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The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.

Criteria

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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.

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The 8 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.

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{| class="wikitable sortable" id="conflicts10000"

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! Start of<br>conflict

! Conflict

! Continent

! Location

! data-sort-type="number" | Cumulative fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2025 fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2026 fatalities

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1948

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  • Arab–Israeli/Iran–Israel proxy wars (Middle Eastern crisis)
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza conflict (current war)
  • Spillover in the West Bank
  • Palestinian factional conflicts
  • Salafist insurgency in Gaza
  • Fatah–Hamas conflict
  • Anti-PA insurgency in West Bank
  • Anti-Hamas insurgency in Gaza
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict (during Gaza war)
  • 2026 Lebanon war
  • Israeli–Syrian conflict (during Syrian civil war)
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
  • Druze insurgency in Southern Syria (current clashes)
  • Spillover of the Iran war in Syria
  • Houthi–Israeli conflict in the Red Sea
  • 2026 Iran war
  • Kurdish crisis
  • Hormuz Strait crisis
  • Hormuz Strait naval campaign
  • US naval blockade
  • Iranian strikes on Israel
  • Iranian strikes on Arab states
  • Jordan strikes
  • Iraq strikes (in Iraqi Kurdistan)
  • Saudi Arabia strikes
  • Kuwait strikes
  • Bahrain strikes
  • Qatar strikes
  • UAE strikes
  • Oman strikes

| Asia

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| –263,000+

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1948

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  • Myanmar civil war (current phase)
  • Rohingya conflict
  • Rakhine State conflict
  • Karen conflict
  • Kachin conflict
  • Spillover in Northeast India

| Asia

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| –80,000+

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| +–750,000+

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{| class="wikitable sortable" id="conflicts1000"

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! Start of<br>conflict

! Conflict

! Continent

! Location

! data-sort-type="number" | Cumulative fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2025 fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2026 fatalities

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1918

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  • Insurgencies in Iran (2026 Iranian insurgency)
  • Kurdish insurgency in Iran
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • 2026 Kurdish–Iranian crisis
  • Azerbaijani insurgency in Iran
  • Arab insurgency in Khuzestan
  • Insurgency in Sistan and Balochistan

|Asia

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1964

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  • Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
  • Operation Southern Spear

| South America

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2010

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  • Venezuelan conflict
  • Pemon conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
  • Operation Southern Spear

| South America

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2012

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  • Cameroonian conflicts
  • Boko Haram insurgency
  • Boko Haram–ISWAP conflict
  • Anglophone Crisis
  • Pro-Biafran insurgency in Bakassi

| Africa

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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.

{| class="wikitable sortable" id="conflicts100"

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! Start of<br>conflict

! Conflict

! Continent

! Location

! data-sort-type="number" | Cumulative fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2025 fatalities

! data-sort-type="number" | 2026 fatalities

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1918

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  • Kurdish nationalist conflicts
  • Iranian–Kurdish conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • 2026 Kurdish–Iranian crisis
  • Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • Syrian–Kurdish conflict
  • Rojava–Islamist conflict
  • Eastern Syria insurgency
  • SDF–STG clashes

|Asia

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|style="text-align:center;"| 1943

|Jamaican political conflict

| North America

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| style="text-align:center;"| 1954

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  • Insurgencies in India
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
  • Insurgency in Manipur (since 2023)
  • Insurgency in Assam
  • Insurgency in Nagaland
  • Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Spillover in Myanmar
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

| Asia

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| style="text-align:center;" | 1999

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  • Insurgencies in Bangladesh
  • Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
  • Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh

| Asia

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| –1,700

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| style="text-align:center;"| 2004

| South Thailand insurgency

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| North America

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| 5°

| align="left" |Afghan conflict

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| Asia

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| 6°

| align="left" |Myanmar civil war

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| Asia

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| 7°

| align="left" |Yemeni civil war

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| Asia

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| 8°

| align="left"|Nigerian civil conflict

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| Africa

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| 9°

| align="left"|Syrian civil war

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| Asia

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| 10°

| align="left"|Sudanese civil war

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| Africa

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| 11°

| align="left"|Somali civil war

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| Africa

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| 12°

| align="left"|Congolese civil war

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| Africa

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| 13°

| align="left"|Insurgency in Burkina Faso

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| Africa

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| 14°

| align="left"|Mali war

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| Africa

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| 15°

| align="left"|Haitian conflict

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| North America

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Deaths by country

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! rowspan="2" | Rank

! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |2020

! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |2021

! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |2022

! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |2023

! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" |2024

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See also

  • 2020s in military history
  • List of active rebel groups
  • Lists of active separatist movements
  • List of designated terrorist groups
  • List of hostage crises
  • List of non-international armed conflicts
  • List of number of conflicts per year
  • List of proxy wars
  • List of rebel groups that control territory
  • List of terrorist incidents
  • List of wars: 2020–present
  • List of wars by death toll
  • List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity
  • Frozen conflict
  • Casualty recording
  • Failed state

Notes

References

  • "Major Episodes of Political Violence 1946–2019" – List of armed conflicts compiled by Monty G. Marshall, director of the Center for Systemic Peace, based on research sponsored by the Political Instability Task Force.
  • UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia – Uppsala Conflict Data Program of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.
  • Armed Conflicts Report Interactive Map, by Project Ploughshares.
  • Global Conflict Tracker , by the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • CrisisWatch – Monthly bulletin, interactive map and database on ongoing conflicts by the International Crisis Group.
  • Map of the world's conflicts , by IRIN.
  • 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
  • Mapped: Where are the World's Ongoing Conflicts Today? an infographic map on ongoing conflicts