This is a list of modern conflicts ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

. The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the

Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent () is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran. Some authors also include ...

(

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of ...

Levant The Levant ( ) is the subregion that borders the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Mediterranean sea to the west, and forms the core of West Asia and the political term, Middle East, ''Middle East''. In its narrowest sense, which is in use toda ...

, and

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and neighboring areas of

Arabia The Arabian Peninsula (, , or , , ) or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At , comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the ...

Anatolia Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

and

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. It currently encompasses the area from

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

and

Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ...

in the west to

and the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf, sometimes called the Arabian Gulf, is a Mediterranean seas, mediterranean sea in West Asia. The body of water is an extension of the Arabian Sea and the larger Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.Un ...

in the east, and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to

Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

and

Oman Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia and the Middle East. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman’s coastline ...

in the south. * Conflicts are separate incidents with at least 100 casualties, and are listed by total deaths, including sub-conflicts. * The term "modern" refers to the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

and later period, in other words, since 1914.

List of conflicts

Casualties breakdown

Unification of Saudi Arabia The unification of Saudi Arabia was a military and political campaign in which the various tribes, sheikhdoms, city-states, emirates, and Monarchy, kingdoms of most of the central Arabian Peninsula were conquered by the House of Saud, or ''Al ...

(combined casualties 7,989–8,989+) :

Battle of Riyadh The Battle of Riyadh was a minor battle in Riyadh, then part of the Emirate of Ha'il, fought between the Rashidi dynasty and the House of Saud in January 1902 that resulted in the latter's takeover of walled town by Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud. The ...

(1902) – 37 killed. : Battle of Dilam (1903) – 410 killed. :

First Saudi–Rashidi War (1903–1907) Saudi–Rashidi War of 1903–1907, also referred to as the First Saudi–Rashidi War or the Battles over Qasim, was a conflict between House of Saud, Saudi loyalist forces of the newborn Emirate of Riyadh and the Emirate of Ha'il (Jabal Shammar) ...

– 2,300+ killed. :Annexation of Al-Hasa and Qatif (1913) – unknown. :

Battle of Jarrab The Battle of Jarrab was a territorial battle between the Al Saud and their traditional enemies, the Al Rashid on 24 January 1915. It was a proxy battle of World War I and the Second Saud-Rashidi War between the British-supported Saudis and the ...

(1915) – unknown. :Battle of Kanzaan (1915) – unknown. : First Nejd–Hejaz War, 1918–1919 – 8,392+ killed :

Kuwait–Najd War The Kuwait–Najd War erupted in the aftermath of World War I. The war occurred because Ibn Saud of Najd wanted to annex Kuwait. The sharpened conflict between Kuwait and Najd led to the death of hundreds of Kuwaitis. The war resulted in sporadi ...

(1921) – 200Political Science. ''Middle East/North Africa/Persian Gulf Region''. University of Central Arkansas. Retrieved 2011

–800 killed. :1921 Ikhwan raid on Iraq – 700 killed. :

Conquest of Ha'il Conquest of Ha'il, also referred to as the Third Saudi–Rashidi War, was engaged by the Saudi forces, which received British military assistance and its ally Ikhwan tribesmen upon the Emirate of Jabal Shammar, under the last Rashidi ruler M ...

– unknown. :

Ikhwan raids on Transjordan The Ikhwan raids on Transjordan were a series of attacks by the Ikhwan, irregular Arab tribesmen of Najd, on the Emirate of Transjordan between 1922 and 1924. The repeated Wahhabi incursions from Najd into southern parts of his territory were t ...

1922–1924 – 500-1,500 killed. : Second Nejd–Hejaz War (1924–1925) – 450 killed. :

Ikhwan revolt The Ikhwan revolt was an uprising in the Arabian Peninsula from 1927 to 1930 led by the Ikhwan. It began in 1927, when the tribesmen of the Otaibah, Mutayr and Ajman rebelled against the authority of Ibn Saud and engaged in cross-border raids ...

(1927–1930) – 2,000 killed.

Middle Eastern theatre of World War I The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I saw action between 30 October 1914 and 30 October 1918. The combatants were, on one side, the Ottoman Empire, with some assistance from the other Central Powers; and on the other side, the British Em ...

(combined casualty figure 2,825,000–5,000,000) of: *

Caucasus campaign The Caucasus campaign comprised armed conflicts between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, later including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, the German Empire, the Central Caspian Dict ...

Persian campaign Persian expedition or Persian campaign may refer to: * Persian campaign (Alexander the Great) (334–333 BC) * Julian's Persian expedition (363) * Persian expedition of Stepan Razin (1669) * Persian campaign of Peter the Great (1722–1723) * P ...

