7 brutal wars around the world Donald Trump’s not ended yet | World | News
The number of conflicts Donald Trump claims to have ended varies according to the US president’s latest tally. Mr Trump has previously claimed to have ended wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Thailand and Cambodia; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; Israel and Iran; Israel and Hamas; India and Pakistan; Egypt and Ethiopia, and, lastly, Serbia and Kosovo. Here are a few of the US presidents who haven’t ended, which readers may never have heard of.
Myanmar
Myanmar’s military government controls about 21% of the country’s territory following a coup in 2021.
An estimate from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)reported in 2025 that rebel forces and ethnic armies held 42%, citing a 2024 investigation by the BBC.
The military junta has struggled to fight ethnic armed organisations across Myanmar. The United Nations has said the conflict has displaced more than three million people and resulted in over 75,000 deaths.
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Somalia
Al-Qaeda offshoot, Al-Shabaab, is exploiting the Somali government’s relative weakness and the African country’s “dire” humanitarian crises to launch attacks on civilians, government forces and peacekeepers, according to CFR.
The group wants to destroy the Federal Government of Somalia, rid the country of foreign forces and unite all ethnic Somalis across East Africa under strict Islamic rule.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee Somalia. In 2023, at least 4.3 million people were left in urgent need to food aid after below-average rains devastated the already war-torn country, according to Human Rights Watch.
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Sudan
Sudan was plunged into a civil war in April 2023 when a power struggle erupted between the country’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
It has sparked claims of a genocide in the western Darfur region and fears for civilian lives in the city of el-Fasher after its recent capture by the RSF.
Over 150,000 people have died in the conflict and some 12 million have fled their homes. The United Nations has described fallout from the war as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
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Mexico
While Mexico isn’t at war with another country, it is waging an internal armed conflict with powerful drug cartels in what’s been called the Mexican Drug War.
Thousands of Mexicans die in the conflict every year, according to CFR. It says Mexico has seen more than 460,000 murders since 2006 when the government first declared war on the cartels.
The US has pumped billions of dollars into the war in part to help Mexico modernise its security forces. Donald Trump’s administration has designated some cartels as terrorist organisations in a bid to strengthen the White House’s response.
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Haiti
Gang violence has plagued this Caribbean island nation for years. Violence has soared since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
By 2023, gangs had control of more than 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to CFR. The United Nations sent a security force led by Kenya to help police in Haiti confront gang violence.
Amnesty International reported that over 5,600 people were said to have been killed amid the chaos in 2024. Children are targeted and regularly exploited by gangs, and food is scarce, with half of the country’s population facing acute hunger, according to the human rights campaign group.
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