List of current wars

This is a list of current wars. There is also a list of recent wars, for those conflicts that have officially ended. While it is simple to determine if a formally declared conventional wars is over, it is much more difficult to determine a clear endpoint for the low intensity warfare that afflicts so many countries today.

• 1964-Colombian Civil War or Colombian Armed Conflict
• 1978-Aceh (Indonesia)
• 1983-Sri Lanka
• 1988-Casamance Conflict
• 1987-Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, Uganda
• 1991-Somalian Civil War
• 1994-Chiapas, Mexico
• 1996-Nepal Civil War
• 1999-Second Chechen War
• 1999-Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri war)
• 1999-Liberia
• 2001-Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
• 2001-Philippines, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
• 2002-Conflict between U.S.-backed central government and Taliban guerillas, as well as dissident regional factions.
• 2003 Darfur conflict, Sudan
• Civil war in Peru of Shining Path rebels and others

Countries where United Nations peacekeepers are currently deployed

Year of initial deployment in parentheses.

Africa

• Burundi (2004)
• Côte d'Ivoire (2004)
• Liberia (2003)
• Democratic Republic of Congo (1999)
• Ethiopia and Eritrea (2000)
• Sierra Leone (1999)
• Western Sahara (1991) – Under a cease-fire between Polisario and Morocco since 1991.

Americas

• Haiti (2004)

Asia

• East Timor (2002)
• India and Pakistan (1949)

Europe

• Cyprus (1964)
• Georgia (1993)
• Kosovo

Middle East

• Golan Heights (1974)
• Lebanon (1978)
• Middle East (1948)

List of states which are in a state of war not mentioned above

• Burma (Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army,

United Wa State Army )

• Iraq
• Laos (Hmong)