Disasters

• Climate crisis
• Opioid epidemic
• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2022 pediatric care crisis
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak

Economics

• 2020–present global chip shortage
• 2021–2022 global energy crisis
• 2021–2022 inflation surge
• 2022 food crises
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Moldovan energy crisis
• Pakistan economic crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom cost of living crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Iranian protests
• Myanmar protests
• North Kosovo crisis
• Peruvian political crisis
• Qatargate
• Russia−European Union gas dispute
• Ukrainian refugee crisis
• United States abortion protests

Recent

• December
  • 17: Tunisia, Assembly of the People's Representatives (1st)

Upcoming

• January
  • 8: Benin, National Assembly
  • 13−14: Czech Republic, President
  • 14: Kazakhstan, Senate (indirect)

Recently concluded

• Turkey: Ekrem İmamoğlu
• United States: Tory Lanez, Harvey Weinstein, Tom Barrack

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Guinea: Moussa Dadis Camara
• Indonesia: Ferdy Sambo
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Paul Flores
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

• Association football
  • 2022–23 UEFA Champions League
  • 2022–23 UEFA Europa League
  • 2022–23 Premier League
  • 2022–23 La Liga
  • 2022–23 Bundesliga
  • 2022–23 Serie A
  • 2022–23 Ligue 1
• American football
  • 2022 NFL Season
  • 2022 NCAA FBS College Football Season
• Basketball
  • 2022–23 NBA season
  • 2022–23 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
  • 2022–23 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season
• International cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
• Ice hockey
  • 2022–23 PHF season
  • 2022–23 NHL season
• Other sports seasons
  • 2022–23 snooker season
  • 2022–23 curling season

December

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil war
• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Ethiopia
  • Oromo conflict
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Sahel

• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somali civil war
  • U.S. intervention
• Sudan

• Western Sahara
  • Guerguerat crisis

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • Republican insurgency
• India
  • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar

• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines

• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran

• Iraqi conflict
  • Islamic State insurgency
• Israel and Palestine
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
• Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• Syrian civil war
  • Foreign involvement

• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemeni civil war
  • Saudi Arabian–led intervention
    • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars