List of ongoing armed conflicts
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The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
Major wars (10,000 or more)
Minor wars (1,000–9,999)
Conflicts (100–999)
Skirmishes and clashes (1–99)
Criteria
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.[1] 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.
List of current wars and conflicts
Major wars (10,000 or more combat-related deaths in current or previous year)
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.[2]
Minor wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year)
The 11 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.[2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[56]
Conflicts (100–999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year)
The 17 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.
Skirmishes and clashes (fewer than 100 combat-related deaths in current and previous year)
The 11 conflicts in the following list have caused fewer than 100 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year.
| Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2025 fatalities | 2026 fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Asia |  Malaysia Philippines |
134+ | 3[127]–6[6] | 0[6] | |
| 1970 | Africa |  Morocco Sahrawi Republic |
14,000–21,000+ | 54[6] | 0[6] | |
| 1975 | Insurgency in Laos | Asia |  Laos |
100,000+[128] | 5[6]–75[129][130] | 1[6] |
| 1980 | South America |  Peru |
70,000[131] | 47[6] | 7[6] | |
| 1981 | Islamist insurgency in Egypt (since 2013) | Africa |  Egypt |
6,000–7,353+[21][132][133] | 53[6] | 4[6] |
| 1982 | Africa |  Senegal Gambia |
5,000+[134][135] | 6[6] | 2[6] | |
| 1988 | Asia |  Armenia Azerbaijan |
39,800–49,000+[136] | 8[6] | 0[6] | |
| 1994 | Europe |  Russia Azerbaijan Georgia |
? | 9[6][137] | 0[6] | |
| 2004 | South Thailand insurgency | Asia |  Thailand |
7,300[138] | 51[6] | 1[6] |
| 2005 | Insurgency in Paraguay | South America |  Paraguay |
150+[e][19] | 2[139] | 0[6] |
| 2022 | Salvadoran gang crackdown | North America |  El Salvador |
545+[140][141] | 10[6] | 4[6] |
Conflict deaths in the 2020s
| The 15 conflicts with the most deaths in the 2020s[f] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Conflict | Deaths in the 2020s |
Countries | Continent | ||
| 1° | Russo-Ukrainian war | 440,274 |  Ukraine Russia |
Europe | ||
| 2° | Ethiopian civil conflict | 148,223 |  Ethiopia |
Africa | ||
| 3° | Gaza war | 88,059 |  Palestine Israel |
Asia | ||
| 4° | Mexican drug war | 82,953[g] |  Mexico |
North America | ||
| 5° | Afghan conflict | 80,335 |  Afghanistan |
Asia | ||
| 6° | Myanmar civil war | 67,513 |  Myanmar |
Asia | ||
| 7° | Yemeni civil war | 62,705 |  Yemen |
Asia | ||
| 8° | Nigerian civil conflict | 38,299 |  Nigeria |
Africa | ||
| 9° | Syrian civil war | 32,145 |  Syria |
Asia | ||
| 10° | Sudanese civil war | 30,078 |  Sudan |
Africa | ||
| 11° | Somali civil war | 26,780 |  Somalia |
Africa | ||
| 12° | Congolese civil war | 26,386 |  DR Congo |
Africa | ||
| 13° | Insurgency in Burkina Faso | 25,334 |  Burkina Faso |
Africa | ||
| 14° | Mali war | 17,724 |  Mali |
Africa | ||
| 15° | Haitian conflict | 14,988 |  Haiti |
North America | ||
Deaths by country
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
- Until 1 Jan 2026
- Combined estimated death tolls of each conflict since 2003
