According to the International Crisis Group (ICG), the ten conflicts of 2018 were North Korea, the US-Saudi-Iran rivalry, The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, the Sahel (a region of western and north-central Africa), Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
Another article published online by “The Atlantic” and entitled “Global Conflicts to Watch in 2018” also mentioned many of the same conflicts by the ICG but also added “military confrontations between China and one or more Southeast Asian nations over territorial disputes in the South China Sea”. In addition, the article mentioned some issues that were developed in the US alone: a “mass-casualty terrorist attack on the US homeland and/or a major cyberattack on US critical infrastructure”.
