Editing 2010s (section)

==Politics and wars==
{{See also|List of sovereign states in the 2010s}}

===Major conflicts===
{{Main|List of wars: 2003–present|2010s in political history}}
The prominent wars of the decade include:

====International wars====
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:130px;"| Name
! style="width:110px;"| Start date
! style="width:110px;"| End date
! Description
|-
| [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]
* [[2014 Israel–Gaza conflict]]
| 14 May 1948

* 8 July 2014
! style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" | ''Ongoing''
* 26 August 2014
| Conflict between [[Jewish]] and [[Arab]] communities in [[Israel]] and the [[West Bank]] has been ongoing since 1948.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_ip_timeline/html/default.stm |title=A History of Conflict |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=20 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110420155956/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_ip_timeline/html/default.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> After Israel occupied the West Bank, it began making [[Israeli settlement|settlements there]], which has been an obstacle to the peace process.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8364815.stm |title=Israeli settlement plan denounced |date=18 November 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=5 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305212607/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8364815.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> Tensions also remained high as [[Hamas]], which controls the [[Gaza Strip]], has been launching rockets and cross-border raids into Israeli territory, to which Israel has responded with force.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/idfs-operation-protective-edge-begins-against-gaza/2014/07/08/ |title=IDF's Operation "Protective Edge" Begins Against Gaza |last=Bear |first=Shalom |date=8 July 2014 |website=The Jewish Press |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=10 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710004714/http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/idfs-operation-protective-edge-begins-against-gaza/2014/07/08/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]]
*[[2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]]
*[[2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes]]
|February 1988

* 1 April 2016
* 20 May 2018
!''Ongoing''
* 5 April 2016
* 27 May 2018
|The region of Karabakh has been disputed over the [[Republic of Artsakh]], which is supported by the Armenian government. A ceasefire was held in 1994. From 1–5 April 2016, clashes began along the [[Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact]] with the [[Artsakh Defence Army]], backed by the [[Armenian Armed Forces]] on one side and the [[Azerbaijani Armed Forces]] on the other. A ceasefire was reached on 5 April between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Moscow. From 20 to 27 May 2018, clashes in former [[no man's land]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kucera |first=Joshua |date=30 May 2018 |title=Azerbaijani military advances on tense Nakhchivan-Armenia border {{!}} Eurasianet |url=https://eurasianet.org/azerbaijani-military-advances-on-tense-nakhchivan-armenia-border |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Eurasianet]] |archive-date=11 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011013937/https://eurasianet.org/azerbaijani-military-advances-on-tense-nakhchivan-armenia-border |url-status=live}}</ref> in the [[Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic]], an [[Enclave and exclave|exclave]] of Azerbaijan, led to Azerbaijan reoccupying [[Günnüt]] and several other strategic villages and positions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 June 2018 |title=Azerbaijan makes territorial gains in Nakhchivan as fighting with Armenia flares |url=https://www.intellinews.com/azerbaijan-makes-territorial-gains-in-nakhchivan-as-fighting-with-armenia-flares-143803/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[bne IntelliNews]] |archive-date=20 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120222722/https://www.intellinews.com/azerbaijan-makes-territorial-gains-in-nakhchivan-as-fighting-with-armenia-flares-143803/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="goble">{{cite web |title=Azerbaijan makes territorial gains in Nakhchivan as fighting with Armenia flares |url=http://www.intellinews.com/azerbaijan-makes-territorial-gains-in-nakhchivan-as-fighting-with-armenia-flares-143803/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621042857/http://www.intellinews.com/azerbaijan-makes-territorial-gains-in-nakhchivan-as-fighting-with-armenia-flares-143803/ |archive-date=21 June 2018 |access-date=20 June 2018 |website=intellinews.com |date=20 June 2018}}</ref>
|-
| [[War on terror]]
* [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|War in Afghanistan]]
* [[Iraqi conflict|Iraq conflict]]
*[[Drone strikes in Pakistan]]
*[[American military intervention in Somalia (2007–present)|American intervention in Somalia]]
*[[American intervention in Libya (2015–2019)|American intervention in Libya]]
| 11 September 2001

* 7 October 2001
* 20 March 2003
* 18 June 2004
* 7 January 2007
* 13 November 2015
!''Ongoing''
* 15 August 2021
* ''Ongoing''
* 4 July 2018
* ''Ongoing''
* 30 October 2019
| Motivated by the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks]], the [[United States]] and other governments started a large scale effort to eliminate [[terrorism]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030214-7.html |title=President Bush Releases National Strategy for Combating Terrorism |date=14 February 2003 |access-date=10 October 2018 |archive-date=12 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012063823/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030214-7.html |url-status=live}}</ref> With support from [[NATO]], the United States [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|invaded]] [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Taliban-controlled Afghanistan]] and overthrew the government.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/12/obamas_speech_on_adding_30000.html |title=Updated: Obama speech balances Afghanistan troop buildup with exit pledge |date=1 December 2009 |agency=Associated Press |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715002711/http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/12/obamas_speech_on_adding_30000.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Two years later, on the pretext that the government of [[Saddam Hussein]] had [[weapons of mass destruction]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html |title=Pilger claims White House knew Saddam was no threat |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 September 2003 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=6 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206195957/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/23/1064082978207.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the United States and a coalition of partners [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invaded Iraq]] and overthrew Hussein,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baghdad_04-09-03.html |title=Online NewsHour Update: Coalition Says Iraqi Regime Has Lost Control of Baghdad – April 9, 2003 |date=1 December 2010 |access-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201163438/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baghdad_04-09-03.html |archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref> after which the U.S. occupied the country.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Ali A. |last=Allawi |title=The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2007 |author-link=Ali A. Allawi}}</ref> However, insurgencies remained active in both countries, long after the invasions.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html |title=World Briefing {{!}} Asia: Afghanistan: Taliban Leader Vows Return |first=Carlotta |last=Gall |date=13 November 2004 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=9 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209030954/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2011 military intervention in Libya]]
| 19 March 2011
| 31 October 2011
| Following [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973]], a [[NATO]]-led coalition launched an air campaign backing [[Anti-Gaddafi forces|anti-Gaddafi rebels]] against [[Muammar Gaddafi]]'s [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|government]] in the [[Libyan Civil War]].
|-
| [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]
* [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|Annexation of Crimea]]
* [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|War in Donbas]]
| 20 February 2014

* 20 February 2014
* 6 April 2014
! style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" | ''Ongoing''
* 26 March 2014
* 24 February 2022
| After the fall of Ukrainian president [[Viktor Yanukovych]], Russian soldiers took control of strategic positions in the Ukrainian territory of [[Crimea]] and subsequently annexed the region after a [[2014 Crimean status referendum|controversial referendum]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tass.ru/en/russia/724785 |title=Putin signs laws on reunification of Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia |publisher=[[ITAR TASS]] |date=21 March 2014 |access-date=21 March 2014 |archive-date=20 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320064852/http://tass.ru/en/russia/724785 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the months that followed, demonstrations in [[Donbas]] escalated into an [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|armed conflict]] between the [[government of Ukraine]] and Russian-backed separatist forces. On 24 February 2022, it concluded with the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]]
|-
| [[War against the Islamic State]]
| 13 June 2014
! rowspan="2" style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" | ''Ongoing''
| In late 2013, a terrorist organisation called the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] began making rapid advances and territorial gains in [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]]. It [[Fall of Mosul|captured Mosul]] in June<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/iraq-sunni-insurgents-islamic-militants-seize-control-mosul |title=Isis insurgents seize control of Iraqi city of Mosul |last=Chulov |first=Martin |date=10 June 2014 |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=11 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611031257/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/iraq-sunni-insurgents-islamic-militants-seize-control-mosul |url-status=live}}</ref> and made [[Raqqa]] its capital.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php |title=ISIS announces formation of Caliphate, rebrands as 'Islamic State' |work=The Long War Journal |date=29 June 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404155146/https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/06/isis_announces_formation_of_ca.php |url-status=live}}</ref> Various international coalitions led by the [[International military intervention against ISIL#US-led coalitions|United States]], [[Opération Chammal|France]], [[Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition|Russia]], and [[Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition|Muslim states]] and with aid from dozens of countries were formed to help fight the militants.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/3273185/isis-us-nato/ |title=U.S. Forms Anti-ISIS Coalition at NATO Summit |last=Nicks |first=Denver |magazine=Time |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=12 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012154609/http://time.com/3273185/isis-us-nato/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/middleeast/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia/index.html |title=34 Islamic nations form coalition to fight terrorism |first1=Ed |last1=Payne |first2=Salma |last2=Abdelaziz |publisher=CNN |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=7 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507082417/https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/middleeast/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By December 2017, ISIL had lost all of its territory in Iraq and 95% of its territory in Syria,<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKay |first=Hollie |date=5 December 2017 |title=Trump, Mattis turn military loose on ISIS, leaving terror caliphate in tatters |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-mattis-turn-military-loose-on-isis-leaving-terror-caliphate-in-tatters |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Fox News]] |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214072628/https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-mattis-turn-military-loose-on-isis-leaving-terror-caliphate-in-tatters |url-status=live}}</ref> and was militarily and territorially defeated on 23 March 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Najjar |first=Farah |date=23 March 2019 |title=ISIL 'caliphate' totally eliminated: SDF |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/23/isil-defeated-in-final-syria-victory-sdf |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] |archive-date=20 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020182626/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/23/isil-defeated-in-final-syria-victory-sdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war]]
| 26 March 2015
| During the [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[United Arab Emirates]], and other countries invaded parts of Yemen in order to depose the [[Houthi]]-controlled government.
|-
|[[Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War]]
* [[Operation Euphrates Shield]]
* [[Turkish military operation in Idlib Governorate]]
* [[Operation Olive Branch]]
* [[2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria]]
| 5 December 2011

