The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2017.
Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2017.
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
| Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | War in Afghanistan | Asia |  Afghanistan | 23,065 [n 1] [6] |
| 2003 | Iraq conflict | Asia |  Iraq | 13,187 [7] |
| 2006 | Mexican Drug War | North America |  Mexico | 14,771 [8] [lower-alpha 1] -31,174 |
| 2011 | Syrian Civil War | Asia |  Syria | 39,000 [9] |
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. [10]
| Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Internal conflict in Myanmar | Asia |  Myanmar | 6,700+ [11] [12] [13] [14] |
| 1969 | Moro conflict | Asia |  Philippines | 1,384 [n 2] |
| 1973 | Oromo conflict | Africa |  Ethiopia | 1,011 [30] |
| 1991 | Somali Civil War | Africa |  Somalia  Kenya | 5,154 [30] [lower-alpha 2] |
| 1998 | Communal conflicts in Nigeria | Africa |  Nigeria | 1,097 [30] |
| 2002 | Insurgency in the Maghreb | Africa |  Algeria  Burkina Faso  Libya  Mali  Niger  Tunisia | 2,835 [30] [lower-alpha 3] |
| 2003 | War in Darfur | Africa |  Sudan | 1,109 [30] |
| 2009 | Boko Haram insurgency | Africa | Nigeria  Cameroon Niger  Chad | 3,110 [30] [lower-alpha 4] |
| 2011 | Libyan Crisis | Africa | Libya | 1,564 [30] |
| 2011 | Yemeni Crisis | Asia |  Yemen  Saudi Arabia | 1,438 [31] [lower-alpha 5] |
| 2011 | Sinai insurgency | Africa |  Egypt | 1,342 [30] |
| 2011 | South Kordofan conflict | Africa | Sudan | 1,225 [30] |
| 2011 | Ethnic violence in South Sudan | Africa |  South Sudan Ethiopia | 3,646 [30] [lower-alpha 6] |
| 2012 | Central African Republic conflict | Africa |  Central African Republic | 1,723 [30] |
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2017.
Doku Khamatovich Umarov, also known as Dokka Umarov as well as by his Arabized name of Dokka Abu Umar, was a Chechen mujahid in North Caucasus. Umarov was a major military figure in both wars in Chechnya during the 1990s and 2000s, before becoming the leader of the greater insurgency in the North Caucasus. He was active mostly in south-western Chechnya, near and across the borders with Ingushetia and Georgia.
The Peruvian conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Government of Peru and the Maoist guerilla group Shining Path and its remnants. The conflict began on 17 May 1980, and from 1982 to 1997 the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement waged its own insurgency as a Marxist–Leninist rival to the Shining Path.
The Caucasus Emirate, also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a jihadist organisation active in rebel-held parts of Syria and previously in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Its intention was to expel the Russian presence from the North Caucasus and to establish an independent Islamic emirate in the region. The Caucasus Emirate also referred to the state that the group sought to establish. The creation of Caucasus Emirate was announced on 7 October 2007, by Chechen warlord Dokka Umarov, who became its first self-declared "emir".
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".
The 2010 Chechen Parliament attack took place on the morning of 19 October 2010, when three Chechen militants attacked the parliament complex in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen Republic, a federal subject of Russia. At least six people were killed, including two police officers, one parliament employee and all three suicide commandos.
Aliaskhab Alibulatovich Kebekov, also known as Ali Abu Muhammad, was a North Caucasian militant Islamist in Russia and the leader of the Caucasus Emirate following the death of inaugural leader Dokka Umarov. Following in the same religious tradition as Umarov, he adhered to the ideology of Salafism. The United States Department of State added Kebekov to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on March 25, 2015. On 19 April 2015, Kebekov was killed by Russian security forces during special operations in the settlement of Gerei-Avlak in Buynaksk. An Avar by nationality, Kebekov was the first non-Chechen to lead the North Caucasus insurgency.
Following the outbreak of the protests of Syrian revolution during the Arab Spring in 2011 and the escalation of the ensuing conflict into a full-scale civil war by mid-2012, the Syrian Civil War became a theatre of proxy warfare between various regional powers such as Turkey and Iran. Spillover of the Syrian civil war into the wider region began when the Iraqi insurgent group known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) started intervening in the conflict from 2012.
This article contains a timeline of events from January 2015 to December 2015 related to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS). This article contains information about events committed by or on behalf of the Islamic State, as well as events performed by groups who oppose them.
In July 2013, at the same time as mass protests began against the 3 July coup d'état which deposed Mohamed Morsi, and in parallel with the escalation of the already ongoing jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants started violent attacks against policemen and soldiers in central and western Egypt. In the following months, new Islamist armed groups were created to reinstate Islamist rule in Egypt, like Soldiers of Egypt and the Popular Resistance Movement. Since 2013, violence in mainland Egypt has escalated and developed into a low-level Islamist insurgency against the Egyptian government.
Zarema Bagavutdinova was a member of a Dagestan regional human rights group, "Pravozashchita" or "Human Rights Defense." She was imprisoned in July 2013 on charges of recruiting on behalf of an armed Islamic insurgency in the region of Dagestan. She was sentenced to five years of incarceration.
Zalim Borisovich Shebzukhov was an Kabardin Islamist from Kabardino-Balkaria, North Caucasus, and a leader of the Caucasus Emirate militant group.
Ajnad al-Kavkaz is a Chechen-led Salafi jihadist militant group in northwestern Syria, operating primarily in the mountainous and forested areas of Latakia Governorate. Although it was formed by former fighters of the Caucasus Emirate and was tentatively linked to the organization, AK operated autonomously from the beginning and later cut ties with the Caucasus Emirate. Though it had become "the largest of the Muslim factions from the former Soviet Union fighting in Syria" by September 2016, AK's activity dwindled in the following years. In 2022, the group's centre of operations shifted from Syria to Ukraine, as most AK militants had begun mobilizing to fight against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of 2023, AK has largely been engaged in the Battle of Bakhmut in Ukraine.
The Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus is ongoing terror activity of the Islamic State branch in the North Caucasus after the insurgency of the Caucasus Emirate.
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