What are the Military Conflicts Going on the World?

Armed conflicts consist in the use of armed force between two or more organized armed groups, governmental or non-governmental alike. Interstate, intrastate and non-state armed conflicts are listed. For ongoing civil unrest and violence against protesters not escalating into armed conflict. 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 past year; excess deaths indirectly resulting from famine, disease and disruption of services are included along with violent deaths only in the cumulative fatalities count, when available. The following is a list of those military conflicts with 10,000+ deaths in current or past year.

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Cumulative fatalities	Fatalities in 2015	Fatalities in 2016
1978	War in Afghanistan War in Afghanistan (2015–present)	Asia	Afghanistan	1,240,000–2,000,000	15,000–36,345	10,307
2003	Iraq War Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)	Asia	Iraq	251,000–1,000,000	22,736	20,915
2009	Boko Haram insurgency	Africa	Nigeria  Cameroon  Niger  Chad	28,800+	11,778	3,003
2011	Syrian Civil War	Asia	Syria	250,000–470,000	55,219	46,442

1,000–9,999 Deaths in Current or Past Year

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Cumulative fatalities	Fatalities in 2015	Fatalities in 2016
1984	Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)	Asia	Turkey  Syria  Iraq	45,000+	1,900–3,423	2,393
1991	Somali Civil War War in Somalia	Africa	Somalia  Kenya	500,000	4,365	4,926
1998	Communal conflicts in Nigeria	Africa	Nigeria	17,156	846	1,131
2003	War in Darfur	Africa	Sudan	178,363+	994	1,386
2004	War in North-West Pakistan	Asia	Pakistan	60,854	2,150	1,742
2006	Mexican Drug War	North America	Mexico	165,000+	8,122[60]	6,493
2011	Libyan Crisis Libyan Civil War	Africa	Libya	14,382	2,706	2,387
2011	Yemeni Crisis Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)	Asia	Yemen  Saudi Arabia	7,400+–11,000	~6,425	1,017
2011	Sinai insurgency	Africa	Egypt	4,511	2,560[23]	1,131
2011	South Kordofan conflict	Africa	Sudan	7,000+	1,242[23]	1,427
2011	Ethnic violence in South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War	Africa	South Sudan  Ethiopia	50,000+	3,152[23]	2,444
2014	War in Donbass	Europe	Ukraine	9,700	4,327	585

Feature Image: Ongoing conflicts around the world.  Major wars, 10,000+ deaths in current or past calendar year    Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in current or past calendar year    Minor conflicts, 100-999 deaths in current or past calendar year    Skirmishes and clashes, fewer than 100 deaths in current or past calendar year Only the locations where the conflicts are taking place, not the warring parties, are coloured. For example, for the war in Afghanistan only Afghanistan itself is coloured.

Source: Wikipedia