List of wars: 1945–1989 explained

This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. Major conflicts of this period include the Chinese Civil War in Asia, the Greek Civil War in Europe, the Colombian civil war known as La Violencia in South America, the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia, the Ethiopian Civil War in Africa, and the Guatemalan Civil War in North America.

1945–1960

Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1945	1949	1945 Khuzestan revolt^[1]	Iran	Khuzistan rebels
1945	1950	Crusader insurgency		Crusaders
1945	1949	Chinese Civil War (second phase)	Communist Party People's Republic of China (after 1949) Supported by:	Supported by: United States
1945	1945	August Revolution	Việt Minh	Empire of Vietnam
1945	1949	Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia Japanese volunteers	Netherlands United Kingdom (until 1946) Japan (until 1946)
1945	Ongoing	Korean conflict
1945	1946	War in Vietnam (1945–46)	France---- Japan	Việt Minh
1945	1946	1945 Hazara Rebellion	Hazara rebels	Kingdom of Afghanistan
1945	1946	Iran crisis of 1946	IranSupported by: United States United Kingdom	Mahabad Azerbaijan People's RepublicSupported by:
1946	1949	Greek Civil War (third phase)		Provisional Democratic Government National Liberation FrontSupported by:
1946	1954	Hukbalahap Rebellion (post-WWII)	PhilippinesSupported by: United States	Hukbalahap
1946	1946	Autumn Uprising of 1946	United States Army Military Government in Korea	Peasant rebels
1946	1946	Corfu Channel incident		United Kingdom
1946	1946	Punnapra-Vayalar uprising		Laborers in Punnapra and Vayalar Communist Party of India
1946	1954	First Indochina War	Viet Minh Pathet Lao Khmer Issarak United Issarak Front Japanese holdoutsSupported by: China Poland	French Union United KingdomSupported by: United States
1947	1947	Paraguayan Civil War (1947)	Paraguayan Government Colorado Party	Liberal Party PRF PCP
1947	1949	Malagasy Uprising		Malagasy rebels
1947	1947	1947 Poonch rebellionPart of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948	Poonch and Mirpur rebels Muslim ConferenceSupported by: Pakistan	Kashmir
1947	1947	Annexation of Junagadh	India	Junagadh
1947	1962	Romanian anti-communist resistance movement	Supported by:	Anti-communist rebelsSupported by: United States United Kingdom
1947	1949	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts	India	Pakistan
1947	1948	1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine Part of the 1948 Palestine war	Jews of Palestine Haganah Irgun Lehi	Arabs of Palestine Army of the Holy War Arab Liberation Army
1948 or 1947^[2]	1949	Safi Rebellion^[3]	Afghanistan	Safi rebels
1948	1948	Al-Wathbah uprising	Iraqi Police	Student Cooperation Committee (communists) Progressive Democrats Populists Kurdish Democrats Student wings of the National Democratic Party and the Independence Party
1948	1948	Costa Rican civil war	National Liberation Army	Costa Rican government
1948	Ongoing	Internal conflict in Myanmar	Burmese government DKBA (1994–2010)	Supported by: ROC (1948–1980s) Thailand United States (until 2021) PRC
1948	1949	Jeju uprising		WPSK
1948	1958	La Violencia	Government of Colombia Conservative Party	Liberal Party
1948	1949	1948 Arab–Israeli War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel	Jordan Syria HWA Arab Liberation Army Lebanon Saudi Arabia Foreign volunteers: Muslim Brotherhood Pakistan Sudan
1948	1960	Malayan Emergency	United Kingdom Federation of Malaya Fiji Australia New ZealandSupported by: Thailand
1948	1948	Annexation of Hyderabad	India	Royal State of Hyderabad
1948	1948	Madiun Affair Part of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	People's Democratic Front Indonesian Socialist Party
1948	1948	Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion		Communist rebels
1948	1950	Pre-Korean War insurgency^[4]		Anti-government insurgents Pro-North Korean rebels
1949	1949	1949 Hazara Rebellion		Hazara rebels
1949	1956	Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel	Palestinian FedayeenSupported by: Egypt Jordan
1949	1949	Palace Rebellion	Thailand	Supporters of Pridi Phanomyong
1949	1953	Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern ChinaPart of the Chinese Civil War	China	National Revolutionary Army
1949	1962	Darul Islam rebellion Part of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	Darul Islam
1949	1950	Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes	Supported by:	Kingdom of Afghanistan Supported by:

