# List of armed conflicts in 2019

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

## 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 |
| 2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | Mexico | 35,588 |
| 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 |
| 2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia | Syria | 11,244 |

## 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.
| 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+ |
| 1991 | Somali Civil War Current phase | Africa | Somalia Kenya | 2,637 |
| 2003 | Iraq conflict Iraq War Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013) Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) Iraqi insurgency (2017–present) | Asia | Iraq | 2,362< |
| 2014 | Libyan Crisis Libyan Civil War (2014–present) | Africa | Libya | 2,200+ |

## 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 |
| 1947 | Kashmir conflict (Indo-Pakistani Wars) 2019 India–Pakistan standoff | Asia | India Pakistan | 208 |
| 1948 | Insurgency in Balochistan Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency | Asia | Pakistan Iran | 143 |
| 1960 | South Thailand Insurgency | Asia | Thailand | 163 |
| 1964 | Colombian conflict | South America | Colombia Venezuela Ecuador | 281 |
| 1965 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gaza–Israel conflict | Asia | Palestine Israel | 100 |
| 1967 | Naxalite–Maoist insurgency | Asia | India | 196 |
| 1996 | Allied Democratic Forces insurgency | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo Uganda | 170+ |
| 1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa | Nigeria | 152 |
| 1999 | Ituri conflict | Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 302+ |
| 2002 | Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) | Africa | Algeria Burkina Faso Chad Libya Mali Mauritania Morocco Niger Tunisia | 1,110 |
| 2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad | 300+ |
| 2011 | Ethnic violence in South Sudan South Sudanese Civil War | Africa | South Sudan | 519 |
| 2012 | Northern Mali conflict | Africa | Mali | 734+ |
| 2013 | Insurgency in Egypt | Africa | Egypt | 452+ |
| 2014 | War in Donbass | Europe | Ukraine | 119+ |
| 2017 | Anglophone Crisis | Africa | Cameroon | 385+ |
| 2017 | Islamist insurgency in Mozambique | Africa | Mozambique | 643+ |
| 2018 | War in Catatumbo | South America | Colombia Venezuela | 462+ |

## 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 |
| 1946 | Kurdish separatism in Iran | Asia | Iran | 10 |
| 1948 | Internal conflict in Myanmar Kachin conflict Karen conflict Rohingya conflict | Asia | Myanmar | 84 |
| 1954 | Insurgency in Northeast India Insurgency in Meghalaya Assam separatist movements Insurgency in Manipur Ethnic conflict in Nagaland | Asia | India | 21 |
| 1963 | West Papua conflict | Asia | Indonesia | 54 |
| 1969 | Moro conflict | Asia | Philippines | 25 |
| 1969 | Communist rebellion in the Philippines | Asia | Philippines | 5 |
| 1975 | Cabinda War | Africa | Angola | 12 |
| 1980 | Internal conflict in Peru | South America | Peru | 3 |
| 1988 | Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | Asia | Armenia Azerbaijan Artsakh | 5 |
| 1998 | Dissident Irish Republican campaign | Europe | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 2004 | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Asia | Pakistan | 35 |
| 2011 | Shia insurgency in Bahrain | Asia | Bahrain | 2 |
| 2005 | Insurgency in Paraguay | South America | Paraguay | 1 |
| 2006 | Terrorism in Punjab | Asia | Pakistan | 21 |
| 2007 | Terrorism in Sindh | Asia | Pakistan | 13 |
| 2009 | Insurgency in the North Caucasus | Europe | Russia | 14 |
| 2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa | Egypt | 77+ |
| 2011 | Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon | Asia | Lebanon | 5 |
| 2012 | Central African Republic conflict | Africa | Central African Republic | 59 |