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List of wars: 2003–2019

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This is a list of wars that began from 2003 to 2019. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

Graph of deaths in armed conflicts by type from 2003 to 2023

2010–2019

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
2010 2010 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes

Part of the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010

 Kyrgyz provisional government
Supported by:
Turkmenistan
Iran
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan[1]
China[2]
Russia[3]
Turkey Turkey

Kyrgyzstani Kyrgyz gangs

Other pro- Bakiyev forces

Uzbekistani Kyrgyz1

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (alleged)[9]


Kyrgyzstani Uzbeks

Uzbekistani Uzbek civilians1

 Uzbekistan[14] (limited involv.)2[16][17]

2010 2010 2010 Kingston unrest

Part of the Jamaican political conflict
in the war on drugs

Jamaica


Foreign support:
United States:

Shower Posse

2010 2015 Insurgency in Gorno-Badakhshan (2010–2015)

Tajikistan Tajikistan

United Tajik Opposition



2010 2011 Second Ivorian Civil War

Part of the Ivorian Civil Wars

Ivory Coast FNCI
Liberia Liberian mercenaries[19]
Ivory Coast RDR
United Nations UNOCI
France[20]
 Ukraine[21]

Ivory Coast Military of Ivory Coast
Liberia Liberian mercenaries
Ivory Coast COJEP
Ivory Coast FPI

2011 Ongoing Nigerian bandit conflict

Part of the Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria

Nigeria Nigeria

Vigilante groups

Various bandit groups

  • Hausa militias
    • Moriki vigilantes group
  • Fulani militias
    • Ali Kachalla bandit group
    • Dogo Giɗe bandit group
    • Kachalla Halilu Sububu Seno bandit group
    • Adamu Aliero Yankuzo bandit group
    • Bello Turji Kachalla bandit gang
    • Dan Karami bandit gang
    • Kachalla Turji bandit gang
    • Kachalla Halilu Sububu Seno bandit gang

Islamist rebels:
Islamic State[22]

Boko Haram
Ansaru[22]
Lakurawa (from c. 2023)

2011 2023 Sinai insurgency

Part of the terrorism in Egypt, the Egyptian Crisis, and the Arab Winter

Supported by

Islamic State Islamic State (from 2014)[37]

2011 Ongoing Insurgency in Bahrain

Part of the 2011 Bahraini uprising and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

Bahrain
Supported by:
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates

Bahraini opposition
Supported by:
Iran

2011 2011 Libyan civil war (2011)

Part of the Arab Spring and the Libyan Crisis since 2011



Minor border clashes:
Tunisia

Supported by:
 Egypt[43][44]

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

2011 2024 Syrian civil war

Ba'athist Syria
Hezbollah
Iran
Russia (2015–present)

Support

Iraq (2017–19)

Syrian Interim Government (Syrian opposition)
Turkey (2016–present)

Support:

Syrian Salvation Government(Tahrir al-Sham)

Support:

Islamic State (2013–present)

Support

Al-Qaeda (2013–2014)


Rojava (Syrian Democratic Forces) (2012–present)

Support:

CJTF–OIR (2014–present)

Participants:
2011 2020 Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile

Part of the Sudanese Civil Wars

Sudan

SRF (until 2020)

Alleged support:
Ethiopia[46]

2011 2017 Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon

Part of the Arab Winter, the Spillover of the Syrian Civil War and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

Lebanon


Pro-Assad militant groups:


Other militias:

Syrian rebel forces:

Support:

Al-Qaeda and allies:


Islamic State Surrendered
(from 2013)

2011 Ongoing Ethnic violence in South Sudan

Part of the Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Various tribes Various tribes
2011 2012 Operation Linda Nchi

Part of the Somali Civil War (2009–present) and the Somali–Kenyan conflict

Kenya
Somalia TFG
Raskamboni Front[97]
ASWJ[98]
Azania
Al-Shabaab
2011 2014 Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014)

Part of the Libyan Crisis (2011–present) (aftermath of the First Libyan Civil War)

Libya Libyan National Army

Government-sanctioned local militias

  • Supreme Security Committee
Various militias

Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries[103][104]

2011 2013 Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)

Part of the Iraqi conflict (2003–present)

Iraq Iraqi Government

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraq Sons of Iraq
Supported by:
United States

Islamic State Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL since April 2013)
Islamic Army in Iraq
Naqshbandi Army
Other Sunni insurgents

2012[a]

Ongoing War in the Sahel

Part of the war on terror, spillover of the Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) and the War against the Islamic State

Alliance of Sahel States

Benin
Togo[b]
Ivory Coast[c]
Algeria[d]
Mauritania[e] Nigeria[110]