1950–1959

Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1950	1958	Kuomintang Islamic insurgency	China	Ma clique supported by the ROC government in Taiwan
1950	1950	APRA coup d'état Part of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia Netherlands	Legion of the Just Ruler
1950	1950	Makassar Uprising Part of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia	East Indonesia
1950	1950	La Revolución del 50		Rebels
1950	1953^[5]	Korean War Part of the Korean conflict		China
1950	1950	Battle of Chamdo	China
1950	1954	Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s	United States	Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
1951	1966	Reprisal operations (Israel)Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel	Palestinian Fedayeen Jordan Egypt
1951	1951	Manhattan Rebellion	Thailand	Rebel naval units
1952	1955	Buraimi dispute	Trucial Oman ScoutsSupported by: 23px British Empire Sultanate of Muscat and Oman	Saudi ArabiaSupported by: Al Bu Shamis tribe Na'im tribe
1952	1952	1952 Hazara Rebellion^[6]	Afghanistan	Rebels
1952	1952	Egyptian revolution of 1952	Free Officers Movement Supported by: Soviet Union	Egypt Supported by: United Kingdom
1952	1960	Mau Mau rebellion	United Kingdom	Mau Mau
1953	1953	Air battle over Merklín		United States
1953	1953	1953 Plzeň uprising		Plzeň workers
1953	1953	East German uprising of 1953		East German demonstrators
1953	1959	Cuban Revolution	26th of July Movement	Cuba
1953	1953	1953 Iranian coup d'état	House of Pahlavi United States United Kingdom	Government of Iran
1954	1954	1954 Paraguayan coup d'état	Paraguayan Army	Government of Paraguay
1954	1954	Kengir uprising	Soviet Union	Kengir resistance
1954	1954		India	Portugal
1954	1955	First Taiwan Strait Crisis	China	United States
1954	1959	Jebel Akhdar War	Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Ibriyin tribe	Imamate of Oman Ibadi sect
1954	1962	Algerian War	FLN---- MNA PCA	France---- OAS FAF
1954	Ongoing	Insurgency in Northeast India	India	NSCN PREPAK ULFA ATTF
1955	1955	Afghan tribal revolt of 1955^[7]	Afghanistan	Rebels
1955	1955	Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Calderonistas Supported by:
1955	1964	Bamileke War	France	Union of the Peoples of Cameroon
1955	1957	Upper Yafa uprisings^[8]	United Kingdom	Rebels
1955	1972	First Sudanese Civil War	SSLM AZL Anyanya	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan---- Republic of the Sudan---- Democratic Republic of the Sudan
1955	1975	Vietnam War	North Vietnam FNL Khmer Rouge Khmer Issarak Pathet Lao China	United States Thailand Australia New Zealand Philippines
1955	1959	Cyprus Emergency	EOKA	United Kingdom
1956	1956	Hungarian Revolution of 1956	State Protection Authority	Hungarian revolutionaries
1956	1956	1956 Poznań protests	Poland	Strike Committee
1956	1956	Suez CrisisPart of the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel^[9] United Kingdom France	Egypt^[10]
1956	1956	Quỳnh Lưu uprisingPart of the Vietnam War	North Vietnam	Anti-communist rebels
1957	1958	Ifni War	Morocco	Spain France
1957	1961	PRRI and Permesta rebellion	Indonesia	Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia Permesta
Late 1950s	Late 1950s	Anti-taxation uprising in Afghanistan^[11]	Afghanistan	Hazara rebels
1958	1958	14 July Revolution	Free Officers	Arab Federation
1958	1958	1958 Lebanon crisis	Lebanon United States	INM LCP PSP
1958	1958	Second Taiwan Strait Crisis	China	United States
1958	Ongoing	Ethnic conflict in NagalandPart of the Insurgency in Northeast India	India Nagaland Burma Sagaing Region
1958	1959	North Vietnamese invasion of Laos Part of the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War
1958	1959	Mexico–Guatemala conflict	Guatemala	Mexico
1959	1959	Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959)	China	Regiment of Spirit Soldiers
1959	1959	1959 Tibetan uprising	China	Chushi Gangdruk
1959	1959	1959 Mosul uprising	Iraq	Arab nationalist rebels
1959	1975	Laotian Civil WarPart of the Vietnam War	Pathet Lao	United States Thailand
1959	1965	Escambray rebellion	Cuba	Anti-communist guerrillas
1959	1959	Pashtun Revolt in Kandahar^[12]	Afghanistan	Pashtun rebels
1959	1959	Upper Yafa disturbances^[13]	United Kingdom Upper Yafa	Rebels Supported by:
1959	1959	Cuban invasion of Panama^[14]	Panama	Cuba
1959	1959	1959 Viqueque rebellion	Portugal	Timorese rebels
1959	1959	Cuban invasion of the Dominican Republic^[15]	Dominican Republic	Cuba
1959	2011	Basque conflict	Spain GAL AAA BVE France	ETA Basque National Liberation Movement ETA (pm) Iparretarrak

