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Deaths from civil conflicts and battles across the world over the past three years have risen to the highest level in three decades, according to a new report.

This increase in battlefield deaths over the past three years has been driven by the civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Israeli bombing of Gaza.

“We have seen a lot of very extreme violent conflicts … overlapping in the past few years – Gaza, Ukraine and Ethiopia before that,” she said.

She said this was in part due to Islamic State and other armed Islamist groups operating in several countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

“The increase in state-based conflicts can be attributed in part to the Islamic State expanding across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and an increase in other non-state actors getting involved in conflicts, such as the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin group,” said Rustad, referring to the alliance of militant jihadist groups operating in the Maghreb and west Africa.

“This development makes it increasingly difficult for actors like aid groups and civil society organisations to manoeuvre the conflict landscape and improve the lives of ordinary people.”

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