List of ongoing armed conflicts

Criteria

• Armed conflicts consist in the use of armed force between two or more organized armed groups, governmental or non-governmental. Interstate, intrastate and non-state armed conflicts are listed.
• Fatality figures include battle-related deaths 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 previous year; excess deaths indirectly resulting from famine, disease, or disruption of services are included along with violent deaths in the cumulative fatalities count when available.
• Listed conflicts have at least 100 cumulative deaths in total and at least 1 death in current or in the past calendar year.
• Fatality totals may be inaccurate or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus symbol, indicates that at least that many people have died.
• Location refers to the states where the main violence takes place, not to the warring parties. Italics indicate disputed territories and unrecognized states.
• A territorial dispute or a protest movement which has not experienced deliberate and systematic deaths due to state or paramilitary violence is not considered to be an armed conflict.

  List of current wars and conflicts

Major wars (10,000 or more combat-related deaths in current or previous year)

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Cumulative fatalities	2025 fatalities	2026 fatalities
1948	Myanmar conflicts * Rohingya conflict ** Rakhine State conflict * Karen conflict * Kachin conflict * 2021 Myanmar civil war * Spillover in Northeast India	Asia	Myanmar Minor wars (1,000–9,999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year) The 11 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous 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 2025 fatalities 2026 fatalities 1964 Colombian conflict * Catatumbo campaign South America Colombia Conflicts (100–999 combat-related deaths in current or previous year) The 17 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100, and fewer than 1,000, direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. Start of conflict Conflict Continent Location Cumulative fatalities 2025 fatalities 2026 fatalities 1918 Kurdish nationalist conflicts * Iranian–Kurdish conflict ** Iran–PJAK conflict *** Western Iran insurgency * Iraqi–Kurdish conflict * Turkish–Kurdish conflict ** Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency * Syrian–Kurdish conflict Asia Iran Skirmishes and clashes (fewer than 100 combat-related deaths in current and previous year) The 11 conflicts in the following list have caused fewer than 100 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. Start of conflict Conflict Continent Location Cumulative fatalities 2025 fatalities 2026 fatalities 1962 Cross border attacks in Sabah Asia Malaysia Conflict deaths in the 2020s Deaths by country