List of armed conflicts in 2019

See also: Category:Lists of wars by date

The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2019.

Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 17 deadliest countries from 2014 - 2019.

Locations of conflicts worldwide in 2019

  Major wars, 10,000+ deaths in 2019

  Wars, 1,000–9,999 deaths in 2019

  Minor conflicts, 100–999 deaths in 2019

  Skirmishes and clashes, fewer than 100 deaths in 2019

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List guidelines

Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2019.

10,000+ deaths in 2019

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2019.

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Fatalities in 2019
1978	Afghanistan conflict Soviet–Afghan War Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) Current phase	Asia	Afghanistan	41,735[1]
2006	Mexican Drug War	North America	Mexico	35,588[2]
2011	Yemeni Crisis Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen South Yemen insurgency Saudi–Yemeni border conflict (2015–present) Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen	Asia	Yemen Saudi Arabia	20,882[a][1]
2011	Syrian Civil War	Asia	Syria	11,244[3][4]

1,000–9,999 deaths in 2019

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2019.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.^[5]

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Fatalities in 2019
1984	Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)	Asia	Turkey Iraq Syria Kurdistan	1,420+[6][7]
1991	Somali Civil War Current phase	Africa	Somalia Kenya	2,637[1][b]
2003	Iraq conflict Iraq War Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013) Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)	Asia	Iraq	2,362<[citation needed]
2014	Libyan Crisis Libyan Civil War (2014–present)	Africa	Libya	2,200+[8][9][10]

100–999 deaths in 2019

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2019.

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Fatalities in 2019
2019	2019 Brazil prison riots 2019 Altamira prison riot Amazonas prison massacres	South America	Brazil	224[11][12][13][14]
1947	Kashmir conflict (Indo-Pakistani Wars) 2019 India–Pakistan standoff	Asia	India Pakistan	208[15][c]
1948	Insurgency in Balochistan Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency	Asia	Pakistan Iran	143[16] [d]
1960	South Thailand Insurgency	Asia	Thailand	163[17][18]
1964	Colombian conflict	South America	Colombia Venezuela Ecuador	281[n 1][e]
1965	Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gaza–Israel conflict	Asia	Palestine Israel	100[83]
1967	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency	Asia	India	196[84]
1996	Allied Democratic Forces insurgency	Africa	Democratic Republic of the Congo Uganda	170+[n 2][96][97]
1998	Communal conflicts in Nigeria	Africa	Nigeria	152[98]
1999	Ituri conflict	Africa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	302+[99][100][101]
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)	Africa	Algeria Burkina Faso Chad Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Niger Tunisia	1,110[n 3][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135]
2009	Boko Haram insurgency	Africa	Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad	300+[n 4][146][147][148]
2011	Ethnic violence in South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War	Africa	South Sudan	519
2012	Northern Mali conflict	Africa	Mali	734+[149][150][151]
2013	Insurgency in Egypt	Africa	Egypt	452+[n 5][184][185][186]
2014	War in Donbass	Europe	Ukraine	119+[n 6]
2017	Anglophone Crisis	Africa	Cameroon	385+[n 7]
2017	Islamist insurgency in Mozambique	Africa	Mozambique	643+[1]
2018	War in Catatumbo	South America	Colombia Venezuela	462+[n 8]

Fewer than 100 deaths in 2019

Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2019.

Start of conflict	Conflict	Continent	Location	Fatalities in 2019
1922	Arab separatism in Khuzestan ASMLA insurgency	Asia	Iran	1[240]
1946	Kurdish separatism in Iran	Asia	Iran	10[241][242]
1948	Internal conflict in Myanmar Kachin conflict Karen conflict Rohingya conflict	Asia	Myanmar	84[n 9][250][251]
1954	Insurgency in Northeast India Insurgency in Meghalaya Assam separatist movements Insurgency in Manipur Ethnic conflict in Nagaland	Asia	India	21[252]
1963	West Papua conflict	Asia	Indonesia	54[n 10]
1969	Moro conflict	Asia	Philippines	25
1969	Communist rebellion in the Philippines	Asia	Philippines	5
1975	Cabinda War	Africa	Angola	12[261]
1980	Internal conflict in Peru	South America	Peru	3[262]
1988	Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	Asia	Armenia Azerbaijan Artsakh	5[263][264][265][266]
1998	Dissident Irish Republican campaign	Europe	United Kingdom	1[267]
2004	Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Asia	Pakistan	35[268][269]
2011	Shia insurgency in Bahrain	Asia	Bahrain	2[270]
2005	Insurgency in Paraguay	South America	Paraguay	1[271]
2006	Terrorism in Punjab	Asia	Pakistan	21[272][273]
2007	Terrorism in Sindh	Asia	Pakistan	13[274]
2009	Insurgency in the North Caucasus	Europe	Russia	14[275]
2011	Sinai insurgency	Africa	Egypt	77+[276]
2011	Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon	Asia	Lebanon	5[277]
2012	Central African Republic conflict	Africa	Central African Republic	59[278]

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