List of armed conflicts in 2018 explained

The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2018.

List guidelines

Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2018.

10,000+ deaths in 2018

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2018.

Start of conflictConflictContinentLocationdata-sort-type="number" Fatalities in 2018
align=center 1978War in Afghanistan Asia Afghanistan 35,941[1]
align=center 2006Mexican Drug WarNorth America Mexico 27,765[2] [3] date=2018-10-22work=CNBCaccess-date=2019-01-04
} -->|-| align=center | 2011| Syrian Civil War| Asia| | 19,799-23,000[4] |-| align=center | 2011| Yemeni Crisis

| Asia| Yemen
Saudi Arabia| 25,705[1] |}

1,000–9,999 deaths in 2018

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2018.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[5]

Start of conflictConflictContinentLocationdata-sort-type="number" Fatalities in 2018
align=center 1991Somali Civil War Africa 3,952
align=center 1998Communal conflicts in NigeriaAfrica Nigeria 3,020
align=center 2003Iraq conflict Asia Iraq 4,861
align=center 2009Boko Haram insurgencyAfrica Nigeria
Cameroon
Niger
Chad		 2,213
align=center 2011Ethnic violence in South Sudan Africa 1,166
align=center 2012Northern Mali conflictAfrica Mali 1,285

100–999 deaths in 2018

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2018.

Start of conflictConflictContinentLocationdata-sort-type="number" Fatalities in 2018
align=center 1947Kashmir conflict (Indo-Pakistani Wars) Asia"width: 26px" India
Pakistan		 548[6] [7] [8] [9]
align=center 1948Insurgency in Balochistan Asia Pakistan
 416[10] [11] [12] [13]
align=center 1948Internal conflict in Myanmar Asia Myanmar 171
align=center 1964Colombian conflictSouth America Colombia
 709
1965Israeli–Palestinian conflict Asia
Israel		 304[14]
align=center 1999 Asia Bangladesh 211[15]
align=center 1967Naxalite–Maoist insurgencyAsia India 412[16]
align=center 1969Moro conflictAsia Philippines 268
1969Communist rebellion in the PhilippinesAsia Philippines 203
align=center 1984Kurdish–Turkish conflict Asia Turkey
Iraq
 523[17]
align=center 1996Allied Democratic Forces insurgencyAfrica 235
align=center 1999Ituri conflictAfrica 369
align=center 2003War in DarfurAfrica Sudan 599
align=center 2004Kivu conflictAfrica 943
align=center 2004War in North-West PakistanAsia Pakistan 217[18] [19]
align=center 2011Libyan Crisis Africa Libya 727
align=center 2011Sinai insurgencyAfrica Egypt 740
align=center 2011South Kordofan conflictAfrica Sudan 114
align=center 2012Central African Republic conflictAfrica Central African Republic 838
align=center 2013Batwa-Luba clashesAfrica 154[20]
align=center 2014War in DonbassEurope Ukraine 153[21] [22]
align=center 2015Burundian unrestAfrica Burundi 198
align=center 2016Oromo-Somali clashesAfrica Ethiopia 865
align=center 2017Anglophone CrisisAfrica Cameroon 652
align=center 2017Islamist insurgency in MozambiqueAfrica Mozambique 161

Fewer than 100 deaths in 2018

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2018.

Start of conflictConflictContinentLocationdata-sort-type="number" Fatalities in 2018
1922Arab separatism in Khuzestan Asia 10[23]
1946Kurdish separatism in IranAsia 62–66[24]
1960South Thailand insurgencyAsia Thailand 65
align=center 1954Insurgency in Northeast India Asia India 72[25]
1963West Papua conflictAsia Indonesia 21–26[26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]
1975Cabinda WarAfrica Angola 4
1979Qatif conflict Asia Saudi Arabia 5
1980Internal conflict in PeruSouth America Peru 10
1982Casamance conflictAfrica Senegal 4
align=center 1984Maoist insurgency in TurkeyAsia-Europe Turkey 7[32] [33]
2003Sinaloa Cartel-Gulf Cartel conflictNorth America Mexico 16[34]
1987LRA insurgencyAfrica
Central African Republic		 14
1988Nagorno-Karabakh conflictAsia Azerbaijan 4
1989Georgian–Ossetian conflictAsia 1[35]
align=center 1989Sectarian violence in PakistanAsia Pakistan 7[36]
1995Ogaden insurgencyAfrica Ethiopia 21
2005Insurgency in ParaguaySouth America Paraguay 3[37] [38] [39] [40]
align=center 2009Sudanese nomadic conflictsAfrica Sudan 18
align=center 2009Insurgency in the North CaucasusEurope 13[41]
align=center 2011Syrian Civil War spillover in LebanonAsia Lebanon 5
align=center 2013Insurgency in EgyptAfrica Egypt 40
align=center 2016Kamwina Nsapu rebellionAfrica
Angola		 46

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  9. In fighting between Pakistan and India, 26 Indian civilians https://www.deccanherald.com/national/officer-among-4-bsf-personnel-killed-pak-rangers-firing-along-ib-samba-674662.html, 25 Indian soldiers https://www.deccanherald.com/national/officer-among-4-bsf-personnel-killed-pak-rangers-firing-along-ib-samba-674662.html, 30 Pakistani civilians https://www.thequint.com/news/india/pakistan-summons-indian-deputy-high-commissioner-over-ceasefire-violations and 9 Pakistani soldiers were killed.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-india/four-pakistani-soldiers-killed-in-indian-fire-across-tense-kashmir-frontier-idUSKBN1F4127https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/271147-martyred-soldier-laid-to-rest-in-mansehrahttps://www.dawn.com/news/1392316https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1409227https://www.dawn.com/news/amp/1409444 502 in India and 46 in Pakistan were killed in total in 2018.
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    Web site: One killed, two injured in latest shoot-out in Papua. The Jakarta. Post. 6 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100716/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/04/05/one-killed-two-injured-latest-shoot-out-papua.html. 23 May 2018. live. dmy-all.
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