# List of armed conflicts in 2018

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 conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2018 |
| 1978 | War in Afghanistan Current phase | Asia | Afghanistan | 35,941 |
| 2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | Mexico | 27,765 |
| 2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia | Syria | 19,799-23,000 |
| 2011 | Yemeni Crisis Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen South Yemen insurgency Saudi–Yemeni border conflict (2015–present) | Asia | Yemen Saudi Arabia | 25,705 |

## 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.
| Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2018 |
| 1991 | Somali Civil War Current phase | Africa | Somalia Kenya | 3,952 |
| 1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa | Nigeria | 3,020 |
| 2003 | Iraq conflict Iraqi insurgency (2017–present) | Asia | Iraq | 4,861 |
| 2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad | 2,213 |
| 2011 | Ethnic violence in South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War | Africa | South Sudan | 1,166 |
| 2012 | Northern Mali conflict | Africa | 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 conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2018 |
| 1947 | Kashmir conflict (Indo-Pakistani Wars) India–Pakistan military confrontation (2016–present) | Asia | India Pakistan | 548 |
| 1948 | Insurgency in Balochistan Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency | Asia | Pakistan Iran | 416 |
| 1948 | Internal conflict in Myanmar Kachin conflict Karen conflict Rohingya conflict | Asia | Myanmar | 171 |
| 1964 | Colombian conflict | South America | Colombia Venezuela | 709 |
| 1965 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gaza–Israel conflict | Asia | Palestine Israel | 304 |
| 1999 | Internal conflict in Bangladesh Bangladesh drug war | Asia | Bangladesh | 211 |
| 1967 | Naxalite–Maoist insurgency | Asia | India | 412 |
| 1969 | Moro conflict | Asia | Philippines | 268 |
| 1969 | Communist rebellion in the Philippines | Asia | Philippines | 203 |
| 1984 | Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) | Asia | Turkey Iraq Syria | 523 |
| 1996 | Allied Democratic Forces insurgency | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 235 |
| 1999 | Ituri conflict | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 369 |
| 2003 | War in Darfur | Africa | Sudan | 599 |
| 2004 | Kivu conflict | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 943 |
| 2004 | War in North-West Pakistan | Asia | Pakistan | 217 |
| 2011 | Libyan Crisis Libyan Civil War (2014–present) | Africa | Libya | 727 |
| 2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa | Egypt | 740 |
| 2011 | South Kordofan conflict | Africa | Sudan | 114 |
| 2012 | Central African Republic conflict | Africa | Central African Republic | 838 |
| 2013 | Batwa-Luba clashes | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 154 |
| 2014 | War in Donbass | Europe | Ukraine | 153 |
| 2015 | Burundian unrest | Africa | Burundi | 198 |
| 2016 | Oromo-Somali clashes | Africa | Ethiopia | 865 |
| 2017 | Anglophone Crisis | Africa | Cameroon | 652 |
| 2017 | Islamist insurgency in Mozambique | Africa | 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 conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2018 |
| 1922 | Arab separatism in Khuzestan ASMLA insurgency | Asia | Iran | 10 |
| 1946 | Kurdish separatism in Iran | Asia | Iran | 62–66 |
| 1960 | South Thailand insurgency | Asia | Thailand | 65 |
| 1954 | Insurgency in Northeast India Insurgency in Meghalaya Assam separatist movements Insurgency in Manipur Ethnic conflict in Nagaland | Asia | India | 72 |
| 1963 | West Papua conflict | Asia | Indonesia | 21–26 |
| 1975 | Cabinda War | Africa | Angola | 4 |
| 1980 | Internal conflict in Peru | South America | Peru | 10 |
| 1982 | Casamance conflict | Africa | Senegal | 4 |
| 1987 | LRA insurgency | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo Central African Republic | 14 |
| 1988 | Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | Asia | Azerbaijan | 4 |
| 1989 | Georgian–Ossetian conflict | Asia | South Ossetia | 1 |
| 1989 | Sectarian violence in Pakistan | Asia | Pakistan | 7 |
| 1995 | Ogaden insurgency | Africa | Ethiopia | 21 |
| 2005 | Insurgency in Paraguay | South America | Paraguay | 3 |
| 2009 | Sudanese nomadic conflicts | Africa | Sudan | 18 |
| 2013 | Insurgency in Egypt | Africa | Egypt | 40 |
| 2016 | Kamwina Nsapu rebellion | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo Angola | 46 |