The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2014.
The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research estimated that there were 223 politically-motivated armed conflicts (of which 46 estimated as highly violent: 21 full-scale wars, 25 limited wars) worldwide during 2014. [1]
This list is an archive of armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2014.
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2014 |
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1978 | War in Afghanistan | Asia | Afghanistan | 14,277 [n 1] |
2003 | Iraq War | Asia | Iraq | 24,000–50,000 [n 2] |
2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | Nigeria Cameroon Niger Chad | 10,849 [n 3] |
2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia | Syria | 110,920 [14] |
2013 | South Sudanese Civil War | Africa | South Sudan | 50,000 [15] |
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2014 |
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1964 | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | Asia | Israel Palestine | 2,365 [16] |
1991 | Somali Civil War | Africa | Somalia Kenya | 2,983–3,033 [17] [lower-alpha 1] |
1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa | Nigeria | 1,822 [18] |
2003 | War in Darfur | Africa | Sudan | 2,101 [17] |
2004 | War in North-West Pakistan | Asia | Pakistan | 5,496 [19] |
2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | Mexico | 7,504 [n 4] |
2011 | Libyan Crisis | Africa | Libya | 2,825 [25] [lower-alpha 2] |
2011 | Yemeni Crisis | Asia | Yemen | 1,500 [26] –7,700 [27] |
2012 | Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present) | Africa | CAR | 3,347 [17] |
2014 | War in Donbass | Europe | Ukraine | 4,771 [28] |
This section details armed-conflict-related fatalities by country.
2014 [lower-alpha 11] | ||
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Rank | Country | Deaths |
1 | Syria | 76,021 |
2 | South Sudan | 50,000 [143] |
3 | Mexico | 27,662* [144] |
4 | Iraq | 24,000 [8] |
5 | Afghanistan | 14,638 |
6 | Nigeria | 11,360 |
7 | Pakistan | 5,519 [145] |
8 | Ukraine | 4,771 |
9 | Somalia | 4,447 |
10 | Sudan | 3,892 |
11 | Central African Republic | 3,347 |
12 | Libya | 2,825 |
13 | Palestine | 2,365 |
14 | Yemen | 1,500 |
15 | Cameroon | 1,366 |
16 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1,235 |
17 | Egypt | 1,176 |
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major Palestinian uprising against Israel. The general triggers for the unrest are speculated to have been centred on the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit, which was expected to reach a final agreement on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process in July 2000. Outbreaks of violence began in September 2000, after Ariel Sharon, then the Israeli opposition leader, made a provocative visit to the Al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; the visit itself was peaceful, but, as anticipated, sparked protests and riots that Israeli police put down with rubber bullets and tear gas.
The Kivu conflict is an umbrella term for a series of protracted armed conflicts in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo which have occurred since the end of the Second Congo War. Including neighboring Ituri province, there are more than 120 different armed groups active in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Currently, some of the most active rebel groups include the Allied Democratic Forces, the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, the March 23 Movement, and many local Mai Mai militias. In addition to rebel groups and the governmental FARDC troops, a number of national and international organizations have intervened militarily in the conflict, including the United Nations force known as MONUSCO, and an East African Community regional force.
Israeli casualties of war, in addition to those of Israel's nine major wars, include 9,745 soldiers and security forces personnel killed in "miscellaneous engagements and terrorist attacks", which includes security forces members killed during military operations, by fighting crime, natural disasters, diseases, traffic or labor accidents and disabled veterans whose disabilities contributed to their deaths. Between 1948 and 1997, 20,093 Israeli soldiers were killed in combat, 75,000 Israelis were wounded, and nearly 100,000 Israelis were considered disabled army veterans. On the other hand, in 2010 Yom Hazikaron, Israel honored the memory of 22,684 Israeli soldiers and pre-Israeli Palestinian Jews killed since 1860 in the line of duty for the independence, preservation and protection of the nation, and 3,971 civilian terror victims. The memorial roll, in addition to IDF members deceased, also include fallen members of the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad intelligence service, the Israel Police, the Border Police, the Israel Prisons Service, other Israeli security forces, the pre-state Jewish underground, and the Jewish Brigade and the Jewish Legion.
