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List Of Ongoing Armed Conflicts
The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world. Criteria This list of ongoing armed conflicts identifies present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict. The criteria of inclusion are the following: * Armed conflicts consist in the use of armed force between two or more organized armed groups, governmental or non-governmental. Interstate, intrastate and non-state armed conflicts are listed. :* This is not a list of countries by intentional homicide rate, and criminal gang violence is generally not included unless there is also significant military or paramilitary involvement. * Fatality figures include battle-related deaths (military and civilian) as well as civilians ''intentionally targeted'' by the parties to an armed conflict. Only direct deaths resulting from violence are included for the current and previous year; excess deaths indirectly resulting from famine, disease, or disruption of services are includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Conflict Location And Event Data Project
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is a non-profit organization registered in the United States that specializes in the real-time collection, analysis, and mapping of data on political violence and protest events around the world. Founded in 2005 as a research initiative by political scientist Clionadh Raleigh, ACLED has evolved into a comprehensive global conflict data project. The organization codes information on events such as armed clashes, demonstrations, riots, and strategic developments, including the date, location, actors, fatalities, and event type. As of 2022, the dataset includes more than 1.3 million recorded events and offers continuous updates through a global team of researchers and local partners. The organization maintains extensive partnerships with academic institutions, governments, international organizations, and humanitarian agencies. Its data and analysis are widely used by journalists, policymakers, researchers, and civil society to monitor con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran–Israel Proxy Conflict
The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war or Iran–Israel Cold War, is an ongoing Proxy war, proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Israel has supported Iranian rebels, such as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, conducted airstrikes Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, against Iranian allies in Syria and Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists. In 2018 Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, Israeli forces directly attacked Iranian forces in Syria. Motivated by the Alliance of the periphery, periphery doctrine, Iran–Israel relations#Israeli independence to Iranian revolution (1947–1979), Imperial Iran and Israel had close relations, seeing Arab powers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Invasion Of Syria (2024–present)
On 8 December 2024, Israel invaded the buffer zone in southwestern Syria adjacent to the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and carried out an aerial campaign targeting the Syrian Army's military capabilities, following the fall of the Assad regime. Israel took advantage of the power vacuum created by the fall of Assad to increase the amount of territory it controlled by several hundred square miles. Israel declared the Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria, 1974 Disengagement agreement with Syria to be void. Israel initially said this new invasion would be "temporary", but later said it would hold onto the territory for an "unlimited time". Israel also launched extensive aerial and naval strikes on Syrian military targets across the country, under an operation codenamed Operation Arrow of Bashan (). Israel's campaign destroyed Syria's military capabilities, including its navy, as well as Syria chemical weapons program, chemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spillover Of The Gaza War In Syria
The spillover of the Gaza war in Syria is the impact and military engagements in Syria which are caused by the spillover of the Gaza war, and constitute a part of the ongoing Middle Eastern crisis. The conflict, originating in the Gaza Strip, has triggered regional tensions and violence, drawing Syria in through direct and indirect confrontations involving Israeli defense forces, Syrian state actors, and armed groups operating in Syrian territory. Background The Gaza war began when Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which involved a rocket barrage and a few thousand militants breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking Israeli civilian communities and military bases. During this attack, 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, including 815 civilians. In addition, 251 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive into Gaza, with the stated goal to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Hamas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli–Syrian Ceasefire Line Incidents During The Syrian Civil War
Several incidents have taken place on the Purple Line (ceasefire line), Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line during the Syrian Civil War, straining the Israel–Syria relations, relations between the countries. The incidents are considered a spillover of the Quneitra Governorate clashes (2012–14), Quneitra Governorate clashes since 2012 and later incidents between Syrian Army and the rebels, ongoing on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan and the Golan Neutral Zone and the Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Through the incidents, which began in late 2012, as of mid-2014, one Israeli civilian was killed and at least 4 soldiers wounded; on the Syrian-controlled side, it is estimated that at least ten soldiers were killed, as well as two unidentified militants, who were identified near Ein Zivan on Golan Heights. Timeline Syrian media reported that Israeli missiles hit the following targets: * Al-Sanamayn, Daraa Governorate, Daraa: The Syrian Army's 150th regiment, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Israeli Invasion Of Lebanon
