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Template:USA-centric This is a list of ongoing conflicts that are happening around the world, 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.

Conflicts which no longer produce violent deaths are not listed here, but can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

This map shows the geographic areas of the present-day world where armed conflict is currently ongoing as of November 2008.

Ongoing conflicts

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1000 violent deaths per year (a United Nations categorization). There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that are currently causing a smaller number of violent fatalities each year.

Start of Conflict War/Conflict Location Cumulative fatalities
1948 Kayin State Conflict Kayin and Myanmar Burma ~7,000
1964 Colombian Civil War Colombia Colombia Millions
1969 Communist and Islamic insurgency in the Philippines Philippines Philippines ~160,000+
1975 The Secret War Laos Laos 2,000 - 3,000
1983 Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lanka Sri Lanka ~80,000
1984 Turkey-PKK conflict PKK (Kurdish militants) and Turkey Turkey ~37,000
1987 Second Ugandan Civil War Uganda Uganda ~12,000
1988 Somali Civil War Somalia Somalia
300,000 - 400,000Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
1995 Insurgency in Ogaden Ethiopia Ethopia ~125
1996 Naxalite-Maoist insurgency India East Central part of India ~4,483
1997 Kivu conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo ~4,000,000
2000 Second Chechen War Russia Russia and Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Ichkeria ~90,000
2000 Second Intifada Israel Israel and State of Palestine Palestine ~6,500
2001 War on Terrorism United Nations Global
2001 War in Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan 35,000
2002 Insurgency in the Maghreb Algeria Algeria, Mauritania Mauritania, and Morocco Morocco ~6000
2003 War in Darfur Sudan Sudan 200,000 - 400,000
2003 Iraq War Iraq Iraq 100,000 - 1,124,303 (see: Casualties of the Iraq War)
2004 War in North-West Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan ~11,345
2004 Kivu conflict Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo unknown
2004 Balochistan conflict Balochistan, Pakistan Balochistan and Pakistan Pakistan ~9,000
2004 Iran-PJAK conflict Iran Iran and PJAK (Kurdish militants) unknown
2004 South Thailand insurgency Pattani and Thailand Thailand ~2,500
2004 Conflict in the Niger Delta Nigeria unknown
2005 Fourth Civil War of Chad Chad Chad ~1,400
2007 Second Tuareg Rebellion Mali Mali and Niger Niger ~350
2006 Mexican Drug War Mexico Mexico 7,882

See also

References

  1. "The World at War". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  2. ASIANEWSNET as of end of 2008
  3. Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls and Casualty Statistics for Wars, Dictatorships and Genocides
  4. "Britain, France push for more U.N. troops in Congo". CNN. 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
  5. http://en.wikipedia.org/Casualties_of_the_Second_Chechen_War
  6. Balochistan and Pakistan death tolls]
  7. Niger and Mali death toll from the Second Tuareg Rebellion

External links

Lists of wars by date
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