Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

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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.

Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century: Media

Many lives have already been lost in this millennium.

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Iraq War

Iraq War

Training of Iraqi soldiers, Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, 2011.

U.S. Army photo by Spc. Breeanna J. DuBuke

The Toppling of the Assad Regime

The Toppling of the Assad Regime

Syrians standing near the fallen statue of Hafez al-Assad, the founder of the Assad...

© Orhan Qereman/Reuters

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.

Darfur

A woman displaced by fighting sitting with her child in the Riyad camp in Darfur,...

© David Snyder/Dreamstime.com

Second Battle of Fallujah during the Iraq War

Second Battle of Fallujah during the Iraq War

U.S. Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah in November...

Lance Corporal Samantha L. Jones/U.S. Marine Corps

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.

Boko Haram

Two residents passing by buildings damaged in a Boko Haram attack in Kano, Nigeria,...

Aminu Abubakar—AFP/Getty Images

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.

Sanaa amid the 2014 takeover by Houthi rebels

Smoke rising from the main gate of the army's 1st Armored Division after an attack...

© Mohammed Huwais—AFP/Getty Images

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.

Russia-Ukraine War

A member of the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade in a U.S.-supplied M2 Bradley infantry...

© Genya Savilov—AFP/Getty Images

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.

Israel-Hamas War

Destruction in the Jabalia refugee camp from an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip...

© Bashar Taleb—AFP/Getty Images

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