The war in Afghanistan was the deadliest armed conflict in the world, with nearly 42 000 fatalities in 2019. Two peace processes deteriorated in 2019: on the Korean peninsula, discussions between North Korea and the United States stalled and the collapse of the Taliban–USA peace talks in September 2019 led to renewed pessimism about the prospects of ending the long-running war in Afghanistan (despite the resumption of talks in November 2019). Some of the most organized of these groups are active in South East Asia, most notably in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Two emerging trends remained cause for concern in 2019: ( a) the growing violence related to identity politics, based on ethnic or religious polarization or both and ( b) the increase in transnational violent jihadist groups. The other four were in South East Asia: Indonesia (low-intensity subnational armed conflict), Myanmar (high-intensity subnational armed conflict), the Philippines (high-intensity subnational armed conflict) and Thailand (low-intensity subnational armed conflict). There were three in South Asia: Afghanistan (major internationalized civil war), India (high-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) and Pakistan (high-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts). ![]() Seven countries in Asia and Oceania experienced active armed conflicts in 2019.
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