The Iran–PJAK conflict is an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), which began in 2004. The group has carried out numerous attacks in the Kurdistan Province of Iran and provinces of Western Iran. PJAK is closely affiliated with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the primary opponent of the Republic of Turkey in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. PJAK has been designated as a terrorist organization by Iran, Japan, Turkey, and the United States.
The insurgency in the North Caucasus was a low-level armed conflict between Russia and militants associated with the Caucasus Emirate and, from June 2015, the Islamic State, in the North Caucasus. It followed the official end of the decade-long Second Chechen War on 16 April 2009. It attracted volunteers from the MENA region, Western Europe, and Central Asia. The Russian legislation considers the Second Chechen War and the insurgency described in this article as the same "counter-terrorist operations on the territory of the North Caucasus region".
Abdul Hafiz Ghoga is a Libyan human rights lawyer who rose to prominence as the spokesman for the National Transitional Council, a body formed in Benghazi during the 2011 Libyan civil war. On 23 March 2011, he became the vice chairman of the council, serving in that post until he resigned on 22 January 2012 after protests against him.
Between 2011 and 2017, fighting from the Syrian civil war spilled over into Lebanon as opponents and supporters of the Syrian Arab Republic traveled to Lebanon to fight and attack each other on Lebanese soil. The Syrian conflict stoked a resurgence of sectarian violence in Lebanon, with many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims supporting the rebels in Syria, while many of Lebanon's Shi'a Muslims supporting the Syrian government which is led by Bashar Al-Assad, whose Alawite minority is usually described as an offshoot of Shi'a Islam. Killings, unrest and sectarian kidnappings across Lebanon resulted.
Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Syrian Civil War, by opposition activist groups, vary between 603,064 and about 620,000 as of August 2023. In late September 2021, the United Nations stated it had documented the deaths of at least 350,209 "identified individuals" in the conflict between March 2011 and March 2021, but cautioned the figure was "certainly an under-count" that specified only a "minimum verifiable number".
The Lebanese–Syrian border clashes were a series of clashes on the Lebanon–Syria border caused by the ongoing Syrian Civil War.
The Allied Democratic Forces insurgency is an ongoing conflict waged by the Allied Democratic Forces in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the governments of those two countries and the MONUSCO. The insurgency began in 1996, intensifying in 2013, resulting in hundreds of deaths. The ADF is known to currently control a number of hidden camps which are home to about 2,000 people; in these camps, the ADF operates as a proto-state with "an internal security service, a prison, health clinics, and an orphanage" as well as schools for boys and girls.
The spillover of the Syrian Civil War is the impact of the Syrian Civil War in the Arab world and beyond. Since the first protests during the Arab Spring, the increasingly violent Syrian Civil War has been both a proxy war for the major Middle Eastern powers, Turkey and Iran, and a potential launching point for a wider regional war. Fears of the latter were realized when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Salafi Jihadist militant group and alleged former al-Qaeda affiliate, established itself in Syria in 2013, and later combined with the War in Iraq (2013–2017) into a single conflict the following year.
The early insurgency phase of the Syrian civil war lasted from late July 2011 to April 2012, and was associated with the rise of armed oppositional militias across Syria and the beginning of armed rebellion against the authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic. Though armed insurrection incidents began as early as June 2011 when rebels killed 120–140 Syrian security personnel, the beginning of organized insurgency is typically marked by the formation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on 29 July 2011, when a group of defected officers declared the establishment of the first organized oppositional military force. Composed of defected Syrian Armed Forces personnel, the rebel army aimed to remove Bashar al-Assad and his government from power.
Combining the 17,000 civilian deaths recorded by IBC with the above wide range of combatant deaths of 4,000–30,000, suggests a total of between 21,000 and 47,000 people have been killed in war-related violence in Iraq during 2014.
From 01 January to 31 December 2014, UNAMI recorded a total minimum number of 35,408 civilian casualties (12,282 killed and 23,126 injured).
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