Top Ten Countries Most Affected by Active War or Major Armed Conflict — June 2026

Sudan is in a large-scale civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, with severe fighting, attacks on civilians, mass displacement, famine risk, aid obstruction, and shattered public services.

Sudan remains number one because the scale and spread of its conflict-driven suffering are still unmatched. OCHA reports that 33.7 million people require humanitarian assistance in 2026, the highest number globally, while Sudan continues to face massive protection risks, repeated displacement, and severe food insecurity. ACAPS also warns of deteriorating risks between June and December 2026, including displacement, access constraints, and service disruptions.

Sudan remains unchanged at #1. This is not because conditions have stabilized; Sudan remains first because the scale of war-driven national collapse still exceeds every other current case. The May ranking also identified Sudan as the clearest number one.

Recent AP reporting describes continuing civilian attacks, sexual violence, displacement, and war crimes, while Sudanese medical sources have accused the RSF of killing civilians in North Kordofan.

The war has damaged health care, food access, schooling, public trust, family safety, and the basic ability of communities to survive.

Pray for God to restrain the violence between armed forces, protect civilians from attacks and abuse, provide food and shelter for displaced families, sustain churches serving amid scarcity, and bring justice and peace to a country being torn apart by war.

The State of Palestine, especially Gaza, remains under catastrophic conflict conditions involving occupation-related warfare, repeated hostilities, mass displacement, blockade, aid constraints, and severe civilian deprivation.

It ranks second because the density of suffering in Gaza remains extraordinary. ACAPS reports that the entire Gaza Strip population, estimated by ACAPS at about 2.3 million people, needs humanitarian assistance. Almost the entire population has been displaced, and people continue to face severe problems accessing shelter, water, food, health services, and education. ACAPS also reports that the entire population faces Crisis-level food insecurity or worse, including a significant share in Catastrophe-level conditions.

The State of Palestine remains unchanged at #2. The burden remains among the world’s gravest, but Sudan’s broader national-scale displacement, famine risk, and state collapse still keep Sudan above it. The May ranking also placed the State of Palestine second.

Recent OCHA and ACAPS reporting continues to show Gaza’s humanitarian access as severely constrained, with food, health care, shelter, water, and protection needs remaining acute across the population.

Shelter, food access, health care, family safety, education, and ordinary life remain profoundly disrupted.

Pray for mercy for civilians in Gaza and the wider Palestinian territories, for food and medical access to reach those in need, for comfort for grieving families, for protection of the vulnerable, for faithful Christian witness, and for a just peace.

Ukraine remains in a full-scale interstate war with Russia, involving front-line fighting, missile and drone attacks, displacement, civilian casualties, infrastructure damage, and broad national strain.

Ukraine remains third because the war is still militarily serious, nationally disruptive, and far-reaching. ACAPS describes the Russia-Ukraine conflict as a full-scale invasion that triggered mass displacement inside Ukraine and abroad, with millions internally displaced and millions more living as refugees.

Ukraine remains unchanged at #3. This does not mean the war has eased; ongoing attacks, displacement, infrastructure strain, and front-line pressure still make Ukraine one of the world’s clearest major war burdens. The current evidence still places Ukraine below Sudan and Gaza, but above the more regionally concentrated conflicts below it. The May ranking also placed Ukraine third.

The war continues to affect energy, housing, health care, front-line communities, families separated by displacement, and civilians under long-term stress.

Ukraine’s state remains more functional than the countries ranked above it, but the war still affects large parts of national life and civilian endurance.

Pray for protection from missile, drone, and front-line attacks; for displaced families and separated households; for churches serving the wounded and bereaved; and for peace with justice after years of war.

DRC qualifies because the east remains affected by M23, ADF, and other armed groups, displacement, civilian attacks, regional instability, and insecurity severe enough to obstruct health and humanitarian response.

DRC remains fourth because eastern Congo combines long-running armed conflict with massive displacement and new risks from conflict-complicated disease response. ACAPS describes DRC as one of the world’s longest-standing humanitarian crises, with insecurity, displacement, food insecurity, disease outbreaks, and climate shocks deepening the crisis.