* 24 August 2016
* 7 October 2017
* 20 January 2018
* 9 October 2019
!''Ongoing''
* 29 March 2017
* ''Ongoing''
* 9 August 2019
* 25 November 2019
| During the [[Syrian Civil War]], [[Turkey]] invaded parts of northern [[Syria]] in order to combat the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] and the [[Syrian Democratic Forces]], fostering and funding the [[Syrian National Army]] of the [[Syrian Interim Government]], culminating in its [[2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria|2019 offensive into northeastern Syria]] in which over 300,000 civilians were displaced<ref name="auto15">{{Cite web |date=16 October 2019 |title=Turkish military operation east Euphrates kills more than 70 civilians so far and forces nearly 300 thousand people to displace from their areas |url=http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=144078 |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Syrian Observatory for Human Rights]] |archive-date=23 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023125656/http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=144078 |url-status=live}}</ref> and dozens more killed,<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 October 2019 |title=Teröristlerin saldırılarında 20 sivil şehit oldu, 170 kişi yaralandı |url=https://www.bursadabugun.com/haber/teroristlerin-saldirilarinda-20-sivil-sehit-oldu-170-kisi-yaralandi-1191643.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=Bursada Begün |language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=13 October 2019 |title=Kurdish politician among nine civilians executed by Turkish-backed fighters in Syria |url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/kurdish-politician-executed-by-turkish-backed-fighters-in-syria-1.7970427 |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Haaretz]] |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214225856/https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/kurdish-politician-executed-by-turkish-backed-fighters-in-syria-1.7970427 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2019 |title=About 10 citizens were killed or injured due to rocket shelling carried out by the forces of "Jarabulus Military Council" on the city of Jarabulus north-east of Aleppo |url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/143248/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Syrian Observatory for Human Rights]] |archive-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025231242/https://www.syriahr.com/en/143248/ |url-status=live}}</ref> prompting a controversial reaction worldwide in response to reported human rights violations<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 October 2019 |title=Damning evidence of war crimes by Turkish forces and allies in Syria |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/syria-damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-and-other-violations-by-turkish-forces-and-their-allies/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Amnesty International]] |archive-date=2 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202081923/https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/syria-damning-evidence-of-war-crimes-and-other-violations-by-turkish-forces-and-their-allies/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2019 |title=India slams Turkey for its 'unilateral military offensive' in northeast Syria |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-slams-turkey-for-its-unilateral-military-offensive-in-northeast-syria/articleshow/71520852.cms |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[The Times of India]] |archive-date=13 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013011531/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-slams-turkey-for-its-unilateral-military-offensive-in-northeast-syria/articleshow/71520852.cms |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 October 2019 |title=Turkey-Syria offensive: US sanctions Turkish ministries |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50050264 |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=22 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022174804/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50050264 |url-status=live}}</ref> and resettlement of [[Kurds in Syria|Kurds]] which has been viewed as possible [[ethnic cleansing]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cockburn |first=Patrick |date=15 November 2019 |title=Erdogan's ethnic cleansing of the Kurds is still happening now – and we have Trump to thank |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/erdogan-turkey-kurds-border-syria-war-trump-ethnic-cleansing-a9204581.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/erdogan-turkey-kurds-border-syria-war-trump-ethnic-cleansing-a9204581.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[The Independent]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Candar |first=Cengiz |date=30 September 2019 |title=Erdogan's Syria plan: Resettling the Syrian refugees or ousting Kurds from their land? |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/09/turkey-syria-united-states-erdogan-plans-for-east-euphrates.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Al-Monitor]] |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112005731/https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/09/turkey-syria-united-states-erdogan-plans-for-east-euphrates.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Dominic |date=8 October 2019 |title=Turkey's plan to settle refugees in northeast Syria alarms allies |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-refugees-graphi-idUSKBN1WN28J |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=14 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014035235/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-refugees-graphi-idUSKBN1WN28J |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
| 14 February 2019
| 22 March 2019
| After a [[2019 Pulwama attack|suicide car bombing]] on 14 February 2019 where 40 Indian security personnel are killed,<ref>{{citation |first1=Michael |last1=Safi |title=Dozens of Indian paramilitaries killed in Kashmir car bombing |date=15 February 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/indian-paramilitaries-killed-in-suicide-car-bombing-in-kashmir |work=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404033022/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/indian-paramilitaries-killed-in-suicide-car-bombing-in-kashmir |access-date=4 April 2019 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |first2=Azhar |last2=Farooq |url-status=live}} Quote: "'We will give a befitting reply, our neighbour will not be allowed to de-stabilise us,' Modi said ..."</ref> the [[Indian Air Force]] launches [[2019 Balakot airstrike|airstrikes]] on purported [[Terrorist training camp|terrorist camps]] in [[Muzaffarabad]] and [[Chakothi]] areas of [[Azad Kashmir|Pakistan-administered Kashmir]], and [[Balakot]] in mainland [[Pakistan]], leading to said standoff.<ref>{{citation |first1=Joanna |last1=Slater |title=Pakistan captures Indian pilot after shooting down aircraft, escalating hostilities |date=27 February 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-says-indian-fighter-jets-crossed-into-its-territory-and-carried-out-limited-airstrike/2019/02/25/901f3000-3979-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315093125/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-says-indian-fighter-jets-crossed-into-its-territory-and-carried-out-limited-airstrike/2019/02/25/901f3000-3979-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html |access-date=30 March 2019 |archive-date=15 March 2019 |first2=Pamela |last2=Constable |author2-link=Pamela Constable |url-status=live}} Quote: The two days of tit-for-tat airstrikes ... the first since 1971, were triggered by a 14 Feb terrorist bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian security personnel."</ref> Also involved was [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]], a Pakistani [[Militant|militant group]] that took responsibility for the bombing and the purported target of Indian attacks.
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[[File:Ruins of Donetsk International airport (16).jpg|thumb|left|The [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|war-torn]] [[Second Battle of Donetsk Airport|ruins]] of [[Donetsk International Airport]] in late December 2014]]
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[[File:Territorial control of the ISIS - 12-31-2014.svg|left|thumb|In red: the area controlled by the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL) ''proto-state'' in December 2014]] 
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[[File:Mosul in ruins after war.jpg|thumb|Devastation in [[Mosul]]'s old city after recapture from ISIL in 2017]]
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====Civil wars====
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:130px;"| Name
! style="width:110px;"| Start date
! style="width:110px;"| End date
! Description
|-
| [[Colombian conflict|Colombian Armed Conflict]]
| 27 May 1964
! rowspan="7" style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" | ''Ongoing''
| [[Low-intensity conflict]] between the [[Colombia]]n [[Government of Colombia|government]], [[Guerrilla movements in Colombia#Colombian armed conflict (1960s - present)|left-wing guerrillas]], and [[paramilitary]] factions has been ongoing since 1964. However, at the start of the decade, only two major groups remained, [[FARC]] and [[National Liberation Army (Colombia)|ELN]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://colombiareports.com/neo-paramilitaries-have-no-political-agenda-govt/ |title=Neo-paramilitaries do not deserve political status: Govt |last=Heyden |first=Tom |date=23 March 2011 |website=Colombia Reports |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=6 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506124842/http://colombiareports.com/neo-paramilitaries-have-no-political-agenda-govt/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2012, both have been in peace talks with the government, with FARC and the government signing a historic [[Colombian peace process|ceasefire]] in June 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/colombia-farc-rebel-ceasefire-agreement-havana |title=Colombia and Farc rebels sign historic ceasefire deal to end 50-year conflict |last1=Brodzinsky |first1=Sibylla |last2=Watts |first2=Jonathan |date=23 June 2016 |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=24 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624120025/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/23/colombia-farc-rebel-ceasefire-agreement-havana |url-status=live}}</ref> Though the deal was [[2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum|initially rejected]] by voters in October,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Idler |first=Annette |date=3 October 2016 |title=Colombia just voted no on its plebiscite for peace. Here's why and what it means. |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/03/colombia-just-voted-no-on-its-referendum-for-peace-heres-why-and-what-it-means/ |access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> a revised deal was unanimously passed by the [[Congress of Colombia|Congress]] in November 2016, bringing an end to much of the fighting.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 November 2016 |title=Colombia signs new peace deal with Farc |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38096179 |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195756/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38096179 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Miroff |first1=Nick |last2=Partlow |first2=Joshua |date=30 November 2016 |title=Colombia's congress approves historic peace deal with FARC rebels |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/colombian-congress-approves-historic-peace-deal/2016/11/30/9b2fda92-b5a7-11e6-939c-91749443c5e5_story.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |archive-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201090410/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/colombian-congress-approves-historic-peace-deal/2016/11/30/9b2fda92-b5a7-11e6-939c-91749443c5e5_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
| 16 March 2004 
| Since 2004, [[Pakistan]] has been fighting an insurgency by armed militant groups aligned with the [[Taliban]] or [[Islamic State]] along its border with [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://dawn.com/news/392654/musharraf-warns-against-failure-of-wana-operation |title=Musharraf warns against failure of Wana operation |newspaper=Dawn |date=3 December 2013 |access-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203181950/http://dawn.com/news/392654/musharraf-warns-against-failure-of-wana-operation |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> The violence has killed at least 60,000 since<ref name="CoW">{{cite web |last1=Crawford |first1=Neta C. |title=Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid-2016 |url=http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2016/War%20in%20Afghanistan%20and%20Pakistan%20UPDATE_FINAL_corrected%20date.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908000946/http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2016/War%20in%20Afghanistan%20and%20Pakistan%20UPDATE_FINAL_corrected%20date.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2017 |access-date=20 September 2017 |website=[[Brown University]] |publisher=[[Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs]] |quote=The war in Pakistan, which began as Al Qaeda and the Taliban fled from Afghanistan into the northwest region of Pakistan in 2001, has caused almost 62,000 deaths and an additional 67,000 injuries.}}</ref> and over 6 million displaced.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 May 2019 |title=As Death Toll Rises, Pashtun Lawmaker Calls For Waziristan Protest |url=https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-as-death-toll-rises-pashtun-lawmaker-calls-for-waziristan-protest/29965861.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]] |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817182237/https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-as-death-toll-rises-pashtun-lawmaker-calls-for-waziristan-protest/29965861.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Express Tribune, Pakistan 2010">{{cite news |last=Wahab |first=Ali |date=11 July 2010 |title=The real cost of Pakistan's war on terror |newspaper=The Express Tribune |location=Pakistan |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/27191/the-real-cost-of-pakistans-war-on-terror/ |url-status=live |access-date=16 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514022559/http://tribune.com.pk/story/27191/the-real-cost-of-pakistans-war-on-terror/ |archive-date=14 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="Dawn News, Economic Survey">{{cite news |last=From the Newspapers |date=20 June 2011 |title=War on terror cost Pakistan $67.9 billion |newspaper=Dawn News, Economic Survey |url=http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/ |url-status=dead |access-date=16 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524132025/http://dawn.com/2011/06/20/war-on-terror-cost-pakistan-679-billion/ |archive-date=24 May 2013}}</ref> By 2014, however, casualties from terrorist and militant attacks had dropped by around 40%.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Small Measure of Progress |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/ |access-date=26 June 2016 |website=Foreign Policy |date=22 December 2014 |archive-date=12 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412035056/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/22/a-small-measure-of-progress/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=John |last2=MacAskill |first2=Ewen |date=16 December 2014 |title=More than 100 children killed in Taliban attack on Pakistan school |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/taliban-attack-army-public-school-pakistan-peshawar |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=21 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121094704/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/taliban-attack-army-public-school-pakistan-peshawar |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Insurgency in Paraguay]]
|27 August 2005
|Since 2005, [[Paraguay]] has been fighting a low-level insurgency by [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aguilera |first=Freddy |date=19 March 2008 |title="Ejército Paraguayo del Pueblo ya incursiona militarmente" |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/ejercito-paraguayo-del-pueblo-ya-incursiona-militarmente-n102273.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Última Hora (Paraguay)|Última Hora]] |language=es-ES |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125225305/https://www.ultimahora.com/ejercito-paraguayo-del-pueblo-ya-incursiona-militarmente-n102273.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> armed militant groups.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Yagoub |first=Mimi |date=10 July 2014 |title=Attacks Sign of Growing EPP Strength in Paraguay Despite Security Crackdown |url=https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/attacks-sign-of-growing-epp-strength-in-paraguay-despite-security-crackdown/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[InSight Crime]]}}</ref> The conflict is estimated to have caused a cumulative 111 deaths by 2020, most of which have been insurgents, local ranchers, and police officers.<ref name=":1" />
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| [[Mexican drug war]]
| 11 December 2006
| Following a rise in criminal violence as a result of influential [[Drug trafficking in Mexico|drug trafficking in the country]], President [[Felipe Calderón]] declared a war on drugs in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-drug-war-is-taking-worse-turn-2015-5 |title=Mexico's drug war is getting even worse |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=17 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617112719/http://www.businessinsider.com/mexicos-drug-war-is-taking-worse-turn-2015-5 |url-status=live}}</ref> Since then, violence has sharply increased,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ncronline.org/news/global/counting-mexicos-drug-victims-murky-business |title=Counting Mexico's drug victims is a murky business |newspaper=National Catholic Reporter |date=March 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=28 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528192211/http://ncronline.org/news/global/counting-mexicos-drug-victims-murky-business |url-status=dead}}</ref> with a death toll of nearly 300,000<ref>{{Cite news |last=Villegas |first=Paulina |date=6 January 2020 |title=A New Toll in Mexico's Drug War: More Than 61,000 Vanished |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-death-toll.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=24 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924202044/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-death-toll.html |url-status=live}}</ref> over 60,000 missing, and 39,000 unidentified bodies in morgues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agren |first=David |date=22 September 2020 |title=Mexico's drug war leaves 39,000 unidentified bodies in its morgues |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/mexicos-drug-war-leaves-39000-unidentified-bodies-in-its-morgues |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Arrests of [[Drug cartel|cartel]] leaders led to increasing violence as cartels,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Cook |first=Colleen W. |date=16 October 2007 |title=Mexico's Drug Cartels |url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Congressional Research Service]] |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fantz |first=Ashley |date=20 January 2012 |title=The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions |url=https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/world/mexico-drug-war-essay/index.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[CNN]]}}</ref> fought for control of [[Illegal drug trade in the United States|trafficking routes into the United States]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Traci |last=Carl |title=Progress in Mexico drug war is drenched in blood |date=10 March 2009 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilIZ5du3hOOeN7yatYIRIhFY-MJAD96RBGO00 |access-date=1 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315080309/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilIZ5du3hOOeN7yatYIRIhFY-MJAD96RBGO00 |archive-date=15 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=High U.S. cocaine cost shows drug war working: Mexico |date=14 September 2007 |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1422771920070914 |access-date=1 April 2009 |archive-date=4 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204232646/https://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1422771920070914 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=CRS Report for Congress: Mexico and the 112th Congress |chapter=Mexico – U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress |editor-first=Mark P. |editor-last=Sullivan |publisher=Congressional Research Service |pages=2, 13, 14 |date=18 December 2008 |chapter-url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> The conflict has emphasised [[Corruption in Mexico|corruption]] and [[Human rights|human rights abuses]], with [[bribery]], [[Illegal drug trade|drug smuggling]], [[kidnapping]], and protection of cartels being widely reported among government officials.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Marosi |first=Richard |date=23 April 2008 |title=Mexican general makes explosive accusations |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexican-general.html |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |archive-date=29 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029174820/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexican-general.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Somali civil war (2009–present)|Somali civil war]]
| 31 January 2009
| In 2009, [[Al-Shabaab (militant group)|Al-Shabaab]], an Islamist militant group, began waging an insurgency against the newly formed [[Transitional Federal Government]]. In 2011, the federal government [[Operation Indian Ocean|captured]] [[Mogadishu]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E7J601H20110806 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019172132/http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E7J601H20110806 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 October 2011 |title=UPDATE 3-Somali government declares Islamist rebellion defeated |date=6 August 2011 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref> and subsequently retook towns across the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20658236 |title=Somalia: 'Al-Shabab' militants forced out of Jowhar |work=BBC News |date=9 December 2012 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=10 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910111203/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20658236 |url-status=live}}</ref> Since then, the government has attempted to clean out the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds with help from [[African Union Mission to Somalia|AMISOM]] soldiers<ref>{{cite web |title=SOMALIA: President says Godane is dead, now is the chance for the members of al-Shabaab to embrace peace {{!}} RBC Radio |url=http://www.raxanreeb.com/2014/09/somalia-president-says-godane-is-dead-now-is-the-chance-for-the-members-of-al-shabaab-to-embrace-peace/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906202740/http://www.raxanreeb.com/2014/09/somalia-president-says-godane-is-dead-now-is-the-chance-for-the-members-of-al-shabaab-to-embrace-peace/ |archive-date=6 September 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |website=raxanreeb.com}}</ref> and military intervention on the part of the United States. Al-Shabaab made a resurgence in 2016, when AMISOM and [[Kenya Defence Forces|Kenyan forces]] were subject to attacks and raids,<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 April 2016 |title=Propaganda is effective weapon as al-Shabab makes resurgence |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/propaganda-is-effective-weapon-as-al-shabab-makes-resurgence |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[PBS NewsHour]]}}</ref> to which American and Somali forces responded with airstrikes,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Germanos |first=Andrea |date=14 April 2017 |title=Trump Further Entrenches US Military Involvement in Somalia |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/14/trump-further-entrenches-us-military-involvement-somalia |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[Common Dreams]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Harsch |first1=Michael F. |last2=Meduna |first2=Maximilian M. |last3=Krug |first3=Teresa |date=18 July 2017 |title=As the U.S. gets more involved in Somalia, beware these three fallacies |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/07/18/as-the-u-s-gets-more-involved-in-somalia-beware-these-three-fallacies/ |access-date=24 December 2020 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813170139/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/07/18/as-the-u-s-gets-more-involved-in-somalia-beware-these-three-fallacies/ |url-status=live}}</ref> weakening Al Shabaab's territorial prominence. The conflict has cost 300,000 to 500,000 lives and devastated Somalia's infrastructure and humanitarian resources.<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Matthew |date=February 2012 |title=Twentieth Century Atlas – Death Tolls and Casualty Statistics for Wars, Dictatorships and Genocides |url=http://necrometrics.com/20c300k.htm#Somalia |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=Necrometrics |archive-date=26 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426033843/http://necrometrics.com/20c300k.htm#Somalia |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 March 2016 |title=The resurgence of al-Shabaab in Somalia and implications for the humanitarian sector – Somalia |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/resurgence-al-shabaab-somalia-and-implications-humanitarian-sector |access-date=24 December 2020 |website=[[ReliefWeb]] |archive-date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033635/https://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/resurgence-al-shabaab-somalia-and-implications-humanitarian-sector |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Boko Haram insurgency]]
| 26 July 2009
| Sparked by long-standing conflict between [[Nigeria]]'s [[Christianity|Christian]] and [[Muslims|Muslim]] communities, the [[Boko Haram]] insurgency began when the [[jihadist]] [[List of rebel groups that control territory|rebel group]] started a rebellion against the [[Federal government of Nigeria|government]].<ref name="Nossiter">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/africa/28nigeria.html |title=Scores Die as Fighters Battle Nigerian Police |first=Adama |last=Nossiter |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 July 2009 |access-date=29 December 2014 |archive-date=23 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123054743/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/africa/28nigeria.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, the group pledged alliance to [[ISIL]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31784538 |title=Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404004635/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31784538 |url-status=live}}</ref> becoming the world's deadliest terrorist group by 2015.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pisa |first1=Katie |last2=Hume |first2=Tim |title=Boko Haram overtakes ISIS as world's deadliest terror group, report says |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/17/world/global-terror-report/ |access-date=23 March 2016 |publisher=CNN |date=19 November 2015 |archive-date=6 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406143919/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/17/world/global-terror-report/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Global Terrorism Index 2015 |url=http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf |publisher=Institute for Economics and Peace |page=41 |date=November 2015 |access-date=23 March 2016 |archive-date=7 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207153725/http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref> The conflict has killed over 37,500 people and displaced 2.5 million, driving 244,000 Nigerian refugees into neighbouring states.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Boko Haram's Deadly Impact |url=https://www.cfr.org/article/boko-harams-deadly-impact |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] |archive-date=2 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202072238/https://www.cfr.org/article/boko-harams-deadly-impact |url-status=live}}</ref> Insurgents were weakened in 2015 when Nigerian forces drove them into Sambisa Forest,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sambisa Forest: An Ideal Hiding Place for Boko Haram |url=https://www.voanews.com/africa/sambisa-forest-ideal-hiding-place-boko-haram |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=Voice of America |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814060521/https://www.voanews.com/africa/sambisa-forest-ideal-hiding-place-boko-haram |url-status=dead}}</ref> causing bitter infighting.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Withnall |first=Adam |date=8 September 2016 |title=Boko Haram descends into in-fighting as reports emerge of deadly clashes between rival Islamist factions |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/boko-haram-descends-fighting-reports-emerge-deadly-clashes-between-rival-islamist-factions-a7231726.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/boko-haram-descends-fighting-reports-emerge-deadly-clashes-between-rival-islamist-factions-a7231726.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[The Independent]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> However, they made a resurgence in 2018–19, with human rights violations; massacres; and mass child kidnappings, exploitation, and torture posing a threat to civilians.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 October 2013 |title=Nigeria: Deaths of hundreds of Boko Haram suspects in custody requires investigation |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/10/nigeria-deaths-hundreds-boko-haram-suspects-custody-requires-investigation/ |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[Amnesty International]] |archive-date=11 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111101855/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/nigeria-deaths-hundreds-boko-haram-suspects-custody-requires-investigation-2013-10-15 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=5 February 2016 |title=Another brutal attack by Boko Haram highlights the weakness of Nigeria's military |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2016/02/05/another-brutal-attack-by-boko-haram-highlights-the-weakness-of-nigerias-military |access-date=25 December 2020 |issn=0013-0613 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204154822/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2016/02/05/another-brutal-attack-by-boko-haram-highlights-the-weakness-of-nigerias-military |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=29 November 2013 |title=Nigeria's Boko Haram 'uses child soldiers' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/11/29/nigerias-boko-haram-uses-child-soldiers |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 December 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Boko Haram kidnaps 330 boys: 'No child should have to choose between their education and their life' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/12/16/boko-haram-kidnaps-330-boys-nigeria-outcry-uses-bringbackourboys/3919404001/ |access-date=25 December 2020 |website=[[USA Today]]}}</ref>
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|[[Mali War]]
|16 January 2012
|In 2012, a [[Tuareg rebellion (2012)|rebellion]] by [[Tuareg people|Tuaregs]] in Northern [[Mali]] began. After Malian president [[Amadou Toumani Touré]] was ousted in a coup, Tuaregs captured Northern Mali,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5grilySJ5EdrgURoNp1mt3AIJhTgg?do |title=Mali junta denounces 'rights violations' by rebels |last=Daniel |first=Serge |date=4 April 2012 |agency=AFP |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201201147/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5grilySJ5EdrgURoNp1mt3AIJhTgg?docId=CNG.915a5505555757d7df5029b5b99451cc.261 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref> and declared it to be the independent state of [[Azawad]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/20124644412359539.html |title=Tuaregs claim 'independence' from Mali |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=30 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130013541/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/04/20124644412359539.html |url-status=live}}</ref> However, Islamists groups took over Northern Mali from the Tuaregs and imposed sharia law.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9365390/Trouble-in-Timbuktu-as-Islamists-extend-control.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9365390/Trouble-in-Timbuktu-as-Islamists-extend-control.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Trouble in Timbuktu as Islamists extend control |first=Zoe |last=Flood |access-date=26 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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| [[South Sudanese Civil War]]
| 15 December 2013
| 22 February 2020
|A multi-sided [[civil war]] between [[Government of South Sudan|government]] and opposition forces including [[Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition|SPLM-IO]] and other groups. Ugandan troops were deployed to fight alongside the South Sudanese government.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 January 2014 |title=Yoweri Museveni: Uganda troops fighting South Sudan rebels |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25759650 |access-date=6 October 2023 |archive-date=6 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006114751/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25759650 |url-status=live}}</ref> The UN deployed [[United Nations peacekeeping|peacekeepers]] as part of the [[United Nations Mission in South Sudan]].<ref name="South Sudan country profile">{{cite news |date=6 August 2018 |title=South Sudan country profile |work=BBC News |url=http://bbc.com/news/world-africa-14069082 |access-date=6 October 2023 |archive-date=20 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620123955/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14069082 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[War in Iraq (2013–2017)|War in Iraq]]
| 1 January 2014
| 9 December 2017
| The civil war began with the conquest of [[Fallujah]], [[Mosul]], [[Tikrit]] and areas of [[Disputed territories of Northern Iraq|northern Iraq]] by [[Islamic State]]. Nations provided aid in the form of airstrikes, troops and intelligence.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/08/08/who_else_besides_americans_are_flying_fighter_jets_in_iraq.html |title=Who Else, Besides Americans, Are Flying Fighter Jets in Iraq? |work=Slate |access-date=14 November 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112044402/http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/08/08/who_else_besides_americans_are_flying_fighter_jets_in_iraq.html |archive-date=12 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/iran-soldiers-iraq-islamic-state-2014823161322258630.html |title=Iran 'sent soldiers to fight in Iraq' |publisher=[[Al Jazeera America]] |date=23 August 2014 |access-date=11 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920121525/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/iran-soldiers-iraq-islamic-state-2014823161322258630.html |archive-date=20 September 2014}}</ref> In December 2017, Prime Minister [[Haider al-Abadi]] announced victory over ISIL,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraq-announces-end-war-liberation-borders-syria-abadi/ |title=Iraq announces end of war against IS, liberation of borders with Syria: Abadi |publisher=Iraqi News |date=9 December 2017 |last=Mostafa |first=Nehal |access-date=13 January 2019 |archive-date=9 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209235658/https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/iraq-announces-end-war-liberation-borders-syria-abadi |url-status=live}}</ref> though others warned to expect ISIL to continue the fight by other means.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-parade/iraq-holds-victory-parade-after-defeating-islamic-state-idUSKBN1E407Z |title=Iraq holds victory parade after defeating Islamic State |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=10 December 2017 |last=Aboulenein |first=Ahmed |access-date=13 January 2019 |archive-date=10 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210223418/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-parade/iraq-holds-victory-parade-after-defeating-islamic-state-idUSKBN1E407Z |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Libyan civil war (2014–2020)|Libyan civil war]]
| 16 May 2014
| 24 October 2020
| Following the [[Factional violence in Libya (2011–2014)|factional violence]] that engulfed Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, a second civil war broke out among factions seeking control of the territory and oil of [[Libya]]. The conflict was mostly between the [[House of Representatives (Libya)|House of Representatives]] (HoR) government that was controversially [[2014 Libyan parliamentary election|elected in 2014]], also known as the "[[Tobruk]] government"; and the rival [[General National Congress (2014)|General National Congress]] (GNC) government, also called the "[[National Salvation Government]]". A permanent ceasefire agreement in all areas became effective from October 2020, ending the war.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/libyan-civil-war-two-warring-factions-sign-permanent-ceasefire-1983297 |title=Libyan Civil War: Two warring factions sign 'permanent' ceasefire |date=24 October 2020 |website=The Daily Star |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415014337/https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/libyan-civil-war-two-warring-factions-sign-permanent-ceasefire-1983297 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-23/un-says-libya-rivals-sign-cease-fire-deal |title=Libyan factions sign countrywide U.N.-brokered cease-fire |date=23 October 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101060700/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-23/un-says-libya-rivals-sign-cease-fire-deal |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]]
| 16 September 2014
! style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" rowspan="2"| ''Ongoing''
| Preceded by a decade-long [[Houthi insurgency]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2015/02/22/yemens-ousted-president-hadi-calls-for-houthis-to-quit-capital/ |title=Yemen's ousted president Hadi calls for Houthis to quit capital |work=The Star Online |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717041643/https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2015/02/22/yemens-ousted-president-hadi-calls-for-houthis-to-quit-capital/ |url-status=live}}</ref> the Yemeni civil war began between two factions: the then-incumbent Yemeni government and the [[Houthi movement|Houthi]] militia, along with their supporters and allies. Both claim to constitute the [[Yemen]]i government.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143295/asher-orkaby/houthi-who |agency=Foreign Affairs |title=Houthi Who? |first=Asher |last=Orkaby |date=25 March 2015 |access-date=25 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327115828/http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143295/asher-orkaby/houthi-who |archive-date=27 March 2015}}</ref>
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| [[Philippine drug war]]
| 30 June 2016
| There was a rise in criminal violence as a result of drug trafficking, after Philippine President [[Rodrigo Duterte]] was inaugurated in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/duterte-to-push-ahead-with-name-shame-in-drug-war-as-deaths-rise |title=Duterte to Push Ahead With Name-Shame in Drug War as Deaths Rise |first=Clarissa Batino Cecilia |last=Yap |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=3 August 2016 |via=Bloomberg |access-date=4 March 2017 |archive-date=1 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101052252/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-03/duterte-to-push-ahead-with-name-shame-in-drug-war-as-deaths-rise |url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2020, it has caused about 6000 deaths.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/drug-war-killings-increased-during-covid-19-pandemic-says-hrw/ar-BB18SuIs?li=BBr8Mkn |title=Drug war killings increased during COVID-19 pandemic, says HRW |website=msn.com}}</ref>
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|[[Siege of Marawi]]
|23 May 2017
|23 October 2017
|The battle of Marawi was a five-month-long [[War|armed conflict]] in [[Marawi]], [[Philippines]], that started on May 23, 2017, between [[Government of the Philippines|Philippine government]] [[Armed Forces of the Philippines|security forces]] against [[militant]]s [[Collaboration with the Islamic State#Groups expressing support for ISIL|affiliated]] with the Islamic State, including the [[Maute group|Maute]] and [[Abu Sayyaf]] [[Salafi jihadism|Salafi jihadist]] groups. The [[battle]] became the longest [[Urban warfare|urban battle]] in the [[History of the Philippines (1986–present)|modern history of the Philippines]].
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|[[Anglophone Crisis]]
|9 September 2017
! rowspan="4" style="background: #ececec; color: #2C2C2C;" | ''Ongoing''
|Following the suppression of [[2016–17 Cameroonian protests|2016–17 protests]] by Cameroonian authorities, [[Ambazonia]]n [[Separatism|separatists]] in the Anglophone regions launched a [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] campaign against the [[Cameroon Armed Forces]], and unilaterally proclaimed independence. In November 2017, the government of Cameroon declared war on the separatists and sent its army into the Anglophone regions.
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|[[Insurgency in Cabo Delgado]]
|5 October 2017
|The insurgency in Cabo Delgado is an ongoing [[Islamism|Islamist]] [[insurgency]] in [[Cabo Delgado Province]], [[Mozambique]], fought between militant [[Islamism|Islamists]] and [[Jihadism|jihadists]] attempting to establish an [[Islamic state]], and [[Mozambique Defence Armed Forces|Mozambican security forces]]. Civilians have been the main targets of [[Islamic terrorism|terrorist attacks]] by Islamist militants. The main insurgent faction is [[Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique)|Ansar al-Sunna]], a native extremist faction with connections to ISIS.
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|[[Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)|Islamic State insurgency in Iraq]]
|9 December 2017
|The insurgency in Iraq is an ongoing [[Low-intensity conflict|low-intensity]] [[insurgency]] that began in 2017 after [[Islamic State|ISIS]] lost its [[Territory of the Islamic State|territorial control]] in the [[War in Iraq (2013–2017)|War in Iraq]], during which ISIS and allied [[White Flags]] fought the [[Iraqi Armed Forces|Iraqi military]] (largely backed by the United States, United Kingdom and [[International military intervention against ISIL|other countries]] conducting airstrikes against ISIS) and [[Private militias in Iraq|allied]] [[paramilitary]] forces (largely backed by [[Iran]]).
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|[[Catatumbo campaign]]
|January 2018
|The Catatumbo campaign has been an ongoing period of violence between militia faction groups in the Catatumbo region of [[Colombia]] and [[Venezuela]] since January 2018. It is an extension of the [[War on drugs]] and developed after the [[Colombian peace process]] of 2016. 
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===Revolutions and major protests===
{{Main|List of protests in the 21st century}}
Successful [[revolution]]s and otherwise major [[protest]]s of the decade include, but are not limited to:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Event
! Date
! Country
! Events
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2010 Kyrgyz Revolution]]
| 6 April – 14 December 2010 
| {{flag|Kyrgyzstan|1992}}
| Kyrgyz President [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]] fled [[Bishkek]] amid fierce anti-government riots as the opposition seized control.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8608708.stm |title=Kyrgyz opposition seizes control |date=8 April 2010 |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109024351/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8608708.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Occupy Wall Street]] and the [[Occupy movement]]
| September 17, 2011 – {{circa|2013}}
| {{flag|United States}}
| Hundreds of protesters marched into the financial district of [[Wall Street]] in [[New York City]], beginning the [[Occupy Wall Street]] [[Occupy movement|movement]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm |title=Hundreds of protesters descend to 'Occupy Wall Street' |publisher=money.cnn.com |date=17 September 2011 |access-date=17 September 2011 |archive-date=18 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918123424/http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Rojava conflict|Rojava revolution]]
|19 July 2012 – present
|{{flag|Rojava}}
| A sub-conflict of the [[Syrian civil war|Syrian Civil War]].
|
|-
| [[Gezi Park protests]]
| 28 May 2013 – 30 August 2013
| {{flag|Turkey}}
| A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in [[Turkey]] began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for [[Istanbul]]'s [[Taksim Gezi Park]].
|-
| [[Euromaidan]] and the [[Revolution of Dignity]]
| 21 November 2013 – 23 February 2014
| {{flag|Ukraine}}
| [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Viktor Yanukovych]] fled the country following violent protests in the capital, [[Kyiv]]. The opposition-controlled [[Verkhovna Rada]] voted to remove Yanukovych as president.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |title=Archrival Is Freed as Ukraine Leader Flees |last1=Higgins |first1=Andrew |date=22 February 2014 |last2=Kramer |first2=Andrew E. |work=[[The New York Times]] |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=13 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213174408/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/world/europe/ukraine.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Abkhazian Revolution]]
|27 May – 1 June 2014
|{{flag|Abkhazia}}
|In a quick turn of events, the president of the [[List of states with limited recognition|breakway republic]], [[Alexander Ankvab]], was ousted from power after the government building was stormed.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Eurasianet |title=Abkhazia: the post-Soviet revolution the world blinked and missed |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/abkhazia-russia-post-soviet-revolution |work=The Guardian |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115063005/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/09/abkhazia-russia-post-soviet-revolution |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2014 Burkina Faso uprising]]
|28 October – 3 November 2014
|{{flag|Burkina Faso}}
|A series of demonstrations and [[riot]]s in [[Burkina Faso]] in October 2014. Demonstrations began in response to controversial attempts to introduce a constitutional amendment that would lift term limits and allow [[President of Burkina Faso|President]] [[Blaise Compaoré]] to run for additional terms as president and extend his years in office. On 30 October, Compaoré dissolved the government and fled to [[Côte d'Ivoire]] and was succeeded by [[Yacouba Isaac Zida]].
|-
| [[2015–2016 protests in Brazil]]
|15 March 2015 – 31 July 2016 
|{{flag|Brazil}}
| In 2015 and 2016, a series of protests in Brazil denounced [[Operation Car Wash|government corruption]] and the presidency of [[Dilma Rousseff]], being the largest popular mobilisations in the country since the beginning of the "[[History of Brazil since 1985|New Republic]]".
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://exame.abril.com.br/brasil/mais-de-1-milhao-de-pessoas-protestam-contra-dilma-pelo-pais/ |title=Mais de 1 milhão de pessoas protestam contra Dilma pelo país {{!}} EXAME |website=exame.abril.com.br |language=pt-BR |access-date=25 June 2018 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626030231/https://exame.abril.com.br/brasil/mais-de-1-milhao-de-pessoas-protestam-contra-dilma-pelo-pais/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Burundian unrest (2015–2018)|Burundian unrest]]
|26 April 2015 – 17 May 2018
|{{flag|Burundi}}
| [[Burundi]] faces unrest as [[List of presidents of Burundi|President]] [[Pierre Nkurunziza]] seeks a third term in office, resulting in hundreds killed and thousands more fleeing the country.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/19/burundi-refugees-rwanda-no-turning-back-fears-grow-reprisals |title=Burundi refugees say there is no turning back as fears grow of reprisals at home |last1=Sullivan |first1=Katherine |last2=Bugesera |first2=in |date=19 May 2015 |website=The Guardian |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=18 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118140857/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/19/burundi-refugees-rwanda-no-turning-back-fears-grow-reprisals |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2018–2019 Gaza border protests]]
|30 March 2018 – 27 December 2019
|{{flag|Israel}}{{flag|Palestine}}
|Protests against the [[Blockade of the Gaza Strip]], with 183 protesters killed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIOPT/A_HRC_40_74.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIOPT/A_HRC_40_74.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory}}</ref>
|
|-
|[[2018 Armenian Revolution]]
|31 March – 8 May 2018
|{{flag|Armenia}}
| Various political and civil groups led by member of parliament [[Nikol Pashinyan]] staged anti-government protests in Armenia. Prime Minister [[Serzh Sargsyan]] resigned on 23 April 2018. Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister on 8 May 2018.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://armenianweekly.com/2018/04/23/breaking-serge-sarkisian-resigns-as-prime-minister/ |title=Breaking: Serge Sarkisian Resigns as Prime Minister |last=Hairenik |date=23 April 2018 |work=The Armenian Weekly |access-date=26 April 2018 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224184816/https://armenianweekly.com/2018/04/23/breaking-serge-sarkisian-resigns-as-prime-minister/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/08/hes-not-a-populist-hes-popular-nikol-pashinyan-becomes-armenian-pm |title='He's not a populist, he's popular': Nikol Pashinyan becomes Armenian PM |last=Roth |first=Andrew |date=8 May 2018 |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 May 2018 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130112645/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/08/hes-not-a-populist-hes-popular-nikol-pashinyan-becomes-armenian-pm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests]]
|29 July – 1 September 2018
|{{flag|Bangladesh}}
|Nation-wide protests mainly by students after reckless driving caused deaths of two high school students.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1352131/world |title=Bangladesh approves new road safety law to placate protesters |date=6 August 2018 |website=Arab News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://southasiajournal.net/bangladesh-students-started-an-enduring-movement-even-as-street-protests-end/ |title=Bangladesh: Students Started an Enduring Movement Even as Street Protests End |date=10 August 2018 |access-date=21 November 2020 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129105305/http://southasiajournal.net/bangladesh-students-started-an-enduring-movement-even-as-street-protests-end/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Yellow vests protests]]
| 17 November 2018 – present
|{{flag|France}}
|[[France]] experiences its worst [[civil unrest]] since the [[May 1968 events in France|protests of 1968]] due to the [[yellow vests movement]]. Protests in [[Paris]] morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested. Over 100 cars are burned and numerous tourist sites are closed.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Yellow vest protests 'economic catastrophe' for France |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46499996 |date=9 December 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=9 December 2018 |archive-date=9 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209134544/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46499996 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sudanese revolution]]
|19 December 2018 – 12 September 2019
|{{flag|Sudan}}
|Amid [[2018–19 Sudanese protests|mass protests]], [[Omar al-Bashir]] is deposed as [[President of Sudan]] in [[2019 Sudanese coup d'état|a coup d'état]], after nearly 30 years in office.
|<ref name="guardian" />
|-
|[[2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]]
|9 June 2019 – 2020
|{{flag|Hong Kong}}
|Mass protests take place in [[Hong Kong]] against an [[2019 Hong Kong extradition bill|extradition bill]] that many observed would subject Hong Kong residents and those passing through the city to ''de facto'' jurisdiction of Chinese courts. Despite Hong Kong Chief Executive [[Carrie Lam]] announcing the bill to be "dead" after weeks of mass protests, waves of localised demonstrations continued, some resulting in violent clashes between police, pro-democracy activists, local residents, and [[Triad (organized crime)|Triad]] members.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/01/why-hong-kong-has-become-city-protests/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=1 July 2019 |title=Why Hong Kong has become a city of protests |access-date=22 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-22/hong-kong-tempts-china-s-ire-as-protests-take-more-violent-turn |publisher=Bloomberg |date=22 July 2019 |title=Hong Kong Tempts China's Ire as Protests Take More Violent Turn |access-date=22 July 2019}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Ecuadorian protests]]
|3 – 14 October 2019
|{{flag|Ecuador}}
| On 3 October 2019, taxi, bus and truck drivers came out in protest against the planned fuel subsidy abolition and austerity measures announced by President [[Lenín Moreno]]. The government seat was relocated from [[Quito]] to [[Guayaquil]] and a state of emergency was declared following violent protests.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/ecuador-declares-state-emergency-fuel-protests-block-roads-191003211135894.html |title=Ecuador declares state of emergency as fuel protests block roads |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=9 October 2019 |archive-date=4 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004142833/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/ecuador-declares-state-emergency-fuel-protests-block-roads-191003211135894.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019–2022 Chilean protests]]
|7 October 2019 – 21 December 2021
|{{flag|Chile}}
| On 18 October 2019, a period of mass protests and violent unrest began in Chile. The protests were initially in response to a fare hike on the [[Santiago Metro]], but the scope of the protestors' demands has since expanded.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/chile-protests-chileans-demand-constitution-unrest-191105005906927.html |title=Chile protests: Chileans demand new constitution amid unrest |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref>
|-
|[[2019 Bolivian protests]]
|21 October – 21 November 2019
|{{flag|Bolivia}}
| Following [[2019 Bolivian general election|a disputed election]], protests forced [[Evo Morales]], the president since 2006, to resign and flee to [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Nugent |first1=Ciara |title=Bolivian President Evo Morales Has Resigned After Nearly 14 Years in Power. Here's What to Know |url=https://time.com/5723753/bolivia-evo-morales-resigns/ |magazine=Time |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118203855/https://time.com/5723753/bolivia-evo-morales-resigns/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The new president, [[Jeanine Áñez]], continued to face opposition from pro-Morales protestors.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Clashes Rock Bolivia as its New Interim Leader is Challenged |url=https://time.com/5727991/clashes-bolivia/ |magazine=Time |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114070533/https://time.com/5727991/clashes-bolivia/ |archive-date=14 November 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[File:Wallst14occupy.jpg|thumb|upright|Concerns over [[economic inequality]], greed and the influence of corporations on government led to the rise of the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement in 2011|center]]
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|[[File:Umbrella Revolution in Admiralty Night View 20141010.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[2014 Hong Kong protests]]|center]]
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|[[File:Manifestation contre le 5e mandat de Bouteflika (Blida).jpg|thumb|[[Algeria]]n protesters gather during the 2019 [[2019 Algerian protests|"Smile Revolution"]]|center]]
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====Arab Spring====
{{Main|Arab Spring|Impact of the Arab Spring}}

