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Political

 * Syrian and Iraqi civil wars
 * Military intervention against ISIL
 * Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger
 * Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
 * 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine


 * More details on ongoing conflicts below

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May

 * 30: Beau Biden
 * 30: Joël Champetier
 * 30: Julie Harris
 * 30: Tony McNamara
 * 30: Lennie Merullo
 * 30: Cornell Moss
 * 30: L. Tom Perry
 * 29: Doris Hart
 * 29: Chris Kohlhase
 * 28: John Buckner
 * 28: Reynaldo Rey
 * 27: Erik Carlsson
 * 27: Bill Foster
 * 27: Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki
 * 27: Andy King
 * 27: John Siegal
 * 26: Vicente Aranda
 * 26: Walter Byers
 * 26: Bob Hornery
 * 26: Art Thieme
 * 25: Mary Ellen Mark
 * 25: John M. Murphy
 * 25: Bill O'Herlihy
 * 24: Marcus Belgrave
 * 24: Michael W. Ryan
 * 23: Anne Meara
 * 23: John Forbes Nash, Jr.
 * 22: Marques Haynes
 * 22: Vladimir Katriuk
 * 22: John Mosley
 * 22: Terry Sue-Patt
 * 21: Louis Johnson
 * 20: Bob Belden
 * 19: Bruce Lundvall
 * 19: Happy Rockefeller
 * 19: Robert S. Wistrich
 * 18: Aruna Shanbaug
 * 17: Chinx
 * 16: Prashant Bhargava
 * 16: Moshe Levinger
 * 16: Dean Potter
 * 16: Adrian Robinson
 * 16: Abu Sayyaf
 * 16: Peter Tallberg
 * 16: John Templeton, Jr.
 * 16: Yeung Kwong
 * 15: Elisabeth Bing
 * 15: Alfred DelBello
 * 15: Corey Hill
 * 15: Jacob Jensen
 * 15: John Lo Schiavo
 * 15: Garo Yepremian
 * 14: B.B. King
 * 14: Franz Wright
 * 13: Derek Davis
 * 13: David Sackett
 * 12: Peter Gay
 * 12: Bill Guthridge
 * 12: William Zinsser
 * 11: Tony Ayala, Jr.
 * 11: Maggie Black
 * 11: Jef Geeraerts
 * 11: John Watts
 * 10: Chris Burden
 * 10: William T. Cooper
 * 10: Kim Kyok-sik
 * 10: Rachel Rosenthal
 * 10: Victor Salvi
 * 9: Kenan Evren
 * 9: Johnny Gimble
 * 9: Alexandre Lamfalussy
 * 9: Michael Mackellar
 * 9: Elizabeth Wilson
 * 8: Rutger Gunnarsson
 * 8: Mwepu Ilunga
 * 8: Leif Holger Larsen
 * 8: Domingo Lucenario, Jr.
 * 7: Maurice Flanagan
 * 7: Frank DiPascali
 * 6: Errol Brown
 * 6: Jim Wright
 * 5: Gerard Davison
 * 5: Craig Gruber
 * 5: Hans Jansen
 * 4: Ellen Albertini Dow
 * 4: Marv Hubbard
 * 4: Joshua Ozersky
 * 3: Thomas A. Constantine
 * 3: Danny Jones
 * 3: Robert Rietti
 * 3: Abdul Basit Usman
 * 2: Guy Carawan
 * 2: Dave Goldberg
 * 2: Maya Plisetskaya
 * 2: Ruth Rendell
 * 1: María Elena Velasco
 * 1: Grace Lee Whitney

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Africa

 * Algeria, Tunisia and Niger
 * Maghreb insurgency


 * Central African Republic
 * Civil war


 * Democratic Republic of Congo
 * Kivu conflict
 * ADF insurgency
 * Katanga insurgency
 * Ituri conflict
 * Lord's Resistance Army insurgency


 * Libya
 * Civil war


 * Mali
 * Northern Mali conflict


 * Nigeria and Cameroon
 * Boko Haram


 * Somalia
 * Civil war


 * South Sudan
 * South Sudanese Civil War


 * Sudan
 * War in Darfur
 * South Kordofan conflict

Americas

 * Colombian conflict
 * Internal conflict in Peru
 * Mexican War on Drugs

Asia

 * Afghanistan War


 * China
 * Xinjiang conflict


 * India
 * Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
 * Insurgency in Northeast India


 * India and Pakistan
 * Kashmir conflict


 * Pakistan
 * War in North-West Pakistan
 * Balochistan conflict


 * Philippines
 * Communist insurgency
 * Moro insurgency


 * Southeast Asia
 * Internal conflict in Burma
 * Papua conflict
 * South Thailand insurgency

Europe

 * Georgia
 * Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
 * Georgian–Ossetian conflict


 * Dissident Irish Republican campaign


 * Chechen-Russian conflict
 * North Caucasus insurgency
 * War in Ingushetia


 * Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
 * Nagorno-Karabakh conflict


 * Ukraine
 * War in Donbass
 * Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

 * Arab–Israeli conflict
 * Gaza–Israel conflict
 * Israeli–Lebanese conflict
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency


 * Iran
 * Iran–PJAK conflict


 * Iraqi civil war
 * American-led intervention in Iraq
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq


 * Syrian Civil War
 * American-led intervention in Syria
 * Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon


 * Turkey
 * Turkey-PKK conflict


 * Yemeni crisis
 * Houthi rebellion
 * Al-Qaeda insurgency
 * South Yemen insurgency

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Recent: April–May

 * 30: Tanzania, Referendum
 * 3: Nagorno-Karabakh, National Assembly
 * 7: United Kingdom, House of Commons
 * 10: Poland, President (1st round)
 * 11: Guyana, National Assembly
 * 13: Lebanon, President (23rd round)
 * 22: Ireland, Referendum
 * 24: Ethiopia, House of Peoples' Representatives
 * 24: Poland, President (2nd round)
 * 25: Suriname, National Assembly
 * 26: Netherlands, Senate

Upcoming: June
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 * 3: Lebanon, President (24th round)
 * 5: Burundi, National Assembly
 * 7: Luxembourg, Referenda
 * 7: Mexico, Congress
 * 7: Turkey, National Assembly
 * 14: Switzerland, Referenda
 * 18: Denmark, Parliament
 * 26: Burundi, President
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Recently concluded

 * Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
 * Brazil: Mensalão scandal
 * Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty, Luka Magnotta
 * China: Liu Tienan, Li Daqiu, Ji Jianye, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai
 * Croatia: Ivo Sanader
 * Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
 * Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff, Breno Borges
 * Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
 * Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
 * Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
 * Jordan: Abu Qatada
 * Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
 * Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu
 * Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
 * South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius, Chris Mahlangu
 * Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
 * United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot
 * United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
 * International
 * ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
 * ICC: Germain Katanga, Thomas Lubanga
 * ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir
 * SCFSL: Charles Taylor

Ongoing

 * France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
 * Germany: Beate Zschäpe
 * Iran: Babak Zanjani
 * Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan, Joseph Scott Pemberton
 * Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
 * Russia: Alexei Navalny
 * South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
 * International
 * ICTY: Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladic

Upcoming
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 * China: Zhou Yongkang, Wu Changshun
 * Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
 * Spain: Lionel Messi
 * United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Andy Coulson
 * United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
 * International
 * ICC: Laurent Gbagbo
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