List of conflicts in Asia

This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia. For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia Pacific. see List of conflicts in the Near East for historical conflicts and List of conflicts in the Middle East, List of conflicts in Australia (related Asia Pacific) for contemporary conflicts.

Middle East

Main articles: History of the Middle East, Ancient Near East, Fertile Crescent, History of Mesopotamia, Upper Mesopotamia, History of the Levant, History of Anatolia, History of the Caucasus, History of Iraq, and History of Iran

Bahrain

• 14 February – 18 March 2011 2011 Bahraini uprising
  • 2011 Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain
• 2011 – present Insurgency in Bahrain

Cyprus

• 1955 – present Cyprus problem
  • 1955 – 1959 Cyprus Emergency
    • 1 April 1955 1 April attacks (Cyprus)
    • 24 May 1955 Nicosia Cinema bombing
    • 19 – 22 June 1955 Cyprus police station attacks
    • 23 September 1955 Kyrenia Castle Escape
    • 20 – 21 November 1955 Battle of Famagusta
    • 23 November 1955 Battle of the Pine
    • 11 – 12 December 1955 Battle of Spilia
    • 17 December 1955 Battle of Yialousa
    • 31 August 1966 Battle at Nicosia Hospital
    • 7 June 1956 - 23 June 1956 Operation Lucky Alphonse
    • April 1957 Raid on Lepka
    • 25 – 26 November 1957 Sabotage at RAF Akrotiri
    • 1 – 2 September 1958 Battle of Liopetri
  • 1959 – 1974 Cyprus intercommunal violence
    • 20–21 December 1963 Bloody Christmas (1963)
    • August 1964 Battle of Tillyria
    • 15 July 1974 1974 Cypriot coup d'état
  • 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
    • 20 July – 18 August 1974 Military operations during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
      • 20 July – 16 August 1974 Battle of Ledra Palace
      • 21 – 22 July 1974 Operation Niki
      • 14 – 17 August 1974 Battle of Agios Dometios
    • 20 – 22 July 1974 Battle of Pentemili beachhead
    • 14 August 1974 Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre
    • 14 August 1974 Tochni massacre

Egypt

Prehistoric Egypt

• Between 14340 to 13140 BCE Battle at Cemetery 117

Early Dynastic Period

• c. 3100 BCE Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
• c. 3050 BCE Hor-Aha, the second pharaoh of Egypt, led a campaign against the Nubians.
• c. 2890 BCE After the death of Qa'a, the last pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, a short war may have occurred for the throne, ending with the accession of Hotepsekhemwy.
• c. 2690 BCE Khasekhemwy reunited Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt

Old Kingdom

• c. 2670 BCE Djoser, the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt dispatched several military expeditions to the Sinai Peninsula

First Intermediate Period

• c. 2150 BCE The 4.2 kiloyear event triggered famines, social disorder, and fragmentation.
• c. 2140 BCE During the reign of the pharaoh Neferkare III, the nomarch of Hieraconopolis Ankhtifi, led a coalition of his nome and Edfu against Thebes.
• c. 2120 BCE Mentuhotep I and Sehertawy Intef I
• c. 2075 BCE Akhtoy Nebkaure sacked Thinis

Middle Kingdom

• c. 2061 – c. 2010 BCE Campaigns of Mentuhotep II
• c. 1900 BCE Senusret I conquest of Lower Nubia
• c. 1880 BCE Amenemhat II, looted two cities in Asia
• c. 1860–1850 BCE Senusret III, four campaigns to Nubia, one campaign to the Southern Levant
• c. 1850 BCE Amenemhat III, short Nubian campaign
• c. 1705 BCE – c. 1648 BCE Continuation of 14th dynasty rule in the Nile River Delta region until 1650 BCE when the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt conquered the Delta.

Second Intermediate Period

• c. 1649 BCE – c. 1600 BCE the Hyksos progress south conquering Middle Egypt, then controlled by the Abydos Dynasty or the 16th Dynasty
• c. 1629 BCE – c. 1628 BCE Neferhotep III in a defensive war against the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt
• c. 1582 BCE Final Theban offensive of Hyksos who conquer Thebes, ending the 16th Dynasty
• c. 1560 BCE – c. 1540 BCE The Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt at war with the Hyksos

New Kingdom of Egypt

• c. 1550 Pharaoh Ahmosis I launches an invasion on the Hyksos in Upper and Lower Egypt. A new era in Ancient Egyptian history: the New Kingdom under the rule of the 18th dynasty.
• c. 1282 BCE Seti's military campaigns
• 1206 BCE – c. 1150 BCE Bronze Age collapse causes the collapse of the New Kingdom of Egypt and subsequent attacks from Libyans, with associated people of Ekwesh, Shekelesh, Lukka, Shardana, and Tursha. A second attack during the reign of Ramesses III involved Peleset, Tjeker, Shardana and Denyen.
  • c. 1178 BCE Egyptian-Sea People wars
    • c. 1178 BCE Battle of the Delta
    • c. 1178 BCE Battle of Djahy

Third Intermediate Period

• 925 BCE Battle of Bitter Lakes
• 752-721 BCE Conquest of Egypt
• 671 BCE Assyrian invasion of Egypt led by Esarhaddon
• 664 BCE Sack of Thebes led by Ashurbanipal

Late Period

• 530-522 BCE Campaigns of King Cambyses II of Persia
  • 525 BCE Battle of Pelusium
• 522-520 BCE Rebellion of Petubastis III
• 480s BCE Rebellion of Psamtik IV
• 460-454 BCE Rebellion of Inaros II
  • 459 BCE Battle of Papremis
• 411 BCE Amyrtaeus revolted against Darius II of the Achaemenid Empire and regained Egyptian independence
• 385-383 BCE A Persian invasion of Egypt was repelled by King Hakor
• 374-373 BCE A Persian invasion of Egypt was repelled by King Nectanebo I
• 343 BCE Second Achaemenid conquest of Egypt
• 335-323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 333 BCE Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of an officer entitled Companion of the King.

Ptolemaic Kingdom

• 173 BCE Antiochus Epiphanes defeated the troops of Ptolemy Philometor
• 55 BCE Mark Antony defeated the Egyptian army and made himself master of the city
• 10 January 49 BCE – 17 March 45 BCE Caesar's Civil War
  • 48-47 BCE Siege of Alexandria
  • 47 BCE Battle of the Nile
• 32 BCE – August 30 BCE Final War of the Roman Republic
  • 31 July – 1 August 30 BCE Battle of Alexandria

Roman Province of Egypt

• 115–117 CE Kitos War

Byzantine Diocese of Egypt

• 618-621 CE Sassanid conquest of Egypt
  • 619 CE Siege of Alexandria

Rashidun Caliphate

• 639-642 CE Muslim conquest of Egypt
  • 6 July 640 CE Battle of Heliopolis
  • 641 CE Siege of Alexandria
  • 646 CE Battle of Nikiou

Abbasid Caliphate

• 809-827 CE Great Abbasid Civil War

Ayyubid Dynasty

• 1171–1172 CE Ayyubids Conquest of North Africa and Nubia
• 1095–1272 CE The Crusades
  • 1213–1221 CE Fifth Crusade
    • 1218–1219 CE Siege of Damietta
    • 29 August 1219 CE Battle of Fariskur
  • 1248–1254 CE Seventh Crusade
    • 6 June 1249 CE Siege of Damietta
    • 8 February 1250 CE – 11 February 1250 CE Battle of Al Mansurah
    • 6 April 1250 CE Battle of Fariskur

Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt

• 9–12 October 1365 CE Alexandrian Crusade

Eyalet of Egypt

• 1538–1557 CE Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts
• 20 April 1792 – 25 March 1802 CE French Revolutionary Wars
  • May–December 1798 CE Mediterranean campaign
    • 1798–1801 CE French campaign in Egypt and Syria
      • 13 July 1798 CE Battle of Shubra Khit
      • 21 July 1798 CE Battle of the Pyramids
      • 1–3 August 1798 CE Battle of the Nile
      • 21 October 1798 Revolt of Cairo
      • 25 July 1799 CE Battle of Abukir
      • 19 February 1799 CE Siege of El Arish
      • 20 March 1800 CE Battle of Heliopolis
      • 8 March 1801 CE Battle of Abukir
      • 13 March 1801 CE Battle of Mandora
      • 21 March 1801 CE Battle of Alexandria
      • 17 August – 2 September 1801 CE Siege of Alexandria
• 18 May 1803 CE – 20 November 1815 CE Napoleonic Wars
  • 1807–1809 CE Anglo-Turkish War
    • 1807 CE Alexandria expedition

Khedivate of Egypt

• 1882 CE Anglo-Egyptian War
  • 11–13 July 1882 CE Bombardment of Alexandria
  • June–July 1882 CE Egyptian Expedition
  • 1882 CE Battle of Kassassin
  • 1882 CE Battle of Kafr el-Dawwar
  • 13 September 1882 CE Battle of Tel al-Kebir
• 1881–1899 CE Mahdist War
  • 3 August 1889 CE Battle of Toski