The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Islamic world in the early 2010s. It began in response to oppressive regimes and a low [[standard of living]], starting with protests in [[Tunisia]].<ref>{{cite news |date=19 January 2011 |title=FEATURE-Peddler's martyrdom launched Tunisia's revolution |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/tunisia-protests-bouazizi-idAFLDE70G18J20110119/ |publisher=Reuters |access-date=16 September 2024 |archive-date=6 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106020438/https://www.reuters.com/article/tunisia-protests-bouazizi-idAFLDE70G18J20110119 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.payvand.com/news/11/feb/1080.html |title=Uprisings in the region and ignored indicators |website=Payvand |access-date=19 December 2019 |archive-date=25 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425231858/http://www.payvand.com/news/11/feb/1080.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Social media]] was heralded as the driving force behind the swift spread of revolution throughout the world, as new protests appeared in response to success stories shared from those taking place in other countries. Many governments began recognising the importance of social media for citizens to organise and began shutting down certain websites or blocking Internet service entirely, especially prior to major rallies.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8287737/Egypt-protests-internet-service-disrupted-before-large-rally.html |title=Egypt protests: Internet service disrupted before large rally |date=28 January 2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=16 September 2024 |archive-date=16 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916072624/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8287737/Egypt-protests-internet-service-disrupted-before-large-rally.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Governments also scrutinised or suppressed discussion in online forums through accusing content creators of unrelated crimes or shutting down communication on specific sites or groups, such as through [[Facebook]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Skinner |first=Julia |date=10 December 2011 |title=Social Media and Revolution: The Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement as Seen through Three Information Studies Paradigms |url=https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1482&context=sprouts_all |journal=Association for Information Systems AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) |pages=3}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Event
! Date
! Country
! Description
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[Tunisian revolution]]
|18 December 2010 – 14 January 2011
|{{flag|Tunisia}}
| Amidst anti-government protests, Tunisia's president [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]] dissolved the government, declared a state of emergency and resigned from office.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12195025 |title=Tunisia: President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali forced out |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=11 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411055853/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12195025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 Egyptian revolution]]
| 25 January – 11 February 2011
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|On 11 February 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that [[Mubarak]] resigned as president, turning power over to the [[Supreme Council of the Armed Forces]] (SCAF). 
|-
| [[2011 Bahraini uprising]]
| 14 February – 18 March 2011
|{{flag|Bahrain}}
| [[Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa]], King of [[Bahrain]], declared a three-month [[state of emergency]] as troops from the [[Gulf Co-operation Council]] were sent to quell the civil unrest.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12751464 |title=Two killed in Bahrain violence despite martial law |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130222317/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12751464 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Libyan civil war (2011)|Libyan civil war]]
| 15 February – 13 October 2011
|{{flag|Libya|1977}}
| Facing protests against his 42-year rule, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] refused to step down and sent in the military to brutally quell protests.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/world/africa/19libya.html |title=Clashes in Libya Worsen as Army Crushes Dissent |last=Shadid |first=Anthony |date=18 February 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503154431/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/world/africa/19libya.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8335934/Libya-protests-140-massacred-as-Gaddafi-sends-in-snipers-to-crush-dissent.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8335934/Libya-protests-140-massacred-as-Gaddafi-sends-in-snipers-to-crush-dissent.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Libya protests: 140 'massacred' as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush dissent |last=Meo |first=Nick |date=20 February 2011 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=26 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> As a result, many army units defected to the opposition and protests soon turned into an armed rebellion.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/in-eastern-libya-defectors-and-volunteers-build-rebel-army/72018/ |title=In Eastern Libya, Defectors and Volunteers Build Rebel Army |last=Gillis |first=Clare Morgana |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=5 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405041919/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/in-eastern-libya-defectors-and-volunteers-build-rebel-army/72018/ |url-status=live}}</ref> With [[2011 military intervention in Libya|international help]], the rebels captured [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/world/africa/24libya.html |title=Qaddafi Defiant After Rebel Takeover |last=Kirkpatrick |first=David D. |date=23 August 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=5 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405014552/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/world/africa/24libya.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and eventually [[Sirte]], Gaddafi's hometown and last outpost, where he was killed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE79J09O20111020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022172715/http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE79J09O20111020 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2011 |title=Gaddafi killed as Libya's revolt claims hometown |date=20 October 2011 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[Syrian civil war]]
| 15 March 2011 – present
|{{flag|Ba'athist Syria}}
| Protests erupted in [[Syria]] against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, with police and the army sent in to crack down on protesters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/middleeast/19syria.html |title=Police Kill 6 Protesters in Syria |date=18 March 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=22 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322061301/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/middleeast/19syria.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12749674 |title=Mid-East unrest: Syrian protests in Damascus and Aleppo |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=21 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721134738/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12749674 |url-status=live}}</ref> They later morphed into war after army officers defected to the opposition, forming the [[Free Syrian Army]] (FSA).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/free-syrian-army-established-to-fight-the-syrian-army/ |title=Free Syrian Army Founded by Seven Officers to Fight the Syrian Army |last=Landis |first=Joshua |date=29 July 2011 |website=The Jakarta Post |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=5 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105232713/http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/free-syrian-army-established-to-fight-the-syrian-army/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> It led to the Kurdish parties called the [[Syrian Democratic Forces|SDF]] to secede from Northeastern Syria, forming [[Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|Rojava]]. The war also allowed for Islamic extremist groups like [[Al-Nusra Front]] and ISIL to temporarily take control of vast amounts of territory.
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[[File:Arab Spring and Regional Conflict Map.svg|300px|thumb|The '''[[Arab Spring]]''' saw mass unrest in the [[Arab world]] early in the decade:<br />{{legend2|#800080|Government overthrown multiple times}}<br />{{legend2|#000018|Government overthrown}}<br />{{legend2|#800000|Civil war}}<br />{{legend2|#008080|Protests and governmental changes}}<br />{{legend2|#d43f00|Major protests}}<br />{{legend2|#deaa87|Minor protests}} {{legend2|#999999|Other protests and militant action outside the Arab world}}|center]]
|[[File:Tahrir Square during 8 February 2011.jpg|thumb|Protesters in [[Tahrir Square]] during the [[Egyptian revolution of 2011]].|center]]
|[[File:NTC fighters claim Bani Walid.jpg|thumb|upright|[[National Transitional Council|Anti-Ghaddafi]] fighters celebrate during the [[Libyan Civil War (2011)|Libyan Civil War]].|center]]
|}

