List of Wars (Myers Way)

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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 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 list of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

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	Notes
1983	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	80,000 (+/-)[2]
1997	Kivu conflict	25px 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	25px 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]
2000	Second Intifada	Israel & Template:Country data Palestinian Authority Palestinian territories	7,315 (+/-)
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	8,400[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	24px Kayin and Template:Country data Burma Burma	~7,000
1964	Colombian Civil War	Template:Country data Colombia Colombia	~52,000
1969	Communist and Islamic insurgency in the Philippines[7]	Template:Country data Philippines Philippines	~160,000+
1975	The Secret War	Template:Country data Laos Laos	2,000 - 3,000
1984	Turkey-PKK conflict	PKK (Kurdish militants) and Turkey	~37,000
1987	Second Ugandan Civil War	Template:Country data Uganda Uganda	~12,000Template:Fact
1989	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~60,000
1993	Ethnic conflict in Nagaland	India	~43,000[8]
1995	Insurgency in Ogaden	Ethiopia	~125
1996	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency	East Central part of India	~4,483
2000	Second Chechen War	Template:Country data Russian Federation Russia and Template:Country data Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Ichkeria	~90,000[9]
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb	Template:Country data Algeria Algeria, Template:Country data Mauritania Mauritania, and Template:Country data Morocco Morocco	~6000Template:Fact
2004	Balochistan conflict	Template:Country data Balochistan Balochistan and Template:Country data Pakistan Pakistan	~9,000[10]
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Patani and Thailand	~3,500 [11]
2004	Conflict in the Niger Delta	Nigeria	unknown
2005	Fourth Civil War of Chad	Template:Country data Chad Chad	~1,400Template:Fact
2007	Second Tuareg Rebellion	Template:Country data Mali Mali and Template:Country data Niger Niger	~350[12]

See also

• List of wars (including historical wars)
• Modern warfare
• Declaration of war
• List of terrorist incidents

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