Sultanate of Egypt

• 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918 World War I
  • 29 October 1914 – 30 October 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 28 January 1915 – 30 October 1918 Sinai and Palestine Campaign
      • 26 January – 4 February 1915 Raid on the Suez Canal
      • 23 April 1916 Battle of Katia
      • 3–5 August 1916 Battle of Romani
      • 23 December 1916 Battle of Magdhaba
      • 9 January 1917 Battle of Rafa
      • 13–21 February 1917 Raid on Nekhl

Kingdom of Egypt

• 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 World War II
  • 10 June 1940 – 2 May 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 10 June 1940 – 13 May 1943 North African Campaign
      • 11 June 1940 – 4 February 1943 Western Desert Campaign
        • 9–16 September 1940 Italian invasion of Egypt
        • 9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941 Operation Compass
        • 4 February 1942 Abdeen Palace Incident
        • 1–27 July 1942 First Battle of El Alamein
        • 30 August – 5 September 1942 Battle of Alam Halfa
        • 11 October – 23 November 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein
• 15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949 Arab-Israeli War
  • December 1948 – January 1949 Battles of the Sinai

Saudi Arabia

• 23 July 1952 Arabian Revolution
• 2–3 November 1955 Operation Volcano (Israeli raid)
• 29 October – 7 November 1956 Suez Crisis
  • October 1956 Operation Musketeer
  • 1956 Operation Telescope
  • 1956 Battle of Suez

Arab Republic of Egypt

• 5–11 June 1967 Six-Day War
  • 5–6 June 1967 Battle of Abu-Ageila
  • 8 June 1967 USS Liberty incident
• 1 July 1967 – 7 August 1970 War of Attrition
  • 11 July 1967 Battle of Rumani Coast
  • 19 July 1969 Operation Bulmus 6
  • 20 July 1969 – 28 July 1969 Operation Boxer
  • 26–27 December 1969 Operation Rooster 53
  • 7 January – 13 April 1970 Operation Priha
  • 22 January 1970 Operation Rhodes
  • 30 July 1970 Operation Rimon 20
• 6–25 October 1973 Yom Kipppur War
  • 6–8 October 1973 Operation Badr
  • 6 October 1973 Battles of Fort Budapest
  • 6 October 1973 Battle of Fort Lahtzanit
  • 6 October 1973 Ofira Air Battle
  • 6–7 October 1973 Battle of El Qantarah
  • 7 October 1973 Romani ambush
  • 7 October 1973 Battle of Marsa Talamat
  • 7 October 1973 Operation Tagar
  • 7–8 October 1973 Battle of the Moses Eyes Fortress
  • 8 October 1973 Battle of Firdan
  • 8–9 October 1973 Battle of Baltim
  • 14 October 1973 Battle of the Sinai
  • 14 October 1973 Air Battle of El Mansoura
  • 15 October 1973 – 17 October 1973 Battle of the Chinese Farm
  • 16 October 1973 Raid on Egyptian missile bases
  • 17 October 1973 Egyptian 25th Brigade ambush
  • 18 October 1973 Battle of Ismailia
  • 22 October 1973 Scud missile attack
  • 24–25 October 1973 Battle of Suez
• 21–24 July 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War
• 25 January 2011 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Aftermath
• 23 February 2011 – ongoing Sinai insurgency
• 22 November 2012 – 3 July 2013 Egyptian protests
• 3 July 2013 Political violence in Egypt
• 16 February 2015 – ongoing Intervention in Libya
• 25 March 2015 – ongoing Intervention in Yemen

Iran

For a more comprehensive list, see List of conflicts in Iran.

Early Dynastic Period of Sumer

• c. 2800 BCE – c. 2500 BCE Gilgamesh of Uruk killed the Elamite ruler Humbaba
• c. 2500 BCE Enmebaragesi of Kish subdued Elam

Fourth Babylonian Dynasty

• c. 1125–1104 BCE (Short chronology) Nebuchadnezzar I of Isin's War with Elam

Achaemenid Empire

• 559–530 BCE Campaigns of Cyrus the Great
  • 552 BCE Persian Revolt

The Median Empire about 48 years before the Persian Revolt

• • 552 BCE Battle of Hyrba
  • 551 BCE Battle of the Persian Border
  • 550 BCE Battle of Pasargadae

Macedonian Empire

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • January 20, 330 BCE Battle of the Persian Gate

Seleucid Empire

• 322–275 BCE Wars of the Diadochi
  • 317 BCE Battle of Paraitacene
  • Winter 316 BCE Battle of Gabiene

Kingdoms of the Diadochi after the Battle of Ipsus, c. 301 BCE.

  Kingdom of Ptolemy I Soter

  Kingdom of Cassander

  Kingdom of Lysimachus

  Kingdom of Seleucus I Nicator

  Epirus

Other

  Carthage

  Roman Republic

  Greek colonies

Parthian Empire

• 238–129 BCE Seleucid–Parthian wars
  • 238 BCE Parni conquest of Parthia
  • 129 BCE Battle of Ecbatana
• 66 BCE – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
  • 40–33 BCE Antony's Parthian War
  • 161–166 Roman–Parthian War
  • 217 CE Battle of Nisibis

Sasanian Empire

• April 24, 224 Parthian–Sasanian War
• 502–628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 440 Byzantine–Sasanian War
  • 572–591 Byzantine–Sasanian War
    • August 591 Battle of Blarathon
• 633–644 Muslim conquest of Persia
  • 642 Battle of Nahāvand

Rashidun Caliphate

The Rashidun Empire reached its greatest extent under Caliph Uthman, in 654.

• 656–661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680–692 Second Fitna
• 743–750 Third Fitna

Abbasid Caliphate

• 809–827 Fourth Fitna

Qajar dynasty

• 1911–1913 Revolt of Salar-al-Daulah
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914–1918 Persian Campaign

Pahlavi dynasty

• 1918 - ongoing Kurdish–Iranian conflict
  • 1918 Simko Shikak revolt
  • 1926 1926 Shikak revolt
  • 1929 Jafar Sultan revolt
  • 1941–1944 Hama Rashid revolt
  • 1945 – 1946 Iran crisis of 1946
  • 1967 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran
• 1922 – 2020 Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • 1922–1924 Sheikh Khazal rebellion
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
• 15–19 August 1953 1953 Iranian coup d'état
• 1971 Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
• 1974 – 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict

Islamic Republic of Iran

• 1948 – ongoing Balochistan conflict
  • 2004 – ongoing Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
• 7 January 1978 – 11 February 1979 Iranian Revolution
  • 1979 – 1983 Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution
    • 1979 – 1981 Iran hostage crisis
    • 9 – 10 July 1980 Nojeh coup plot
    • 1982 1982 Amol uprising
• 1922 – 2020 Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • 1979 1979 Khuzestan insurgency
• 1918 – ongoing Kurdish–Iranian conflict
  • 1979 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
  • 1984 – 1991 KDPI-Komala conflict
  • 1989 – 1996 KDPI insurgency (1989-96)
  • 2004 – ongoing Iran-PJAK conflict
  • 2014 – ongoing Western Iran clashes (2016–present)
• 1980 – 1989 Iran-Iraq War
• 2004 2004 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel
• 2007 2007 Iranian arrest of Royal Navy personnel
• 2011 – 2012 2011–2012 Strait of Hormuz dispute

Iraq

Early Dynastic Period of Sumer

• c. 2800 – c. 1750 BCE Sumer-Elam war
  • c. 2800 BCE – c. 2500 BCE Gilgamesh of Uruk killed the Elamite ruler Humbaba
  • c. 2500 BCE Enmebaragesi of Kish subdued Elam
• c. 2500 BCE Aga of Kish, the son of Enmebaragesi of Kish, besieged Uruk
• c. 2500 BCE Enmerkar of Uruk's year-long siege of Aratta
• c. 2500 BCE Dumuzid of Uruk captured Enmebaragesi of Kish single-handed
• c. 2500 BCE Enshakushanna of Uruk conquered Hamazi, Akkad, Kish, and Nippur, claiming hegemony over all of Sumer. Enshakushanna was succeeded in Uruk by Lugal-kinishe-dudu, but the hegemony seems to have passed to Eannatum of Lagash for a time
• c. 2600 – c. 2316 BCE Umma-Lagash war
  • c. 2500 BCE Eannatum of Lagash conquered all of Sumer, including Ur, Nippur, Akshak, Larsa, and Uruk (controlled by Enshakushanna)
  • c. 2500 BCE En-anna-tum I of Lagash succeeded his brother Eannatum and defended Lagash against Ur-Lumma of Umma
  • c. 2500 BCE Entemena of Lagash succeeded his father En-anna-tum I and re-established Lagash as a power in Sumer. He defeated Illi of Umma, with the aid of Lugal-kinishe-dudu of Uruk (the successor to Enshakushanna)
  • c. 2295–2271 BCE (Short chronology) Lugal-zage-si of Umma conquered several of the Sumerian city-states – including Kish, where he overthrew Ur-Zababa; Lagash, where he overthrew Urukagina; Ur, Nippur, and Larsa; as well as Uruk

