List of ongoing conflicts

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For recent conflicts that are no longer significantly ongoing, see List of wars 2003–current.

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.

1 1000+ deaths per year
2 Other conflicts
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

1000+ deaths per year

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1000 violent deaths per year (a United Nations categorization^[1]).

Start of Conflict	War/Conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities
1983	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	~80,000^[2]
1997	Kivu conflict	Democratic Republic of the Congo	~4,000,000^[3]
2001	War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan	35,000
2003	War in Darfur	Sudan	~500,000
2003	Iraq War	Iraq	103,359+ - 1,136,920+ (see: Casualties of the Iraq War)
2004	War in North-West Pakistan	Pakistan	~11,345
1988	Somali Civil War	Somalia	300,000^[4] - 400,000^[5]
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	7,882^[6]

Other conflicts

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 Burma	~7,000
1948	Israeli-Palestinian conflict	Israel & Palestinian Territories	Thousands
1964	Colombian Civil War	Colombia	Millions
1969	Communist and Islamic insurgency in the Philippines^[7]	Philippines	~160,000+
1975	The Secret War	Laos	2,000 - 3,000
1984	Turkey-PKK conflict	PKK (Kurdish militants) and Turkey	~37,000
1987	Second Ugandan Civil War	Uganda	~12,000^[]
1989	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~60,000
1993	Ethnic conflict in Nagaland	India	~43,000^[8]
1995	Insurgency in Ogaden	Ethopia	~125
1996	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency	East Central part of India	~4,483
2000	Second Chechen War	Russia and Ichkeria	~90,000^[9]
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb	Algeria, Mauritania, and Morocco	~6000^[]
2004	Kivu conflict	Democratic Republic of the Congo	unknown
2004	Balochistan conflict	Balochistan and Pakistan	~9,000^[10]
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Pattani and Thailand	~3,500 ^[11]
2004	Conflict in the Niger Delta	Nigeria	unknown
2005	Fourth Civil War of Chad	Chad	~1,400^[]
2007	Second Tuareg Rebellion	Mali and Niger	~350^[12]
2008	First Eritrean Civil War	Eritrea	~100^[13]
2008	2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict	Gaza and Israel	~700^[14] (casualties can not be yet fully verified)