===Nuclear proliferation===
[[File:Iran negotiations about Iran's nuclear.jpg|thumb|[[P5+1]] and [[Iran]]ian negotiators meeting in [[Geneva]] for the [[Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme|interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme]] (2013)]]
*On 8 April 2010, the United States and Russia [[New START|signed a treaty]] in [[Prague]], [[Czech Republic]] agreed to reduce the stockpiles of their nuclear weapons by half. It is meant to replace the [[Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty]] (SORT), which was set to expire.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8607985.stm |title=US and Russia hail nuclear treaty |date=8 April 2010 |work=BBC News |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310081648/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8607985.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> The treaty went into force on 5 February 2011 after it was ratified by both nations.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-02-05-start-treaty_N.htm |title=U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty finalised |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060442/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-02-05-start-treaty_N.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
*In 2015, [[P5+1|Iran and other world powers]] agreed to trade sanctions relief for explicit constraints on Iran's contentious nuclear program, including allowing the inspections of nuclear facilities by the [[International Atomic Energy Agency]] (IAEA).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32166814 |title=Iran nuclear talks: 'Framework' deal agreed |work=BBC News |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=19 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619185620/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32166814 |url-status=live}}</ref> On 16 January 2016 the IAEA confirmed that Iran had complied with the agreement (the [[JCPOA]]), allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-sanctions-lifted_us_569a3500e4b0ce496424a2b2 |title=Iran Says International Sanctions To Be Lifted Saturday |date=16 January 2016 |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=21 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821220845/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iran-sanctions-lifted_us_569a3500e4b0ce496424a2b2 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nuclear-sanctions-be-lifted-iran-fm-zarif-n497861 |title=Iran Sanctions Lifted After Watchdog Verifies Nuclear Compliance |work=NBC News |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=23 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323220024/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nuclear-sanctions-be-lifted-iran-fm-zarif-n497861 |url-status=live}}</ref> However, on 8 May 2018, United States President [[Donald Trump]] announced the United States was withdrawing from the deal.<ref>[https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/trump-iran-and-the-end-of-the-deal/ Trump, Iran and the end of the deal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511215838/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/trump-iran-and-the-end-of-the-deal/ |date=11 May 2018 }}, [[The Spectator]].</ref>
*On 7 July 2017, the United Nations passed the [[Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons]], the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their [[Nuclear disarmament|total elimination]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gladstone |first1=Rick |title=A Treaty Is Reached to Ban Nuclear Arms. Now Comes the Hard Part. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/world/americas/united-nations-nuclear-weapons-prohibition-destruction-global-treaty.html |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2017 |access-date=9 August 2017 |archive-date=16 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716130115/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/world/americas/united-nations-nuclear-weapons-prohibition-destruction-global-treaty.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Treaty banning nuclear weapons approved at UN: Supporters hail step towards nuclear free world as treaty is backed by 122 countries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/07/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-approved-un |work=The Guardian |date=7 July 2017 |access-date=9 August 2017 |archive-date=12 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212081704/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/07/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-approved-un |url-status=live}}</ref> It has been signed by 58 nations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?mtdsg_no=XXVI-9&chapter=26&clang=_en |title=Chapter XXVI: Disarmament&nbsp;– No. 9 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons |publisher=United Nations Treaty Collection |date=20 September 2017 |access-date=21 September 2017}}{{Dead link|date=January 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
*Throughout the decade, [[North Korea]] [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|expanded its nuclear capabilities]], performing alleged nuclear tests in [[2013 North Korean nuclear test|2013]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/story?id=18444191 |title=North Korea Says it Has Conducted a Nuclear Test |date=12 February 2013 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=22 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022193506/http://abcnews.go.com/story?id=18444191 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[January 2016 North Korean nuclear test|2016]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/north-korean-nuclear-test-suspected-as-artificial-earthquake-detected |title=North Korea claims successful hydrogen bomb test in 'self-defence against US' |last1=McCurry |first1=Justin |last2=Safi |first2=Michael |date=6 January 2016 |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616153138/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/north-korean-nuclear-test-suspected-as-artificial-earthquake-detected |url-status=live}}</ref> which governments responded by placing international sanctions on the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8097370.stm |title=UN toughens North Korea sanctions |date=12 June 2009 |work=BBC News |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=9 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809200452/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8097370.stm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/02/world/un-north-korea-sanctions-vote/index.html |title=North Korea hit with tough sanctions by U.N. |work=CNN |first1=Richard |last1=Roth |first2=Holly |last2=Yan |first3=Ralph |last3=Ellis |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=1 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701205818/http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/02/world/un-north-korea-sanctions-vote/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In response North Korea has threatened the United States, South Korea and Japan with pre-emptive nuclear strikes.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chambrot |first1=Krysten |last2=Ingber |first2=Hanna |last3=Keller |first3=Josh |last4=Mainl |first4=Lexi |last5=Murphy |first5=Heather |last6=Pecanha |first6=Sergio |last7=S |last8=Stevenson |first8=Ra |last9=Suppes |first9=Mark |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-questions.html |title=In Focus: North Korea's Nuclear Threats |access-date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907121731/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-questions.html |url-status=live}}</ref> However, in 2018, North Korea suggested that they may disarm their nuclear arsenal after negotiations with the United States.
* On 1 February 2019, The US formally suspended the Russo-American [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]] (INF),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/us-russia-nuclear-arms-treaty-pompeo/index.html |title=Pompeo announces suspension of nuclear arms treaty |access-date=1 February 2019 |website=CNN |archive-date=3 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003004919/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/us-russia-nuclear-arms-treaty-pompeo/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and Russia did the same on the following day in response. The US formally withdrew from the treaty on 2 August 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198565 |title=INF nuclear treaty: US pulls out of Cold War-era pact with Russia |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2 August 2019 |access-date=2 August 2019 |archive-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085820/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198565 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* The United States initiated a [[renovation of the nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States|renovation of its nuclear weapon arsenal]].

===Terrorist attacks===
{{Main|List of terrorist incidents#1970–present}}
The most prominent [[List of non-state terrorist incidents|terrorist attacks]] committed against civilian populations during the decade include, but are not limited to:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Event
! Date
! Country
! Deaths
! Injuries
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
|[[2010 Lakki Marwat suicide bombing]]
|1 January 2010
|Pakistan
|105
|100+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-idUSSGE5BU0CQ20100102 |title=Pakistan government under pressure after deadly attack |date=2 January 2010 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=2 June 2019 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602075509/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-idUSSGE5BU0CQ20100102 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2010 Moscow Metro bombings]]
|29 March 2010
|Russia
|40
|102
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/30/russia.subway.explosions/index.html |title=Russian police release subway bomb suspects' photos |publisher=CNN |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=1 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401045442/http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/30/russia.subway.explosions/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 Mumbai bombings]]
|13 July 2011
|India
|26
|130+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mumbai-blasts-Death-toll-rises-to-26/H1-Article1-727292.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905103034/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Mumbai-blasts-Death-toll-rises-to-26/H1-Article1-727292.aspx |title=Mumbai blasts: Death toll rises to 26 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 September 2012 |access-date=20 June 2018}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 Norway attacks]]
|22 July 2011
|Norway
|77
|319+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19290947 |title=Norway police chief quits over Breivik report |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413195737/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19290947 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 Mogadishu bombing]]
|4 October 2011
|Somalia
|100
|110+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/africa/Murder-In-Mogadishu-131808193.html |title=Murder in Mogadishu |publisher=Voice of America |date=13 October 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=15 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315025714/http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/africa/Murder-In-Mogadishu-131808193.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[Boston Marathon bombing]]
|15 April 2013
|United States
|3
|264
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/injury-toll-rises-marathon-massacre-article-1.1319080 |title=Police narrow in on two suspects in Boston Marathon bombings |date=18 April 2013 |website=Daily News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=26 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726135416/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/injury-toll-rises-marathon-massacre-article-1.1319080 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Zamboanga City crisis|Zamboanga City siege]]
|9 September 2013
|Philippines
|220
|70
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/09/20139184360163181.html |title=Rebels lose ground in southern Philippines |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=1 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801053531/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/09/20139184360163181.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Westgate shopping mall attack]]
|21 September 2013
|Kenya
|67
|175
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-report-kenya-attack-isn-39-t-us-151711825.html |title=NYPD report on Kenya attack isn't US gov't view |last=Straziuso |first=Jason |date=13 December 2013 |website=Associated Press |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=26 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726135131/https://www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-report-kenya-attack-isn-39-t-us-151711825.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[2014 Kunming attack]]
|1 March 2014
|China
|35
|143
|
|-
|[[April 2014 Ürümqi attack]]
|30 April 2014
|China
|1
|79
|
|-
|[[May 2014 Ürümqi attack]]
|22 May 2014
|China
|43
|90
|
|-
|[[Camp Speicher massacre]]
|12 June 2014
|Iraq
|1,566
| –
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/011120148 |title=احصائية رسمية: 1997 العدد الكلي لمفقودي مجزرتي سبايكر وبادوش |website=rudaw.net |access-date=8 June 2019 |archive-date=8 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608221326/http://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/011120148 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Lindt Cafe siege]]
|15 December 2014
|Australia
|3
|18
|<ref>{{cite news |first1=Josie |last1=Ensor |first2=Jonathan |last2=Pearlman |title=Victims of Sydney siege hailed as heroes after they die protecting hostages |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11295658/Victims-of-Sydney-siege-hailed-as-heroes-after-they-die-protecting-hostages.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11295658/Victims-of-Sydney-siege-hailed-as-heroes-after-they-die-protecting-hostages.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 December 2014 |location=London |access-date=17 December 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
|[[2014 Peshawar school massacre]]
|16 December 2014
|Pakistan
|148
|114
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/807564/gunmen-target-school-in-peshawar/ |title=132 children killed in Peshawar school attack – The Express Tribune |date=16 December 2014 |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=9 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109173539/https://tribune.com.pk/story/807564/gunmen-target-school-in-peshawar/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2015 Baga massacre]]
|3–7 January 2015 
|Nigeria
|150+
| –
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/world/africa/deadly-bombings-are-reported-in-nigerian-city-where-boko-haram-was-founded.html |title=More than 100 Killed by Boko Haram Bombings in Nigeria |last=Onishi |first=Norimitsu |date=21 September 2015 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2 June 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602075507/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/world/africa/deadly-bombings-are-reported-in-nigerian-city-where-boko-haram-was-founded.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[January 2015 Île-de-France attacks]]
|7–9 January 2015
|France
|20
|22
|<ref>{{cite news |title=France: A timeline of terror |url=https://news.sky.com/story/france-a-timeline-of-terror-10787264 |publisher=Sky News |date=13 May 2018 |access-date=18 May 2019 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809215300/https://news.sky.com/story/france-a-timeline-of-terror-10787264 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[March 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings|2015 Sana'a mosque bombings]]
|20 March 2015
|Yemen
|142
|351
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/21/yemen-mosque-bombings-enemies-of-life-president-abedrabbo-mansour-hadi-houthi-isis-al-qaida |title=Yemen mosque bombings 'could only be done by the enemies of life' – president |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> and agencies |date=21 March 2015 |website=The Guardian |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=5 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705180652/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/21/yemen-mosque-bombings-enemies-of-life-president-abedrabbo-mansour-hadi-houthi-isis-al-qaida |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Garissa University College attack]]
|2 April 2015
|Kenya
|152
|79
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32177123 |title=Kenya al-Shabab attack: Security questions as dead mourned |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=12 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212071437/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32177123 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2015 Ramadan attacks]]
|26 June 2015
|Various
|403
|336+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/3937602/isis-terrorist-attacks/ |title=Terrorist Attacks Suggest a Change in ISIS Tactics |last=Walt |first=Vivienne |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108013322/http://time.com/3937602/isis-terrorist-attacks/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2015 Ankara bombings]]
|10 October 2015
|Turkey
|109
|400+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/does-turkey-have-to-learn-to-live-with-terror.aspx?pageID=238&nID=96501&NewsCatID=429 |title=Does Turkey have to learn to live with terror? |date=16 March 2016 |website=Hürriyet Daily News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=22 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022142235/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/does-turkey-have-to-learn-to-live-with-terror.aspx?pageID=238&nID=96501&NewsCatID=429 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Metrojet Flight 9268|2015 Metrojet crash]]
|31 October 2015
|Russia
|224
| –
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/4236884/egypt-metrojet-crash-sisi-bomb/ |title=Egypt Concedes That Terrorists Caused Sinai Plane Crash |date=25 February 2016 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>
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|[[2015 Beirut bombings]]
|12 November 2015
|Lebanon
|43
|240
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Nov-12/322821-isis-claims-responsibility-for-beirut-southern-suburb-attack-statement.ashx |title=ISIS claims responsibility for Beirut southern suburb attack |date=12 November 2015 |website=The Daily Star |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407172206/http://www.dailystar.com.lb//News/Lebanon-News/2015/Nov-12/322821-isis-claims-responsibility-for-beirut-southern-suburb-attack-statement.ashx |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[November 2015 Paris attacks]]
|13 November 2015
|France
|131
|413
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/suicide-d-un-rescape-du-bataclan-guillaume-131e-victime-des-attentats-du-13-Novembere-15-06-2019-8094099.php |title=Suicide d'un rescapé du Bataclan : Guillaume, 131e victime du 13 Novembere |first=Timothée |last=Boutry |date=15 June 2019 |website=Le Parisien |language=fr-FR |access-date=12 October 2019}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|[[2015 San Bernardino attack]]
|2 December 2015
|United States
|14
|22
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenfeld |first1=Everette |title=Upwards of 14 people dead in San Bernardino mass shooting: Police department chief |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/02/authorities-responding-to-reports-of-mass-shooting-in-san-bernardino-california-nbc-los-angeles.html |publisher=CNBC |access-date=2 December 2015 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331072523/https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/02/authorities-responding-to-reports-of-mass-shooting-in-san-bernardino-california-nbc-los-angeles.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 Brussels bombings]]
|22 March 2016
|Belgium
|35
|300+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-brussels-airport-explosion-20160322-story.html |title=Hunt is on for Brussels bombings suspect; Islamic State warns of more, worse attacks |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=10 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510180054/https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-brussels-airport-explosion-20160322-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Orlando nightclub shooting]]
|12 June 2016
|United States
|49
|58
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/index.html |title=49 killed in Florida nightclub terror attack |publisher=CNN |first1=Ralph |last1=Ellis |first2=Ashley |last2=Fantz |first3=Faith |last3=Karimi |first4=Eliott C. |last4=McLaughlin |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=12 June 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160612180059/http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2016 Atatürk Airport attack]]
|28 June 2016
|Turkey
|45
|236
|<ref>{{cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/istanbul-airport-attack-toll-rises-to-45-as-child-dies |title=Istanbul airport attack toll rises to 45 as child dies |date=2 July 2016 |website=The Straits Times |access-date=5 July 2016 |archive-date=5 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905190430/https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/istanbul-airport-attack-toll-rises-to-45-as-child-dies |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[July 2016 Baghdad bombings]]
|3 July 2016
|Iraq
|340
|246
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/sri-lanka-terrorist-attacks-among-worst-world-911 |title=Sri Lanka terrorist attacks among world's worst since 9/11 |last=McCurry |first=Justin |date=22 April 2019 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=3 June 2019}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 Nice truck attack]]
|14 July 2016
|France
|87
|434
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/4407810/nice-attack-france-target-jihadists-terrorism/ |title=Why France Has Become the Number One Target of ISIS |date=15 July 2016 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=15 July 2016 |archive-date=21 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021032158/http://time.com/4407810/nice-attack-france-target-jihadists-terrorism/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2016 Berlin truck attack]]
|19 December 2016
|Germany
|13
|55
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Anschlag in Berlin: Zahl der Verletzten liegt nun offiziell bei 56 |url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/polizei/anschlag-in-berlin-zahl-der-verletzten-liegt-bei-56-26147624 |newspaper=[[Berliner Zeitung]] |language=de |date=6 March 2017 |access-date=6 March 2017}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|[[Istanbul nightclub shooting]]
|1 January 2017
|Turkey
|39
|70
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/istanbul-victims-reina-nightclub-attack-identified-170102040748058.html |title=Istanbul: Victims of Reina nightclub attack identified |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=23 April 2017 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518023605/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/istanbul-victims-reina-nightclub-attack-identified-170102040748058.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Westminster attack]]
|22 March 2017
|United Kingdom
|6
|49
|<ref>{{cite news |date=23 March 2017 |url=https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/london-terror-death-toll-rises-to-five-people-including-attacker-as-eight-arrested-on-suspicion-of-preparation-of-terrorist-acts-35557607.html |title=London terror: Death toll rises to five people – including attacker – as eight arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts |website=[[Irish Independent]] |access-date=27 April 2020 |archive-date=15 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215182520/http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/london-attack-injuries-to-irish-person-caught-up-in-terror-are-not-lifethreatening-35557607.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing|2017 St. Petersburg Metro bombing]]
|3 April 2017
|Russia
|15
|64
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/st-petersburg-russia-explosion-suspect.html |title=St. Petersburg Bomber Said to Be Man From Kyrgyzstan; Death Toll Rises |date=4 April 2017 |website=The New York Times |access-date=6 June 2020 |archive-date=4 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404080338/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/st-petersburg-russia-explosion-suspect.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Stockholm truck attack]]
|7 April 2017
|Sweden
|5
|14
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-attack-idUSKBN17B089.html |title=Uzbek suspect in Swedish attack sympathized with Islamic State: police |date=10 April 2017 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=23 November 2019}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Camp Shaheen attack]]
|21 April 2017
|Afghanistan
|140+
|160+
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mashal |first1=Mujib |last2=Rahim |first2=Najim |title='A Shortage of Coffins' After Taliban Slaughter Unarmed Soldiers |website=The New York Times |date=21 April 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-military-base-soldiers-killed.html |access-date=4 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129151253/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-military-base-soldiers-killed.html |archive-date=29 January 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Manchester Arena bombing]]
|22 May 2017
|United Kingdom
|22
|59
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-police-explosion-ariana-grande-concert-england |title=At least 22 dead, 50 injured, in suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena |date=22 May 2017 |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=8 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508121327/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/22/manchester-arena-police-explosion-ariana-grande-concert-england |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2017 London Bridge attack]]
|3 June 2017
|UK
|11
|48
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/09/london-bridge-terrorists-tried-hire-truck-earlier-day/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/09/london-bridge-terrorists-tried-hire-truck-earlier-day/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=London Bridge terrorists were thwarted in attempt to hire a 7.5 tonne truck on day of atrocity |last=Evans |first=Martin |date=10 June 2017 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=4 February 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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| [[2017 Barcelona attacks]]
|17–18 August 2017
|Spain
|16
|152
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40973119 |title=Spain attack: What do we know about the victims? |date=27 August 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=16 May 2018 |archive-date=6 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506224803/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40973119 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2017 Turku attack]]
|18 August 2017
|Finland
|2
|8 (+1 attacker)
|<ref name="587 dead">{{cite news |url=http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2018/mar/157047/committee_587_dead_in_oct_14_terror_attack.aspx |title=Committee: 587 dead in Oct 14 terror attack |website=hiiraan.com |access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref>
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|[[14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings]]
|14 October 2017
|Somalia
|587
|316
|<ref name="587 dead" />
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|[[2017 New York City truck attack]]
|31 October 2017
|United States
|8
|12
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/us/timeline-new-york-attack/index.html |title=How the New York City truck attack unfolded |date=1 November 2017 |publisher=CNN |access-date=3 November 2017 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404115018/https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/us/timeline-new-york-attack/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2017 Sinai mosque attack]]
|24 November 2017
|Egypt
|311
|122
|<ref>{{cite news |last=Specia |first=Megan |title=Who Are Sufi Muslims and Why Do Some Extremists Hate Them? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/world/middleeast/sufi-muslim-explainer.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 November 2017 |access-date=26 November 2017 |archive-date=23 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523001432/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/world/middleeast/sufi-muslim-explainer.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2018 Strasbourg attack]]
|11 December 2018
|France
|5
|11
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46535862 |title=Strasbourg Shooting: What we know |date=16 December 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=24 November 2019}}
</ref>
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|[[Christchurch mosque shootings]]
|15 March 2019
|New Zealand
|51
|40
|<ref>{{cite news |last=kurt.bayer@nzherald.co.nz @KurtBayerNZME |first=Kurt Bayer NZ Herald reporter based in Christchurch |date=27 May 2020 |title=Covid 19 coronavirus: Christchurch mosque gunman's sentencing delayed |work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12335511 |issn=1170-0777 |access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref>
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|[[2019 Pulwama attack]]
|14 February 2019
|India
|40
|35
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 25, 2021 |title=Key Accused in Pulwama Terror Attack, Thought to be Killed in an Encounter in July, is Alive: Report |work=[[News 18]] |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/key-accused-in-pulwama-terror-attack-thought-to-be-killed-in-an-encounter-in-july-is-alive-report-4124630.html |access-date=11 September 2021 |archive-date=16 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916072626/https://www.news18.com/news/india/key-accused-in-pulwama-terror-attack-thought-to-be-killed-in-an-encounter-in-july-is-alive-report-4124630.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings]]
|21 April 2019
|Sri Lanka
|269
|500+
|<ref>{{cite news |date=21 April 2020 |title=Sri Lanka marks Easter Sunday attack anniversary |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52357200 |access-date=23 June 2020 |archive-date=21 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421092627/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52357200 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[2019 El Paso shooting]]
|3 August 2019
|United States
|23
|23
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/El-Paso-Cielo-Vista-Mall-Shooting-Photos--516487581.html |title=22 Dead, 24 Injured in El Paso Shooting: Texas Officials |date=3 August 2019 |publisher=[[WRC-TV]] |access-date=24 November 2019 |archive-date=24 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024041607/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/El-Paso-Cielo-Vista-Mall-Shooting-Photos--516487581.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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|[[December 2019 Mogadishu bombing]]
|28 December 2019
|Somalia
|85
|140+
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/africa/somalia-explosion-mogadishu.html |title=Somalia Bombing Kills Nearly 80, Raising Fears of Resurgent Militancy |date=28 December 2019 |work=The New York Times |access-date=29 December 2019 |archive-date=30 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230102305/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/africa/somalia-explosion-mogadishu.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[File:13 November 2015 Paris attacks - montage.jpg|thumb|upright|Montage of the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]]. [[Islamic terrorism in Europe]] spiked following the rise of the [[Islamic State]] in 2014.]]
|[[File:1st Boston Marathon blast seen from 2nd floor and a half block away.jpg|thumb|right|[[Boston Marathon bombing|Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon]] on 15 April 2013.]]
|[[File:2017 10 15 VBIED-8 (37666124646).jpg|thumb|right|The ruins of buildings destroyed in the [[14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings]], which killed over 500 people.]]
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===Political trends===
{{Further|2010s in political history}}

