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  2. List of armed conflicts in 2016 - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2016. Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 15 deadliest countries in 2014, 2015 and 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 ...

  3. List of wars: 2003–present - Wikipedia

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    Lexico defined war as "A state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country". [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program . [ 3 ]

  4. List of countries by natural disaster risk - Wikipedia

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    Low chance of disasters ... Rankings by country. Rank Country 2022 [1] 2016 [2] [3] 2013 [4] 2012 [5] ... Includes list of world's deadliest disasters in history.

  5. Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)

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    The plans call for 1) the removal of 23,000 US troops at the summer end of 2012, i.e. at the end of September 2012; [51] 2) Afghan security forces to take the lead in combat operations by the end of 2013 while ISAF forces train, advise and assist the Afghans and fight alongside them when needed; and 3) the complete removal of all U.S. troops by ...

  6. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...

  7. List of armed conflicts in 2017 - Wikipedia

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    2016 2018 → The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2017 . Conflict-related fatalities in the world's 15 deadliest countries in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

  8. Iowa schools have removed Holocaust, World War II classics ...

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    Part of a continuing series in the Des Moines Register’s Iowa’s Book Ban Battle project. Several Iowa school districts have removed books on the Holocaust and World War II in their efforts to ...

  9. Civilian casualty ratio - Wikipedia

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    Globally, the civilian casualty ratio often hovers around 50%. It is sometimes stated that 90% of victims of modern wars are civilians, [6] but that is a myth. [2] [4]In 1989, William Eckhardt studied casualties of conflicts from 1700 to 1987 and found that "the civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."