List of wars involving Syria explained

This is a list of wars involving Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic, Syrian Republic (1946–63), United Arab Republic (1958–61) and Ba'athist Syria.

Conflict	Syria and allies	Opponents	Outcome	Head of State
Franco-Syrian War (1920)	Syria		Defeat Establishment of French Mandate of Syria
Great Syrian Revolt (1925–1927)	Syrian rebels		Defeat Revolt crushed
Levant Crisis (1945)	Syria United Kingdom		Victory British-enforced ceasefire^[1]
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Transjordan Syria Lebanon Saudi Arabia HWA ALA	Israel	Defeat 1949 Armistice Agreements Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state
First Iraqi–Kurdish War (1963–1970)	Iraq	KDP	Stalemate Iraqi–Kurdish Autonomy Agreement of 1970
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt Jordan Iraq Lebanon	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights
Black September (1970)	PLO	Jordan	Defeat PLO expelled to Lebanon, Syrian raid repelled
October War (1973)	Egypt <	-- Egypt, Syria, and Libya all had the same flag in 1972, see Flag of Syria (historical section) and and the current flag was introduced in 1980 --> Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba	Israel	Defeat^[2] UN ceasefire Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement Strategic political gains for Egypt and Israel
Islamist uprising in Syria (1979–1982)	Government of Syria	Muslim Brotherhood	Government victory Muslim Brotherhood outlawed
Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)	ADF (until 1979) Saudi Arabia Sudan United Arab Emirates Libya LF (until 1976) LNM (from 1976) Jammoul PLO (1978–83) Amal Hezbollah Al-Tawhid	LNM (until 1976) PLO (1976 and 1985) LF SLA Israel United States France Italy United Kingdom Hezbollah (1987)	Victory Syrian occupation of Lebanon until 2005 Taif Agreement Disarmament of Lebanese militias and Maronite influence in politics decreased Israeli occupation of South Lebanon until 2000
Gulf War (1990–1991)		Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
Syrian civil war (2011–present)	Iraq (2017–19) Hezbollah	Syrian Opposition Turkey Ahrar al-Sham Tahrir al-Sham Northern Syria CJTF–OIR United States Canada United Kingdom France Germany Saudi Arabia Qatar Jordan Bahrain United Arab Emirates Morocco Australia Netherlands Belgium Denmark Norway	Ongoing Countrywide civil war American-led intervention against ISIL and Tahrir al-Sham Russian intervention against ISIL and the Syrian opposition Turkish operation against SDF and the Syrian government

See also

• Syrian Crisis of 1957

Notes and References

1. Wall, Irwin M. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945–1954, pp. 32–33. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
2. References:
   • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
   • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
   • Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
   • Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
   • 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
   • Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
   • Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.