page_title: List of revolutions and rebellions
section_title: 2010s
hierarchical_section_title: List of revolutions and rebellions / 2010s
caption_attribution_description: English: Euromaidan in Kiev. Police in Hrushevsky street
context_page_description: This is a list of revolutions and rebellions.
context_section_description: 2010 Thai political protests.
  2010–2011: 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis.
  2010–2012: Tajikistan insurgency.
  2010: Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010.
  2010: Kashmir Unrest 2010.
  2010–2012: Anti-austerity movement in Greece
  2010–2012: Arab Spring:
  The Tunisian Revolution (2010–2011) forces President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to resign and flee the country, and sets free elections.
  The 2011 Egyptian revolution brings down the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
  The 2011 Libyan Civil War in which rebel forces gradually take control of the country, and kill leader Muammar Gaddafi.
  2011 Post-civil war violence in Libya.
  Syrian Civil War.
  Bahraini uprising of 2011.
  2011 Yemeni Revolution, the revolt that led to the eventual resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh as President of Yemen.
  2011–present: Sinai insurgency.
  2011: Cherán uprising.
  2011–2015: Anti-austerity movement in Spain
  2011–present: Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
  2011–2017: Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon.
  2011–present: Ethnic violence in South Sudan (2011–present).
  Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013).
  2011–12 Maldives political crisis: Public protests and police mutiny lead to resignation of President Mohammed Nasheed.
  2011-2012: Occupy movement.
  2012–present: Rojava Revolution in Syrian Kurdistan.
  2012–2015: Northern Mali conflict.
  2012–2012: 2012 Tuareg rebellion.
  2012–present: Central African Republic conflict–François Bozizé, president of the Central African Republic, is overthrown by the rebel coalition Seleka, led by Michel Djotodia.
  2012–2013: M23 rebellion.
  2012–2015 unrest in Romania.
  2013: Bonnets Rouges movement in Britanny.
  2013 Eritrean Army mutiny.
  2013: Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
  2013–present: Turkey–ISIL conflict.
  Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present).
  2013 South Sudanese political crisis.
  2013–14 Tunisian protests against the Ennahda-led government.
  2013–2020: South Sudanese Civil War.
  RENAMO insurgency (2013–2019).
  2013–2014: Euromaidan.
  2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
  2013–14 Thai political crisis.
  2014–present: 2014 Protests in Venezuela.
  Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017).
  2014–present: Libyan Civil War (2014–present).
  2014: Abkhazian Revolution.
  2014: The Umbrella Revolution of Hong Kong
  2014 Burkinabé uprising.
  2015–present: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present).
  Burundian unrest (2015–18).
  2015–present: Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present).
  2015–present: ISIL insurgency in Tunisia.
  2016–present: 2016 Niger Delta conflict.
  2016 Ethiopian protests.
  2016 Mong Kok civil unrest, also known as "Fishball Revolution" in Mong Kok, Hong Kong
  2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, a failed military coup.
  2016 - present: Southern Cameroons liberation struggle for sovereign statehood. The Southern Cameroons was a British administered UN Trust Territory, which in terms of UN Resolution 1608(XV) was slated to gain independence on 1 October 1961. That independence was aborted when the British colonial administration fulled out of the Southern Cameroons territory unceremoniously and the military of the adjacent state of la Republique du Cameroun moved in and occupied the territory and have remained in dominant control since then. Discontent about la Republique du Cameroun's annexation of the Southern Cameroons territory (now called Ambazonia) erupted in 2016 in the form of civil disobedience and gradually evolved into armed conflict in the later part of 2017 to the present date.
  2016–17 South Korean protests, or Candlelight Revolution, in South Korea.
  2016–17 Kashmir unrest.
  2017 Ivory Coast mutiny.
  2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis.
  2017–2018 Romanian protests.
  2018–present: 2018–19 Arab protests:
  2018 Jordanian protests.
  2018–2019: Sudanese Revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the President.
  2019-2020 Algerian protests, also called Revolution of Smiles or Hirak Movement.
  2019–present: 2019 Iraqi protests, also nicknamed the October Revolution, and 2019 Iraqi Intifada.
  2019–present: 2019–20 Lebanese protests, also referred to as the Lebanese revolt.
  2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution, which resulted in the ouster of the Prime Minister.
  2018–19 Gaza border protests, also re
caption: A line of riot police in the city of Kiev during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
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