The Threat List

Status:Conflict

Global, concentrated in conflict-affected and post-conflict countriesConflictDeep-sourcedmedium confidenceSourcing reviewed 2026-08-19

Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance

Landmines and explosive remnants have reportedly killed at least 249 people and injured 379 in Syria since December 2024.

Severity score

20.3

Limited · default weighting

Trajectory

Steady

How this is ranked

What this is

Score breakdown

Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.

Loss of life

21

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

19

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

12

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

15

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

46

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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