1960–1969

Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1960	1965	Congo Crisis	1960–63: Republic of the Congo Supported by: (1960) 1964–65: Democratic Republic of the CongoSupported by: United States Belgium	1960–63: Supported by: Belgium France 1960–62: Stanleyville government 1964–65: Simba and Kwilu rebels Supported by:
1960	1961	Bajaur Campaign	Pakistan	Afghanistan
1960	1996	Guatemalan Civil War	Guatemala	URNG
1960	1961	1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border	China	National Revolutionary Army
1960	1960	1960 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt		Kebur Zabangna
1961	1974	Angolan War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War	FNLA UNITA MPLA FLEC	Portugal South Africa
1961	1961	Bay of Pigs Invasion	Cuba	United States Brigade 2506
1961	1962	French military rebellion in Algeria^[16] ^[17] Part of the Algerian War	France	OAS
1961	1990	Nicaraguan Revolution	FSLN	Contras Nicaragua
1961	1961	Bizerte crisis	France	Tunisia
1961	1991	Eritrean War of Independence	EPLF---- ELF	Ethiopia Cuba
1961	1970	First Iraqi–Kurdish WarPart of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	KDP	Iraq Syria
1961	1961	Rebellion of the Pilots	14 June Movement	Dominican Air Force
1961	1961	1961 revolt in Somalia	Somalia	Rebels
1961	1961	Annexation of Goa	India	Portugal
1961	1962	Operation Trikora	Netherlands	Indonesia
1962	1964	Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964)	Mali	Tuareg guerrillas
1962	1962	El Carupanazo		Military rebels
1962	1962	El Porteñazo		Military rebels
1962	1963	1963 Argentine Navy revolt	Azules faction (most of the Army and the Air Force)	Colorados faction (mainly the Navy)
1962	1970	North Yemen Civil War		Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen Supported by: Saudi Arabia Jordan United Kingdom
1962	Ongoing	Papua conflict	Indonesia	Free Papua Movement
1962	1962	Sino-Indian War	China	India
1962	1990	Communist insurgency in Sarawak	United Kingdom Malaysia Sarawak Indonesia	North Kalimantan Communist Party
1962	1962	Brunei revolt	United Kingdom	North Borneo Federation Indonesia
1963	Ongoing	Katanga insurgency	ONUC MONUSCO Benin Egypt Self-defence groups	Mai-Mai Kata Katanga (2011–2016) Mai Mai Gédéon CORAK CPK ---- FDLR Mai Mai Yakutumba
1963	1963	1963 Cuban invasion of Venezuela^[18]		Cuba
1963	1966	Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation	Malaysia United Kingdom Australia New Zealand	Indonesia
1963	1970	Bale revolt		Oromo Peasants Somali Peasants
1963	1974	Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War	PAIGC	Portugal
1963	1963	Ramadan Revolution	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party	Iraq Iraqi Communist Party
1963	1963	1963 Syrian coup d'état	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region	Syria
1963	1976	Dhofar Rebellion	Oman Iran United Kingdom Jordan	DLF (1962–1968) PFLOAG (1968–1974) NDFLOAG (1969–1971) PFLO (1974–1976)
1963	1963	Ar-Rashid revolt	Iraqi Government	Iraqi Communist Party Iraqi Army
1963	1963	Sand War	Algeria	Morocco
1963	1967	Aden Emergency	NLF FLOSY	United Kingdom Federation of South Arabia
1963	1967	Shifta War	Kenya	Northern Frontier District Liberation Movement Somalia
1963	1963	November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état	Nasserist rebels	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
1963	1965	Simba rebellion Part of the Congo Crisis	Congo-Léopoldville Belgium United States	Simba Rebels
1964	1964	Zanzibar Revolution	Afro-Shirazi Party Umma Party
1964	1964	1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War		Somalia
1964	1964	1964 Brazilian coup d'état	Brazilian Armed Forces: Brazilian Army Brazilian Navy Brazilian Air Force Supported by: United States	Brazilian Government
1964	Ongoing	Colombian conflict	Colombia	FARC ELN EPL IRAFP M-19 MOEC MAQL ERC GRA PRT
1964	1979	Rhodesian Bush War	ZANU FRELIMO ZAPU MK
