War in Burkina Faso (2015–present)

War in Burkina Faso (2015–present)
	Part of the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the spillover of the Mali War
	; Frontlines as of November 2024.
Date	23 August 2015 – present; (9 years, 9 months and 4 weeks)
Location	Burkina Faso
Status	Ongoing
Territorial; changes	Around 40% of the country controlled by Jihadist forces
Belligerents
Burkina Faso Armed Forces; Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland; Koglweogos (civilian militias); Russia (since 2024) Wagner Group; France (until 2023) Supported by: Mali ; United States ;	Al-Qaeda JNIM (2017-); AQIM (until 2017) Al-Mourabitoun (until 2017); ; ; Ansar Dine (until 2017); Ansar ul Islam; Islamic State Sahel Province (2022-); West Africa Province (until 2022); ;
Commanders and leaders
Roch Marc Christian Kabore (2015–2022); Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (January 2022 – September 2022); Ibrahim Traoré (September 2022–present); David Kabre (2022–present); Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo (2015–2022); Emmanuel Macron (until 2023); Vladimir Putin (since 2024);	Ibrahim Malam Dicko † (2016–2017); Abdoul Salam Dicko (2017–present);
Casualties and losses
	20,000 dead (estimates); 2.06 million displaced

An ongoing war and civil conflict between the Government of Burkina Faso and Islamist rebels began in August 2015 and has led to the displacement of over 2 million people and the deaths of at least 20,000 civilians and combatants.

The war has been interpreted as being the Burkinabé theatre of the insurgency in the Sahel.