List of wars involving Bosnia and Herzegovina explained

This is a list of wars involving Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Medieval Bosnia

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
Bosnian Crusade
(1235–1241)
Victory
War of Hum (1326–1329)
Victory
  • Bosnia captures Hum
Attack on Konavle
(1349)
Victory
Bosnian-Serbian war
(1350-1351)
Victroy
  • After a failed siege of Bobavc Bosnia regains Hum
Partition of Altomanović
(1373)


Moravian Serbia
Nikola AltomanovićVictory
Bosnian-Hungarian war
(1387-1390)
Victory
Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(1386–1592)
Defeat

Ottoman Bosnia

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
Serb Uprising in Herzegovina of 1596–1597
(1596–1597)
Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed by the Ottoman Empire
Jančić's Rebellion
(1809)
  • Serb Rebels
Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed by the Ottoman Empire
Bosnian Uprising of 1831–1832
(1831–1832)
Bosnian LandlordsDefeat
Priest Jovica's Rebellion
(1834)
  • Christian Rebels
    • Orthodox Serbs
    • Catholic Croats
Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed by the Ottoman Empire
Herzegovina Uprising of 1852–1862
(1852–1862)
  • Serb Rebels
Defeat
Pecija's First Revolt
(1858)
  • Serb Rebels
Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed by the Ottoman Empire
Austro-Hungarian campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(1878)
Defeat
  • Incorporation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into Austria-Hungary

Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
Husino Rebellion
(1920)
MinersDefeat
  • Rebellion suppressed
World War II
(1941–1945)
United States

United Kingdom

France
Bulgaria
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand


  • Bosnian and Herzegovinian Partisans


Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg

Brazil
Mexico












Victory
Cazin Rebellion
(1950)
  • Civilians
Defeat
  • Rebellion suppressed

Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
Bosnian War
(1992–1995)


Croatia



Stalemate
1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia
(1992)


Croatia
Yugoslavia
Defeat
Croat–Bosniak War
(1992–1994)

Croatia
Stalemate
Intra-Bosnian Muslim War
(1993–1995)
Victory
Croatian War of Independence
(1994–1995)
Croatia

Victory
  • Yugoslav army formally withdrew from Croatia from January 1992 under the Sarajevo Agreement
  • Croatian forces regained control over most of Republic of Serbian Krajina-held territory
  • Croatian forces advanced into Bosnia and Herzegovina to assist the united Bosnian and Croatian side, which led to the eventual end of the Bosnian War in December 1995

Bosnia and Herzegovina

ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
War in Afghanistan
(2001–2021)
Afghanistan
ISAF
Taliban
al-Qaeda
Withdrawal
Iraq War
(2003–2008)
Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
MNF–I
SCJL
Naqshbandi Army---- ISI

Ansar al-Islam
IAI---- Mahdi Army
Special Groups
Badr Brigades
Kata'ib Hezbollah

Victory

See also