Supported by:
Africa Corps (since 2021)[111][f]
Turkey (since 2022)
France (2013–2023)[113]
United States (until 2024)[114]
MINUSMA (2013–2023)[g]
AFISMA (2012–2013)
G5 Sahel (until 2023)



Azawad Liberation Front[122]


Nigerien anti-coup movement:

Former belligerents:
2012 Ongoing Mali War

Part of the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the war on terror

Mali

France (2013–22)

Supported by:

Burkina Faso (2025–)
Niger (2025–)



Supported by:

European Union EUTM Mali (2013–23)

Non-state combatants:
Platform

Wagner Group (2021–25)[j][173][174][175]


Supported by:
Ukraine[178]


Boko Haram (2012–13)[179]
MOJWA (2012–13)[180][181]

2012 2012 Heglig Crisis Sudan South Sudan
JEM[183]
SPLM-N[183]
2012 2013 M23 rebellion

Part of the Kivu conflict

Democratic Republic of the Congo

United Nations MONUSCO

March 23 Movement
Alleged support:
2012 2012 2012 Abyan offensive

Part of the Yemeni Crisis (2011-present)

Yemen
Supported by:
United States
Saudi Arabia[186]
2012 2012 Baragoi clashes Samburu tribe Turkana tribe
2012 Ongoing Central African Republic Civil War
Formerly:
South Africa (2013)
MISCA (2013–2014)
France (2013–2021)[193]
PRNC
CMSPR (since 2024)[194]
Support:

Defunct groups: RJ (2013–2018)
MNLC (2017–2019)
MLCJ (2008–2022)
RPRC (2014–2022)
2013 2013 Lahad Datu standoff

Part of the North Borneo dispute and cross border attacks in Sabah

 Malaysia
Sabahan local villagers[197][198][199]
Supported by:
Philippines Philippines[note 1][200]

Sulu Sultanate Sultanate of Sulu (Jamalul Kiram III's faction)
Filipino illegal immigrants (non-combative)
Supported by:
Moro National Liberation Front (Misuari faction)[201]

2013 2018 Batwa–Luba clashes

Part of the Katanga insurgency

Pygmy batwa militias Luba militias
  • "Elements"
2013 2021 RENAMO insurgency (2013–2021) Mozambique RENAMO (until 2019)
RENAMO Military Junta (from 2019)
2013 2013 Zamboanga City crisis

Part of the Moro conflict

Philippines

Bangsamoro Republik

2013 2020 South Sudanese Civil War

Part of the Ethnic violence in South Sudan[203]

South Sudan South Sudan

Allied militias:
SSLM
SRF

EUPF[211] (alleged)
State allies:
Uganda
Egypt[212] (alleged)

United Nations UNMISS[213]


South Sudan SPLM-IO[215]
Nuer White Army[216]

TFNF[223]
SSFDP[224]
South Sudan National Army[225][226]
NAS
Arrow Boys (since Nov. 2015)
South Sudan Wau State insurgents[227]
South Sudan SSOA (until September 2018)
South Sudan SSOMA/NSSSOG (until Jan. 2020)
Supported by:
Sudan (South Sudanese gov. claim)[228]

2013 2017 War in Iraq (2013–2017)

Part of the Iraqi conflict, spillover of the Syrian civil war, War against the Islamic State, and the war on terror

Allied groups:

Others:
Iran
Hezbollah
Syria Syria[232]


CJTF–OIR
United States
United Kingdom
Canada[233][234]
Australia[235]
France
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand[236]
Finland[237]
Denmark[238]

Islamic State Islamic State
2014 Ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War (outline)

Part of the conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union

Ukraine

Supplied by:
For countries providing aid to Ukraine since 2022, see military aid to Ukraine

2014 2014 2014 Aswan tribal clashes Arabic Al-Halayel clan Nubian Al-Dabodeya clan
2014 2020 Libyan civil war (2014–2020)

Part of the Arab Winter, the Libyan Crisis, the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, the war on terror, and the Qatar–Saudi Arabia diplomatic conflict

Libya House of Representatives (Tobruk-based)[246][247]

Wagner Group
(from 2018)
[257][258][259][260][261]
Egypt Egypt[262][263][264]
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates[262][265][266][267]
RSF[268] (from 2019)
Ba'athist Syria
(2020)[269][270][271]
Hezbollah (allegedly)[272][273]
Israel
(allegedly, denied by LNA)[274][275][276][277][278]
Iran[279]

Libya Government of National Accord (Tripoli-based) (from 2016)

Turkey (2020)[307][308][309]
Syrian opposition Syrian National Army (from 2019)[310]
Yemen Popular Resistance Committees[311][312]
Hamas (LNA claim, denied by Hamas)[313]


Libya National Salvation Government
(2014–2017)[328][329]

Support:

Islamic State
(from 2014)[337]

Support:

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(2014–2017)[344]
Shura Council of
Benghazi Revolutionaries