====International relations====
[[File:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with other BRICS leaders at a meeting, on the sidelines of G20 Summit 2015, in Turkey on November 15, 2015.jpg|thumb|[[BRICS]], a supranational economic cooperative comprising five major [[Emerging market|emerging national economies]]—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—grew to represent over 3.1 billion people, or about 41 percent of the world population by 2015.]]
China was increasingly called a [[superpower]] in the early 2010s, including at the 2011 meeting between President [[Hu Jintao]] and United States President [[Barack Obama]]. By the end of the decade, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation and the country filing the [[World Intellectual Property Indicators|most patents]], dramatically expanded its [[List of countries by level of military equipment|military]] and landed its lunar rover ''[[Yutu (rover)|Yutu]]'' on the moon, ending a four-decade hiatus of lunar exploration. In 2018, [[List of countries by military expenditures|global military spending]] reached its highest level since 1988, late [[Cold War]] levels, largely fuelled by increased [[Military budget|defence spending]] by the United States (4.6% increase to $649 billion) and China (5% increase to $250 billion). Together, their budgets accounted for half of the world's total military spending.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.trust.org/item/20190429105059-m8xz0 |title=Global military spending at new post-Cold War high, fuelled by US, China – think-tank |date=29 April 2019 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=29 April 2019 |archive-date=30 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430014523/http://news.trust.org/item/20190429105059-m8xz0 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2019, the [[Lowy Institute]] [[Asia Power Index]], which measures the projections of power across eight indexes in the Indo-Pacific, ranked the United States at #1 with a score of 84.5 and China #2 with a score of 75.9.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=https://power.lowyinstitute.org/countries |title=Asia Power Index &#124; Countries |website=power.lowyinstitute.org |access-date=29 May 2019 |archive-date=9 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109132254/https://power.lowyinstitute.org/countries |url-status=live}}</ref>

Along with the United States and China, [[Russia under Vladimir Putin|Russia under President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] steadily increased its defence spending and continued to [[2008 Russian military reform|modernise]] its military throughout the decade. This included the development of the [[T-14 Armata]] main battle tank and the fifth-generation [[Sukhoi Su-57]] jet fighter. Russia also exercised its [[power projection]] capabilities in its 2014 [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation|annexation]] of [[Crimea]] and interventions in [[Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014-present)|eastern Ukraine]] and the [[Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War|Syrian Civil War]]. Russia also waged [[information warfare]] campaigns against its geopolitical foes, [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections|interfering]] in the 2016 U.S. elections via [[2016 Democratic National Committee email leak|hacking and leaking emails]] of U.S. political party leadership and by spreading disinformation via the [[Internet Research Agency]]. Other alleged Russian intelligence operations included the [[2016 Montenegrin coup attempt allegations|2016 Montenegrin coup plot]] and the [[Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal|2018 Skripal poisonings]], both of which were attributed by some to the GRU's [[Unit 29155]]. Collectively, these activities—and the Western-led efforts to combat them—have been referred to as marking the beginning of the [[Second Cold War]].

The [[European Union]] went through several crises. The [[European debt crisis]] caused severe economic problems to several [[eurozone]] member states, most notably [[Greece]]. The [[2015 European migrant crisis|2015 migration crisis]] led to several million people entering the EU illegally in a short period of time. There was a significant rise in the vote shares of several [[eurosceptic]] parties, including the [[Lega Nord|League]] in Italy, [[Alternative for Germany]], and the [[Finns Party]] in [[Finland]]. As a result of a [[referendum]], the [[United Kingdom]] became the first member state in the EU's history to  [[Brexit|leave the Union]].

====Western polarisation====
Socio-political polarisation increased as conservatives and social liberals clashed over the role and size of government and other social, economic and environmental issues in the [[Western world|West]]. In the [[United States]], polls showed a divided electorate regarding healthcare reform, immigration, gun rights, taxation, job creation, and debt reduction.<ref name="rasmussenreports.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot |title=Generic Congressional Ballot – Rasmussen Reports |publisher=Rasmussenreports.com |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=8 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108001850/http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot |url-status=live}}
*Jamrisko, Michelle. [http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/political_polarization_colors_measures_of_economic_confidence_newscred/ "Political polarisation affects economic views"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123160718/http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/political_polarization_colors_measures_of_economic_confidence_newscred/ |date=23 November 2020 }} ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''. Associated Press, 2013. Web. 7 January 2015.
*{{cite news |first=Zeke |last=Miller |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/americans-want-higher-taxes-on-wealthy-no-entitlement-reform-in-super-committee-deal-2011-8 |title=Americans Want Higher Taxes on Wealthy, No Entitlement Reform In 'Super Committee' Deal |publisher=Businessinsider.com |date=10 August 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124133404/https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-want-higher-taxes-on-wealthy-no-entitlement-reform-in-super-committee-deal-2011-8 |url-status=live}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/herman_cain_obama_just_doesnt_have_a_clue_on_economic_issues.html |title=Herman Cain: Obama "Just Doesn't Have A Clue" On Economic Issues |publisher=RealClearPolitics |date=5 September 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214080342/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/herman_cain_obama_just_doesnt_have_a_clue_on_economic_issues.html |url-status=live}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/dcor120811fq_WEBSITE.pdf |title=Democracy Corps/Women's Voices. Women Vote Action Fund Frequency Questionnaire |access-date=12 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722134242/http://www.democracycorps.com/wp-content/files/dcor120811fq_WEBSITE.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_favorability_ratings |title=Congressional Favourability Ratings – Rasmussen Reports |publisher=Rasmussenreports.com |date=27 October 2011 |access-date=10 November 2011 |archive-date=15 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115020732/http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_favorability_ratings |url-status=live}}</ref> In [[Europe]], movements protesting increasing numbers of refugees and migrants from [[Islamic countries]] developed, such as the [[English Defence League]] and [[Pegida]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/who-german-anti-islam-20151743438911640.html |title=Who is a German? |author=Jan Douwe Keulen |access-date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=27 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827100242/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/who-german-anti-islam-20151743438911640.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/why-online-islamophobia-is-difficult-to-stop-1.2810242 |title=Why online Islamophobia is difficult to stop |date=2 November 2014 |access-date=13 March 2015 |archive-date=14 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214190830/https://www.cbc.ca/news/why-online-islamophobia-is-difficult-to-stop-1.2810242 |url-status=live}}</ref>
The trend of polarisation in the West was partially influenced by the prevalence of [[identity politics]], both [[left-wing]] and [[right-wing]], among [[activist]] movements.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Politico]] |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095 |title=How Everything Became the Culture War |date=November 2018 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=24 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524050840/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/02/culture-war-liberals-conservatives-trump-2018-222095 |url-status=live}}</ref> Beginning around 2011, [[far-left]] and [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] concepts such as combating [[social inequality]] and [[economic inequality]], often via [[progressive stack]] tactics, proliferated in the [[Western world]] and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Identity Politics Could Be Good Politics For Democrats In 2020 |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-identity-politics-could-be-good-politics-for-democrats-in-2020/ |date=2 April 2019 |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=20 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420092228/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-identity-politics-could-be-good-politics-for-democrats-in-2020/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Time |title=What's Intersectionality? Let These Scholars Explain the Theory and Its History |url=https://time.com/5560575/intersectionality-theory/ |date=29 March 2019 |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020230006/https://time.com/5560575/intersectionality-theory/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=May 2011 |title=Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% |first=Joseph |last=Stiglitz |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-date=6 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206042126/http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105 |url-status=live}}</ref> Around the middle of the decade, phenomenon such as [[white nationalism]], [[identitarianism]] and emboldened feelings of [[Nativism (politics)|nativism]] saw a marked reemergence in the West due to drastically increased migration and corresponding crime and amongst both the right and left general dissatisfaction with Western government and Media responses to certain issues.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Europe and the United States |first=Thomas |last=Greven |date=May 2016 |url=http://dc.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/RightwingPopulism.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://dc.fes.de/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/RightwingPopulism.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> There were also increased calls for [[egalitarianism]], including between the sexes,<ref>England, Paula. "The gender revolution uneven and stalled" ''Gender & society'' 24.2 (2010): 149–166.</ref> and some scholars assert that a [[Fourth-wave feminism|fourth wave of feminism]] began around 2012, with a primary focus on [[intersectionality]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Nicola |last=Rivers |title=Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2017 |pages=4, 8 |isbn=978-3-319-59812-3 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-59812-3}}</ref><ref name="4thWave-Guardian20131210">{{cite news |last=Cochrane |first=Kira |author-link=Kira Cochrane |title=The Fourth Wave of Feminism: Meet the Rebel Women |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/fourth-wave-feminism-rebel-women |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 December 2013 |access-date=17 January 2018 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314123922/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/fourth-wave-feminism-rebel-women |url-status=live}}</ref>

====Anti-establishment politics====
[[File:Encontro com o Senhor Donald Trump, Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América (47422559941).jpg|thumb|[[President of Brazil|Brazilian President]] [[Jair Bolsonaro]] and [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Donald Trump]] in 2019. Both are emblematic of a wave of [[Neo-nationalism|neo-nationalist]] and [[globalisation]]-weary [[Conservative wave|conservative]] [[Populism#Late 20th- and early 21st-century growth|populism]] in the second half of the decade.]]
[[Populism]] in politics saw a widespread surge throughout the decade, with many politicians and various political movements expressing populist sentiments and utilising populist rhetoric.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26brooks.html |author=Brooks, David |title=The Populist Addiction |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=29 September 2017 |archive-date=21 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221154518/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/opinion/26brooks.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/15/the-populism-problem |author=Surowiecki, James |title=The Populist Problem |magazine=The New Yorker |date=15 February 2010 |access-date=29 September 2017 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130023858/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/15/the-populism-problem |url-status=live}}</ref> This included [[conservative wave]] phenomenon in Latin America and [[Neo-nationalism|neo-nationalist]] fervor in Europe and North America. The [[2019 European Parliament election]] saw the highest voter turnout in two decades and saw relatively moderate centre-right and centre-left parties suffer significant losses to less moderate far-right, environmentalist, and both pro-EU and [[Euroscepticism|eurosceptic]] parties, who made gains.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/european-parliament-elections-5-takeaways-results-n1010491 |title=European Parliament elections: 5 takeaways from the results |last=Smith |first=Alexander |date=27 May 2019 |work=[[NBC News]] |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-date=8 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008112811/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/european-parliament-elections-5-takeaways-results-n1010491 |url-status=live}}</ref> Examples of 2010s populist movements included the [[Tea Party movement]],<ref>{{cite news |website=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |url=https://www.salon.com/2010/05/03/tea_party_populism_history/ |title=The strange history of Tea Party populism |first=Steve |last=Fraser |date=3 May 2010 |access-date=17 May 2018 |archive-date=6 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106134208/https://www.salon.com/2010/05/03/tea_party_populism_history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Occupy Wall Street]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-what-should-a-populist-movement-ask-of-washington/246143/ |title='Occupy Wall Street': What Should a Populist Movement Ask of Washington? |author=Thompson, Derek |website=The Atlantic |date=4 October 2011 |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111175153/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-what-should-a-populist-movement-ask-of-washington/246143/ |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Brexit]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-populists-analysis/after-trump-and-brexit-populist-tsunami-threatens-european-mainstream-idUSKBN1341I1 |title=After Trump and Brexit, populist tsunami threatens European mainstream |author=Barkin, Noah |publisher=Reuters |date=9 November 2016 |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130080052/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-populists-analysis/after-trump-and-brexit-populist-tsunami-threatens-european-mainstream-idUSKBN1341I1 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Black Lives Matter]],<ref>Roberts, Frank L. "[https://gallatin.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/syllabi/2015/FA/IDSEM-UG1849.pdf Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Populist Protest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106145400/https://gallatin.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/syllabi/2015/FA/IDSEM-UG1849.pdf |date=6 November 2020 }}". New York University. Fall 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2018.</ref> and the [[alt-right]].<ref name="NewYorker">{{cite magazine |last=Wallace-Wells |first=Benjamin |title=Is the Alt-Right for real? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real |magazine=The New Yorker |date=5 May 2016 |access-date=20 February 2020 |archive-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829183821/http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the-alt-right-for-real |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WilsonGuardian">{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Jason |title='A sense that white identity is under attack': making sense of the alt-right |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/23/alt-right-movement-white-identity-breitbart-donald-trump |work=The Guardian |date=23 August 2016 |access-date=7 September 2016 |archive-date=30 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830020613/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/23/alt-right-movement-white-identity-breitbart-donald-trump |url-status=live}}</ref> Examples of populist country leaders were just as extensive, with [[Donald Trump]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/how-can-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders-both-be-populist.html |title=How Can Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Both Be 'Populist'? |author=Kazin, Michael |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 March 2016 |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531054701/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/how-can-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders-both-be-populist.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Narendra Modi]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/23/indias-modi-has-been-bellwether-global-populism/ |title=India's Modi has been a bellwether for global populism |author=Taylor, Adam |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=23 May 2019 |access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ab335480-c742-11e6-8f29-9445cac8966f |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/ab335480-c742-11e6-8f29-9445cac8966f |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mexico's populist Amlo capitalises on economic woes |newspaper=Financial Times |date=1 January 2017}}</ref> [[Hugo Chávez]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/world/americas/venezuela-populism-authoritarianism.html |title=How Does Populism Turn Authoritarian? Venezuela Is a Case in Point |author1=Fisher, Max |author2=Taub, Amanda |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 April 2017 |access-date=30 September 2017 |archive-date=2 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402005743/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/world/americas/venezuela-populism-authoritarianism.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Matteo Salvini]],<ref name="StilleAug2018">{{cite news |last=Stille |first=Alexander |title=How Matteo Salvini Pulled Italy to the Far Right |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/09/how-matteo-salvini-pulled-italy-to-the-far-right |date=9 August 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=11 August 2018 |archive-date=7 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707235102/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/09/how-matteo-salvini-pulled-italy-to-the-far-right |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jair Bolsonaro]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/681429911/right-wing-populist-jair-bolsonaro-sworn-in-as-president-of-brazil |title=Right-Wing Populist Jair Bolsonaro Sworn in As President of Brazil |website=NPR |access-date=26 January 2019 |archive-date=25 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125184417/https://www.npr.org/2019/01/01/681429911/right-wing-populist-jair-bolsonaro-sworn-in-as-president-of-brazil |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rodrigo Duterte]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/98589db0-8132-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/98589db0-8132-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=Rodrigo Duterte and the populist playbook |website=Financial Times |access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref> [[Boris Johnson]], [[Viktor Orbán]], [[Robert Fico]], [[Antonis Samaras]] and [[Alexis Tsipras]] left and right-wing, described as such.

Related to the rise of populism and protests movements was the decline of traditional political parties. In Europe, [[pasokification]] described the loss of vote share experienced by traditional [[centre-left]] or [[social democratic]] parties. In France, specifically, [[Emmanuel Macron]]'s ''[[La République En Marche!]]'' party won a majority in its first election in 2017.

[[Centre-left]], [[neoliberal]] and traditional [[social democratic]] parties often lost their vote share to more [[socialist]] or [[democratic socialist]] alternatives, especially in [[Europe]]. This happened most completely in [[Greece]], where [[PASOK]] was replaced by [[Syriza]] as the main left-wing party. Other [[far-left]] parties which rose in prominence included [[Podemos (Spanish political party)|Podemos]] in [[Spain]] and [[La France Insoumise]] in [[France]]. In the [[two-party system]]s of the [[English-speaking world]], these challenges mainly came from within the established parties of the left, with [[Bernie Sanders]] in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and [[Jeremy Corbyn]] in the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] pushing for more left-wing policies.

The political establishment was also challenged in many countries by protest movements, often organised through new [[social media]] platforms. These included the various [[Arab Spring]] protests, the [[Occupy movement]], and the [[yellow vests movement]].

====Democractisation and authoritarianism====
[[File:Xi_Jinping_2019.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Xi Jinping]] became China's [[Paramount leader|leader]] [[President for Life|for life]] in 2018.]]
Countries which [[Democratisation|democratised]] fully or partially during the decade included [[Angola]], which reformed under [[João Lourenço]];<ref name="freedom2019">{{cite web |title=Freedom in the World 2019 |url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2019/democracy-in-retreat |publisher=Freedom House |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=15 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215005216/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2019/democracy-in-retreat |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Armenia]], which went through [[2018 Armenian revolution|a revolution]];<ref name="freedom2019" /><ref name="wpost">{{cite news |title=Three countries where democracy actually staged a comeback in 2018 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/17/three-countries-where-democracy-actually-staged-comeback/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> [[Ecuador]], which reformed under [[Lenín Moreno]];<ref name="freedom2019" /> [[Ethiopia]];<ref name="freedom2019" /><ref name="wpost"/> and [[Malaysia]], where the ruling party [[2018 Malaysian general election|lost the first election]] since independence.<ref name="freedom2019" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Did an election just cause Malaysian democratisation? |url=https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/did-election-just-cause-malaysian-democratisation |publisher=The Lowy Institute}}</ref>

Long-term [[dictator]]s ousted from power included [[Muammar Gaddafi]] of [[Libya]] (after 42 years),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-big-picture/2018/11/death-gaddafi-181103124656506.html |title=The Death of Gaddafi |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=20 November 2019 |archive-date=20 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191120130827/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-big-picture/2018/11/death-gaddafi-181103124656506.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Robert Mugabe]] of [[Zimbabwe]] (37 years),<ref>{{cite news |title=Zimbabwe's army mounts a coup against Robert Mugabe |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2017/11/15/zimbabwes-army-mounts-a-coup-against-robert-mugabe |newspaper=The Economist |date=15 November 2017}}</ref> [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] of [[Yemen]] (33 years),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-17177720 |title=Yemen president Saleh steps down |date=27 February 2012 |access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> [[Omar al-Bashir]] of [[Sudan]] (30 years),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/profile-omar-al-bashir-sudan-longtime-ruler-190411083628141.html |title=Profile: Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's longtime ruler |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=20 November 2019 |archive-date=19 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119130215/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/profile-omar-al-bashir-sudan-longtime-ruler-190411083628141.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Hosni Mubarak]] of [[Egypt]] (29 years),<ref>{{cite news |title=Profile: Hosni Mubarak |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12301713 |work=BBC News |date=24 March 2017 |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=1 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101033342/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12301713 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali|Ben Ali]] of [[Tunisia]] (23 years).<ref>{{cite news |title=Ben Ali: Tunisia's ousted ex-president dies in exile aged 83 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49752876 |work=BBC News |date=19 September 2019 |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=20 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920180205/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49752876 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Arab Winter]] refers to the resurgence of [[authoritarianism]], [[Absolute monarchy|absolute monarchies]] and [[Islamic extremism]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bpr.berkeley.edu/2015/03/30/after-every-winter-comes-spring-tunisias-democratic-flowering/ |title=After Every Winter Comes Spring: Tunisia's Democratic Flowering – Berkeley Political Review |author=Yun Ru Phua |date=31 March 2015 |publisher=Bpr.berkeley.edu |access-date=11 February 2017 |archive-date=29 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729220649/https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2015/03/30/after-every-winter-comes-spring-tunisias-democratic-flowering/ |url-status=live}}</ref> evolving in the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests in [[Arab world|Arab countries]].<ref>Ahmed H Adam and Ashley D Robinson. ''Will the Arab Winter spring again in Sudan?''. Al-Jazeera. 11 June 2016. [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/arab-winter-spring-sudan-160531082228922.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208195234/http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/arab-winter-spring-sudan-160531082228922.html|date=8 February 2018}} "The Arab Spring that swept across the Middle East and succeeded in overthrowing three dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in 2011 was a pivotal point in the history of nations. Despite the subsequent descent into the 'Arab Winter', the peaceful protests of young people were heroic..."</ref> The term "Arab Winter" refers to the events across [[Arab League]] countries in the Mid-East and North Africa, including the [[Syrian Civil War]],<ref name="Fear and Faith in Paradise">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__lUxmzAZ08C&pg=PA296 |title=Fear and Faith in Paradise |last1=Karber |first1=Phil |date=18 June 2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4422-1479-8 |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923083405/https://books.google.com/books?id=__lUxmzAZ08C&pg=PA296 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Arab Winter">{{cite web |url=http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/arab-winter |title=Arab Winter |date=28 December 2012 |work=America Staging |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-date=26 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026051005/http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/arab-winter |url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)|Iraqi insurgency]] and the [[War in Iraq (2013–2017)|following civil war]],<ref name="The Jerusalem Post">{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Arab-Winter-is-coming-to-Baghdad-359348 |title=Analysis: Arab Winter is coming to Baghdad |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714211712/https://www.jpost.com//Middle-East/Analysis-Arab-Winter-is-coming-to-Baghdad-359348 |url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014)|Egyptian Crisis]],<ref name="euronews">{{cite news |url=http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/08/egypt-and-tunisia-s-new-arab-winter/ |title=Egypt and Tunisia's new 'Arab winter' |date=8 February 2013 |work=Euro news |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-date=29 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629014655/https://www.euronews.com/2013/02/08/egypt-and-tunisia-s-new-arab-winter |url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Libyan crisis (2011–present)|Libyan crisis]] and the [[Yemeni crisis|crisis in Yemen]].<ref name="Yemen's Arab winter">{{cite news |url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-s-arab-winter-1470341500 |title=Yemen's Arab winter |work=Middle East Eye |access-date=23 October 2014 |archive-date=30 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115643/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-s-arab-winter-1470341500 |url-status=live}}</ref> Events referred to as the Arab Winter include those in [[Egypt]] that led to the removal of [[Mohamed Morsi]] and the seizure of power by General [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] in an anti-[[Muslim Brotherhood]] campaign.<ref name="euronews.com">{{Citation |title=Egypt & Tunisia's new Arab winter |date=8 February 2013 |url=http://www.euronews.com/2013/02/08/egypt-and-tunisia-s-new-arab-winter/ |newspaper=Euro news |access-date=19 December 2019 |archive-date=29 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629014655/https://www.euronews.com/2013/02/08/egypt-and-tunisia-s-new-arab-winter |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Democratic backsliding]] also occurred in countries such as [[Hungary]],<ref>{{cite news |title=As West Fears the Rise of Autocrats, Hungary Shows What's Possible |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/world/europe/hungary-orban-democracy-far-right.html |work=The New York Times |date=10 February 2018 |last1=Kingsley |first1=Patrick |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914133730/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/world/europe/hungary-orban-democracy-far-right.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Venezuela]],<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Final Blow to Venezuela's Democracy |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/venezuela/2016-11-01/final-blow-venezuelas-democracy |journal=Foreign Affairs |date=14 August 2019 |last1=Sabatini |first1=Christopher |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225184836/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/venezuela/2016-11-01/final-blow-venezuelas-democracy |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Turkey]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tansel |first1=Cemal Burak |title=Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey: Beyond the Narratives of Progress |journal=South European Society and Politics |date=2018 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=197–217 |doi=10.1080/13608746.2018.1479945 |doi-access=free |issn=1360-8746}}</ref>

In 2018, [[China]]'s [[National People's Congress]] approved a [[Constitution of the People's Republic of China|constitutional change]] that removed [[term limits]] for its [[List of national leaders of the People's Republic of China|leaders]], granting [[Xi Jinping]] the status of "[[President for life|leader for life]]". Xi is the [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] ([[paramount leader|de facto leader]]).

====Deaths====
Sitting world leaders such as [[Hugo Chávez]] of Venezuela, [[Muammar Gaddafi]] of Libya, [[Kim Jong-il]] of North Korea, [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]], [[Lech Kaczyński]] of Poland, [[Zillur Rahman]] of Bangladesh, [[Islam Karimov]] of Uzbekistan and [[Beji Caid Essebsi]] of Tunisia, all [[List of heads of state and government who died in office|died in office]], as did former leaders [[Fidel Castro]], [[Lee Kuan Yew]], [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Robert Mugabe]], [[Giulio Andreotti]], [[Francesco Cossiga]], [[Oscar Luigi Scalfaro]], [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], [[Mario Soares]], [[Konstantinos Stephanopoulos]], [[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]],  [[Jacques Chirac]], [[Helmut Schmidt]], [[Helmut Kohl]], [[Hussain Mohammad Ershad]], [[Mohamed Morsi]], [[Ariel Sharon]], [[Shimon Peres]], [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]], [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]], [[Dimitris Christofias]], [[Václav Havel]], [[Malcolm Fraser]], [[Bob Hawke]], [[B. J. Habibie]], [[Yasuhiro Nakasone]], [[Alan García]], [[Jorge Rafael Videla]], [[Néstor Kirchner]], [[Fernando de la Rúa]], [[Patricio Aylwin]], [[Itamar Franco]], [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]], [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] and [[George H. W. Bush]].

===Prominent political events===

====Coups====
{{Main|List of coups d'état and coup attempts since 2010}}
''[[Coup d'état|Coups d'état]]'' against ruling governments during the decade include:

{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! Event
! Date
! Country
! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
| [[2010 Nigerien coup d'état|Nigerien coup d'état]]
| 18 February 2010
| {{flag|Niger}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8523573.stm |title=Niger's junta takeover condemned |date=19 February 2010 |work=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=21 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121225643/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8523573.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 Malian coup d'état|Malian coup d'état]]
| 21 March 2012
| {{flag|Mali}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/world/africa/mali-coup-france-calls-for-elections.html |title=Soldiers Overthrow Mali Government in Setback for Democracy in Africa |date=22 March 2012 |first=Adam |last=Nossiter |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=23 August 2017 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330031937/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/world/africa/mali-coup-france-calls-for-elections.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état|Guinea-Bissau coup d'état]]
| 12 April 2012
| {{flag|Guinea-Bissau}}
|<ref>{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Nossiter |title=Guinea-Bissau Premier, Election Front-Runner, Is Deposed in a Coup |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/world/africa/guinea-bissau-coup-removes-presidential-front-runner.html |date=13 April 2012 |access-date=23 August 2017 |archive-date=7 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507222720/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/world/africa/guinea-bissau-coup-removes-presidential-front-runner.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état|Egyptian coup d'état]]
| 3 July 2013
| {{flag|Egypt}}
|<ref>{{cite news |first=David D. |last=Kirkpatrick |title=Army Ousts Egypt's President; Morsi Is Taken into Military Custody |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/middleeast/egypt.html |date=4 July 2013 |author-link=David D. Kirkpatrick |access-date=23 August 2017 |archive-date=4 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704010457/http://www.nytimes.com//2013//07//04//world//middleeast//egypt.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2014 Thai coup d'état|Thai coup d'état]]
| 22 May 2014
| {{flag|Thailand}}
|<ref>{{cite news |first=Thomas |last=Fuller |title=Thailand's Military Stages Coup, Thwarting Populist Movement |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/world/asia/thailand-military-coup.html |date=22 May 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 June 2017 |archive-date=10 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510070451/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/world/asia/thailand-military-coup.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Houthi takeover in Yemen|Yemeni coup d'état]]
| 21 September 2014
| {{flag|Yemen}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://yemenobserver.com/front-page/1208-houthis-start-three-day-conference-in-capital.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150216083216/http://yemenobserver.com/front-page/1208-houthis-start-three-day-conference-in-capital.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 February 2015 |author=Saif Saleh Al-Oliby |title=Houthis Start Three Day Conference in Capital |date=1 February 2015 |website=Yemen Observer |access-date=15 February 2015}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt|Turkish coup d'état attempt]]
| 15 July 2016
| {{flag|Turkey}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/middleeast/failed-turkish-coup-accelerated-a-purge-years-in-the-making.html |first1=Ben |last1=Hubbard |first2=Tim |last2=Argano |first3=Ceylan |last3=Yeginsu |title=Failed Turkish Coup Accelerated a Purge Years in the Making |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 July 2016 |access-date=30 August 2017 |archive-date=25 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525010248/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/middleeast/failed-turkish-coup-accelerated-a-purge-years-in-the-making.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état|Zimbabwean coup d'état]]
| 14 November 2017
| {{flag|Zimbabwe}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42071488 |title=Zimbabwe's President Mugabe resigns |date=21 November 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=23 January 2019 |archive-date=6 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506045027/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42071488 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt|Gabon coup d'état attempt]]
| 7 January 2019
| {{flag|Gabon}}
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/gabon-coup-detat-president-ali-bongo-military-opposition-a4032231.html |first=Tom |last=Herbert |title=Gabon coup d'etat explained: Why is President Ali Bongo facing military opposition? |date=7 January 2019 |access-date=19 February 2019 |archive-date=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413235525/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/gabon-coup-detat-president-ali-bongo-military-opposition-a4032231.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Sudanese coup d'état|Sudanese coup d'état]]
| 11 April 2019
| {{flag|Sudan}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47891470 |title=Sudan military coup topples Bashir |work=BBC News |date=11 April 2019 |access-date=12 April 2019 |archive-date=22 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522191935/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47891470 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt|Amhara coup d'état attempt]]
| 22 June 2019
| {{flag|Ethiopia}}
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Ethiopia army chief shot dead in 'coup bid' attacks |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48734572 |work=[[BBC World News]] |date=23 June 2019 |access-date=23 June 2019 |quote=Gen Asaminew openly advised the Amhara people this month to arm themselves, in a video spread on Facebook and seen by a Reuters reporter. |archive-date=23 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223173233/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48734572 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

The following tables of events is listed by the region and by chronological order. The prominent political events include, but are not limited to:

====Africa====
{{Further|Category:2010s in Africa}}
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! Country
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Description
! References
|-
| [[2011 South Sudanese independence referendum]]
| {{flag|South Sudan}}
| 9 July 2011
| A referendum was held in [[Southern Sudan Autonomous Region (2005–11)|Southern Sudan]] on whether the region should remain part of [[Sudan]]. An overwhelming majority voted in favour of separation and formed the new country of [[South Sudan]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2011-01-30-2052877353_x.htm |title=Over 99 pct in Southern Sudan vote for secession |website=USA Today |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=20 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120053649/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2011-01-30-2052877353_x.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela|Death of Nelson Mandela]]
| {{flag|South Africa}}
| 5 December 2013
| [[Nelson Mandela]], anti-apartheid activist and President of [[South Africa]] from 1994 to 1999, died at the age of 95.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25249520 |title=South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies in Johannesburg |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=2 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102094646/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25249520 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2014 Tunisian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Tunisia}}
| 21 November 2014
| [[Beji Caid Essebsi]] won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian revolution against outgoing president [[Moncef Marzouki]]. He became Tunisia's fifth [[President of Tunisia|president]] and first freely elected head of state in the Arab world.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/tunisias-president-beji-caid-essebsi-dies-at-age-92/2019/07/25/ca47abaa-98fa-11e9-a027-c571fd3d394d_story.html |title=Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi dies at 92 |last1=Parker |first1=Claire |last2=Fahim |first2=Kareem |date=25 July 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=25 July 2019 |archive-date=10 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810202733/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/tunisias-president-beji-caid-essebsi-dies-at-age-92/2019/07/25/ca47abaa-98fa-11e9-a027-c571fd3d394d_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2015 Nigerian general election]]
| {{flag|Nigeria}}
| 29 March 2015
| [[Muhammadu Buhari]] was elected [[President of Nigeria]], the first time the opposition ever won an election against an incumbent and the first ever [[peaceful transition of power|peaceful transfer of power]] in the country.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11507102/Muhammadu-Buhari-claims-victory-in-Nigerias-presidential-elections.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/11507102/Muhammadu-Buhari-claims-victory-in-Nigerias-presidential-elections.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Muhammadu Buhari claims victory in Nigeria's presidential elections |website=The Telegraph |date=31 March 2015 |last1=Freeman |first1=Colin |access-date=20 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 Gambian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Gambia}}
| 1 December 2016
| [[Adama Barrow]] was elected President of [[The Gambia]], defeating long-time President [[Yahya Jammeh]] and ending more than 22 years of authoritarian rule.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/02/the-gambia-president-jammeh-concede-defeat-in-election |title=The Gambia's President Jammeh to concede defeat in election |last=Graham-Harrison |first=Ruth Maclean Emma |date=2 December 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=2 December 2016 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116194110/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/02/the-gambia-president-jammeh-concede-defeat-in-election |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|Resignation of [[Jacob Zuma]]
|{{flag|South Africa}}
|14 February 2018
|[[Jacob Zuma]] resigns as [[President of South Africa]], after nine years in power.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Zuma bows to party pressure and quits |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43066443 |work=BBC News |date=15 February 2018 |access-date=13 July 2018 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116030647/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43066443 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|Resignation of [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]]
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|2 April 2019
|[[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]] resigns as [[President of Algeria]] amid [[2019 Algerian protests|widespread protests]], after nearly two decades in office.
|<ref name="guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/02/algeria-latest-news-president-abdelaziz-bouteflika-resigns |title=Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns after 20 years |date=2 April 2019 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 April 2019 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402200757/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/02/algeria-latest-news-president-abdelaziz-bouteflika-resigns |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Khartoum massacre]]
|{{flag|Sudan}}
|3 June 2019
|Security forces of the [[Transitional Military Council (2019)|Transitional Military Council]], the [[military junta]] ruling Sudan following the ousting of Omar al-Bashir, massacre over 100 people at a [[sit-in]] protest amid [[2018–19 Sudanese protests|mass protests]] in Khartoum. The massacre prompts the [[African Union]] to suspend Sudan's participation until civilian rule is reestablished in the country.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/africa/sudan-death-toll-intl/index.html |title=Sudan death roll rises to 100 as bodies found in Nile, say doctors |first1=Kareem |last1=Khadder |first2=Julia |last2=Hollingsworth |work=CNN |access-date=6 June 2019 |archive-date=13 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613001955/https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/africa/sudan-death-toll-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1T71NM-OZATP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606142714/https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1T71NM-OZATP |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 June 2019 |title=African Union suspends Sudan, demands civilian administration |date=6 June 2019 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=6 June 2019}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Tunisian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Tunisia}}
| 13 October 2019
| Conservative academic [[Kais Saied]] wins more than 70% of the votes, defeating businessman [[Nabil Karoui]]. He became Tunisia's sixth [[President of Tunisia|president]] and second freely elected head of state in the Arab world.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/14/tunisia-election-exit-polls-point-to-landslide-win-for-robocop-kais-saied |title=Tunisia election: 'Robocop' Kais Saied wins presidential runoff |date=14 October 2019 |website=The Guardian |access-date=16 October 2019}}</ref>
|-
|}

====Americas====
{{Further|Category:2010s in North America|Category:2010s in South America}}
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! Country
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Description
! References
|-
| [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 23 March 2010
| President [[Barack Obama]] signs the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] into law, marking a major reform of the [[Health insurance in the United States|U.S. health insurance]] and [[Health care in the United States|health care systems]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html |title=Obama Signs Health Care Overhaul into Law |last1=Stolberg |first1=Sheryl Gay |date=23 March 2010 |last2=Pear |first2=Robert |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513160854/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/health/policy/24health.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2010 Brazilian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 31 October 2010
| [[Dilma Rousseff]] was elected as the first female [[President of Brazil]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-11662623 |title=Brazil elects Dilma Rousseff as first female president |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117021800/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-11662623 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2010 United States elections|2010 Midterm elections]] and [[Tea Party movement]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 2 November 2010
| [[Republican Party (United States)|The Republicans]] become the dominant party with a majority of the seats in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and gain seats in the [[U.S. Senate]]. This was seen as due to a tide of [[Libertarian]] support amongst the U.S. populace exemplified in the Tea Party.
|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/elections/tea-party-movement-2010-midterm-elections/ |title=Impact of the Tea Party movement on the 2010 election |date=6 July 2011 |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-date=9 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809225219/https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/elections/tea-party-movement-2010-midterm-elections/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2011 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 2 May 2011
| [[Stephen Harper]], leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]], is re-elected in Canada's federal election, with a majority government.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/03/canadian-election-conservatives-win-majority-stephen-harper |title=Canada's Conservatives in crushing election victory |website=The Guardian |access-date=3 May 2011}}</ref>
|-
| [[2011 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 23 October 2011
| [[Front for Victory]] candidate and President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] wins a second term as [[President of Argentina]], defeating Socialist candidate [[Hermes Binner]] by 54% of votes.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/45006572 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717154154/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45006572 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 July 2020 |title=Argentine president wins landslide re-election |work=NBC News}}</ref>
|-
| [[Impeachment of Fernando Lugo]]
| {{flag|Paraguay}}
| 22 June 2012
| On 21 June the [[Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay|Chamber of Deputies]] voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the [[Senate of Paraguay|Senate]] removed him from office the following day, by 39 votes to 4, resulting in Vice President [[Federico Franco]], who had broken with Lugo, becoming president.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-lugo/paraguays-lugo-says-only-miracle-can-reinstate-him-idUSBRE85P1BQ20120626 |title=Paraguay's Lugo says only miracle can reinstate him |last=Desantis |first=Daniela |publisher=Reuters |access-date=26 June 2018 |archive-date=6 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106181445/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-paraguay-lugo/paraguays-lugo-says-only-miracle-can-reinstate-him-idUSBRE85P1BQ20120626 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 Mexican general election]]
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| 1 July 2012
| [[Enrique Peña Nieto]] won the Mexican general election, bringing the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] back to prominence for the first time since 2000.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-02-la-fg-mexico-presidential-election-20120702-story.html |title=Enrique Peña Nieto wins Mexico's presidency, early results show |last1=Ellingwood |first1=Ken |date=2 July 2012 |last2=Wilkinson |first2=Tracy |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728001140/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2012-jul-02-la-fg-mexico-presidential-election-20120702-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 United States presidential election]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 6 November 2012
| [[Barack Obama]] was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican nominee [[Mitt Romney]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html |title=Obama reelected as president |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=17 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417162701/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Death of Hugo Chávez]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 5 March 2013
| [[Venezuela]]n President [[Hugo Chávez]] died at the age of 58 after governing the country for 14 years.
|<ref>{{cite news |first=Simon |last=Romero |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/world/americas/hugo-chavez-venezuelas-polarizing-leader-dies-at-58.html |title=Hugo Chávez, 1954–2013: A Polarising Figure Who Led a Movement |date=6 March 2014 |author-link=Simon Romero}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]''
| {{flag|United States}}
| 26 June 2015
| [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|Same-sex marriage]] was legalised in all 50 U.S. states due to a landmark decision by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html |title=Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=26 June 2015 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=16 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516211629/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2015 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 19 October 2015
| The [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], led by [[Justin Trudeau]], won Canada's federal election, defeating the [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative Party]] in the country's longest election in a century.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/canadian-election-2015-liberals-jump-to-early-lead-as-polls-close-in-newfoundland-and-labrador |title=Canadian election 2015 hands Justin Trudeau and the Liberals a majority government |website=National Post |date=20 October 2015 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=21 October 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20151021190747/http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/canadian-election-2015-liberals-jump-to-early-lead-as-polls-close-in-newfoundland-and-labrador |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2015 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 22 November 2015
| [[Juntos por el Cambio|Cambiemos]] candidate and Buenos Aires Mayor [[Mauricio Macri]] became the [[President of Argentina]], defeating [[Front for Victory]] candidate [[Daniel Scioli]] via ballotage by 51% of votes
|
|-
| [[2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 6 December 2015
| The [[Democratic Unity Roundtable]] (MUD) won majority seats of the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|Venezuelan National Assembly]], defeating the ruling [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV) and its wider alliance, the [[Great Patriotic Pole]] (GPP) for the first time since 1999.
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dreier |first1=Hannah |title=Venezuela's Opposition Wins Control of National Assembly |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-opposition-wins-control-national-assembly-35616983 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=7 December 2015 |access-date=7 December 2015 |archive-date=20 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220205248/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuelas-opposition-wins-control-national-assembly-35616983 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 12 May 2016
| The [[Senate of Brazil|Brazilian Senate]] votes to open the impeachment process against [[President of Brazil|President]] [[Dilma Rousseff]] and suspend her from office while the trial takes place, as the [[Vice President of Brazil|Vice President]], [[Michel Temer]], assumes the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of [[Brazil]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil's Dilma Rousseff to face impeachment trial |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36273916 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 May 2016 |archive-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113235031/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36273916 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 United States presidential election]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 8 November 2016
| Republican nominee [[Donald Trump]] was elected the 45th President of the United States, defeating former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic nominee [[Hillary Clinton]]. He became the first President without prior diplomatic or military experience.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/ |title=Donald Trump Wins the 2016 Election |magazine=Time |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-date=24 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224084854/https://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Stephen |last=Collinson |title=Trump becomes 45th President of the United States |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-highlights/index.html |work=CNN |access-date=16 December 2018 |archive-date=12 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412043240/https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/donald-trump-inauguration-highlights/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Fidel Castro]]
| {{flag|Cuba}}
| 25 November 2016
| Former [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba]] and revolutionary leader [[Fidel Castro]] died at the age of 90.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953 |title=Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90 |work=BBC News |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=14 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114053634/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 29 March 2017
| The [[Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Venezuela)|Supreme Tribunal of Justice]] of [[Venezuela]] took over legislative powers of the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] and removed its members' immunity, most of whom belonged to [[Democratic Unity Roundtable|the opposition]]. The decision was reversed a few days later following domestic and international condemnation of the court's actions. 
|<ref>{{cite news |title=As Venezuela unrest spreads, Maduro presses on with plans to rewrite charter |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN18J320 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=24 May 2017 |access-date=24 May 2017 |archive-date=24 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524160706/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN18J320 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2017–present Peruvian political crisis]]
| {{flag|Peru}}
| 15 September 2017–present
| Peruvian President [[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]] was [[First impeachment of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski|impeached]] and later resigned. His successor Martín Vizcarra was removed by congress and appointed Vice President [[Mercedes Aráoz]] as interim president, moves that were largely seen as illegitimate.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/01/perus-president-dissolves-congress-to-push-through-anti-corruption-reforms |title=Peru's president dissolves Congress to push through anti-corruption reforms |date=1 October 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=1 October 2019 |archive-date=7 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207120024/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/01/perus-president-dissolves-congress-to-push-through-anti-corruption-reforms |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Inauguration of [[Miguel Díaz-Canel]]
| {{flag|Cuba}}
| 19 April 2018
| [[Miguel Díaz-Canel]] is sworn in as President of the [[Council of State (Cuba)|State Council of Cuba]], marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a [[Prime Minister of Cuba|prime minister]] or a [[President of Cuba|president]] other than [[Fidel Castro|Fidel]] or [[Raúl Castro]].
|
|-
| [[2018 Mexican general election]]
| {{flag|Mexico}}
| 1 July 2018
| [[Andrés Manuel López Obrador]] won the historic Mexican general election, bringing the [[National Regeneration Movement]] for new prominence for the first time without any political rule like [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] and [[National Action Party (Mexico)|National Action Party]].
|
|-
| [[2018 Brazilian general election]]
| {{flag|Brazil}}
| 28 October 2018
| [[Jair Bolsonaro]] was elected [[President of Brazil]], marking the first time that the country is ruled by the right since the start of the [[History of Brazil since 1985|New Republic]] in 1985. The election also interrupted 4 victories of the [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|Workers' Party]] in a row.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Jair Bolsonaro é eleito presidente e interrompe série de vitórias do PT |url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/10/28/jair-bolsonaro-e-eleito-presidente-e-interrompe-serie-de-vitorias-do-pt.ghtml |date=28 October 2018 |work=Eleições 2018 |language=pt-BR |access-date=29 November 2019 |archive-date=29 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029020150/https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/10/28/jair-bolsonaro-e-eleito-presidente-e-interrompe-serie-de-vitorias-do-pt.ghtml |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Death of George H. W. Bush]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 30 November 2018
| [[George H. W. Bush]], former president of United States from 1989 to 1993 and former vice president, from 1981 to 1989, dies at the age of 94.
|
|-
|[[Venezuelan presidential crisis]]
| {{flag|Venezuela}}
| 10 January 2019
| On 10 January 2019, the opposition-majority [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] declared that incumbent [[Nicolás Maduro]]'s [[2018 Venezuelan presidential election|2018 reelection]] was invalid and declared its president, [[Juan Guaidó]], to be [[acting president]] of the nation. Maduro's government states that the crisis is a "''[[coup d'état]]'' led by the [[United States]] to topple him and control [[Oil reserves in Venezuela|the country's oil reserves]]."
|{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
|-
| [[2019 Canadian federal election]]
| {{flag|Canada}}
| 21 October 2019
| [[Justin Trudeau]], leader of the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], is re-elected in Canada's federal election, albeit with a minority government.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/canada-elections-justin-trudeau-wins-narrow-victory-to-form-minority-government |title=Canada elections: Trudeau wins narrow victory to form minority government |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 November 2019}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 Argentine general election]]
| {{flag|Argentina}}
| 27 October 2019
| Peronist candidate [[Alberto Fernández]] of [[Frente de Todos (2019 coalition)|Frente de Todos]] is elected President of Argentina, defeating President [[Mauricio Macri]] of [[Juntos por el Cambio]] by 48% of votes.
|-
| [[2019 Bolivian political crisis]]
| {{flag|Bolivia}}
| 10 November 2019
| Bolivian president [[Evo Morales]] resigns following 19 days of protests after the disputed [[2019 Bolivian general election]] and following calls for his resignation by the military.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns amid election protests |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50370013 |work=BBC News |access-date=12 November 2019 |archive-date=25 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125054606/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50370013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|- 
| [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|First Impeachment of Donald Trump]]
| {{flag|United States}}
| 18 December 2019
| United States president [[Donald Trump]] is impeached by the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] on charges of [[abuse of power]] and [[Contempt of Congress|obstruction of Congress]].
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |last2=Shear |first2=Michael D. |title=Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress – Voting nearly along party lines, the House approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president in history to face removal by the Senate. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeached.html |date=18 December 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=18 December 2019 |archive-date=18 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218190005/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeached.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 
|}

{|
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|[[File:Miguel Díaz-Canel and Narendra Modi.jpg|thumb|[[Miguel Díaz-Canel]] (left) with [[Prime Minister of India|Indian Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]] in March 2015. Díaz-Canel became the first [[President of Cuba|president]] of [[Cuba]] not to be of the [[History of Cuba#Castro's Cuba (1959 - 2006)|Castro family]] since [[Osvaldo Dorticós]]]]
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|[[File:Donald Trump star Hollywood Walk of Fame.JPG|thumb|[[Donald Trump]], [[Media career of Donald Trump|a celebrity]] ([[Donald Trump filmography|filmography]]) and [[Business career of Donald Trump|businessman]], became president of the United States in 2017. Trump was the first U.S. president without prior military or government experience. Had Hillary Clinton been elected in 2016, she would have been the United States' first female president. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, but did not win the electoral college.]]
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|}