On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the sixth Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. The invasion took place after nearly 12 months of Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present), conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. On 26 November, Israel and Lebanon 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement, signed a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. The ceasefire went into effect on 27 November, though some attacks continue. Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel erupted shortly after October 7 attacks, Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel, when Hezbollah joined the conflict in support of Hamas, launching rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Cross borders attacks resulted in a large number of displaced people on both sides of the border. Prior to the incursions, Israel had conducted major attacks in Lebanon including 2024 Lebanon electronic device ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hezbollah–Israel Conflict
Hezbollah, a Shia Islamism, Shia Islamist political party and militant organization that was established in Lebanon in 1985, has been involved in a long-running conflict with Israel as part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Israeli–Lebanese conflict. History The two sides' first engagement occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, as Iran became increasingly involved in Lebanon's internal affairs. With funding from the Iranian government and training and supervision from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah was built up in Syrian occupation of Lebanon, Syrian-occupied Lebanon by various religious clerics amidst the 1982 Lebanon War, primarily as a Khomeinism, Khomeinist force opposed to the Free Lebanon State and the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon. Hezbollah controls southern Lebanon and is supported and funded by Iran and serves as their proxy in regional wars. From the inception of Hezbollah to the present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli–Lebanese Conflict
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict,G. Rongxing. ''Territorial Disputes and Conflict Management: The Art of Avoiding War''. p71. is a long-running conflict involving Israel, Lebanon-based paramilitary groups, and sometimes Syria. The conflict peaked during the Lebanese Civil War. In response to Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon, Palestinian attacks from Lebanon, Israel invaded the country 1978 South Lebanon conflict, in 1978 and again 1982 Lebanon War, in 1982. After this it Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, occupied southern Lebanon until 2000, while fighting South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000), a guerrilla conflict against Shia paramilitaries. After Israel's withdrawal, Hezbollah attacks sparked the 2006 Lebanon War. A Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present), new period of conflict began in 2023, leading to the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recruited militants in Lebanon from among th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Incursions In The West Bank During The Gaza War
During the Gaza war, Israeli forces have carried out multiple ground incursions, occasionally accompanied by airstrikes, into several Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarm. The Israeli incursions have led to clashes with Palestinian militias in the West Bank, Palestinian militants. 806 West Bank Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the conflict began, including 143 children. The United Nations recorded more than 800 Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians between October 2023 and May 2024. Israel has arrested an estimated 10,000 West Bank Palestinians between 7 October 2023 and August 2024. On 15 December, Doctors Without Borders reported 2023 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank in recorded history. Background Tensions and violence between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank were escalating long before the start of the 2023 war. According to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaza War
The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel fought since 7 October 2023. A part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflict, Gaza–Israel conflicts dating back to the 20th century, it follows the wars of Gaza War (2008–2009), 2008–2009, 2012 Gaza War, 2012, 2014 Gaza War, 2014, and 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, 2021. The war has resulted in the deaths of more than one thousand Israelis and tens of thousands of Palestinians, along with widespread destruction and a Gaza humanitarian crisis (2023–present), humanitarian crisis in Gaza. A growing number of human rights organizations and experts—such as lawyers and academics genocide studies, studying genocide and international law—say that Gaza genocide, a genocide is occurring in Gaza, though this is debated. Meanwhile, the surrounding region has seen Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present), heightened instability and fighting. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salafi-jihadist Insurgency In The Gaza Strip
The Salafi jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip is a low-level conflict that has primarily involved Hamas and various Gazan Salafi jihadist militant groups that seek to challenge its governance of the territory. Gazan Salafi jihadists first became active in the early 2000s. The insurgency first escalated during the late 2000s and early 2010s with events such as the 2009 Battle of Rafah and the 2011 kidnapping and murder of Vittorio Arrigoni. A truce between the two sides was signed in 2013. However, the rise of the Islamic State (IS) in the mid-2010s emboldened Gazan Salafi jihadists, leading to a resumption of direct clashes between Hamas and IS-affiliated forces in 2015. During the Gaza war (2023–present), the Israeli-backed Popular Forces, allegedly linked to IS, emerged as the leading local opposition to Hamas. Salafi jihadist groups operating in the Gaza Strip have typically engaged in armed clashes with Hamas forces and attacked various civilian targets, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
