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Wars: how many conflicts are currently happening in the world?



Just over a day after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented ground and air attack against Israeli residents, the Israeli government officially declared martial law and the world added yet another conflict to the growing list.

In September 2023, the Azerbaijani army launched an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, defeating ethnic Armenian militants in the disputed region, a continuation of the war that has been ongoing since 2020.

In 2022, as the world appeared to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine produced the worst outcome: a Russian invasion and the emergence of a full-scale conventional armed conflict in the heart of Europe, which still exists today.



Recent news has been dominated by images of tanks and armored vehicles moving through Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh and now Israel and the Gaza Strip, soldiers building trenches and bombing cities with planes and rockets as civilians try to escape death, bringing I get memories of the past. wars will return.Since the end of World War II, according to Our World in Data, the number of people killed in armed conflicts has declined worldwide, peaking in the 1960s and 1970s with the Vietnam War, and in the 1970s and 1980s due to several . things conflicts in Asia and the Middle East.

Since 2012, when civil war broke out again in the Middle East, especially in Syria, the death toll has risen again. Now, in recent years, there has been conflict between Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Israelis and Palestinians. According to the United Nations, the world is entering a "new era of conflict and violence" characterized by lower mortality than in the past. 20th century - especially in the first half - but there are more and more countries prone to this violence. , and intergroup conflicts in the region are more common than interstate conflicts.



Active Wars Around the World

Below is a summary of the main active wars around the planet, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. These are wars between states, as in the case of Ukraine, civil wars where certain factions have the support from different states, such as in Syria, or from conflicts that are currently active around the world. Internal conflicts, situations of extreme political instability or so-called wars against drugs or criminal gangs were not considered.


1.War between Israel and Hamas

2. Azerbaijan x Armenia conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

3. Russia x Ukraine War

4. War in Syria

5. Civil war in Yemen.





Source: Germán Padinger



 




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