Consider the following pairs: <table><tr><th>Area of conflict mentioned in news</th><th>Country where it is located</th></tr><tr><td>1. Donbas</td><td>Syria</td></tr><tr><td>2. Kachin</td><td>Ethiopia</td></tr><tr><td>3. Tigray</td><td>North Yemen</td></tr></table> How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

Answer: D. NONE of the three pairs is correctly matched. (1) Donbas - Syria: WRONG. Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk regions) is in eastern UKRAINE. Russia has been involved in Donbas conflict since 2014 and full-scale invasion in 2022. (2) Kachin - Ethiopia: WRONG. Kachin State is in northern MYANMAR (Burma), bordering China. The Kachin Independence Army has fought the Myanmar military for decades. Not in Ethiopia. (3) Tigray - North Yemen: WRONG. Tigray is a region of northern ETHIOPIA, where a brutal civil war was fought from November 2020 to November 2022 between the federal government (allied with Eritrean forces) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Not in North Yemen. All three pairs are completely mismatched. Hence D. Source: International news coverage / Council on Foreign Relations conflict tracker.