DRC remains unchanged at #4. It remains below Ukraine because its conflict is more regionally concentrated, but it remains above Myanmar because eastern DRC’s conflict-displacement burden and current health-risk overlay are especially acute. The May ranking also placed DRC fourth.

Recent reporting on eastern DRC describes ADF attacks killing civilians and hindering the Ebola response, while the outbreak is unfolding in areas already strained by displacement, insecurity, weak health services, and cross-border movement.

Communities face repeated displacement, insecurity, sexual violence risks, disrupted livelihoods, blocked aid, and fear of both armed groups and disease.

Pray for protection from armed groups in eastern DRC, justice for victims of abuse, mercy for displaced families, wisdom for health workers responding amid insecurity, and courage for churches serving communities marked by fear and repeated violence.

Myanmar remains in nationwide conflict following the 2021 military coup, with fighting across multiple regions, mass displacement, political breakdown, economic strain, and serious aid-access constraints.

Myanmar remains fifth because its conflict is national, entrenched, and deeply disruptive, even though the sharpest current escalation signals in June are stronger in DRC, Iran, and Lebanon. The UN’s Myanmar Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan says armed conflict, recurrent disasters, and economic collapse have left 16.2 million people in need and more than 4 million displaced.

Myanmar remains unchanged at #5. This is not a sign of improvement; it reflects the continuing nationwide civil-war burden. It remains below DRC because DRC’s eastern conflict-displacement burden and health-risk overlay are sharper this month, while Myanmar’s national civil-war burden remains severe but not newly reordered. The May ranking also placed Myanmar fifth.

Civilians continue to face insecurity, repeated displacement, damaged livelihoods, restricted movement, and a difficult aid environment.

Churches and Christian communities in several areas face instability, displacement, and uncertainty about safety, worship, and witness.

Pray for civilians displaced by the civil war, for churches and Christian communities under pressure, for believers to endure with courage, for mercy where aid access is blocked, and for an end to violence and military oppression.

Iran qualifies because escalating hostilities involving Iran, Israel, and the United States have caused civilian harm, infrastructure damage, service disruption, and large-scale humanitarian pressure.

Iran remains sixth because the current urgency and regional escalation risk are very high. ACAPS reports that hostilities since late February 2026 have damaged hospitals, schools, water infrastructure, industrial and oil facilities, and essential services.

Iran remains unchanged at #6. It stays above Lebanon because the wider conflict is centered on Iran-Israel-US hostilities, even though Lebanon’s direct suffering is now extremely severe and close behind. The May ranking also placed Iran sixth.

The conflict affects civilian services, health care, movement, public fear, food access, and regional stability.

The conflict adds danger for ordinary Iranians, increases pressure on vulnerable communities, and sharpens the burden for believers seeking quiet faithfulness in a volatile setting.

Pray for restraint in the wider regional conflict, protection for civilians affected by strikes and service disruption, wisdom for rulers, mercy for believers living under pressure, and gospel witness amid fear and uncertainty.

Lebanon qualifies because renewed Israel-Hezbollah fighting and Israeli operations have caused civilian deaths, displacement, infrastructure damage, and severe pressure on a country already strained by economic and political fragility.

Lebanon remains seventh, very close to Iran, because the current conflict burden has intensified sharply. AP reported on June 4 that Hezbollah rejected the latest ceasefire agreement, Israeli strikes killed people in Lebanon, a UN peacekeeper was killed, Israeli forces had made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter century, and more than 1.2 million people had been displaced.

Lebanon remains unchanged at #7, but this is one of the closest calls in the list. Lebanon did not rise above Iran because Iran remains the wider regional-war center, but Lebanon’s ongoing fighting, displacement, and ceasefire fragility make it a high-severity unchanged case. The May ranking also placed Lebanon seventh.

Fighting has continued despite declared ceasefires, with repeated displacement, casualties, damaged towns, and uncertainty about whether the Lebanese state can implement any lasting security arrangement.

