List of armed conflicts in 2017
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2017.
List guidelines
Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2017.
10,000+ deaths in 2017
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1978 | War in Afghanistan | Asia | Afghanistan | 23,065[n 1][6] |
2003 | Iraq conflict | Asia | Iraq | 13,187[7] |
2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | Mexico | 14,771[8][lower-alpha 1]-31,174 |
2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia | Syria | 39,000[9] |
1,000–9,999 deaths in 2017
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[10]
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1948 | Internal conflict in Myanmar | Asia | Myanmar | 6,700+[11][12][13][14] |
1969 | Moro conflict | Asia | Philippines | 1,384[n 2] |
1973 | Oromo conflict | Africa | Ethiopia | 1,011[30] |
1991 | Somali Civil War | Africa | Somalia Kenya |
5,154[30][lower-alpha 2] |
1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa | Nigeria | 1,097[30] |
2002 | Insurgency in the Maghreb | Africa | Algeria Burkina Faso Libya Mali Niger Tunisia |
2,835[30][lower-alpha 3] |
2003 | War in Darfur | Africa | Sudan | 1,109[30] |
2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad |
3,110[30][lower-alpha 4] |
2011 | Libyan Crisis | Africa | Libya | 1,564[30] |
2011 | Yemeni Crisis | Asia | Yemen Saudi Arabia |
1,438[31][32][lower-alpha 5] |
2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa | Egypt | 1,342[30] |
2011 | South Kordofan conflict | Africa | Sudan | 1,225[30] |
2011 | Ethnic violence in South Sudan | Africa | South Sudan Ethiopia |
3,646[30][lower-alpha 6] |
2012 | Central African Republic conflict | Africa | Central African Republic | 1,723[30] |
100–999 deaths in 2017
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Fewer than 100 deaths in 2017
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2017.
See also
- Lists of wars in World (by date, region, type of conflict)
- Lists of wars and conflict by region
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of number of conflicts per year
- List of most lethal battles in world history
- Africa:
- Americas:
- Asia:
- List of conflicts in Asia
- List of conflicts in the Near East
- List of conflicts in the Middle East
- Europe:
- List of conflicts in Europe
- Post-Cold War European conflicts
- List of conflicts in Europe
- Others :
- Ongoing conflicts in World:
- List of ongoing armed conflicts
- List of wars 2011–present
- Ongoing military conflicts
- Maps of ongoing conflicts
References
Notes
- See [1][2][3][4][5]
- [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]
- See [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]
- See [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
- [68][69][70][71][72][73][74]
- [82][83][84][85][86][87][88]
- See [89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102]
- See [103][104]
- 55,691 minus 40,920 at the end of 2016
- 4,969 in Somalia and 185 in Kenya
- 129 in Algeria, 93 in Burkina Faso, 1564 in Libya, 926 in Mali, 101 in Niger, 32 in Tunisia
- 2,335 in Nigeria, 404 in Cameroon, 225 in Chad, 145 in Niger
- 1,319 in Yemen and 119 in Saudi Arabia
- 3,528 in South Sudan and 118 in Ethiopia
- 343 in Pakistan, 10 in Iran
- 694 in Turkey and 46 in Iraq
- 565 in DRC, 1 in Angola
- 36 in DRC, 34 in CAR
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