ↑ BBC News: Somali troops 'enter Mogadishu'
    19. ^ BPB: Portrait of the conflict in Somalia
    20. ↑ http://necrometrics.com/20c300k.htm#Somalia
    21. ^ Andreas Kappeler: Brief history of the Ukraine. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67019-0 , p. 361.
    22. ↑ Julian Hans: Russian secret service agent for Eastern Ukraine - "I pressed the trigger for the war" . sueddeutsche.de, November 21, 2014, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
    23. ↑ Poroshenko ordered a short ceasefire. NZZ, June 20, 2014.
    24. ↑ Moscow's state media report on Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Die Zeit, September 5, 2014.
    25. ↑ Is Russia forcing its conscripts into battle? Welt Online, February 23, 2015.
    26. ↑ https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/New%20UN%20Human%20Rights%20Report%20on%20Ukraine_Full%20text_ENG.pdf
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    32. ↑ Cooperation for Peace: The Turkish-Kurdish Conflict ( Memento of October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 176 kB)
    33. ^ Uni Kassel (AG Friedensforschung): Instead of one "Kurdish problem" now two
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    35. ↑ Deaths in skirmishes between rebels and government troops. Spiegel Online, January 3, 2015, accessed January 9, 2018 .
    36. ^ UN: More than 130 killed in Mali ethnic attack on Fulani village. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .