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Ongoing conflicts
	Global[edit] War on terror Terrorist incidents; Operation Active Endeavour; Operation Enduring Freedom; ; War on drugs; Africa[edit] Libyan civil war; Tunisian Revolution; Maghreb insurgency; OEF - Trans Sahara; Casamance conflict; Niger Delta conflict; Nigerian Sharia conflict; South Kordofan conflict; Lord's Resistance Army insurgency; Somalia: Civil war; Somali Civil War (2009–present); Piracy; ; OEF - Horn of Africa; Europe[edit] Basque conflict; Real IRA; North Caucasus insurgency; Ingushetia civil war; Middle East[edit] Iraqi insurgency; Iran-Jundallah conflict; Fatah–Hamas conflict; Arab–Israeli conflict Israeli–Palestinian conflict; Israeli–Lebanese conflict; Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks; ; Yemen: Terrorism and al-Qaeda crackdown; South Yemen insurgency; Shia insurgency; ; Kurdistan: Turkey–PKK conflict; Iran–PJAK conflict; ; Asia[edit] Afghanistan War Military operations; Taliban insurgency; ; Pakistan: Terrorism; North-West War; Balochistan conflict; Drone attacks; Sectarian violence; ; India: Terrorism; Jammu and Kashmir insurgency; Naxalite–Maoist insurgency; Northeast India insurgency; Nagaland ethnic conflict; ; Kashmir conflict Siachen conflict; ; Korean maritime border incidents; Southeast Asia: Laos insurgency; Burma internal conflict; Burma border clashes; South Thailand insurgency; Cambodian–Thai border dispute; ; Philippines insurgency OEF - Philippines; ; Papua conflict; Americas[edit] Colombian conflict Plan Colombia; FARC; ; Mexican drug war Mérida Initiative; ; Peru internal conflict; edit this archived sidebar

Recent deaths
	August[edit] 31: Wade Belak; 29: David "Honeyboy" Edwards; 27: Stetson Kennedy; 25: Lazar Mojsov; 24: Frank DiLeo; 24: Mike Flanagan; 22: Nick Ashford; 22: John Howard Davies; 22: Jack Layton; 22: Jerry Leiber; 19: Raúl Ruiz; 19: Jimmy Sangster; 18: Paul Lockyer; 17: Vasyl Dzharty; 16: Andrej Bajuk; 16: Huw Ceredig; 14: Shammi Kapoor; 14: Shawn Tompkins; 12: Charles P. Murray Jr.; 12: Robert Robinson; 11: Jani Lane; 11: Karen Overington; 10: Babak Masoumi; 7: Mark Hatfield; 7: Harri Holkeri; 7: Nancy Wake; 6: John Wood; 5: Andrzej Lepper; 5: Francesco Quinn; 4: Naoki Matsuda; 3: Annette Charles; 3: Ray Patterson; 3: Bubba Smith; 2: Baruj Benacerraf; 1: Stan Barstow; edit this archived sidebar

Ongoing events
	Disasters[edit] Horn of Africa famine; Economic[edit] Japanese recession; Global financial crisis European sovereign debt crisis; Greek economic crisis; August 2011 stock markets fall; ; Medical[edit] HIV/AIDS in Africa; Haiti cholera outbreak; Political[edit] Anti-austerity protests Greek protests; Spanish protests; ; Arab Spring Bahraini uprising; Egyptian revolution; Jordanian protests; Libyan civil war; Moroccan protests; Syrian uprising; Tunisian Revolution; Yemeni uprising; ; Belgian political crisis; Chilean student protests; Kurdish protests; News International phone hacking scandal; Scientific[edit] Expedition 28;

Elections
Recent: August[edit] 7: Cape Verde, President (1st round) 7: São Tomé and Príncipe, President (2nd round) 21: Cape Verde, President (2nd round) 23: Liberia, Constitutional referendum 26: Abkhazia, President 27: Singapore, President Upcoming: August[edit] 29–30: Estonia, President (indirect) Upcoming: September[edit] 11: Guatemala, General 15: Denmark, Parliament 17: Latvia, Parliament 20: Zambia, General edit this archived sidebar

Trials
Recently concluded[edit] Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew Germany: John Demjanjuk Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir Netherlands: Geert Wilders United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield United States: Faisal Shahzad, Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Rod Blagojevich, Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Ongoing[edit] Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Canada: Russell Williams China: Organized crime in Chongqing France: Church of Scientology Germany: Heinrich Boere Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY) Palau: Tommy Remengesau Peru: Joran van der Sloot Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr. Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev Sierra Leone]: Charles Taylor (SCFSL) Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra Turkey: Ergenekon network United States: David Headley, Ahmed Ghailani, Jared Lee Loughner, Charles P. White, Roger Clemens Upcoming[edit] Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali United States: Viktor Bout, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan, Conrad Murray, John Edwards, Javaris Crittenton edit this archived sidebar

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