The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2016.
The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research estimated that there were 226 politically motivated armed conflicts (of which 38 estimated as highly violent: 18 full-scale wars, 20 limited wars) worldwide during 2016. [1]
Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2016.
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2016.
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2016 |
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1978 | War in Afghanistan | Asia | ![]() | 23,539+ [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] |
2003 | Iraqi conflict | Asia | ![]() | 23,898+ [8] [9] |
2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America | ![]() | 12,224 [10] |
2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia | ![]() | 64,126 [11] |
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2016.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. [12]
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2016 |
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1984 | Kurdish–Turkish conflict | Asia | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 1,905 [13] [a] |
1991 | Somali Civil War | Africa | ![]() ![]() | 5,701 [14] [b] |
1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa | ![]() | 1,407 [14] |
2003 | War in Darfur | Africa | ![]() | 1,936 [14] |
2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | 3,523 [14] [c] |
2011 | Libyan Crisis | Africa | ![]() | 2,865 [14] |
2011 | Yemeni Crisis | Asia | ![]() ![]() | 1,500 [d] [15] [16] |
2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa | ![]() | 1,578 [14] |
2011 | South Kordofan conflict | Africa | ![]() | 1,489 [14] |
2011 | Ethnic violence in South Sudan | Africa | ![]() ![]() | 4,037 [14] [e] |
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2016.
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2016.
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