1964	1992	FULRO insurgencyPart of the Vietnam War	(1964–1976) Viet Cong (after 1976)	United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races
1964	1974	Mozambican War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War	FRELIMO	Portugal
1964	1982	Mexican Dirty War	Mexico United States	Party of the Poor Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre
1965	1965	Dominican Civil War	(CEFA) Dominican Armed Forces Training Center (SIM) Dominican Military Intelligence Service United States (IAPF) Inter-American Peace Force	Dominican Armed Forces Constitutionalists PRD partisans
1965	1966	American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)	United States Inter-American Peace Force: Brazil Honduras Paraguay Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador	Dominican Republic
1965	1965	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts	India	Pakistan
1965	1965	30 September Movement	Indonesia	Communist Party of Indonesia
1965	1983	Communist insurgency in Thailand	Thailand	Communist party of Thailand
1965	1979	Chadian Civil War (1965–1979)	FROLINAT GUNT Libya	Chad France
1966	1967		Brazil	Rebels
1966	1977	Crisis in French Somaliland^[19]	Djiboutian nationalists	France French Somaliland
1966	1967	Stanleyville mutinies Part of the Congo Crisis	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Katangan Mercenaries
1966	1990	South African Border War	Angola Cuba SWAPO Zambia Umkhonto we Sizwe	South Africa UNITA
1966	1969	Korean DMZ Conflict Part of the Korean conflict	South Korea
1966	1967	Ñancahuazú Guerrilla War		National Liberation Army of Bolivia
1967	1968	1967 Kurdish revolt in IranPart of the Kurdish separatism in Iran	Iran	Kurdish tribesmen
1967	1975	Araguaia Guerrilla War	Brazilian military government	Communist Party of Brazil
1967	1975	Cambodian Civil WarPart of the Vietnam War	National United Front of Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Viet Cong	United States
1967	1967	Machurucuto raid
1967	Ongoing	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency		Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari Communist Party of United States of India Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Mahadev Mukherjee) Centre of Indian Communists (until 1977) People's Liberation Army of Manipur Tamil Nadu Liberation Army Purbo Banglar Communist Party
1967	1967	Six-Day WarPart of the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel	Egypt Jordan Arab Expeditionary Forces: Iraq Saudi Arabia Morocco Algeria Kuwait Tunisia Sudan
1967	1970	War of AttritionPart of the Arab–Israeli conflict		Cuba PLO
1967	1970	Nigerian Civil War	Nigeria
1967	1967	Nathu La and Cho La clashes
1967	1974	PGRS/Paraku Rebellion^[20]		PGRS/Paraku
1968	2019	Moro conflict Part of the Civil conflict in the Philippines	Philippines Armed Forces of the Philippines Philippine National Police Supported by: United States (advisers) Australia Malaysia (From 2001) Indonesia	Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) (until 2014) MRLO Ampatuan militias^[21] Supported by:: al-Qaeda^[22] 14K Triad (to ASG)^[23] ^[24] Abu Sayyaf^[25] ^[26]
1968	1989	Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)	Malaysia Thailand	Malayan Communist Party
1968	1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia	Bulgaria Hungary Poland	Czechoslovakia
1968	1998	The Troubles	Provisional IRA	United Kingdom
1968	1988	Years of Lead (Italy)	Italy	Far-left terrorists Red Brigades Front Line October 22 Group PAC Continuous Struggle PO AO Far-right terrorists National Vanguard Black Order NAR Third Position
1969	1969	Rupununi Uprising	Guyana	Rupununi separatists
1969	1969	Sino-Soviet border conflict	China
1969	Ongoing	Communist rebellion in the Philippines Part of the Civil conflict in the Philippines	Philippines United States^[27] Anti-communist militia Alsa Masa (1986–?)	CPP * NPA MLPP-RHB^[28] APP RPA ABB CPLA Support: (1969–1976) (1980s–2011) (Alleged) (1980s)
1969	1969	Football War	El Salvador	Honduras
1969	1969	Al-Wadiah War

