30 Hotest Points to Return to War in 2018, including the Balkans

Although in the last and least threatening group, the Balkans appeared for the first time this year in the report, calling “as low-level threats”.

As it was said, here the potential risks are from political unrest and extremist violence in the region, the instability of which, as <x0 ..ronditis repeatedly told the whole world”.

The report's data was received by the Research Centre for Prevention of the American Council on Foreign Relations, and has been worked by experts in foreign policy, broadcast Indesksonline.

In the report, possible risks are divided into three categories.

In the highest priority category, all eight potential conflicts and crises can mainly be developed by the US with North Korea and its neighbours, because the risk of nuclear conflict is on the rise, and US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong is very unpredictable.

There is an armed conflict between the US and Iran in this group, cyber attacks on infrastructure and networks in the US. As well as military conflict between members of Russia and NATO.

Also, there are high threats to war in the South China Sea, terrorist attacks in the United States, and so on.

In the second category, there are risks whose consequences would be smaller than the first-level conflicts.

As it said, there are possible conflicts in this group of Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diayu islands, political instability in Venezuela, worsening the humanitarian disaster in Yemen, a clash in Myanmar, an increase in violence associated with organised crime in Mexico, clashing in Ukraine with pro-Russian forces, intensifying violence between Kurds and government forces in Iraq and Turkey.

Also involved is the conflict between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, as well as the increasing tensions between the Israelites and Palestinians.

In the third category of possible risks, there are mainly African countries in which major threats are from terrorist attacks by Boko Haram and other Islamists and political unrest.