Lugal-Zage-Si's domains (red), c. 2350 BC

• c. 2500 BCE Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab subjected the "Four Quarters" of the world – i.e., the entire Fertile Crescent region, from the Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains

Akkadian Empire

• c. 2270–2215 BCE (Short chronology) Conquests of Sargon of Akkad

Map of the Akkadian Empire (brown) and the directions in which military campaigns were conducted (yellow arrows)

• • 2270 BCE Battle of Uruk
  • Syria and Canaan campaigns
  • Akkadian conquest of Ebla
  • Magan revolt
• c. 2214–2206 BCE (Short chronology) Rimush of Akkad faced widespread revolts which he successfully suppressed and launched a victorious campaign against Elam and Marhasi
• c. 2205–2191 BCE (Short chronology) Manishtushu of Akkad conquered the city of Shirasum in Elam
• c. 2190–2115 BCE (Short chronology) Naram-Sin of Akkad conquered the Lullubi and Majan
• c. 2115–2090 BCE (Short chronology) Shar-Kali-Sharri of Akkad launched successful campaigns against Gutium, Amurru, and Elam, among other places
• c. 2090–2087 BCE (Short chronology) After Shar-Kali-Sharri's reign, there may have been a short period of crisis or struggle between Igigi, Imi, Nanum, Ilulu
• c. 2087–2066 BCE (Short chronology) Dudu of Akkad ended the period of relative anarchy
• c. 2066–2051 BCE (Short chronology) Akkad was conquered during the reign of Shu-turul

Gutian period of Sumer

• c. 2002 BCE (Short chronology) Gutian attacks on the Akkadian Empire

Fifth Dynasty of Uruk

• 1945–1906 BCE Ilu-shuma of Assyria made many raids into southern Mesopotamia
• c. 1886–1879 BCE (Short chronology) After defeating the Gutian with the aid of other cities, Utu-hengal of Uruk established himself as the king of Sumer
  • c. 1886 BCE (Short chronology) Defeat of Tirigan, the last Gutian ruler in Sumer

Neo-Sumerian Empire

Map showing the Ur III state and its influence sphere

• c. 1879–1861 BCE (Short chronology) Ur-Nammu of Ur conquered Lagash
• c. 1861–1815 BCE (Short chronology) Shulgi of Ur destroyed Der, launched a campaign against Anshan, and engaged in a period of expansionism at the expense of highlanders such as the Lullubi, and others
• c. 1830–1817 BCE (Short chronology) The Amorite chieftain Sumu-abum won independence from the city-state Kazallu
• c. 1815–1809 BCE (Short chronology) Amar-Sin of Ur launched campaigns conducted against Urbilum, and several other regions with obscure names: Shashrum, Shurudhum, Bitum-Rabium, Jabru, and Huhnuri
• c. 1813–1791 BCE Shamshi-Adad I conquered Assur, Mari, Ekallatum, and Shekhna, establishing an empire encompassing the whole of northern Mesopotamia and included territory in central Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and northern Syria
• c. 1800–1776 BCE (Short chronology) During the reign of Ibbi-Sin of Ur, the Sumerian empire was attacked repeatedly by Amorites and as faith in Ibbi-Sin's leadership failed, Elam declared its independence and began to raid as well
  • c. 1776 BCE (Short chronology) Elamite Sack of Ur

Dynasty of Isin

• c. 1766 BCE (Short chronology) Ishbi-Erra of Isin reconquered much of the former heartland of Sumer and Akkad from Elam and various invaders

Paleo-Babylonian Empire

• c. 1752–1730 BCE (Short chronology) Damiq-ilishu of Isin, the last king on the Sumerian King List, is defeated by Sin-Muballit of Babylon
• c. 1728–1686 BCE (Short chronology) Hammurabi of Babylon extended Babylon's control over Mesopotamia by winning a series of wars against neighboring kingdoms
• c. 1720 BCE Puzur-Sin, an Assyrian vice regent drove out Asinum the Amorite vassal king of the Babylonians from Assyria, allowing the native Ashur-dugul to seize the throne and subsequently triggering a civil war which ended Babylonian and Amorite influence in Assyria by 1720 BCE

Kassite period of Babylonia

• c. 1531 BCE (Short chronology) Fall of Babylon
• c. 1507 BCE (Short chronology) Kassite attacks on Babylon

The extent of the Babylonian Empire during the Kassite dynasty

• c. 1232–1225 BCE (Short chronology) Tukulti-Ninurta I of Assyria defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylon and captured the city of Babylon to ensure full Assyrian supremacy over Mesopotamia
• c. 1157–1155 BCE (Short chronology) Enlil-nadin-ahi, the final king of the Kassite dynasty that had ruled over Babylon, was defeated by Kutir-Nahhunte of Elam, the successor of Shutruk-Nakhunte

Fourth Babylonian Dynasty

• c. 1125–1104 BCE (Short chronology) Nebuchadnezzar I of Isin's War with Elam

Meso-Assyrian Empire

• 1114–1076 BCE Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria launched campaigns against the Mushki, the Hittites, and the Arameans
• c. 1074 BCE In the first year of the reign of the 89th Assyrian king Ashur-bel-kala, son of Tiglath-Pileser I, Ashur-bel-kala campaigned in the north against the Kingdom of Urartu

Neo-Assyrian Empire

• 911–605 BCE Campaigns of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 883–859 BCE Campaigns of Ashurnasirpal II
  • 859–824 BCE Campaigns of Shalmaneser III

Map of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and its expansions.

• • 745–727 BCE Campaigns of Tiglath-Pileser III
  • 722–705 BCE Campaigns of Sargon II
    • 710 BCE Campaign against Babylonia
  • 705–681 BCE Campaigns of Sennacherib
    • 703–689 BCE War with Babylon
      • 693 BCE Battle of Diyala River
      • 693 BCE Siege of Babylon
  • 681–669 BCE Campaigns of Esarhaddon
  • 668–627 BCE Campaigns of Ashurbanipal
  • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Ashur-etil-ilani
    • 626 BCE Revolt of Babylon
  • 616 BCE Battle of Arrapha
  • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Sinsharishkun
    • 626–619 BCE Last Strike against Babylon
    • 616–605 BCE War in the Assyrian heartlands
      • 614 BCE Fall of Assur
      • 612 BCE Assur is sacked and largely destroyed during the conquest of Assyria by the Babylonians
      • 612 BCE Battle of Nineveh
  • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Sinsharishkun
  • 612–609 BCE Campaigns of Ashur-uballit II
    • 610 BCE Harran was besieged and conquered by Nabopolassar and Cyaxares
    • 609 BCE Harran was briefly retaken by Ashur-uballit II and his Egyptian allies before it definitely fell to the Median Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire
    • Egyptian-Babylonian wars
      • 605 BCE Battle of Carchemish

Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

• • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Ashur-etil-ilani
    • 626 BCE Revolt of Babylon
  • 616 BCE Battle of Arrapha
  • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Sinsharishkun
    • 626–619 BCE Last Strike against Babylon
    • 616–605 BCE War in the Assyrian heartlands
      • 614 BCE Fall of Assur
      • 612 BCE Assur is sacked and largely destroyed during the conquest of Assyria by the Babylonians
      • 612 BCE Battle of Nineveh
  • 627–624 BCE Campaigns of Sinsharishkun
  • 612–609 BCE Campaigns of Ashur-uballit II
    • 610 BCE Harran was besieged and conquered by Nabopolassar and Cyaxares
    • 609 BCE Harran was briefly retaken by Ashur-uballit II and his Egyptian allies before it definitely fell to the Median Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire
    • Egyptian-Babylonian wars
      • 605 BCE Battle of Carchemish

Achaemenid Province of Athura

• 559–530 BCE Campaigns of Cyrus the Great
  • September 25, 539 BCE – September 28, 539 BCE Battle of Opis
  • October 29, 539 BCE Capture of Babylon

Macedonian Empire

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great

Wars of Alexander the Great

• • October 1, 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela

Seleucid Empire

• 322–275 BCE Wars of the Diadochi
  • 311–309 BCE Babylonian War

Parthian Empire

• 238–129 BCE Seleucid–Parthian wars
  • 238 BCE Parni conquest of Parthia
  • 129 BCE Battle of Ecbatana

Roman Province of Mesopotamia

Expansion of the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire

• 92 BCE – 629 CE Roman–Persian Wars
  • • 198 CE Battle of Ctesiphon
    • 243 CE Battle of Resaena
  • 66 BCE – 217 CE Roman–Parthian Wars
    • 40–33 BCE Antony's Parthian War
    • 161–166 Roman–Parthian War
    • 216–217 Parthian war of Caracalla
      • 217 CE Battle of Nisibis

Sasanian Province of Asorestan

• 217–502 Roman–Sasanian wars
  • Winter of 244 Battle of Misiche
  • 253 Battle of Barbalissos
  • 260 Battle of Edessa
  • 264 Battle of Ctesiphon
  • 344 Battle of Satala
  • 359 Siege of Singara
  • 359 Siege of Amida
  • April 27–29, 363 Siege of Pirisabora
  • May 29, 363 Battle of Ctesiphon
  • June 363 Battle of Samarra

Julian's unsuccessful campaign in 363 resulted in the loss of the Roman territorial gains under the peace treaty of 299.