1970–1979

Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1970	1971	Reggio revolt	Italy	Christian Democracy Italian Social Movement Italian Social Democratic Party National Italian Workers' Union 'Ndrangheta
1970	1971	Black September	Jordan
1970	1970	Corrective Movement (Syria)	Assad loyalists	Syrian Government Syrian Ba'ath Party
1971	1971	1971 Ugandan coup d'état	Ugandan putschists Rebel military Rebel police Supported by: Israel United Kingdom United States	Ugandan government Loyal state institutions
1971	1971	Bangladesh Liberation WarPart of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts	Bangladesh India	Pakistan
1971	1971	1971 JVP insurrection		JVP
1971	1971	Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs	Iran
1972	1974	First Eritrean Civil WarPart of the Ethiopian Civil War and the Eritrean War of Independence	EPLF	ELF
1972	1975	1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency	Bangladesh	Gonobahini---- Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party
1972	Ongoing	Maoist insurgency in Turkey		TKP/ML-TİKKO---- MKP-HKO-PHG---- MLKP----Maoist Party Centre----THKP-C (Dissolved) THKO (Dissolved)
1972	1972	1972 invasion of Uganda^[29]		FRONASA
1973	1973	1973 Samita border skirmish	Iraq	Kuwait
1973	1978	1970s operation in Balochistan Part of the Insurgency in Balochistan	Supported by:	Baloch separatists Pashtun Zalmay Supported by: (from 1974)
1973	1973	1973 Chilean coup d'état	Chilean Armed Forces Chilean Army Chilean Navy Chilean Air Force Carabineros de Chile	Chilean Government Popular Unity GAP Revolutionary Left Movement
1973	1988	Armed resistance in Chile (1973–1990)	Chile	Revolutionary Left Movement Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front Lautaro Youth Movement
1973	1973	Yom Kippur WarPart of the Arab–Israeli conflict		Combat support Iraq ^[30] ^[31] ^[32] ^[33]
1973	Ongoing	Oromo conflict	Ethiopian Empire (1973–1975) Derg (1975–1987) PDR Ethiopia (1987–1991) Transitional Government of Ethiopia (1991–1995) (1995–present)	OLF IFLO OIM COPLF OYRM
1974	1974	Battle of the Paracel IslandsPart of the Vietnam War	China
1974	1974	Arube uprising	Uganda	Putschists
1974	1975	Second Iraqi–Kurdish WarPart of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	KDP
1974	1975	1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict	Iran	Iraq
1974	1974	Turkish invasion of Cyprus	Turkey	Cyprus Greece
1974	1991	Ethiopian Civil War	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM---- EDUP OLF ONLF WSLF ALF	Ethiopia Supported by: Cuba
1974	1983	Dirty War	Argentina	Montoneros ERP
1975	1975	Islamist uprising in the Panjshir Valley		Forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Massoud
1975	1975	1975 China-India border skirmish	China	India
1975	Ongoing	Cabinda War	Angola Cuba (1975–1990) (1975–1991)	FLEC
1975	2002	Angolan Civil War	MPLA Supported by: Cuba Brazil Mexico SWAPO MK Portugal	FNLA UNITA FLEC Supported by: South Africa United States China
1975	1979	PUK insurgencyPart of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	PUK KDP
