Ongoing conflicts

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Geographic areas where armed conflict is ongoing.

The following is a list of current conflicts (totalling 30) around the world:

Start of Conflict	War/Conflict	Location	Death Toll
1948	Internal conflict in Myanmar	Myanmar	over 7,000
1964	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	unknown
1967	Post-Six-Day War Israeli-Palestinian conflict (including al-Aqsa Intifada)	Palestine and Israel	unknown
1969	Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines (including OEF-P)	Philippines	est. 160,000 ^[1]
1975	Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong	Laos	2,000 - 3,000
1980	Internal conflict in Peru	Peru	~70,000^{[citation needed]}
1983	Sri Lankan civil war	Sri Lanka	~70,000 BBCnews
1984	Kurdish Separatist Insurgency	Kurdistan and Turkey	unknown
1984	Free Papua Movement	Western New Guinea	unknown
1987	Second Ugandan Civil War	Uganda	~12,000^{[citation needed]}
1988	Somali Civil War (including 2006 War in Somalia)	Somalia	300,000 - 400,000 dead
1989	Kashmir conflict	Kashmir	unknown
1990	Casamance Conflict	Senegal	unknown
1992	Conflict in the Niger Delta (including Nigerian Oil Crisis)	Nigeria	unknown
1993	Ethnic conflict in Nagaland	Nagaland, India	unknown
1999	Second Chechen War	Chechnya, Russia	28,000 - 113,000^{[citation needed]}
2001	War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan	17,000 - 27,000^{[citation needed]}
2002	Islamic insurgency in Algeria	Algeria	unknown
2003	Iraq War	Iraq	60,000-650,000
2003	Insurgency in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	273
2003	Darfur conflict	Sudan	200,000 - 400,000
2004	Balochistan conflict	Balochistan, Pakistan	unknown
2004	Kivu conflict	Kivu, DR Congo	unknown
2004	Waziristan War	Waziristan, Pakistan	2,600 - 7,100^{[citation needed]}
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Pattani, Thailand	~2,500
2004	Naxalite (Maoist) insurgency in India	Certain parts of India	unknown
2005	War in Chad	Chad	~1,400^{[citation needed]}
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	~2700^{[citation needed]}
2006	Fatah-Hamas conflict	Gaza Strip, Palestine	265^{[citation needed]}
2007	Second Tuareg Rebellion	North Niger and Mali	56^{[citation needed]}
2007	2007 Ogaden conflict	Ogaden, Ethiopia	~1,500

1 Monitoring ongoing conflicts
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Monitoring ongoing conflicts

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Many NGOs and independent groups try to monitor the situation of ongoing conflicts. Unluckily, the definitions of war, conflict, armed struggle, revolution and all these words which describe violent opposition between States or armed organised groups, are not precise enough to distinguish something from something else. Just as an example, the word terrorism is used indifferently by many governments to delegitimate every kind of armed revolt and, in the same time, by many rebel groups to delegitimate the armed repression of sovereign governments.

Until WWII society simply defined "war" as a state when an official declaration of war exists, but countries have existed in states of declared war against each other without any actual conflict occurring and, on the other side, such wars like Vietnam or Korea never were officially declared.

As a matter of fact, defining the concept is not as easy as it might appear. Moreover, the more and more frequent condition of asymmetric warfare or guerrilla makes no one, single characteristic useful to distinguish official war from official peace. As a result, all the organisations involved in war/peace matters give different lists of ongoing conflicts.

Here is a fundamental list of NGOs and groups in whose websites we can find deep information on ongoing armed conflicts.