Lebanon’s churches and communities face the added burden of war layered on economic collapse, refugee pressure, and deep public uncertainty.

Pray for protection of civilians caught between renewed fighting and displacement, mercy for families who have lost homes or security, wisdom for churches serving amid economic strain and regional tension, and restraint from wider escalation.

South Sudan remains affected by armed conflict, political fragility, intercommunal violence, displacement, disease outbreaks, food insecurity, and access constraints.

South Sudan remains eighth because the humanitarian severity is extreme and renewed conflict risk is serious, but the present conflict is less clearly a single nationwide warfront than the countries ranked above it. ACAPS reports that 10 million people are projected to need assistance in 2026, renewed hostilities in Jonglei have displaced more than 280,000 people, and Emergency-level food insecurity is expanding amid fighting and constrained access.

South Sudan remains unchanged at #8. This does not signal relief; South Sudan remains a grave high-severity case, but Lebanon’s direct conflict and Iran’s regional escalation keep them above it. The May ranking also placed South Sudan eighth.

Conflict, hunger, disease outbreaks, displacement, flooding, and Sudan spillover are interacting in ways that keep the country highly fragile.

Communities face repeated displacement, food insecurity, weakened services, cholera risk, and the strain of long-term instability.

Pray for peace where renewed hostilities and intercommunal violence threaten communities, for food and medicine to reach displaced families, for churches to serve as agents of reconciliation, and for mercy amid hunger, disease, and fragile public life.

Burkina Faso remains in a major insurgency and counterinsurgency environment, with non-state armed groups and military operations driving displacement, civilian harm, siege conditions, and insecurity across large parts of the country.

Burkina Faso ranks ninth because the conflict is central to the country’s crisis. ACAPS reports high levels of violence since 2015 and over two million people internally displaced by 2025, while EU humanitarian reporting describes a security crisis affecting essential services and vulnerable communities.

Burkina Faso remains unchanged at #9. It stays above Yemen on current conflict intensity and armed-group territorial pressure, but below South Sudan because South Sudan’s combined humanitarian severity and renewed displacement are heavier. Its unchanged place reflects severe insurgency and armed-group pressure, but not enough additional escalation to overtake South Sudan’s combined displacement, hunger, and renewed-hostilities burden. The May ranking also placed Burkina Faso ninth.

Violence, displacement, food insecurity, access constraints, and fear continue to shape ordinary life across much of the country.

Churches and communities face insecurity, movement restrictions, loss of livelihoods, and the ongoing strain of living under armed-group pressure.

Pray for protection from armed groups, provision for displaced and besieged communities, courage for believers and churches in insecure regions, restraint of violence, and peace in areas where movement, worship, and daily life are under pressure.

Yemen remains a major protracted armed-conflict country, divided among rival authorities and shaped by years of conflict, displacement, food insecurity, damaged services, and fragile political-military conditions.

Yemen keeps the final slot because its humanitarian and national disruption remain deeply conflict-shaped, even though current battlefield intensity is lower than during the war’s peak years. ACAPS reports that the conflict has left 18.6 million of Yemen’s 32 million people needing humanitarian assistance and 4.5 million internally displaced.

Yemen remains unchanged at #10. It narrowly stays ahead of Haiti, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, and Mali because its present suffering remains deeply tied to unresolved armed conflict, rival authorities, displacement, damaged services, and political-military fragmentation, while the strongest near-miss cases are either more regionally uneven, more mixed with non-conflict drivers, or less conventionally warlike in structure. The May ranking also placed Yemen tenth and described it as a narrow final-slot decision.

Yemen remains marked by food insecurity, displacement, economic fragility, weakened health care, fragmented authority, and severe humanitarian access concerns.

Civilians continue to carry the long burden of war: hunger, illness, displacement, loss of livelihoods, and insecurity.

Pray for mercy after years of war, food and medical access for vulnerable families, protection of civilians under divided authorities, endurance for believers, and a peace that addresses Yemen’s long fragmentation and suffering.