1975	1990	Lebanese Civil War	LF (until 1976)---- Tigers Militia ALZ---- Israel (1982) SLA---- United States France Italy	PLA ADF---- LNM (until 1982) LNRF (from 1982) Amal LCP SSNP (1978–1983)---- Hezbollah
1975	1991	Western Sahara War Part of the Western Sahara conflict	Morocco Mauritania (1975–1979) France (1977–1978)	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Algeria (1976)
1975	2021	Insurgency in LaosPart of the Third Indochina War		Hmong insurgents United States
1975	1975	Indonesian invasion of East Timor	Indonesia	Fretilin / Falintil
1976	Early 1980s		Brazil	Rebels
1976	1982	Islamist uprising in Syria		Muslim Brotherhood of Syria
1976	2005	Insurgency in Aceh	Indonesia	Free Aceh Movement
1976	1980	Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)	Right-wing groups Grey Wolves (MHP)	Left-wing groups TKP/ML (TİKKO) THKO Devrimci Yol
1977	1977	1977 Shia uprising in Iraq^[34]	Iraq	Rebels
1977	1992	Mozambican Civil War	FRELIMO	RENAMO
1977	1977	Shaba I	Morocco France	FNLC
1977	1978	Ogaden War	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen	Somalia
1977	1977	Egyptian–Libyan War
1977	1997	Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict		Shanti Bahini
1978	1979	Iranian Revolution	Revolution Council Interim Government of Iran----	Imperial State of Iran Regency Council Rastakhiz Party Imperial Army Imperial Guard SAVAK Shahrbani Gendarmerie
1978	1987	Chadian–Libyan War	CAF France---- FAN FANT	FROLINAT GUNT
1978	1978	1978 South Lebanon conflictPart of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict	Israel SLA
1978	1978	Saur RevolutionPart of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
1978	1978	Shaba II	France Belgium United States	FNLC
1978	1979	Uganda–Tanzania War	UNLA Mozambique	Uganda
1978	Ongoing	Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict	Turkey KDP PUK	PKK KCK PJAK KDP/North
1978	1989	Cambodian–Vietnamese WarPart of the Third Indochina War	People's Republic of KampucheaSupported by:	Democratic Kampuchea Thailand United States China United Kingdom Malaysia
1978	1982	NDF Rebellion		NDF
1979	1979	1979 Khuzestan insurgencyPart of the Arab separatism in Khuzestan	Iran	APCO DRFLA PFLA AFLA
1979	1979	Sino-Vietnamese WarPart of the Third Indochina War
1979	1991	Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)Part of the Third Indochina War
1979	1979	Yemenite War of 1979		NDF
1979	1983	1979 Kurdish rebellion in IranPart of the Kurdish separatism in Iran		KDP-I
1979	1979	1979 Herat uprisingPart of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)	Afghanistan	Army mutineers
1979	1988	Al-Ansar insurgency		Iraqi Communist Party
1979	1980	1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq		Shiite rebels
1979	1979	Grand Mosque seizure		al-Ikhwan
1979	1992	Salvadoran Civil War	El Salvador	FMLN RN
1979	1989	Soviet–Afghan WarPart of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)	Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight AMFFF Supported by: United States Pakistan	Afghanistan

