Risk events in Asia, January 2026
This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.
395 events were recorded: 4 earthquakes and 391 conflict events.
395 eventsSources: ucdp
395 events· Asia
Conflict
- Palestine: 83
- Pakistan: 68
- Syria: 52
- Myanmar: 46
- Yemen: 33
- Earthquake
- 4
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 391
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
395 events · newest first
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- Conflict
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One-sided violence in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
7 fatalities · Pakistan · Dera Ismail Khan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Iligan, Philippines
4 fatalities · Philippines · Iligan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Ath Thawrah, Syria
4 fatalities · Syria · Ath Thawrah · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Palestine
1 fatality · Palestine · Tel Aviv-Yafo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Myanmar
22 fatalities · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Taungdwingyi, Myanmar
6 fatalities · Myanmar · Taungdwingyi · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Ath Thawrah, Syria
6 fatalities · Syria · Ath Thawrah · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Tall ‘Afar, Syria
3 fatalities · Syria · Tall ‘Afar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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State-based conflict in Myanmar
5 fatalities · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Tall ‘Afar, Syria
2 fatalities · Syria · Tall ‘Afar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
1 fatality · Bangladesh · Mymensingh · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
1 fatality · Bangladesh · Mymensingh · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Iran
1 fatality · Iran · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
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- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Myanmar
1 fatality · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Myanmar
1 fatality · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kislovodsk, Russia
1 fatality · Russia · Kislovodsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Myanmar
2 fatalities · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Myanmar
1 fatality · Myanmar · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Ath Thawrah, Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Ath Thawrah · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Chittagong, Bangladesh
1 fatality · Bangladesh · Chittagong · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.