(2014–2017)[345][346]
2014 Ongoing War against the Islamic State

Part of the war on terror, the Second Libyan Civil War, the War in Iraq (2013–2017), the Syrian civil war and its spillover, the Sinai insurgency, the Boko Haram insurgency, the insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Moro conflict, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the Islamic State insurgency in Puntland the Sahel War and the Salafi-jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip

In multiple regions:


In the Levant



2014 2014 2014 Gaza War

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

Israel

2014 Ongoing Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

Part of the Yemeni crisis, the Arab Winter, the war on terror, and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict


STC (2017–2022)[389]
United Arab Emirates[390][391]



2014 2015 Houthi takeover in Yemen

Part of the Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

Houthis Yemen Cabinet of Yemen

United States
Saudi Arabia

2015 Ongoing Islamic State–Taliban conflict

Part of the Afghan conflict, war on terror, and al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict

2015 2022 Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia

Part of the spillover of the Second Libyan Civil War, the Arab Winter, war on terror and War against the Islamic State

Tunisia Islamic State
2015 2025 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–2025)

Part of the Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency, Kurdish–Turkish conflict and the Spillover of the Syrian civil war

Turkey

2016 Ongoing 2016 Niger Delta conflict

Part of the conflict in the Niger Delta

 Nigeria Niger Delta Republic[409]
Militant organizations
  • Adaka Boro Avengers
  • Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta
  • Niger Delta Avengers
  • Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
  • Niger Delta Justice Defence Group
  • Niger Delta Volunteers
  • Niger Delta Red Squad
  • Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (until 2019)
  • Reformed Egbesu Fraternities
  • Egbesu Boys of the Niger Delta
  • Egbesu Red Water Lions
  • Egbesu Mightier Fraternity

Republic of Biafra Indigenous People of Biafra[410]

2016 2016 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Artsakh
Armenia

Azerbaijan

2016 2017 Pool War

Republic of the Congo

Ninja militia

2016 Ongoing Philippine drug war

Part of the Civil conflict in the Philippines, Cross border attacks in Sabah, spillovers of the Colombian Conflict and Mexican drug war and of the Insurgency in south Thailand and War against Islamic State

Philippines Philippine government


Non-state participants, armed organizations:


Foreign support:[note 3]

Philippine drug cartels and gangs:


Foreign drug cartels:


Jihadist militant and pirate groups:


Ninja cops (police officers engaged in the drug trade)


Suspected drug users

2016 2019 Kamwina Nsapu rebellion

DR Congo
Allied militias:

Kamwina Nsapu rebels[429]

  • Various independent militias[430]
2016 Ongoing Conflict in Rakhine State

Part of the Myanmar civil war and Rohingya conflict


Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army



Arakan Rohingya Army

2016 2016 Kasese clashes Uganda Rwenzururu
2016 Ongoing Insurgency in Chad (2016–present)

Chad
France (until 2025)
Central African Republic (2023)


JEM

FACT
CCMSR
UFR
FNDJT
MDJT[431]
UFDD
FPRN[432]
FPR
MRST[433]
RPJET
(At least 47 rebel groups overall)

2017 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish

Part of the Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes

Pakistan Pakistan Afghanistan Afghanistan
2017 2020 2017–2020 Qatif unrest

Part of the Qatif conflict

Saudi Arabia Hezbollah Al-Hejaz (Suspected)
Other Shia Militias
Supported by:
Saraya al-Mukhtar
Bahrain Bahraini Militias
2017 2017 Siege of Marawi

Part of the Moro conflict and the war against the Islamic State

 Philippines  Islamic State[434]
2017 Ongoing Anglophone Crisis

Part of the Anglophone problem

Cameroon Ambazonia
2017 Ongoing Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

Part of the war against the Islamic State, Islamic terrorism in Africa and the war on terror

Mozambique
Rwanda
(from 2021)[435]
Southern African Development Community (from 2021)

Private Military Companies

Ansar al-Sunna
Islamic State


Bandits[436]

2017 2017 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict

Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict

Iraq
Supported by:
Iran[437]

Kurdistan Region Kurdistan Regional Government
PKK[438]
PDKI[439]
White Flags (alleged)[440]
2017 Ongoing Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)

Part of the Iraqi conflict and war against the Islamic State

Supported by:
Iran

Rojava (cross-border cooperation since May 2018)[442]
Supported by:
CJTF-OIR


Supported by:
Netherlands[443]

Islamic State
White Flags (2017–2018)

2018 Ongoing War on drugs in Ecuador

Part of the war on drugs

Ecuador Government of Ecuador


Armed civilians
Counter-terrorist PMCs


Supported by:

Organized crime groups





Other groups

2018 Ongoing Catatumbo campaign

Part of the Colombian conflict (1964–present), the war on drugs (1993–present), and the Crisis in Venezuela (2010–present)

