International Hotspots

Major Wars
(10,000 or more deaths in current or past year)
The 4 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in
current or past calendar year.
Start of
conflict
Conflict Continent Location Cumulative
fatalities
Fatalities
in 2018
Fatalities
in 2019
1978/2001 Afghanistan conflict
Asia
Afghanistan
(1,240,000– 35,941+ 16,008
Current phase
2,000,000 since
1978)(2014)
2006 Mexican Drug War North
Mexico 115,000 22,500
America
2011 Syrian Civil War Asia
Syria
~570,000 23,000 3,951
2011 Yemeni Crisis
Asia
Yemen
60,223–
25,705 [a] 8,949 [11]
Yemeni Civil War
83,700 [9][10]
Saudi
(2015–present)
Arabia(spillover)
Al-Qaeda
insurgency in
Yemen
South Yemen
insurgency
Saudi–Yemeni
border conflict
(2015–present)
Saudi Arabian-led
intervention in
Yemen
Wars
(1,000–9,999 deaths in current or past year)
The 6 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000
direct violent deaths in current or past calendar year.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by
the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
Start of
conflict
Conflict Continent Location
Cumulative
fatalities
Fatalities
in 2018
Fatalities
in 2019
1991
1998
2003
Somali Civil War
Current phase
Communal conflicts in
Nigeria
Iraq conflict
Iraqi insurgency
(2017–present)
Africa
Somalia
Kenya
500,000 3,952 1,112
Africa Nigeria 17,156 3,020 142
Asia Iraq 288,000 4,861 889
2009 Boko Haram insurgency Africa
2011
Ethnic violence in South
Sudan
Africa
Nigeria
Cameroon
Niger
Chad
South
Sudan
51,567+ 2,213 244
383,000-
400,000
1,166 519
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