Ongoing wars - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is a list of ongoing military conflicts that are taking place around the world and 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. Military conflicts which no longer produce violent deaths are not listed here, but can be found in the historical list of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

1,000+ deaths per year

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1,000 violent deaths per year, a categorization used by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and recognised by the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

. The UN also use the term "low intensity conflict

Low intensity conflict

Low intensity conflict is the use of military forces applied selectively and with restraint to enforce compliance with the policies or objectives of the political body controlling the military force...

," which can overlap with the 1,000 violent deaths per year categorisation.

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities	Fatalities in 2010/11
1953	Nigerian Sharia conflict	Nigeria	10,000+	1,017+
1964	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	150,000–200,000	1,000+
1967	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency Naxalite-Maoist insurgency The Naxalite-Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the Naxalites "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country."...	India	~11,200	1,174+
1978	Afghan civil war	Afghanistan	600,000–2,000,000	10,461+
1991	Somali Civil War Somali Civil War The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. The conflict, which began in 1991, has caused destabilisation throughout the country, with the current phase of the conflict seeing the Somali government losing substantial control of the state to rebel forces...	Somalia	300,000–400,000	2,318+
2003	Iraq War	Iraq	102,344–1,455,590	4,571+
2004	War in North-West Pakistan War in North-West Pakistan The War in North-West Pakistan is an armed conflict between the Pakistan Armed Forces and armed religious groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan , Lashkar-e-Islam, TSNM, Arab and Central Asian militants including Al-Qaeda, regional armed movements and elements of organized crime.The armed...	Pakistan	30,452	7,435
2004	Shia Insurgency in Yemen	Yemen and Saudi Arabia	25,000	8,000
2006	Mexican Drug War Mexican Drug War The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces who seek to combat drug trafficking. However, the government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence that was...	Mexico	43,270+	24,374
2011	Sudan–SPLM-N conflict Sudan–SPLM-N conflict (2011) The Sudan–SPLM-N conflict is an ongoing conflict in 2011 between the Army of Sudan and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front, particularly the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North , a northern affiliate of the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement in South Sudan...	Sudan	1,500+	1,500+
2011	Yemeni uprising 2011 Yemeni uprising The 2011 Yemen Uprising followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution and other mass protests in the Middle East in early 2011. In its early phase, protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment, economic conditions and...	Yemen	1,580–1,782	1,580–1,782
2011	Syrian civil war 2011 Syrian uprising The 2011 Syrian uprising is an ongoing internal conflict occurring in Syria. Protests started on 26 January 2011, and escalated into an uprising by 15 March 2011...	Syria	2,550–4,200	2,550–4,220

Other conflicts

There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that are currently causing a smaller number of violent fatalities each year. Several short-lived violent conflicts have arisen as part of the Arab Spring

Arab Spring

The Arab Spring , otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010...

in 2011, though the phenomenon has included mostly peaceful protests.

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities
1948	Korean Conflict Division of Korea The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending Japan's 35-year colonial rule of Korea. In a proposal opposed by nearly all Koreans, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to temporarily occupy the country as a trusteeship...	North Korea and South Korea	2,000,000-4,000,000
1948	Internal conflict in Burma Internal conflict in Burma The internal conflict in Burma is a term that is employed to refer to the current violence in Burma that has existed since approximately April 1948 between the Burmese government and the various ethnic groups in the country. More recently, the conflict has been against the military regime that has...	Myanmar	100,000-121,000
1948	Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...	Israel and Palestinian territories	14,500+
1964	Insurgency in Northeast India	India	~25,000
1969	Insurgency in the Philippines	Philippines	~120,000
1969	Papua conflict Papua Conflict The Papua conflict is an ethnic separatist insurgency in Indonesia, predominantly in the Papua and West Papua provinces on the island of New Guinea. Since the withdrawal of the Dutch colonizers in 1963, the militant Free Papua Movement organization has conducted a low-level campaign of attacks on...	Indonesia	400,000
1975	Western Sahara conflict	Mauritania, Morocco, and Western Sahara Western Sahara Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly...	13,000 - 24,000
1975	Insurgency in Laos	Laos	100,000+
1978	Turkey – Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict	Turkey and Iraq	45,000– 100,000
1980	Internal conflict in Peru Internal conflict in Peru It has been estimated that nearly 70,000 people died in the internal conflict in Peru that started in 1980 and, although still ongoing, had greatly wound down by 2000. The principal actors in the war were the Shining Path , the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and the government of Peru.A great...	Peru	~70,000
1982	Casamance conflict Casamance Conflict The Casamance Conflict is a low-level civil war that has been waged between the Government of Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance since 1982 over the question of independence for the Casamance region....	Senegal	5,000
1987	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency	Uganda, , Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic	30,000+
1989	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~68,000
1994	Cabinda Conflict Cabinda Conflict Cabinda Conflict is a separatist insurgency of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda in Cabinda Province against the government of Angola. Cabinda is an enclave rich in oil. The conflict started ´several decades ago...	Angola	1,000-1,500
1998	Dissident Irish Republican campaign Dissident Irish Republican campaign Since 1997, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army called an end to its armed campaign in Northern Ireland and England, dissident Irish republican paramilitary groups have sought, via a campaign of economic sabotage and physical force violence against agents of the British and Irish...	Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Kingdom of England	143
1998	Second Congo War Second Congo War The Second Congo War, also known as Coltan War and the Great War of Africa, began in August 1998 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , and officially ended in July 2003 when the Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took power; however, hostilities continue to this...	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3,800,000–7,800,000
2002	Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa	Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Yemen	~212
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) The Maghreb has been the subject of an insurgency since 2002 waged by the neo-Khawarij Islamist militia, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, or, GSPC...	Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, and Niger	6,000+
2004	Conflict in the Niger Delta Conflict in the Niger Delta The current conflict in the Niger Delta arose in the early 1990s over tensions between the foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's minority ethnic groups who felt they were being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw...	Nigeria	4,000–10,000
2004	Balochistan conflict Balochistan conflict The Balochistan conflict is an ongoing conflict between Baloch nationalists and the Government of Pakistan over Balochistan, the country's largest province...	Iran and Pakistan	2,500+
2004	South Thailand insurgency South Thailand insurgency An ethnic separatist insurgency is taking place in Southern Thailand, predominantly in the Malay Pattani region, made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand. Violence has increasingly spilling over into other provinces...	Thailand	~4,100
2008	Cambodian–Thai border dispute	Cambodia and Thailand	40–200+
2009	Sudanese nomadic conflicts	Sudan	2,000–2,500
2009	Insurgency in the North Caucasus	Russia	1,110+
2009	South Yemen insurgency	Yemen	1,554+
2010	Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown The Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown refers to military operations by the Yemeni government and the United States government against al Qaeda and related targets in Yemen as part of the Global War on Terror. The crackdown began in 2001 and escalated on January 14, 2010 when Yemen declared open war on al...	Yemen	1,115-1,168
2011	2011 Kosovo–Serbia border clashes 2011 Kosovo–Serbia border clashes The border clashes between Kosovan Serbs and the de facto partially recognised entity of the Republic of Kosovo started on 25 July 2011 when the Kosovo Police crossed into Serb-controlled North Kosovo municipalities in an attempt to control several border crossings without the consultation of...	Republic of Kosovo	2+
2011	2011 South Sudan clashes 2011 South Sudan clashes The 2011 South Sudan clashes was a cattle raid at a farm in South Sudan, which killed up to 600 people and injured up to 985, on 18 August 2011. The clashes took place when members of the Murle group are said to have attacked the majority Lou Nuer, stealing nearly 40,000 cattle...		125-600