List of ongoing conflicts

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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 casualty numbers associated with each conflict.

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

1 Major wars
2 Other conflicts
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Major wars

Major wars are those that cause at least 1000 battlefield deaths annually,^[1] or cause destruction and outstanding severity.

It is hard to estimate what ongoing conflicts fill this criterion, but the conflicts below are generally regarded as major wars.

Start of Conflict	War/Conflict	Location	Death Toll
1983	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	~70,000 ^[2]
2003	War in Darfur	Sudan	200,000 - 400,000
2003	Iraq War	Iraq	100,000 - 1,124,303 (see: Casualties of the Iraq War)
2006	War in Somalia	Somalia	7,000+
2001	War in Afghanistan (2001–present)	Afghanistan	22,000+

[edit] Other conflicts

There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that result in a smaller number of casualties each year.

Start of Conflict	War/Conflict	Location	Death Toll
1948	Internal conflict in Burma	Burma	over 7,000
1948	Israeli-Palestinian conflict	West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel	unknown
1964	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	unknown
1969	Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines (including OEF-P)	Philippines	est. 160,000 ^[3]
1975	Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong	Laos	2,000 - 3,000
1978	Civil war in Afghanistan	Afghanistan	unknown
1980	Internal conflict in Peru	Peru	~70,000^{[citation needed]}
1984	Turkey-PKK conflict	Kurdistan and Turkey	unknown
1984	Free Papua Movement	Western New Guinea	unknown
1987	Second Ugandan Civil War	Uganda	~12,000^{[citation needed]}
1988	Somali Civil War (including 2006 War in Somalia)	Somalia	300,000 - 400,000
1989	Kashmir conflict	Kashmir	40,000–80,000^[4]
1990	Casamance Conflict	Senegal	unknown
1992	Conflict in the Niger Delta (including Nigerian Oil Crisis)	Nigeria	unknown
1993	Ethnic conflict in Nagaland	Nagaland, India	unknown
1994	Insurgency in Ogaden	Ethiopia	unknown
1999	Second Chechen War	North Caucasus, Russia	est. 25,000–100,000 (see Casualties of the Second Chechen War)
2003	Insurgency in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	273
2004	Balochistan conflict	Balochistan, Pakistan	unknown
2004	Kivu conflict	Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)	unknown
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Pattani, Thailand	~2,500
2004	Naxalite (Maoist) insurgency in India	Certain parts of India including Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa and West Bengal	unknown
2005	War in Chad	Chad	~1,400^{[citation needed]}
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	~4100^[5]
2006	Fatah-Hamas conflict	Gaza Strip, West Bank	265^{[citation needed]}
2007	Second Tuareg Rebellion	North Niger and Mali	56^{[citation needed]}