• c. 240–272 Assur is destroyed by the Sasanian king Shapur I
• 502–628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 502–506 Anastasian War
  • 526–532 Iberian War
  • 572–591 Byzantine–Sasanian War
  • c. 602 – c. 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War
• 633–644 Muslim conquest of Persia

Map detailing the route of Khalid ibn al-Walid's conquest of Iraq in 633

• • April 633 Battle of River
  • May 633 Battle of Walaja
  • May 633 Battle of Ullais
  • May 633 Battle of Hira
  • 633 Battle of Ayn al-Tamr
  • November 633 Battle of Muzayyah
  • November 633 Battle of Saniyy
  • November 633 Battle of Zumail
  • January 634 Battle of Firaz
  • November 634 Battle of the Bridge
  • November 16–19, 636 Battle of al-Qādisiyyah
  • January–March 637 Siege of Ctesiphon
  • April 637 Battle of Jalula

Rashidun Caliphate

• 633–644 Muslim conquest of Persia

Expansion of Rashidun Caliphate

• • April 633 Battle of River
  • May 633 Battle of Walaja
  • May 633 Battle of Ullais
  • May 633 Battle of Hira
  • 633 Battle of Ayn al-Tamr
  • November 633 Battle of Muzayyah
  • November 633 Battle of Saniyy
  • November 633 Battle of Zumail
  • January 634 Battle of Firaz
  • November 634 Battle of the Bridge
  • November 16–19, 636 Battle of al-Qādisiyyah
  • January–March 637 Siege of Ctesiphon
  • April 637 Battle of Jalula
• 656–661 First Fitna
  • 656 Battle of the Camel
  • 659 Battle of Nahrawan

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680–692 Second Fitna
  • October 10, 680 Battle of Karbala
  • 692 Battle of Maskin
• 743–750 Third Fitna

The Caliphate at the beginning of the Abbasid revolt, before the Battle of the Zab.

• • January 25, 750 Battle of the Zab

Abbasid Caliphate

• September 762 – February 763 Alid Revolt
• 809–827 Fourth Fitna
  • 812–813 Siege of Baghdad
• 861–870 Anarchy at Samarra
• 946 Battle of Baghdad
• 1157 Siege of Baghdad

Mongol Empire

• 1258 Siege of Baghdad

Expansion of the Mongol Empire

• 1370–1405 Assyrian people are massacred at Assur by Timur

Ottoman Iraq

• 1532–1555 Ottoman–Safavid War
  • 1534 Capture of Baghdad
• 1623–1639 Ottoman–Safavid War
  • 1623 Capture of Baghdad
  • 1638 Capture of Baghdad
• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
  • October 29, 1914 – October 30, 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • November 6, 1914 – November 14, 1918 Mesopotamian campaign
      • November 6, 1914 Fao Landing
      • November 11–21, 1914 Battle of Basra
      • December 3–9, 1914 Battle of Qurna
      • April 12–14, 1915 Battle of Shaiba

July 1915, British offence in Iraq during World War I

• • • • September 28, 1915 Battle of Es Sinn
      • November 22–25, 1915 Battle of Ctesiphon
      • December 7, 1915 – April 29, 1916 Siege of Kut
      • January 6–8, 1916 Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad
      • January 13, 1916 Battle of Wadi
      • January 21, 1916 Battle of Hanna
      • March 8, 1916 Battle of Dujaila
      • March 8–11, 1917 Fall of Baghdad
      • February 23, 1917 Second Battle of Kut
      • March 13 – April 23, 1917 Samarra offensive
      • September 28–29, 1917 Battle of Ramadi
      • March 26–27, 1918 Action of Khan Baghdadi
      • October 23–30, 1918 Battle of Sharqat

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration

• May–October 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British

Kingdom of Iraq

• 1935–1935 1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts
• 1939-September 2, 1945 World War II
  • 1940–1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War
      • 1941 Iraq coup d'état
• 1918-2003 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
  • 1922–1924 Mahmud Barzanji revolts
  • 1931–1932 Ahmed Barzani revolt
  • 1943–1945 1943 Barzani revolt
• 1948 Al-Wathbah uprising
• 14 July 1958 14 July Revolution

First Iraqi Republic

• 7 – 11 March 1959 1959 Mosul uprising
• 1918 - 2003 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • 1961–1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
• 1963 Ramadan Revolution
• 1963 Ar-Rashid revolt
• 13–18 November 1963 November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état
• June 1966 1966 Iraqi coup attempt
• 17 July 1968 17 July Revolution

Ba'athist Iraq

• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • 1961 – 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1968 – 2003 Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq
  • 1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1975 – 1983 PUK insurgency
  • 1979 – 1988 Al-Ansar insurgency
  • 1983 – 1986 Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
  • 1988 Anfal campaign
  • 1994 – 1997 Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
• 1973 1973 Samita border skirmish
• 1974 – 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict
• 1977 1977 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 1979 – 1980 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 1980 – 1988 Iran–Iraq War
  • 1980 Iraqi invasion of Iran
    • September 23, 1980 Operation Kaman 99
    • October 29, 1980 Operation Sultan 10
    • September 30, 1980 Operation Scorch Sword
    • November 28 – 29, 1980 Operation Morvarid
  • 1981 Stalemate
    • April 4, 1981 Attack on H3
    • June 7, 1981 Operation Opera
  • 1982–1984 Iranian offensives in Iraq
    • Early July 1982 Operation Ramadan
    • February 6–26, 1983 Operation Before the Dawn
    • April 10, 1983 Operation Dawn (1983)
    • July 22, 1983 Operation Dawn 2
    • July 30 – August 9, 1983 Operation Dawn 3
    • October 19 – mid November, 1983 Operation Dawn-4
    • Early 1984 Operation Dawn 5
    • February 14 – March 19, 1984 Operation Kheibar
    • February 22 – 24, 1984 Operation Dawn 6
    • 1984 Battle of the Marshes
  • 1985–1987 Iranian offensives in Iraq
    • March 10–20, 1985 Operation Badr (1985)
    • March 16, 1988 Halabja poison gas attack
    • February 9 – 25, 1986 Operation Dawn 8
    • February 11, 1986 First Battle of al-Faw
    • December 25–27, 1986 Operation Karbala-4
    • January 8 – February 26, 1987 Operation Karbala-5
    • Early 1987 Operation Karbala-6
    • May 1987 Operation Karbala 10
    • May – early June 1987 Operation Nasr 4
  • Final stages of the war
    • Mid-March 1988 Operation Zafar 7
    • April 17, 1988 Second Battle of al-Faw
  • 1985 – 1988 Tanker War
• 1990 – 1991 Gulf War
  • August 2 – 4, 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
  • February 15–20, 1991 Battle of Wadi al-Batin
  • January 17 – February 23, 1991 Gulf War air campaign
    • 17 January 1991 – 20 March 2003 Air engagements of the Gulf War
    • January 19, 1991 Package Q Strike
    • February 13, 1991 Amiriyah shelter bombing
    • 30 January 1991 Operation Samura
  • February 24 – 28, 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign
    • February 26 – 27, 1991 Battle of 73 Easting
    • February 26, 1991 Battle of Phase Line Bullet
    • February 27, 1991 Battle of Medina Ridge
    • February 27, 1991 Battle for Jalibah Airfield
    • February 27, 1991 Battle of Norfolk
  • March 1, 1991 Safwan Airfield Standoff
  • March 2, 1991 Battle of Rumaila
• 1991 1991 Iraqi uprisings
  • March 1 – mid-April 1991 1991 uprising in Basra
  • March 5 – 19, 1991 1991 uprising in Karbala
  • March 5 – April 3, 1991 1991 uprising in Sulaymaniyah
  • March 11 – 29, 1991 1991 uprising in Kirkuk
  • March 10 – 24, 1991 1991 uprising in Tuz Khormato
• 1991 – 2003 Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
  • January 13 – 22, 1993 January 1993 airstrikes on Iraq
  • 26 June 1993 1993 cruise missile strikes on Iraq
  • September 3, 1996 Operation Desert Strike
  • December 16 – 19, 1998 Operation Desert Fox
• 1999 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 2001 – 2003 Iraqi Kurdistan conflict (2001–2003)
• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • March 19 – May 1, 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq
    • March 21 – 25, 2003 Battle of Umm Qasr
    • March 20 – 24, 2003 Battle of Al Faw (2003)
    • March 21 – April 6, 2003 Battle of Basra (2003)
    • March 23 – 29, 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah
    • March 24, 2003 2003 attack on Karbala
    • March 24 – April 4, 2003 Battle of Najaf (2003)
    • March 26, 2003 – Operation Northern Delay
    • March 28–30, 2003 Operation Viking Hammer
    • March 30 – April 4, 2003 Battle of Samawah (2003)
    • March 31 – April 6, 2003 Battle of Karbala (2003)
    • April 2 – 4, 2003 Battle of the Karbala Gap (2003)
    • April 3 – 9, 2003 Battle of Baghdad (2003)
    • April 6 – 7, 2003 Battle of Debecka Pass

