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List of ongoing armed conflicts

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Attacks by year
  
1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Years
  
1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world and continue to result in violence.

Contents

List guidelines

This list of ongoing armed conflicts is for the sole purpose of identifying present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict. The guidelines of inclusion are:

  • Armed conflicts consist in the use of armed force between two or more organized armed groups, governmental or non-governmental alike. Interstate, intrastate and non-state armed conflicts are listed. For ongoing civil unrest and violence against protesters not escalating into armed conflict, see List of ongoing protests.
  • 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 past year; excess deaths indirectly resulting from famine, disease and disruption of services are included along with violent deaths only in the cumulative fatalities count, when available.
  • Listed conflicts are at least 100 cumulative deaths in total and at least 1 death in current or past calendar year.
  • Fatality totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 455+ indicates that at least 455 people have died) – the actual toll could be higher.
  • Location refers to the state(s) where the main violence takes place, not to the warring parties. Italics indicate disputed territories and unrecognized states.
  • Only states with ongoing military activity are listed, past states and states where conflicts are no longer active are omitted.
  • Military conflicts that no longer produce deaths are not listed here, but can be found in the historical list of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

    • 10,000+ deaths in current or past year

    The 4 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in current or past calendar year.

    1,000–9,999 deaths in current or past year

    The 10 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in current or past calendar year.
    Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

    100–999 deaths in current or past year

    The 29 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in current or past calendar year.

    Fewer than 100 deaths in current or past year

    The 13 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in current or past calendar year.

    Deaths by country

    This section details armed conflict-related fatalities by country in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

    References

    List of ongoing armed conflicts Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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