* Gallipoli campaign *

Mesopotamian campaign The Mesopotamian campaign or Mesopotamian front () was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the British Empire, with troops from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Britain, Australia and the vast major ...

Sinai and Palestine campaign The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918. The British Empire, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy fought alongside the Arab Revol ...

Arab Revolt The Arab Revolt ( ), also known as the Great Arab Revolt ( ), was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Co ...

South Arabia South Arabia (), or Greater Yemen, is a historical region that consists of the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia, mainly centered in what is now the Republic of Yemen, yet it has also historically included Najran, Jazan, ...

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

– c 1.5 million dead *

Sayfo The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian people, Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan province by Ottoman Army ...

– 150,000–300,000 dead *

Great Famine of Mount Lebanon The Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (1915–1918) (; ), also known as Kafno (), was a period of famine, mass starvation on Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Mount Lebanon during World War I that resulted in the deaths of about 200,000 people, most of who ...

– 200,000 dead

Turkish War of Independence , strength1 = May 1919: 35,000November 1920: 86,000Turkish General Staff, ''Türk İstiklal Harbinde Batı Cephesi'', Edition II, Part 2, Ankara 1999, p. 225August 1922: 271,000Celâl Erikan, Rıdvan Akın: ''Kurtuluş Savaşı tarih ...

(combined figure 882,100–2,075,600+): :Greco-Turkish War – 70,000–400,000 casualties :Franco-Turkish War – 40,000 casualties. :Turkish–Armenian War – 60,000–432,500 casualties. :Revolts during the Turkish War of Independence - more than 27,082+ casualties :Turkish-Georgian War (

Red Army invasion of Georgia The Red Army invasion of Georgia (12 February17 March 1921), also known as the Georgian–Soviet War or the Soviet invasion of Georgia,Debo, R. (1992). ''Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921'', pp. 182, 361� ...

)- 20,000 casualties. :665,000-1,156,000 Greek, Armenian, Turkish etc. civilian massacred during the war.

Iraqi–Kurdish conflict The Iraqi–Kurdish conflict consists of a series of wars, rebellions and disputes between the Kurds and the central authority of Iraq starting in the 20th century shortly after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Some put the marki ...

(combined casualty figure 138,800–320,100) of: :

Mahmud Barzanji revolts The Mahmud Barzanji revolts were a series of armed uprisings by Kurdish Sheykh Mahmud Barzanji against the Iraqi authority in newly conquered British Mesopotamia and later the British Mandate in Iraq. Following his first insurrection in May 1 ...

– unknown. :Ahmad Barzanji revolt (1931) – unknown. :1943 Iraqi Kurdish revolt (1943) – unknown. :

First Iraqi–Kurdish War The First Iraqi–Kurdish WarMichael G. Lortz. (Chapter 1, Introduction). ''The Kurdish Warrior Tradition and the Importance of the Peshmerga''. pp.39-42. (), also known as the September Revolution (), was an armed conflict and major event of th ...

(1961–1970) – 75,000–105,000 killed. :

Second Iraqi–Kurdish War The Second Iraqi–Kurdish War was the second chapter of the Barzani rebellion, initiated by the collapse of the Kurdish autonomy talks and the consequent Iraqi offensive against rebel KDP troops of Mustafa Barzani during 1974–1975. The war ca ...

(1974–1975) – 9,000 killed.
600,000 displaced :

PUK insurgency The PUK insurgency was a low-level rebellion of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) against Baathist Iraq from 1975 to 1979, following the defeat of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War, which forced ...

(1976–1978) – 800 killed. :

1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq The 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq occurred during the Iran–Iraq War as PUK and KDP Kurdish militias of Iraqi Kurdistan rebelled against Saddam Hussein as part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, in an attempt to form an independent sta ...

– 50,000–198,000 killed. :

Battle of Sulaymaniyah The Battle of Sulaymaniyah was one of the battles fought during the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. Sulaymaniyah, a mostly Kurdish city with a population of over 100,000, was the first to be liberated by the rebels and the last to fall back to the Ir ...

(1991) – 700–2,000 killed. :

Iraqi Kurdish Civil War The Iraqi Kurdish Civil War (, 'fratricidal war') was a civil war that took place between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan during the mid-1990s, mostly between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party. O ...

(1994–1997) – 3,000–5,000 killed. : 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – several hundred killed (≈300) on the Kurdish front, at least 24 Peshmerga soldiers killed.

Middle Eastern theatre of World War II The Mediterranean and Middle East theatre was a major theatre of operations during the Second World War. The vast size of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre saw interconnected land, naval, and air campaigns fought for control of the Med ...