Coalition Provisional Authority

• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • 2003 – 2006 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
    • March 20, 2003 – December 7, 2011 Anbar campaign
    • October 26 – November 24, 2003 Ramadan Offensive (2003)
    • December 13, 2003 Operation Red Dawn
    • April 4 – June 24, 2004 Iraq spring fighting of 2004
    • April 4 – May 1, 2004 First Battle of Fallujah
    • April 4 – May 11, 2008 Siege of Sadr City
    • April 6 – 10, 2004 Battle of Ramadi (2004)
    • April 17, 2004 Battle of Husaybah (2004)
    • August 5 – 27, 2004 Battle of Najaf (2004)
    • August 5 – 28, 2004 CIMIC-House
    • October 1 – 3, 2004 Battle of Samarra (2004)
    • November 7 – December 23, 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah
    • November 8 – 16, 2004 Battle of Mosul (2004)

Republic of Iraq

• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • 2003 – 2006 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
    • May 8 – 19, 2005 Battle of Al Qaim
    • August 1 – 4, 2005 Battle of Haditha
    • September 1 – 18, 2005 Battle of Tal Afar (2005)
    • June 17 – November 15, 2006 Battle of Ramadi (2006)
    • August 28, 2006 Battle of Diwaniya
  • 22 February 2006 – 15 May 2008 Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
    • September 23 – October 22, 2006 Ramadan Offensive
    • September 27, 2006 – February 18, 2007 Operation Sinbad
    • October 19–20, 2006 Battle of Amarah
    • November 15–16, 2006 Battle of Turki
    • December 25, 2006 – October 1, 2007 Diyala campaign
    • January 6–9, 2007 Battle of Haifa Street
    • January 20, 2007 Karbala provincial headquarters raid
    • January 28–29, 2007 Battle of Najaf (2007)
    • February 14 – November 24, 2007 Operation Imposing Law
    • February 27 – September 3, 2007 Siege of U.K. bases in Basra
    • April 6–10, 2007 Operation Black Eagle
    • June 16 – August 14, 2007 Operation Phantom Thunder
    • March 10 – August 19, 2007 Battle of Baqubah
    • June 30 – July 1, 2007 Battle of Donkey Island
    • February 15, 2007 Operation Shurta Nasir
    • August 27–29, 2007 Battle of Karbala (2007)
    • January 8 – July 28, 2008 Operation Phantom Phoenix
    • January 18–19, 2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting
    • January 23 – July 28, 2008 Ninawa campaign
    • March 25 – May 15, 2008 Iraq spring fighting of 2008
    • March 25–31, 2008 Battle of Basra (2008)
    • April 15 – May 19, 2008 Al-Qaeda offensive in Iraq
  • May 16, 2008 – December 18, 2011 Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
    • January 23 – July 28, 2008 2008 Nineveh campaign
    • March 25 – May 11, 2008 2008 Iraq spring fighting
    • April 15, 2008 – May 19, 2008 2008 al-Qaeda offensive in Iraq
• 2011 – 2013 Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
• 2013 – 2017 War in Iraq (2013–2017)
  • 2014 – 2021 US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
  • 2014 – present Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
• October 15 – 27, 2017 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • October 15–20, 2017 Battle of Kirkuk (2017)
• 2017 – present Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
• 2019 2019 Sinjar clashes
• 2019 2019 Israeli airstrikes in Iraq
• 2022 2022 Sinjar clashes
• 2023 2023 unrest in Kirkuk
• 2023 2023 Makhmour clashes
• 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war
  • 2023 – present Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria during the Israel–Hamas war

Israel

Canaan

• c. 2061–2010 BCE Military activities in Canaan of the Pharaoh Mentuhotep II
• c. 2000 BCE Battle of Siddim
• c. April 16, 1457 BCE Battle of Megiddo

The Egyptian Empire at its maximum territorial extent in the 15th century BCE

• c. 1290–1279 BCE Seti's military campaigns in Canaan
• c. 1279–1213 BCE Campaigns and Battles of Ramesses II
  • First Syrian Campaign
  • Second Syrian Campaign
  • Third Syrian Campaign

Confederated Tribes of Israel

• c. 1200 BCE the biblical Battle of Gibeah

United Kingdom of Israel and Judah

Different interpretations of what the Bible says about the extent of King David's empire

• c. 1050–1010 BCE Saul, according to the Bible king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah, fought in a civil war
• c. 931–913 BCE Rehoboam, according to the Bible king of the Kingdom of Judah, fought the Kingdom of Israel in a civil war

Kingdom of Judah

• 925 BCE Sack of Jerusalem an event described in the Bible as sacked by biblical Pharaoh Shishaq, who some identify as Shoshenq I of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt.
• 911–605 BCE Campaigns of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 701 BCE Siege of Lachish
  • 701 BCE Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib
  • 701 BCE Sennacherib's campaign in Judah
  • 635 BCE Fall of Ashdod
• 601–587 BCE Jewish–Babylonian war
  • 597 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II
  • 587 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II

Babylonian Province of Yehud

• 601–587 BCE Jewish–Babylonian war
  • 597 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II
  • 587 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II

Persian Province of Yehud Medinata

• 539 BC Fall of Babylon
  • 539 BC Achaemenid conquest of Jerusalem
• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • October 332 BCE Siege of Gaza

Seleucid Empire

• 322–275 BCE Wars of the Diadochi
  • 312 BCE Battle of Gaza
• 219–217 BCE Fourth Syrian War
  • June 22, 217 BCE Battle of Raphia
• 202–195 BCE Fifth Syrian War
  • 200 BCE Battle of Panium
• 167–160 BCE Maccabean Revolt

Hasmonean Kingdom

• 63 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Pompey the Great, intervening in the Hasmonean civil war on behalf of the Roman Republic.

Herodian Kingdom of Israel

• 37 BCE Siege of Jerusalem by Herod the Great, ending Hasmonean rule over Judea.

Roman Tetrarchy of Judea

Roman Province of Judea

• 66–136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 66–73 First Jewish–Roman War
    • 70 Siege of Jerusalem by Titus, ending the major phase of the First Jewish–Roman War. It ended in the destruction of Herod's Temple.
  • 115–117 Second Jewish–Roman War

Roman Province of Syria Palaestina

• 66–136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 132–136 Third Jewish–Roman War

Byzantine Province of Palaestina Prima

• c. 602–628 Byzantine–Sasanian War
  • 614–628 Jewish revolt against Heraclius
    • 614 Siege of Jerusalem by Shahrbaraz (Sasanian general) capturing the city from the Byzantines, part of the Roman-Persian Wars
• Muslim conquests
  • 629 – c. 1050 Arab–Byzantine wars
    • 634–638 Muslim conquest of the Levant
      • 637 Siege of Jerusalem by Khalid ibn al-Walid (Rashidun general) under Umar the Great, capturing the city from the Byzantine Empire

Rashidun Province of Jund Filastin

• 637 Siege of Jerusalem by Khalid ibn al-Walid (Rashidun general) under Umar the Great, capturing the city from the Byzantine Empire

Map detailing the route of Khalid ibn Walid's invasion of Northern Syria.

Abbasid Province of Jund Filastin

• 1099–1291 The Crusades
  • 1099 First Crusade
    • 1099 Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, a part of the First Crusade
    • 1099 Battle of Ascalon

Kingdom of Jerusalem

• 1099–1291 The Crusades
  • 1096–99 First Crusade
    • 1099 Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, a part of the First Crusade
    • 1099 Battle of Ascalon
  • Inter-Crusade Period
    • September 7, 1101 First Battle of Ramla
    • May 17, 1102 Second Battle of Ramla
    • August 27, 1105 Third Battle of Ramla
    • 1113 Battle of Al-Sannabra
    • 1123 Battle of Yibneh

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states in the context of the Near East in 1135

• • 1145–1149 Second Crusade
  • Inter-Crusade Period
    • 1153 Battle of Ascalon
    • November 25, 1177 Battle of Montgisard
    • 1179 Battle of Jacob's Ford
    • July–August 1182 Battle of Belvoir Castle
    • September 1183 Battle of Al-Fule
    • May 1, 1187 Battle of Cresson
    • July 4, 1187 Battle of Hattin
    • 1187 Siege of Jerusalem
  • 1189–92 Third Crusade
    • 1189–91 Siege of Acre
    • September 7, 1191 Battle of Arsuf
    • August 8, 1192 Battle of Jaffa
  • 1197 German Crusade
  • 1212 Children's Crusade
  • 1217–21 Fifth Crusade
    • 1218–19 Damietta
  • 1228–29 Sixth Crusade
  • Aftermath of the Sixth Crusade
    • 1244 Siege of Jerusalem
    • October 17–18, 1244 Battle of La Forbie
  • 1251 Shepherds' Crusade
  • Late Crusades Period
    • 1265 Fall of Caesarea
    • 1265 Fall of Haifa
    • 1265 Fall of Arsuf
    • April 4 – May 18, 1291 Siege of Acre
  • 1271–72 Ninth Crusade
  • April 4 – May 18, 1291 Siege of Acre
• 1260–1300 Mongol raids into Palestine
  • September 3, 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut

The 1260 Mongol offensives in the Levant. The early successful attacks on Aleppo and Damascus led to smaller attacks on secondary targets such as Baalbek, al-Subayba, and Ajlun as well as raids against other Palestine towns, perhaps including Jerusalem. Smaller raiding parties reached as far south as Gaza.

Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus

• 1516–17 Ottoman–Mamluk War
  • October 28, 1516 Battle of Yaunis Khan
• May 17, 1805 – March 2, 1848 Campaigns of Muhammad Ali of Egypt
  • 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine

Ottoman Vilayet of Syria

• July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 World War I
  • October 29, 1914 – October 30, 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • November 17 – December 30, 1917 Battle of Jerusalem
    • November 18–24, 1917 Battle of Nebi Samwil
    • December 1, 1917 Battle of El Burj
    • December 20–21, 1917 Battle of Jaffa

Mandatory Palestine

• 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
  • March 1, 1920 Battle of Tel Hai
  • April 4 – 7, 1920 1920 Nebi Musa riots
  • May 1 – 7, 1921 Jaffa riots
  • August 23 – 29, 1929 1929 Palestine riots
  • October 13, 1933 1933 Palestine riots
  • 1936 – 1939 Arab Revolt
  • 1944 – 1947 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
  • 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine war
    • 1947 – 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine

State of Israel

• 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine War
  • 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• 1949 – 1956 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
• 1951 – 1966 Retribution operations
• 1951 Al-Hamma incident
• 1956 Suez Crisis
• 1964 – 1967 War over Water
• 1967 Six-Day War
  • 6 – 7 June 1967 Jordanian campaign (1967)
• 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
• 1968 – 1982 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
• 1973 Yom Kippur War
• 1978 1978 South Lebanon conflict
• 1982 – 1985 1982 Lebanon War
• 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
• 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
• 2000 – 2005 Second Intifada
• 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
• 2006 Operation Bringing Home the Goods
• 25 June 2006 2006 Gaza cross-border raid
• 2006 Operation Summer Rains
• 2006 Second Lebanon War
• 2006 Operation Autumn Clouds
  • 8 November 2006 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun
• 23 January 2008 2008 breach of the Egypt–Gaza border
• 2008 Operation Hot Winter
• 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09)
• 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
• 2010 March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes
• 2010 Gaza flotilla raid
• 2010 2010 Palestinian militancy campaign
• 2012 March 2012 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2012 2012 Gaza War
• 2013 Hanikra border clash
• 2014 2014 Gaza War
  • 9 – 16 July 2014 2014 Gaza war beach bombing incidents
  • 19 – 23 July 2014 Battle of Shuja'iyya (2014)
  • 19 August 2014 Deif family killings
• 2015 January 2015 Shebaa Farms incident
• 2015 – 2016 Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–16)
• 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 November 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• 2022 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 May 2023 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 2023 Eritrean clashes in Tel Aviv
• 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war
  • 7 – 8 October 2023 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
  • 7 October 2023 – present Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • 11 October 2023 – present Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 – present 2024 Iran–Israel conflict

Jordan

• 13 April 1957 1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attempt
• 1967 Six-Day War
  • 6 – 7 June 1967 Jordanian campaign (1967)
• 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
• 1970 – 1971 Black September

Kuwait

• August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 Gulf War
  • August 2 – 4, 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
    • August 2, 1990 Battle of the Bridges
    • August 2, 1990 Battle of Dasman Palace
    • August 3, 1990 Battle of Failaka
    • 18 – 19 January 1991 Battle of Ad-Dawrah
  • 17 January 1991 – 23 February 1991 Gulf War air campaign
    • 17 January – 28 February 1991 Air engagements of the Gulf War
  • 24 – 29 January 1991 Battle of Qurah and Umm al Maradim
  • 29 January – 2 February 1991 Battle of Bubiyan
  • February 24 – 28, 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign
    • February 25 – 27, 1991 Highway of Death
    • February 27, 1991 Battle of Kuwait International Airport

Lebanon

• 1279–1213 BCE Campaigns and battles of Ramesses II
  • First Syrian campaign
  • Second Syrian campaign
  • Third Syrian campaign
• 1200 BCE Amurru kingdom was destroyed by the Sea Peoples
• 1948–1949 Arab-Israeli War
• 1958 Lebanon Crisis
• December 31, 1961 1961 Lebanese coup attempt
• 1968 – 1982 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
• 1975 – 1991 Lebanese Civil War
  • 23 October 1975 – 2 April 1976 Battle of the Hotels
  • 1976 – 1990 Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War
  • 9 May 1978 Battle of Kaukaba
  • July 1, 1978 – October 8, 1978 Hundred Days' War
  • 1978 1978 South Lebanon conflict
  • 12 – 17 February 1980 Battle of Qnat
  • 6 – 12 April 1980 At Tiri incident
  • 1982 – 1985 1982 Lebanon War
    • 14 June – 21 August 1982 Siege of Beirut
  • 3 September 1983 – 6 February 1984 Mountain War (Lebanon)
  • 6 February 1984 February 6 Intifada
  • 3 November – 20 December 1983 Battle of Tripoli (1983)
  • May 1985 – July 1988 War of the Camps
  • January 1986 January 1986 Lebanese Forces coup
  • April 1988 – November 1990 War of Brothers
  • March 1989 – 13 October 1990 War of Liberation (1989–1990)
  • 31 January – 13 October 1990 War of Elimination (1990, Lebanon)
  • 2 – 6 July 1991 Battle of Sidon
• 1976 – 2015 Bab al-Tabbaneh–Jabal Mohsen conflict
• 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
• 1999 – 2000 Dinnieh clashes
• 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
• 2006 2006 Lebanon War
• 2007 2007 Lebanon conflict
• 2008 2008 Lebanon War
• 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
• 2011 – present Syrian Civil War
  • 2011 – 2017 Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
• 2013 Hanikra border clash
• 2015 January 2015 Shebaa Farms incident
• 2021 2021 Beirut clashes
• 2023 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes
• 2023 – present Israel–Hamas war
  • 2023 – present Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • 2024 – present 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Oman

• 1952 – 1955 Buraimi dispute
• 1954 – 1959 Jebel Akhdar War
• 1965 – 1976 Dhofar Rebellion
  • 19 July 1972 Battle of Mirbat
• 23 July 1970 1970 Omani coup d'état

Palestine

• 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
• 2000 – 2005 Second Intifada
• 2006 – ongoing Fatah-Hamas conflict
  • 10–15 June 2007 Battle of Gaza (2007)
  • January 21 – February, 2009 2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza
• 2006 Operation Bringing Home the Goods
• 25 June 2006 2006 Gaza cross-border raid
• 2006 Operation Summer Rains
• 2006 Operation Autumn Clouds
  • 8 November 2006 2006 shelling of Beit Hanoun
• 23 January 2008 2008 breach of the Egypt–Gaza border
• 2008 Operation Hot Winter
• 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09)
• 2009 Battle of Rafah (2009)
• 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
• 2010 March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes
• 2010 Gaza flotilla raid
• 2012 March 2012 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2012 2012 Gaza War
• 2014 2014 Gaza War
  • 19 – 23 July 2014 Battle of Shuja'iyya (2014)
  • 9 and 16 November 2014 2014 Gaza war beach bombing incidents
  • 19 August 2014 Deif family killings
• 2015 – 2016 Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–16)
• 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 November 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• 2022 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 May 2023 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war
  • 7 – 8 October 2023 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
  • 7 October 2023 – present Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip

Qatar

• 22 February 1972 1972 Qatari coup d'état
• 27 June 1995 1995 Qatari coup d'état
• 14 February 1996 1996 Qatari coup attempt

Saudi Arabia

Conquests of Muhammad and the Rashidun

Muslim conquests

• List of expeditions of Muhammad
• Ridda wars

Map detailing arenas of Ridda campaigns.