====Asia====
{{Further|Category:2010s in Asia}}
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! Country
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Description
! References
|-
| [[2010 Myanmar general election]]
| {{flag|Myanmar}}
| 7 November 2010
| [[Thein Sein]] was elected President of [[Myanmar]], the first civilian President of the country since 1962.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12362745 |title=Burma ex-Prime Minister Thein Sein named new president |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130100216/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12362745 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Kim Jong-il]]
| {{flag|North Korea}}
| 17 December 2011
| Supreme Leader [[Kim Jong-il]] of [[North Korea]] died after governing the country for 17 years. His son, [[Kim Jong-un]], succeeded him.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-19/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-dead/3738526 |title=North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead |date=19 December 2011 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=14 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214065943/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-19/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-il-dead/3738526 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 Japanese general election]]
| {{flag|Japan}}
| 26 December 2012
| The [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], led by [[Shinzō Abe]], won a landslide victory in Japan's general election.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/asia/shinzo-abe-selected-as-japans-prime-minister.html |title=Shinzo Abe Selected as Japan's Prime Minister |last=Fackler |first=Martin |date=26 December 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=17 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217123237/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/world/asia/shinzo-abe-selected-as-japans-prime-minister.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction]]
| {{flag|North Korea}}
| 11 March 2013
| The Supreme Leader [[Kim Jong-un]] of [[North Korea]] broke all peace pacts with [[South Korea]] and started a new nuclear weapons plan, inflaming tensions on the [[Korean Peninsula]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDrMpWuahcuRgQmj-dSSk_L87w2g?do |title=North Korean leader threatens strike on South island |date=11 March 2013 |website=AFP News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129081438/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDrMpWuahcuRgQmj-dSSk_L87w2g?docId=CNG.ece624233e0176d14a79a8a1f72e2f75.161 |archive-date=29 January 2014}}</ref>
|-
| [[2014 Indian general election]]
| {{flag|India}}
| 12 May 2014
| The [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], led by [[Narendra Modi]], won a landslide victory in India's general election, the first time a single party gained a majority on its own since 1984.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.firstpost.com/politics/modi-wave-conquers-all-what-exit-polls-show-in-haryana-maharashtra-1758575.html |title=Modi wave conquers all: What exit polls show in Haryana, Maharashtra |date=16 October 2014 |website=Firstpost |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=11 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211071306/https://www.firstpost.com/politics/modi-wave-conquers-all-what-exit-polls-show-in-haryana-maharashtra-1758575.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2014 Indonesian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Indonesia}}
| 9 July 2014
| [[Joko Widodo]] won Indonesia's presidential election, becoming the first president not to be from the country's political elite or military.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/world/asia/joko-widodo-populist-governor-is-named-winner-in-indonesian-election.html |title=A Child of the Slum Rises as President of Indonesia |last=Cochrane |first=Joe |date=22 July 2014 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=12 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712043543/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/23/world/asia/joko-widodo-populist-governor-is-named-winner-in-indonesian-election.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Visit by Pope Francis to the Philippines|Pastoral and state visit by Pope Francis to the Philippines]]
| {{flag|Philippines}}
| 15–19 January 2015
|An estimated 6 to 7 million attended the Concluding Eucharistic Celebration in [[Luneta|Manila]] on the Feast Day of [[Santo Niño de Cebú]], ending the 5-day apostolic and state visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines, the largest papal crowd in history.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/01/18/15/luneta-mass-largest-papal-event-history |title=Luneta Mass is largest Papal event in history |publisher=ABS-CBN News |access-date=28 January 2015 |archive-date=21 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121025900/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/01/18/15/luneta-mass-largest-papal-event-history |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|King Abdullah]]
| {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}
| 23 January 2015
| [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia|Abdullah]], the [[King of Saudi Arabia|King]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] from 2005 to 2015, died and was succeeded by [[Salman of Saudi Arabia|King Salman]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/01/king-abdullah-saudi-arabia-dies-150122232049573.html |title=King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia dies |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=6 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906191717/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/01/king-abdullah-saudi-arabia-dies-150122232049573.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Lee Kuan Yew]]
| {{flag|Singapore}}
| 23 March 2015
| Founding Prime Minister of [[Singapore]] who ruled from 1959 to 1990, highly regarded as the founding father of the nation, died from [[pneumonia]] at the age of 91.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/leekuanyew-8-days-mourning |title=Remembering Lee Kuan Yew: The Straits Times' full print coverage |website=straitstimes.com |date=January 2016 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130233205/https://www.straitstimes.com/leekuanyew-8-days-mourning |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[India–Bangladesh enclaves|India–Bangladesh enclaves exchange]]
| {{flag|India}} {{flag|Bangladesh}}
| 6 June 2015
| [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] officially ratified their 1974 agreement to exchange enclaves along their border.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/01/say-goodbye-to-the-weirdest-border-dispute-in-the-world/ |title=Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=16 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116015638/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/01/say-goodbye-to-the-weirdest-border-dispute-in-the-world/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 Taiwanese general election]]
| {{flag|Taiwan}}
| 16 January 2016
| [[Tsai Ing-wen]] was elected [[President of the Republic of China|President of Taiwan]], the first woman to hold the position.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-gets-first-female/2432040.html |title=Taiwan gets first female President as DPP sweeps election |website=Channel NewsAsia |access-date=20 June 2016 |archive-date=16 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116134410/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-gets-first-female/2432040.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 Philippine presidential election]]
| {{flag|Philippines}}
| 9 May 2016
| [[Rodrigo Duterte]] was elected [[President of the Philippines]].
|<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gonzales |first1=Yuji Vincent |title=Duterte, Robredo proclaimed new President, VP; Rody a no-show |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788148/congress-proclaims-duterte-robredo-as-new-president-vp-rody-a-no-show |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |date=30 May 2016 |access-date=31 May 2016 |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105061157/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788148/congress-proclaims-duterte-robredo-as-new-president-vp-rody-a-no-show |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]]
| {{flag|Thailand}}
| 13 October 2016
| [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]], the [[Monarch of Thailand|King]] of [[Thailand]] from 1946 to 2016, died and was succeeded by his son, [[Vajiralongkorn]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/thailands-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-dies/article9215490.ece |title=Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, world's longest-reigning monarch, dies |agency=Reuters |date=13 October 2016 |work=The Hindu |access-date=22 January 2017 |archive-date=22 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822051056/https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Thailand%E2%80%99s-King-Bhumibol-Adulyadej-worlds-longest-reigning-monarch-dies/article16070211.ece |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Impeachment of Park Geun-hye]]
| {{flag|South Korea}}
| 10 March 2017
| South Korean President [[Park Geun-hye]] is impeached by the [[Constitutional Court of Korea]] in a unanimous decision, terminating Park's presidency. South Korean Prime Minister [[Hwang Kyo-ahn]] assumes power following the ruling.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-idUSKBN16H066 |title=South Korean court throws president out of office, 2 dead in protest |publisher=Reuters |date=10 March 2017 |access-date=10 March 2017 |archive-date=25 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125185110/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-politics-idUSKBN16H066 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2017 South Korean presidential election]]
| {{flag|South Korea}}
| 9 May 2017
| [[Moon Jae-in]] was elected the 12th President of South Korea, originally scheduled to take place later in the year, the election was moved to early May following the impeachment of President [[Park Geun-hye]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/asia/south-korea-election-president-moon-jae-in.html |title=South Korea elects Moon Jae-in, who backs talks with North, as President |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 May 2017 |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=13 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513012345/http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/asia/south-korea-election-president-moon-jae-in.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2018 Malaysian general election]]
| {{flag|Malaysia}}
| 9 May 2018
| The opposition-led [[Pakatan Harapan]] coalition, led by former [[Prime Minister of Malaysia|Prime Minister]] [[Mahathir Mohamad]], secures a [[2018 Malaysian general election|parliamentary majority]] in the [[Parliament of Malaysia|Malaysian Parliament]], ending the 61-year rule of the [[Barisan Nasional]] coalition and leading to the pardon of [[Anwar Ibrahim]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.malaymail.com/s/1629158/pakatan-takes-putrajaya-buoyed-by-malay-tsunami |title=Pakatan takes Putrajaya, buoyed by 'Malay tsunami' |first=Zurairi |last=Ar |newspaper=The Malay Mail |date=10 May 2018 |access-date=10 May 2018 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143316/https://www.malaymail.com/s/1629158/pakatan-takes-putrajaya-buoyed-by-malay-tsunami |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.my/malaysias-anwar-ibrahim-pardoned-and-released-from-jail-2018-5/?r=US&IR=T |title=Malaysia's jailed leader-in-waiting has been released from custody and given a full royal pardon |last=Chan |first=Tara |date=16 May 2018 |work=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=18 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611045423/https://www.businessinsider.my/malaysias-anwar-ibrahim-pardoned-and-released-from-jail-2018-5/?r=US&IR=T |archive-date=11 June 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[2018–19 Korean peace process|2018–2019 Korean Peace Process]]
| {{flag|South Korea}} {{flag|North Korea}} {{flag|United States}}
| February 2018 – October 2019
| A series of peace summits between the [[Supreme Leader (North Korean title)|Supreme Leader]] of [[North Korea]] [[Kim Jong-un]], the [[President of South Korea|President]] of [[South Korea]] [[Moon Jae-in]], and the [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]] [[Donald Trump]]. Three inter-Korean summits occurred at the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] in [[April 2018 inter-Korean summit|April 2018]], [[May 2018 inter-Korean summit|May 2018]], and [[September 2018 inter-Korean summit|September 2018]] between Kim and Moon. Additionally, two meetings between Kim and Trump occurred in [[2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit|Singapore in June 2018]] and [[2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit|Hanoi in February 2019]]. All three leaders met and [[2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit|crossed the DMZ in June 2019]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/trump-kim-singapore-summit |title=Trump-Kim Summit |website=straitstimes.com |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=9 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109012414/https://www.straitstimes.com/trump-kim-singapore-summit |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="President Trump and Chairman Kim2">{{cite web |date=27 February 2019 |title=Remarks by President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un in a 1:1 Conversation |url=https://vn.usembassy.gov/20190227-remarks-president-trump-chairman-kim-11-conversation/ |access-date=28 February 2019 |publisher=U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Vietnam |quote=PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. That's really nice. Well, I want to just say it's an honour to be with 'Chairman Kim'. |archive-date=2 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024542/https://vn.usembassy.gov/20190227-remarks-president-trump-chairman-kim-11-conversation/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| Abdication of [[Muhammad V of Kelantan]]
| {{flag|Malaysia}}
| 6 January 2019
| [[Muhammad V of Kelantan]] abdicates the federal throne as the 15th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong|monarch]] of [[Malaysia]], making him the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong to do so.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46775499 |title=Malaysia king: Sultan Muhammad V abdicates in historic first |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=6 January 2019 |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=8 January 2019 |archive-date=7 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107112311/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46775499 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[2019 North Korea–Russia summit|2019 Kim–Putin meeting]]
| {{flag|North Korea}} {{flag|Russia}}
| 25 April 2019
| North Korean [[Supreme leader of North Korea|supreme leader]] [[2019 North Korea–Russia summit|Kim Jong-un meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin]] on [[Russky Island]] after being invited to hold talks.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48047279 |title=Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un hold Vladivostok summit |date=24 April 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=25 April 2019 |archive-date=8 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408105123/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48047279 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| Abdication of [[Akihito]]
| {{flag|Japan}}
| 30 April 2019
| [[Akihito]], the [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]] of [[Japan]] from 1989 to 2019, [[2019 Japanese imperial transition|abdicated]] and was succeeded by his son, [[Naruhito]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Japan's emperor prays for peace in first abdication in 200 years |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-emperor/japans-emperor-prays-for-peace-in-first-abdication-in-200-years-idUSKCN1S5245 |date=30 April 2019 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |access-date=1 May 2019 |archive-date=1 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501054826/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-emperor/japans-emperor-prays-for-peace-in-first-abdication-in-200-years-idUSKCN1S5245 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis
| {{flag|Iran}} {{flag|United States}}
| 5 May 2019
| The [[Persian Gulf]] region saw tensions between the United States and the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]] escalate in mid-2019. The crisis saw [[oil tanker]]s in the [[Strait of Hormuz]] sabotaged and seized, drone shootdowns, and efforts by the U.S. and [[United Kingdom]] to pursue military patrols to protect shipping in the gulf.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/05/uk-joins-us-in-mission-to-protect-oil-tankers-in-gulf |title=UK joins US in mission to protect oil tankers in Gulf |date=5 August 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>
|}
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[[File:Belt and Road Initiative participant map.svg|thumb|250px|In 2013, China launched the ambitious [[Belt and Road Initiative|Belt and Road]] infrastructure initiative, with over 150 countries announcing participation by the end of the decade.]]
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[[File:Kim and Trump shaking hands at the red carpet during the DPRK–USA Singapore Summit.jpg|thumb|North Korean leader [[Kim Jong-un]] and U.S. President [[Donald Trump]] meet during the first [[2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit|North Korea–United States summit]] in [[Singapore]], June 2018]]
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[[File:WOMEN2DRIVE logo.png|thumb|[[Women to drive movement]]: [[Women's rights in Saudi Arabia]] made progress when women were allowed to drive in the kingdom in 2018.]]
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====Europe====
{{Further|Category:2010s in Europe}}
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! style="width:200px;"| Event
! Country
! style="width:120px;"| Date
! Description
! References
|-
| [[Resignation of Silvio Berlusconi]]
| {{flag|Italy}}
| 16 November 2011
| The longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy, [[Silvio Berlusconi]], resigned in November 2011, after a [[Rubygate|sexual allegation scandal]], a financial crisis and public protests. The economist [[Mario Monti]] was appointed new Prime Minister, at the head of a technocratic cabinet.
|<ref name="BBC-12 Nov">{{cite news |title=Italy crisis: Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM |work=BBC News |date=12 November 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15708729 |access-date=13 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128202636/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15708729 |archive-date=28 November 2013}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 Finnish presidential election]]
| {{flag|Finland}}
| 22 January 2012
| [[Sauli Niinistö]] was elected the [[President of Finland]] for a term from 1 March 2012 until 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vaalit.fi/53113.htm |title=Valituksi tuleminen – Vaalit |publisher=Vaalit.fi |access-date=7 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128122111/http://www.vaalit.fi/53113.htm |archive-date=28 January 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="round2-results">{{cite web |url=https://tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi/TP2012K2/s/tulos/lasktila.html |title=Presidentinvaali 5.2.2012 |publisher=[[Ministry of Justice (Finland)]] |website=tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi |trans-title=Second round results |date=8 February 2012 |access-date=28 March 2019 |archive-date=29 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429231628/http://tulospalvelu.vaalit.fi/TP2012K2/s/tulos/lasktila.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 6 February 2012
| [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|Queen]] [[Elizabeth II]] celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, which marked the 60th anniversary of her accession.
|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/news-archive/2012/Queen-celebrates-Jubilee-at-St-Pauls-images |title=Queen celebrates Jubilee at St Paul's (+images) – St Paul's Cathedral |website=stpauls.co.uk |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[2012 French presidential election]]
| {{flag|France}}
| 22 April 2012
| [[François Hollande]] was elected as the new [[President of France]], becoming the first socialist president of the country in 17 years.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/05/201256172746159731.html |title=Hollande wins French presidency |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI]] and [[papal inauguration of Pope Francis]]
| {{flag|Vatican City}}
| 28 February – 19 March 2013
| [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] resigned as [[pope]], the first to [[papal resignation|do so]] since [[Pope Gregory XII|Gregory XII]] in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since [[Pope Celestine V|Celestine V]] in 1294. On 13 March, after a [[2013 papal conclave|papal conclave]], Jorge Mario Bergoglio is inaugurated as [[Pope Francis]], the first [[Jesuit]] pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European Pope in over 500 years.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/world/europe/pope-benedict-resignation/index.html |title=Too tired to go on, Pope Benedict resigns |first1=Hada |last1=Messia |first2=Michael |last2=Pearson |publisher=CNN |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/a-new-pope-and-maybe-a-new-era/ |title=A New Pope, and Maybe a New Era |website=PBS NewsHour |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Margaret Thatcher]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 8 April 2013
| [[Margaret Thatcher]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, died.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9980269/Margaret-Thatcher-final-moments-in-hotel-without-her-family-by-her-bedside.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9980269/Margaret-Thatcher-final-moments-in-hotel-without-her-family-by-her-bedside.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Margaret Thatcher: final moments in hotel without her family by her bedside |website=The Telegraph |access-date=20 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|-
| [[2013 Italian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Italy}}
| 20 April 2013
| Amid growing financial tensions, [[President of Italy|Italian President]] [[Giorgio Napolitano]] was re-elected, the first ever Italian president to be re-elected. Napolitano appointed [[Enrico Letta]] Prime Minister, at the head of a [[Grand coalition (Italy)|grand coalition]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-vote-napolitano-idUSBRE93J09020130420 |title=Giorgio Napolitano, Italy's reluctant president |date=20 April 2013 |work=[[Reuters]] |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation]]
| {{flag|Ukraine}}
| 18 March 2014
| Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from [[Ukraine]] following an internationally unrecognised [[2014 Crimean status referendum|referendum]] on the status of the region.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26630062 |title=Ukraine crisis: Putin signs Russia-Crimea treaty |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[2014 Scottish independence referendum]]
| {{flag|Scotland}}
| 18 September 2014
| In a referendum called by the governing [[Scottish National Party]], Scotland voted to remain in the [[United Kingdom]], with 55.3% of votes against independence while 44.7% voted in favour.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-13305522 |title=Scottish election: Salmond victorious after party's win |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29270441 |title=Scottish referendum: Scotland votes 'No' to independence |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| Abdication of [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]]
| {{flag|Spain}}
| 19 June 2014
| King [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]] abdicated in favour of his son, [[Felipe VI of Spain|Felipe VI]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27662301 |title=King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicates |work=BBC News |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[2015 Irish constitutional referendums]]
| {{flag|Ireland}}
| 23 May 2015
| The [[Republic of Ireland]] voted to legalise [[Same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland|same-sex marriage]], becoming the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/vote2015/2015/0523/703205-referendum-byelection/ |title=Ireland says Yes to same-sex marriage |website=RTE.ie |access-date=20 June 2016}}</ref>
|-
| Adoption of the [[Paris Agreement]]
| {{flag|United Nations}}
| 12 December 2015
|A [[Paris Agreement|historic agreement]] aimed at keeping [[global warming]] below 2&nbsp;°C compared to pre-industrial levels and reducing greenhouse gas emissions is adopted by all 195 [[United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|UNFCCC]] member states.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cop21-climate-change-talks-saturday-announced-1.3362354 |title='Historic' Paris climate deal adopted |website=CBC News |date=12 December 2015 |access-date=16 May 2018}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum]]
| {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| 23 June 2016
| In a referendum held in the United Kingdom on whether or not to continue being a member of the [[European Union]], 52% of voters chose to leave it. [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] David Cameron announced his resignation afterwards, being [[2016 Conservative Party leadership election|succeeded]] by [[Theresa May]].
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/david-cameron-resigns-after-uk-votes-to-leave-european-union |title=David Cameron resigns after UK votes to leave European Union |last1=Stewart |first1=Heather |last2=Mason |first2=Rowena |last3=Syal |first3=Rajeev |date=24 June 2016 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=24 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7939901e-4756-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7939901e-4756-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=May to take over as UK PM by Wednesday |date=11 July 2016 |newspaper=Financial Times}}</ref>
|-
| [[2016 Austrian presidential election]]
| {{flag|Austria}}
| 4 December 2016
| Independent [[green politics|green]] [[Alexander Van der Bellen]] narrowly beat the far-right [[Freedom Party of Austria]] candidate [[Norbert Hofer]] in a repeat of the [[2016 Austrian presidential election]] after the first election was annulled.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/04/far-right-party-concedes-defeat-in-austrian-presidential-election |title=Far-right candidate concedes defeat in Austrian election |last=Oltermann |first=Philip |date=4 December 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[2017 French presidential election]]
| {{flag|France}}
| 7 May 2017
| [[En Marche!]] candidate [[Emmanuel Macron]] was elected the President of France, replacing incumbent Hollande and defeating National Front candidate [[Marine Le Pen]] in the second round of voting. Macron is the youngest president in the history of the [[French Fifth Republic]].
|<ref>{{cite news |first=Alissa J. |last=Rubin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-france-election-marine-le-pen.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Macron Decisively Defeats Le Pen in French Presidential Race |date=7 May 2017}}</ref>
|-
| Death of [[Helmut Kohl]]
| {{flag|Germany}}
| 16 June 2017
| [[Helmut Kohl]], former Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany 1982–1990 and of the reunited Germany 1990–1998), dies at the age of 87.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/world/europe/helmut-kohl-german-chancellor-dead.html |title=Helmut Kohl, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany, Dies at 87 |first1=Craig R. |last1=Whitney |first2=Alan |last2=Cowell |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 June 2017}}</ref>
|-
| [[2017 Spanish constitutional crisis]]
| {{flag|Spain}}
| 6 September 2017
| Political conflict sparks between the [[Government of Spain|Spanish]] and the [[Government of Catalonia|Catalan]] governments over the [[2017 Catalan independence referendum]]. It still went ahead, with 91% of voters supporting independence within Catalonia, with unionists and Spain opposing the vote. On 27 October, [[Catalan declaration of independence|Catalonia declares independence]] from [[Spain]] but it is not recognised by any sovereign nation, while Madrid imposes direct rule for 6 months.<ref>{{cite news |date=27 October 2017 |title=Catalans declare independence as Madrid imposes direct rule |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116 |work=BBC News |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref>
|<ref>{{cite news |author1=Soares, Isa |author2=Cotovio, Vasco |author3=Clarke, Hilary |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/01/europe/catalonia-spain-independence-referendum-result/index.html |publisher=CNN |title=Catalonia referendum result plunges Spain into political crisis |date=2 October 2017}}</ref>
|-
| [[2018 Finnish presidential election]]
| {{flag|Finland}}
| 28 January 2018
| Finnish Presidential elections were held in [[Finland]] on 28 January 2018. Incumbent [[Sauli Niinistö]] won reelection for his second consecutive term in office with 62,6 % of the vote. for a term from 1 March 2018 until 2024.
|-
| [[2018 Italian general election]]
| {{flag|Italy}}
| 4 March 2018
| The centre-right alliance, in which the right-wing populist [[Lega Nord|League]] emerged as the main political force, won a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality]] of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate, while the anti-establishment [[Five Star Movement]] became the party with the largest number of votes. After months of [[2018 Italian government formation|negotiations]], the two populist parties, M5S and League, formed a government.
|<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.repubblica.it/speciali/politica/elezioni2018/2018/03/04/news/risultati_elezioni_politiche_pd_centrodestra_m5s_fi_lega-190424815/ |title=Elezioni politiche: vincono M5s e Lega. Crollo del Partito democratico. Centrodestra prima coalizione. Il Carroccio sorpassa Forza Italia |date=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.corriere.it/elezioni-2018/notizie/elezioni-2018-exit-poll-risultati-proiezioni-spoglio-eb21387e-1ff1-11e8-a09a-92b478235f6f.shtml |title=Elezioni 2018: M5S primo partito, nel centrodestra la Lega supera FI |first=Alessandro |last=Sala}}</ref>
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| [[2018 Russian presidential election]]
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| 18 March 2018
| [[Russian presidential elections|Presidential elections]] were held in [[Russia]] on 18 March 2018. Incumbent [[Vladimir Putin]] won reelection for his second consecutive (fourth overall) term in office with 77% of the vote.
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/region/izbirkom?action=show&root=1&tvd=100100084849066&vrn=100100084849062&region=0&global=1&sub_region=0&prver=0&pronetvd=null&vibid=100100084849066&type=226 |title=Сведения о проводящихся выборах и референдумах |website=vybory.izbirkom.ru |access-date=18 April 2018 |archive-date=25 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325141318/http://www.vybory.izbirkom.ru/region/region/izbirkom?action=show&root=1&tvd=100100084849066&vrn=100100084849062&region=0&global=1&sub_region=0&prver=0&pronetvd=null&vibid=100100084849066&type=226 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[2019 European Parliament election]]
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| 23–26 May 2019
| The first European Parliamentary election following the [[European migrant crisis]] and the vote for Brexit saw large anti-establishment gains by the [[Greens-European Free Alliance]] and by Right-Wing Eurosceptic Parties within [[Identity and Democracy]] and [[European Conservatives and Reformists Group|European Conservatives and Reformists]], such as [[Lega Nord|League]] in Italy, [[Alternative for Germany]], and [[National Rally (France)|National Rally]] in France. Other populist gains were seen in the success of the [[Brexit Party]] in the United Kingdom and the [[Five Star Movement]] in Italy.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=European Parliament elections five key takeaways |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/europe/eu-election-takeaways.html |date=27 May 2019 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
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| [[2019 Conservative Party leadership election]]
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| 7 June – 22 July 2019
|The Conservative Party of the [[United Kingdom]] voted for [[Boris Johnson]] to be the party's new leader and prime minister following the resignation of [[Theresa May]] on 24 May 2019, the party's first contested leadership election since [[2005 Conservative Party leadership election|2005]].
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Boris Johnson elected new Tory leader |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/23/boris-johnson-elected-new-tory-leader-prime-minister |date=23 July 2019 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>
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|[[2019 United Kingdom general election]]
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|12 December 2019
|After an extended period of political deadlock over how to proceed with leaving the European Union an early general election took place in the United Kingdom in which the pro-withdrawal Conservative party won a sizeable majority of seats effectively guaranteeing Brexit would take place in January the following year.
|<ref>{{cite news |title=Results of the 2019 General Election |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2019/results |work=BBC News |access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref>
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[[File:Crimea_(orthographic_projection).svg|left|thumb|28 February 2014: following the removal of pro-Russian Ukrainian president [[Viktor Yanukovych]] from office, Russia annexed the [[Crimea|Crimean Peninsula]] from Ukraine]]
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[[File:20151030 Syrians and Iraq refugees arrive at Skala Sykamias Lesvos Greece 2.jpg|left|thumb|Syrian and Iraqi refugees arriving in [[Greece]]. In the 2010s Europe had been severely affected by a huge [[European migrant crisis|migration]] from [[Africa]] and [[Middle East]]]]
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===World leaders===
{{Main|List of state leaders in the 2010s}}