Colombia

Popular Liberation Army (EPL)


National Liberation Army (ELN)

  • Nororiental de Guerra

Los Rastrojos


FARC dissidents

2018 2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes

Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Azerbaijan

Armenia

2018 Ongoing OLA insurgency

Part of the Oromo conflict and Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)

OLA
2018 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

Israel Israel

Gaza Strip

2019 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes

Part of the Indo−Pakistani conflicts and the Kashmir conflict

India

Jaish-e-Mohammed


Pakistan

2019 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

Israel Israel

Gaza Strip

2019 2022 Benishangul-Gumuz conflict

Part of the Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)

Ethiopia

Fano militias[444]

Benishangul-Gumuz Region Gumuz People’s Democratic Movement[445]
Benishangul People's Liberation Movement[446]
Oromo Liberation Army
Tigray People's Liberation Front (alleged)[citation needed]
Support:
Sudan (Gumuz militiamen only)[447]
Egypt Egypt (alleged by Ethiopia)[448]

2019 2019 November 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

Israel Israel

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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Notes

  1. While conflicts like the AQIM insurgency and Tuareg rebellions were ongoing up until the start of the 2012 Tuareg rebellion, the conflict that would devolve into the war in the Sahel didn't start until January 2012.[105]
  2. JNIM has had a small presence in northern Togo since 2021, with several attacks carried out since then.[106]
  3. Jihadist groups have little to no presence on Ivorian soil, but have occasionally launched attacks along the Burkinabe-Ivorian border since 2019. AQIM attacked Grand-Bassam in 2016 as well.[107]
  4. No jihadist groups are active on Algerian soil, although the country has been attacked several times in the early days of the Mali War by jihadist groups. Currently, diplomatic relations between the AES states and Algeria are bad due to Algeria allowing FLA rebels on their soil.[108]
  5. The Mauritanian government currently has a non-aggression pact with JNIM-aligned jihadists, and has not had an attack by jihadist groups on its soil since 2011. Small JNIM cells are present along the Malian border.[109]
  6. Previously Wagner Group, since renamed Africa Corps and absorbed by Russian government.[112]
  7. For full list of MINUSMA combatants, see here
  8. Faction affiliated with the CSP-PSD
  9. MINUSMA, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, included troops from Chad, Bangladesh, Senegal, Togo, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Germany, China, Benin, among others[138][139]
  10. The participation of the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, has been denied by both Russia and Mali, which insist Russia is only sending military advisors.
  11. Faction affiliated with the CSP-PSD
  12. The SPLM-IO accused JEM of supporting Kiir's government since 2013, though JEM has denied any involvement and claims to maintain neutrality in the South Sudanese Civil War.[205] The Sudanese government,[206] aid workers[205] and other sources[207] have however affirmed that JEM is taking part in conflict on the side of the South Sudanese government.[208]
  13. The Cobra Faction openly opposed the government until 2014, and remained in relative opposition until 2015, when it divided into a pro-government and pro-SPLM-IO faction, the latter of which formed the Greater Pibor Forces. In early 2016, the Cobra Faction effectively disbanded, when the remaining group joined the government.[217][218][219] In September 2016, however, the Cobra Faction was declared restored by some of its commanders and declared that it had resumed its struggle against the government.[220]
  14. The Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic were Russian puppet states that declared their independence from Ukraine in May 2014. In 2022, they received international recognition from each other, Russia, Syria and North Korea, and some other partially recognised states. On 30 September 2022, Russia declared that it had formally annexed both entities. They continue to exist as republics of Russia.
  15. In 2022, Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to launch the invasion[242][243][244] and to launch missiles into Ukraine.[245] See: Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  16. Since April 2022, the Southern Transitional Council is part of the Yemeni government led by the Presidential Leadership Council. Multiple sources:
    • Salem, Mostafa; Kolirin, Lianne (7 April 2022). "Hopes of peace in Yemen as President hands power to new presidential council". CNN. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
    • Ghobari, Mohamed (7 April 2022). "Yemen president sacks deputy, delegates presidential powers to council". Aden: Reuters. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
    • Al-Sakani, Ali (19 April 2022). "Yemen inaugurates new presidential council". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023.
  1. Supported Malaysian action during the standoff, but was not involved in the operation.
  2. The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing the New People's Army (NPA), initially cooperated with the government but withdrew its support for the government's campaign against drugs in August 2016. The CPP has vowed to continue operations, independent from the government's anti-drug campaign, against drug suspects.[412]
  3. Foreign support towards the campaign against illegal drugs includes intelligence sharing, training of Filipino law enforcement officers, and financial aid explicitly meant for such purposes. Excludes governments which has only expressed verbal, diplomatic support, and pledges that have yet to be realized.

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