Rashidun Caliphate

• 656–661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680–692 Second Fitna
• 743–750 Third Fitna

Abbasid Caliphate

• September 762 – February 763 Alid Revolt

First Saudi state

Ibrahim Pasha's Campaign against the Saudis in Nejd

• 1746 Battle of Riyadh
• 1764 Battle of Al-Hayer
• 1789 Battle of ghrimeel
• 1793 Ibn Ufaisan's Invasion
• 1793 – 1798 Invasion of Qatar
• April 21 – 1802 or 1801 Invasion of Karbala
• 1811 Battle of Khakeekera
• Early 1811 – 1818 Ottoman–Saudi War

Second Saudi state

• 1821 – 1824 Rebellion against Egypt Eyalet
• 1865 – 1875 Royal Civil War
• 1870 – 1871 Al-Hasa Expedition
• 1883 Battle of Arwa
• 24 January 1891 Battle of Mulayda

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• 1902–1934 Unification of Saudi Arabia
  • 13 January 1902 Battle of Riyadh (1902)
  • 27 January 1903 Battle of Dilam
  • 1903 – 1907 Saudi–Rashidi War (1903–1907)
  • 1910 Battle of Hadia
  • 1913 Conquest of al-Hasa (1913)
  • 17 January 1915 Battle of Jarrab
  • 1915 Battle of Kinzaan
  • July 1918 – 4 July 1919 First Saudi–Hashemite War
  • 1919 – 1920 Kuwait-Najd War
  • 1921 Second Saudi–Rashidi War
  • September 1924 – December 1925 Second Saudi-Hashemite War
  • 1927 – 1930 Ikhwan Revolt
• 1934 Saudi–Yemeni War
• 1969 Al-Wadiah War
• 1979 Grand Mosque seizure
• 1979 – present Qatif conflict
  • 26 November – 3 December 1979 1979 Qatif Uprising
  • 2017 – 2020 2017–2020 Qatif unrest
• 31 July 1987 1987 Mecca incident
• 1991 Gulf War
  • 29 January – 1 February 1991 Battle of Khafji
  • 17 January 1991 – 23 February 1991 Gulf War air campaign
    • 18 January – 26 February 1991 Iraqi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia
    • 24 January 1991 Attack on Ras Tanura
• 2009 – 2010 Operation Scorched Earth
• 14 February – 18 March 2011 2011 Bahraini uprising
  • 2011 Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain
• 2014 – ongoing Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)
  • 26 March 2015 – ongoing Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
    • 2015 – ongoing Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
• 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis (2023–present)

Syria

Chalcolithic period of Mesopotamia

• c. 3500 BCE Battle at Hamoukar

Akkadian Empire

• c. 2270–2215 BCE (Short chronology) Conquests of Sargon of Akkad

Sargon of Akkad's conquests.

• • Akkadian conquest of Ebla

Hittite Empire

The Assyrians, the Mitanni, the Egyptians, and the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BCE

• c. 1282 BCE Capture of Kadesh
• Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II
  • Late May 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh

Neo-Assyrian Empire

• 854–846 BCE Assyrian conquest of Aram
  • 853 BCE Battle of Qarqar

Seleucid Empire

• 274–168 BCE Syrian Wars
  • 274–271 BCE First Syrian War
  • 260–253 BCE Second Syrian War
  • 246–241 BCE Third Syrian War
  • 219–217 BCE Fourth Syrian War
  • 202–195 BCE Fifth Syrian War
  • 170–168 BCE Sixth Syrian War

French Mandate of Syria

• 1920 Franco-Syrian War
• 1925–1927 Great Syrian Revolt
• 1945 Levant Crisis

Syrian Arab Republic

• 1949 March 1949 Syrian coup d'état
• 1954 1954 Syrian coup d'état
• 1957 Syrian Crisis of 1957
• 1961 1961 Syrian coup d'état
• 1962 1962 Syrian coup d'état attempt
• 1963 1963 Syrian coup d'état
• 1964 1964 Hama riot
• 1966 1966 Syrian coup d'état
• 1967 Six-Day War
• 1970 Corrective Movement (Syria)
• 1973 Yom Kippur War
• 1976 – 1982 Islamist uprising in Syria
• March 12, 2004 2004 Qamishli riots
• 6 September 2007 Operation Outside the Box
• 2011 – ongoing Syrian civil war
  • 29 July 2011 – 20 April 2012 Early insurgency phase of the Syrian civil war
    • 6 May 2011 – 9 May 2014 Siege of Homs
    • 8 September 2011 – 27 March 2012 Idlib Governorate clashes (September 2011 – March 2012)
    • 14 November 2011 – 3 January 2013 Daraa Governorate clashes (2011–2013)
    • 26 November 2011 – 10 April 2014 Deir ez-Zor clashes (2011–2014)
  • 21 April 2012 – 31 December 2013 2012–2013 escalation of the Syrian civil war
    • 14 May 2012 – 29 April 2018 Siege of Northern Homs
    • 3 June 2012 – 18 April 2013 Idlib Governorate clashes (June 2012 – April 2013)
    • 18 July 2012 18 July 2012 Damascus bombing
    • 19 September 2012 – 6 March 2013 Raqqa campaign (2012–2013)
      • 3 – 6 March 2013 Battle of Raqqa (2013)
    • 9 November 2012 – 19 October 2016 Siege of Darayya and Muadamiyat
    • 6 February – 25 March 2013 Damascus offensive
    • 26 March – 22 August 2013 Rif Dimashq offensive (March–August 2013)
      • 21 August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack
    • 4 April – 8 June 2013 Al-Qusayr offensive
    • 7 April 2013 – 14 April 2018 Siege of Eastern Ghouta
    • 15 November 2013 – 16 March 2014 Battle of Qalamoun (2013–2014)
  • 5 December 2011 – present Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War
    • 24 August 2016 – 29 March 2017 Operation Euphrates Shield
    • 20 January 2018 – 9 August 2019 Operation Olive Branch
    • 9 October – 25 November 2019 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
  • 19 July 2012 – 22 December 2016 Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
    • 1 October – 1 December 2013 Aleppo offensive (October–December 2013)
    • 16 October – 21 December 2015 Aleppo offensive (October–December 2015)
    • 18 November 2015 – 21 February 2016 East Aleppo offensive (2015–2016)
    • 1–16 February 2016 Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016)
    • 19 December 2019 – 6 March 2020 Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)
      • 27 February – 6 March 2020 Operation Spring Shield
  • 19 July 2012 – ongoing Rojava conflict
    • 10 February – 19 July 2012 2012 Aleppo Governorate clashes
    • 25 June 2016 – 11 September 2016 2016 Aleppo summer campaign
    • 15 November – 22 December 2016 Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)
  • 16 July 2013 – present Rojava–Islamist conflict
    • 15 September 2014 – 20 March 2015 Siege of Kobanî
    • 31 May – 10 July 2015 Tell Abyad offensive
    • 31 May – 27 August 2016 Manbij offensive (2016)
    • 6 November 2016 – 20 October 2017 Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)
  • 2 January 2014 – present Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian civil war
    • 10 April – 14 July 2014 Deir ez-Zor offensive (April–July 2014)
    • 22 March – 10 May 2017 Battle of Tabqa
    • 8 September 2017 – 23 March 2019 Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019)
    • 6 June – 17 October 2017 Battle of Raqqa (2017)
  • 14 July 2014 – 17 November 2017 Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–2017)
  • 22 September 2014 – present US intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • 7 April 2017 2017 Shayrat missile strike
    • 14 April 2018 April 2018 missile strikes against Syria
  • 23 July – 28 August 2014 2014 Eastern Syria offensive
  • 24 March – 5 April 2015 2015 Idlib offensive
  • 22 April – 14 June 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015)
  • 13 – 26 May 2015 Palmyra offensive (May 2015)
  • 28 July – 28 August 2015 Al-Ghab offensive (July–August 2015)
  • 30 September 2015 – present Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
    • 24 November 2015 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown
  • 15 October 2015 – 12 March 2016 2015–2016 Latakia offensive
  • 21 July – 28 August 2017 Qalamoun offensive (2017)
  • 29 August – 6 November 2016 2016 Hama offensive
  • 21 March – 28 April 2017 Hama offensive (March–April 2017)
  • 14 July – 21 October 2017 Central Syria campaign
  • 14 September – 17 December 2017 Eastern Syria campaign
  • 9 October 2017 – 13 February 2018 Northwestern Syria campaign (October 2017–February 2018)
  • 18 February – 14 April 2018 Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018)
  • 15 April – 16 May 2018 Northern Homs offensive (April–May 2018)
  • 17 – 25 April 2018 Eastern Qalamoun offensive (April 2018)
  • 19 April – 21 May 2018 Southern Damascus offensive (April–May 2018)
  • 18 June 2018 – 19 December 2019 Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019)
  • 9 February – 23 March 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
  • 30 April – 31 August 2019 Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019)

Turkey

Hittite Empire

• 1650–1600 BCE Conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I
• 1430–1350 BCE Kaska invasions of Hatti

The Hittite Empire, c. 1400 BCE (shown in Blue).

• 1260–1240 BCE Trojan War

Kingdom of Diaokhi

• 1112 BCE Diaokhi–Assyrian War
• 756–741 BCE Diaokhi–Urartian War
• 729–722 BCE Colchian–Cimmerian War

Lydian Empire

• May 28, 585 BCE Battle of Halys

Achaemenid Empire

• 547 BCE Siege of Sardis
• 499–449 BCE Greco-Persian Wars
  • 499–493 BCE Ionian Revolt
  • 492–490 BCE First Persian invasion of Greece
  • 480–478 BCE Second Persian invasion of Greece
    • August 27, 479 BCE Battle of Mycale
  • 477–449 BCE Wars of the Delian League
    • 466 BCE or 469 BCE Battle of the Eurymedon

Macedonian Empire

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • May 334 BCE Battle of the Granicus
  • 334 BCE Siege of Miletus
  • 334 BCE Siege of Halicarnassus
  • November 5, 333 BCE Battle of Issus

The Siege of Miletus and the Battle of Issus are shown on this map of the Achaemenid Empire around the time of Darius the Great and Xerxes.