1980–1989

Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
			Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1980	1980	1980 Gafsa Uprising	Tunisia Supported by: United States	Nationalist rebels Supported by: Algeria
1980	1981	Second Eritrean Civil WarPart of the Ethiopian Civil War and the Eritrean War of Independence	Eritrean People's Liberation Front	Eritrean Liberation Front
1980	2000	Internal conflict in Peru	Peru Rondas Campesinas	Shining Path Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
1980	1980	Gwangju Uprising		Gwangju Settlement Committees
1980	1980	Nojeh coup plot		Royalist Officers
1980	1980	Coconut War	Vanuatu Papua New Guinea	Nagriamel rebels
1980	1988	Iran–Iraq War	^[35]	Iraq MEK DRFLA
1980	1986	Ugandan Bush War	National Resistance Army	Uganda National Liberation Army
1981	1981	Paquisha War	Peru	Ecuador
1981	1981	1981 Entumbane uprising	Zimbabwe	ZIPRA
1981	1981	1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt	Senegal	National Revolutionary Council
1982	2014	Casamance conflict	Senegal Guinea-Bissau	Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
1982	1982	1982 Amol uprising		Union of Iranian Communists
1982	1982	Falklands War	United Kingdom	Argentina
1982	1982	Ndogboyosoi War	Sierra Leone	SLPP
1982	1985	1982 Lebanon WarPart of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel SLA Lebanese Front	PLO Syria Hezbollah Jammoul Amal Al-Mourabitoun Islamic Amal ASALA Al-Tawhid PKK
1982	1982	1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War	Somalia	Ethiopia Somali Salvation Democratic Front
1983	1983	Chadian–Nigerian War	Nigeria	Chad
1983	2005	Second Sudanese Civil War	SPLA SPLA-Nasir SSLM Anyanya II Eastern Coalition	Sudan SSDF Janjaweed LRA
1983	2009	Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka India (1987–1990)	Tamil Tigers
1983	1987	Eelam War IPart of the Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	Tamil Tigers
1983	1986	1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq Part of the Iran–Iraq War and the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	KDP PUK
1983	1983	United States invasion of Grenada	United States Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Grenada Cuba
1984	2003	Siachen conflict	India^[36] ^[37] ^[38]	Pakistan
1985	2000	South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict	Hezbollah Jammoul Amal	Israel SLA Lebanese Front
1985	1985	Agacher Strip War	Mali	Burkina Faso
1986	1986	South Yemen Civil War	Abdul Fattah Ismail's faction	Ali Nasir Muhammad's faction
1986	1986	1986 United States bombing of Libya	United States
1986	1992	Surinamese Interior War	Suriname	Jungle CommandoTucayana Amazonas
1986	1987	Ciskei-Transkei conflict
1986	1987	Sumdorong Chu standoff	India	China
1987	1989	1987–1989 JVP insurrectionPart of the Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	JVP
1987	1989	War of the Tribes	Tajammu al-Arabi Sudan Supported by:	Fur tribes Supported by: Chad
1987	1991	Singing Revolution	Citizens of the Baltic States: Lithuania Latvia Estonia
1987	1993	First IntifadaPart of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel
1987	Ongoing	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency	MONUC Central African Republic	Lord's Resistance Army
1988	1994	First Nagorno-Karabakh WarPart of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	Armenia	Azerbaijan
1988	1988	1988 Maldives coup d'état attempt	India Maldives	People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam Maldivian rebels
1988	1998	Bougainville conflict	Bougainville Revolutionary Army
1989	1989	1989 Paraguayan coup d'état	1st Army Corps Supported by: United States	Government of Paraguay
1989	1992	Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) Part of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)	Afghan Interim Government	Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
1989	1991	Mauritania–Senegal Border War	Mauritania	Senegal
1989	1996	KDPI insurgency (1989–1996)Part of the Kurdish separatism in Iran	Iran	KDP-I
1989	Ongoing	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Part of the Kashmir conflict	India	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed Hizbul Mujahideen Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Badr Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
1989	1989	1989 Philippine coup d'état attempt	Philippines United States---- Pro-Aquino protesters Archdiocese of Manila	RAF Movement Soldiers of the Filipino People---- Pro-Marcos protesters Iglesia ni Cristo
1989	1989	Romanian Revolution	Anti-Ceaușescu protestors Romanian Army Dissident members of the Communist Party	Romania
1989	1990	United States invasion of Panama	United States Panamanian opposition	Panama
1989	1997	First Liberian Civil War	National Patriotic Front of LiberiaSupported by:	Liberia ULIMO Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia

