The world will experience the highest number of interstate conflicts since World War II by 2025, according to the annual "Conflict Trends" report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway, published Tuesday.
The document also highlights that the planet experienced 65 conflicts involving at least one state in 2025. A new record since 1946. With 29 conflicts, Africa remained the region most affected by this type of confrontation.
While eight interstate conflicts were recorded last year, double the number projected for 2024, the report mentions an 80-year peak.
These include border clashes between India and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Cambodia and Thailand, as well as Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israeli military operations against Syria.
The year 2025 was the third deadliest since the end of the Cold War, with approximately 245,000 deaths directly related to fighting or political violence.
Civilians paid a heavy price. In Sudan, the siege and massacres perpetrated in the city of El-Fasher, in the Darfur region, are estimated to have killed some 60,000 people.