(combined casualty figure 12,338–14,898+) of: :

Anglo-Iraqi War The Anglo-Iraqi War was a British-led Allies of World War II, Allied military campaign during the Second World War against the Kingdom of Iraq, then ruled by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani who had seized power in the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état with assista ...

– at least 560 killed.Wavell, p. 3438 :

Farhud The () was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots oc ...

175–780 killed. :

Syria–Lebanon campaign The Syria–Lebanon campaign, also known as Operation Exporter, was the invasion of Syria and Lebanon (then controlled by Vichy France, a vassal state of Nazi Germany) in June and July 1941 by British Empire forces, during the Second World War. ...

10,404–12,964 killed. :

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they w ...

100 – 1,062 killed. :

Bombing of Palestine in World War II The Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II was part of an effort by the Royal Italian Air Force (''Regia Aeronautica'') to strike at the United Kingdom by attacking those parts of the British Empire in the Middle East. Backg ...

137 deaths. :

Bombing of Bahrain in World War II The bombing of Bahrain in World War II was part of an effort by the Italian Royal Air Force ('' Regia Aeronautica'') to strike at the British interests wherever possible in the Middle East. While the mission caused little damage, it was succ ...

– unknown.

Iran crisis of 1946 The Iran crisis of 1946, also known as the Azerbaijan crisis () in Iranian sources, was one of the first crises during the aftermath of World War II, sparked by the refusal of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union to relinquish occupied Iranian territory ...

(combined casualty figure 1,921+): :

Azerbaijan People's Republic The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (), also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic (; ), was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds. *Tadeusz Swietochowski. ''Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transitio ...

crisis – 421 killed. :

Republic of Mahabad The Republic of Mahabad, also referred to as the Republic of Kurdistan (; ), was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran, from 22 January to 15 December 1946. The Republic of Mahabad, a puppet state of the ...

crisis – ≈1,000 killed. :Civil interregnum – 500 killed.

Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab–Israeli conflict is a geopolitical phenomenon involving military conflicts and a variety of disputes between Israel and many Arab world, Arab countries. It is largely rooted in the historically supportive stance of the Arab League ...

(combined casualty figure 76,338–87,338+): :Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) – 14,400 casualties. :

Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency The Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency was an armed cross-border conflict, which peaked between 1949 and 1956, involving Israel and Palestinian militants, mainly based in the Gaza Strip, under the nominal control of the All-Palestine Protectorate ...

and

Reprisal operations Reprisal operations (, ') were raids carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in the 1950s and 1960s in response to frequent fedayeen attacks during which armed Arab militants infiltrated Israel from Syria, Egypt, and Jordan to carry out a ...

(1950s) – 3,456 casualties :

Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so w ...

(1956) – 3,203 killed. :

Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about Territory, land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation ...

(1965–present) – 24,000 killed ::

Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon The Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon was a multi-sided armed conflict initiated by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) against Israel in 1968 and against Lebanese Front, Lebanese Christian militias in the mid-1970s. PLO's goal ...

– 2,600–20,000 killed :::

1978 South Lebanon conflict The 1978 South Lebanon conflict, also known as the First Israeli invasion of Lebanon and codenamed Operation Litani by Israel, began when Israel invaded southern Lebanon up to the Litani River in March 1978. It was in response to the Coa ...

:::

1982 Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

First Intifada The First Intifada (), also known as the First Palestinian Intifada, was a sustained series of Nonviolent resistance, non-violent protests, acts of civil disobedience, Riot, riots, and Terrorism, terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinians ...

– 2,000 killed ::

Second Intifada The Second Intifada (; ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its Israeli-occupied territories, occupation from 2000. Starting as a civilian uprising in Jerusalem and October 2000 prot ...

– 7,000 killed ::

Gaza–Israel conflict The Gaza–Israel conflict is a localized part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict beginning in 1948, when about 200,000 of the more than 700,000 Nakba, Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes settled in the Gaza Strip as ref ...

– 3,500+ killed :

Six-Day War The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states, primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10June ...

(1967) – 13,976 killed. :War of Attrition (1967–1970) – 6,403 killed. :

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states led by Egypt and S ...

(1973) 10,000–21,000.

North Yemen civil war The North Yemen civil war, also known as the 26 September revolution, was a civil war fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Kingdom of Yemen, Mutawakkilite Kingdom and supporters of the Yemen Arab Republic. The war ...

