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Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century: Quick Facts

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Iraq War
The Toppling of the Assad Regime
A woman in patterned clothing sits on the ground inside a makeshift shelter, holding her young child on her lap in the Riyad camp near El Geneina, East Darfur, Sudan.
Second Battle of Fallujah during the Iraq War
Two men walk past heavily damaged corner shops and debris outside Bompai police barracks in Kano, Nigeria, with burned remains and rubble scattered on the ground.
Thick black smoke rises from buildings near the University of Science and Technology in Sanaa, Yemen, with city structures in the foreground and mountains in the background.
A Ukrainian soldier in camouflage and a black beanie looks out from the open hatch of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle surrounded by bare trees near Avdiivka, Donetsk region.
People walk through widespread rubble and destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, after an Israeli airstrike, with damaged cityscape in the background.
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