See also

• List of wars 1990–2002
• List of wars 2003–present

Notes and References

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2. Book: Robinson, Francis. The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 5, The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance. 2010-11-04. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-316-17578-1. en. In addition, tension between the government and the Bānki Millī group and the Ṣāfī Pashtūn tribal revolt (1947– 9) in Nangarhār Province brought Muḥammad Dāʾūd, who brutally suppressed it, to national attention..
3. Khan. Hafeez R.. 1960. Pakistan Horizon. 13. 1. 55. 0030-980X. 1933: Siege of Matun, the capital of the Afghan province of Khost, by the Mohmands. 1937: Uprising of the Mohmands, the Shinwaris and the Sulayman Khel section of the Ghilzais. 1938: Abortive tribal movement under the Shami Pir to oust King Zahir Shah. 1948-49: Rebellion of the Safi tribes. 1955: Abortive tribal movement on Kabul. 41392239. Afghanistan and Pakistan.
4. Book: MacArthur: A Biography. Frank, R.B.. Clark, W.K.. 2007. St. Martin's Press. 978-0-230-61076-7. 150. 2 December 2014.
5. http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1995/950313-dprk-usia.htm US State Department statement regarding "Korea: Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission" and the Armistice Agreement "which ended the Korean War."
6. Giustozzi . Antonio . Afghanistan: transition without end . Crisis States Working Papers . November 2008 . 13 . 54592886 . The 'peasant' revolt of Harazajat in 1952 has also been attributed to the abuses of the state administration (Davydov 1967: 162). In this case, the revolt was immediate because the population was still well armed following the civil war, but my hypothesis is that elsewhere the 'imperial' system of oppression and exclusion and the patrimonial system of administration were slowly preparing the ground for future explosions, should the opportunity arise..
7. Giustozzi . Antonio . Afghanistan: transition without end . Crisis States Working Papers . November 2008 . 13 . 54592886 . The last tribal revolt of the pre-1978 period was easily crushed in 1955..
8. Waldemar Gruschke, Markenländer-Lexikon, vol. 3 N–Sh, 2006, p. 83,
9. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Suez_War.html "Israel Routs Egypt"
10. http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/arabunity/2008/02/200852517304630655.html "Nasser lost the war in military terms"
11. Book: Jalālzaʾī, Mūsá Ḵẖān. Afghanistan's internal security threats: the dynamics of ethnic and sectarian violence. 2002. Dua Publications. 114. en. In the late 1950s Hazaras again organized an armed insurrection in opposition to the imposition of heavy taxes. The state pacified the resistance by repealing taxes levied on the Hazaras and imprisoned the leaders of the rebellion, including Mohammad Ebrahim Beg, known as Bacha-e- Gaw Sawar, Khawja Naeem and Sayed Mohammad Esmail Balkhi. Ebrahim, who compromised his principles, was later released from jail, while Balkhi remained there until 1964..
12. Web site: Should America Liberate Afghanistan's Women?. Innocent. Malou. 2011. 35, 36. Yet past efforts to reform, reshape or otherwise revamp Afghan society have only served to unite insular tribal, ethnic and regional-based communities against the imposition of centralised control. Instances of this include the Safi Rebellion (1945–46); the Pashtun revolt in Kandahar against provincial taxes and schools for girls (1959); an Islamist uprising in the Panjshir Valley (1975); and resistance to land reform, education policies and family law in Nuristan and Herat (1978). These rebellions were triggered when Kabul-based modernists attempted to control the social environment of the more conservative rural hinterland..
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