(combined 100,000–200,000 casualties): :1962 North Yemen coup d'état, 1962 Coup d'état :North Yemen civil war#Ramadan offensive, Ramadan offensive :North Yemen civil war#Haradh offensive, Haradh offensive :North Yemen civil war#Royalist offensive, 1965 Royalist offensive :Siege of Sanaa (1967) [h].Lebanese Civil War (combined 39,132–43,970+ mortal casualties): :1975 Beirut bus massacre – 27 killed. :Hundred Days' War – 160 killed. :Karantina massacre – 1,000–1,500 killed. :Damour massacre – 684 killed. :Battle of the Hotels – 700 killed. :Black Saturday (Lebanon) – 200–600 killed. :Tel al-Zaatar massacre – 1,778–3,278 killed. :

– 28,280 killed. :Sabra and Shatila massacre – 762–3,500 killed. :War of the Camps (1986–1987) – 3,781 killed. :Mountain War – 1,600 killed. :Lebanese Civil War#Aoun's "War of Liberation", War of Liberation (1989–1990) – unknown. :October 13 massacre – 500–700 killed, 260 civilians massacred. [i].Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution (combined fatalities count 12,000): :1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran – 10,171+ killed and executed.David McDowall. ''A Modern History of the Kurds'' (1996) :1979 Khuzestan insurgency – 112+ killed. :1979 Khorasan uprising – unknown. :1979 Azeri uprising – unknown. :1979 Baluchistan uprising – 50 killed. :Iran hostage crisis – 9 killed. :1979–1980 Tehran clashes – unknown. [j].Iran–Iraq War (combined death count 645,000–823,000+): :Iran–Iraq War#1980: Iraqi invasion, Iraqi invasion 1980 :People's Mujahedin of Iran#Bombings and armed conflict with the Islamic government, Mujahedin al-Halq uprising 1981–1982 :Battle of Khorramshahr (1982) – 17,000 killed :Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982 – 50,000 mortal casualties :Operation Ramadan 1982 – 80,000 killed :1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq, 1983–1986 Kurdish rebellion in Iraq (including the Anfal campaign) 50,000–198,000 killed :Operation Before the Dawn 1983 – 6,000+ killed :Operation Dawn 3 – 162,000 killed :Operation Dawn 5 1984 – 50,000 killed :Operation Dawn 6 1984 – unknown :Operation Kheibar 1984 – 49,000 killed :Iran–Iraq War#1984: 'Tanker War' in Persian Gulf, Tanker War 1984 :Operation Badr (1985) – 30,000–32,000 :Iran–Iraq War#War of the cities, War of the Cities 1985–1987 :First Battle of al-Faw 1986 – unknown :Operation Karbala-4 1986 – 15,000 killed :Siege of Basra – 85,000 killed :Operation Nasr 4 – unknown :Operation Karbala 10 – unknown :Operation Mersad 1987 – 4,900 killed :1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners 2,000 – 30,000 executed [k].Iraq War 2003–2011 (combined casualty figure of 192,361–226,056+): : 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq – 35,000 killed :Iraqi insurgency (2003–06) – 15,000 killed :Civil war in Iraq (2006–07), Civil war in Iraq 2006–2008 – 30,000–40,000 killed :Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War), Iraqi insurgency (2008–2011) – 5,000–10,000 killed ::Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011), Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq – ≈1,000 killed :Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) – 54,000+ killed :War in Iraq (2013–2017) – 53,361–72,056 killed [l].Sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine (combined casualties 7,813) :Jaffa riots, 1921 Jaffa riots – 95 killed :1929 Palestine riots – 251 killed. :1933 Palestine riots – 20 killed. :1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Arab Revolt in Palestine – 5,000 killed. :Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine (1944–47) – 338 BritishBenjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon: Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire, p. 100 and around 100 Palestinian Jews killed. :1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine – 2,009 killed by 1 April 1948.#gelber, Yoav Gelber (2006), p.85 [m].Egyptian Crisis (combined casualties 5,000+) :2011 Egyptian revolution – 846 killed :Sinai insurgency – 2,800+ killed [n].Syrian civil war (combined casualties 503,064–613,407) * Civil uprising phase of the Syrian civil war – * Early insurgency phase of the Syrian civil war – * 2012–2013 escalation of the Syrian civil war – * Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian civil war – 5,641–6,991 killed * Territory of the Islamic State, ISIL expansion * Foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war **US intervention in the Syrian civil war **Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war * Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016), Battle of Aleppo and Operation Euphrates Shield * Eastern Syria campaign * Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019) * Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019) and 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria [o].Iran–Israel proxy conflict (combined casualties ≈2,000) *2006 Lebanon War – 1,641 killed *Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war – several dozen killed

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