Seleucid Empire

• 322–275 BCE Wars of the Diadochi
• 238–129 BCE Seleucid–Parthian wars

Roman Republic

• 192–188 BCE Roman–Syrian War
• 92 BCE – 629 CE Roman-Persian Wars
  • June 8, 218 CE Battle of Antioch
  • 260 Battle of Edessa
  • 344 Siege of Singara
  • 359 Siege of Amida

Expansion of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

Kingdom of Pontus

• 88–63 BCE Mithridatic Wars
  • 88–84 BCE First Mithridatic War
  • 83–81 BCE Second Mithridatic War
    • 82 BCE Battle of Halys
  • 75–63 BCE Third Mithridatic War

Roman Empire

• 66–217 Roman-Parthian Wars
  • June 53 BCE Battle of Carrhae
  • 39 BCE Battle of the Cilician Gates
  • 39 BCE Battle of Amanus Pass

Byzantine Empire

Territorial development of the Roman Empire between the years CE 300 and 1453 (Animated map).

• 421–628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 421–422 Roman–Sasanian War
  • 502–506 Anastasian War
  • 526–532 Iberian War
  • 572–591 Roman–Persian War
  • 602–628 Byzantine–Sasanian War
    • 610 Antioch riots
    • 613 Battle of Antioch
    • 610–628 Jewish revolt against Heraclius
    • 615 Shahin's invasion of Asia Minor
    • 622 Heraclius' campaign
    • 602–628 Byzantine assault on Persia
    • 626 Siege of Constantinople
    • 627–629 Third Perso-Turkic War
• 629–1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 674–678 Siege of Constantinople
  • 717–718 Siege of Constantinople
  • 804–805 Battle of Krasos
  • 838 Battle of Anzen
  • 838 Sack of Amorium
  • 863 Battle of Lalakaon
  • John Kourkouas' campaigns
    • 926–930 First Melitene campaign and conquest of Kalikala
    • 931–934 Second Malitene campaign
  • Sayf al-Dawla campaigns
    • 944 Conquest of Aleppo
    • 953 Battle of Marash
    • 962 Siege of Aleppo

Seljuq Empire

• 1048–1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars
  • August 26, 1071 Battle of Manzikert

Seljuk Empire in its zenith in 1092, upon the death of Malik Shah I

• 1090–1194 Nizari–Seljuk conflicts

Sultanate of Rum

• 1095–1099 First Crusade
  • July 1, 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum
• 1145–1149 Second Crusade
  • October 25, 1147 Battle of Dorylaeum
• 1048–1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars
  • September 17, 1176 Battle of Myriokephalon
  • 1207 Siege of Antalya
  • 1203 Siege of Constantinople
  • 1204 Siege of Constantinople

Expansion of the Sultanate of Rum in c. 1100–1240

Latin Empire

• 1204–1261 Bulgarian–Latin wars
  • 1235 Siege of Constantinople
• Nicaean–Latin Wars
  • 1260 Siege of Constantinople

Ottoman Empire

Greatest extent (red) with vassal states (light red) of the Ottoman Empire in 1590s.

• 1265–1479 Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
  • 1265–1328 Rise of the Ottomans
  • 1328–1341 Byzantium counter
    • 1331 Siege of Nicaea
    • 1333–1337 Siege of Nicomedia
  • 1341–1371 Balkan invasion and civil war
  • 1371–1394 Byzantine civil war and vassalage
  • 1394–1424 Resumption of hostilities
    • 1422 Siege of Constantinople
  • 1424–1453 Ottoman campaign on Constantinopolis
    • April 6, 1453 – May 29, 1453 Fall of Constantinople
• 1893 Battle of Al Wajbah
• 1893–1908 Macedonian Struggle
• 1894 1894 Sasun rebellion
• 1894–1897 Hamidian massacres
  • 1895–1896 Zeitun rebellion (1895–96)
• 1897 Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• 1903 Theriso revolt
• 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
• 1904 1904 Sasun uprising
• 1905 Shoubak revolt of 1905
• 1906 Ottoman invasion of Persia (1906)
• 1908 Young Turk Revolution
• 1909 31 March Incident
• 1909–1910 Hauran Druze Rebellion
• 1910 Albanian revolt of 1910
• 1910 Karak revolt
• 1911 Albanian revolt of 1911
• 1911–1912 Italo-Turkish War
• 1912 Albanian revolt of 1912
• 1912–1913 Balkan Wars
  • 1912–1913 First Balkan War
    • 1912 Battle of Kumanovo
    • 1912 Battle of Prilep
    • 1912 Battle of Monastir
    • 1912–1913 Siege of Adrianople
    • 1912–1913 Siege of Scutari
  • 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914–1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914–1918 Caucasus campaign
    • 1914–1918 Mesopotamian campaign
    • 1914–1918 South Arabia during World War I
    • 1914–1918 Persian Campaign
    • 1915–1918 Sinai and Palestine campaign
    • 1915–1916 Gallipoli campaign
    • 1916–1918 Arab Revolt
• 1919–1923 Turkish War of Independence
  • 1918–1922 Franco-Turkish War
  • 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
  • 1919–1920 [Revolt of Ahmet Anzavur]
  • 1920 Turkish-Armenian War
  • 1920 Battle of Geyve
  • 1920 Konya rebellion

Republic of Turkey

• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1921 Koçgiri rebellion
  • 1924 Beytüşşebab rebellion
  • 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion
  • 1927–1930 Ararat rebellion
  • 1937–1938 Dersim rebellion
  • 1978 – ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)
    • 1983 – present Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
    • 1990 – ongoing Serhildan
    • 2015 – ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
• 1936 – 1953 Turkish Straits crisis
• 27 May 1960 1960 Turkish coup d'état
• 22 February 1962 1962 Turkish coup attempt
• 20 May 1963 1963 Turkish coup attempt
• 1968 – 1980 Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)
  • 12 September 1980 1980 Turkish coup d'état
• 12 March 1971 1971 Turkish military memorandum
• 1972 – ongoing Maoist insurgency in Turkey
• 1986 Evros River incident
• 1990 – present DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey
• 1996 Imia crisis
• 1997 1997 Turkish military memorandum
• 2013 – present Turkey–Islamic State conflict
• 15 – 16 July 2016 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
  • 16 July 2016 – ongoing Purges in Turkey (2016–present)

United Arab Emirates

• 1952 – 1955 Buraimi dispute
• 1971 Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
• June 17 – 24, 1987 1987 Sharjawi coup attempt

Yemen

• 17 February – March 1948 al-Waziri coup
• 1956 – 1960 Yemeni–Adenese clan violence
• 1962 – 1970 North Yemen Civil War
• 1963 – 1967 Aden Emergency
• 1969 Al-Wadiah War
• 1972 First Yemenite War
• 1978 – 1982 NDF Rebellion
• 1979 Second Yemenite War
• 1986 South Yemen civil war
• 1994 Yemeni civil war (1994)
• 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
• 1998 – present Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
• 12 May – 15 June 2012 2012 Abyan offensive
• 2004 – 2014 Houthi insurgency
  • 11 August 2009 – 12 February 2010 Operation Scorched Earth
• 2009 – present South Yemen insurgency
• 2011 – 2012 Yemeni revolution
  • 23 May – 25 November 2011 Battle of Sanaa (2011)
  • 28 May – 7 June 2011 Battle of Taiz
• 2014 – present Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
  • 26 March 2015 – ongoing Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
    • 2015 – present Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
• 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis

Central Asia

Afghanistan

• 962 Ghaznavid Empire
• 1709 Hotaki Empire and Durrani Empire
• The Great Game
• Khost rebellion (1856–1857)
• Khost rebellion (1912)
• Khost rebellion (1924–1925)
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
• 1944 – 1947 Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
• 1945 – 1946 1945 Hazara Rebellion
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 1959 – 1960 Dir campaign
  • 1960 – 1961 Bajaur Campaign
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 1949 1949 Hazara Rebellion
• 17 April 1973 1973 Afghan coup d'état
• 1975 1975 Panjshir Valley uprising
• 27 – 28 April 1978 Saur Revolution
• 1979 Herat uprising
• 1979 Chindawol uprising
• 1979 Bala Hissar uprising
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1989 – 1992 Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
• 1992 – 1996 Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
• 1996 – 2001 Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
• 2001 – 2021 War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • 7 October 2001 – 17 December 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan
  • June 4, 2006 – 2014 Helmand province campaign
  • April 2009 – December 2014 Kunduz province campaign
• 2015 – present Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• 2021 – present Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

• 1068 Battle of the Alta River
• 1382 Siege of Moscow (1382)
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• 1917–1923 Russian Civil War
  • 1917–1920 Alash Orda
• 1954 Kengir uprising
• 1986 Jeltoqsan
• 1989 – present Kazakh–Russian ethnic conflicts
• 5 – 8 February 2020 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes
• 2 – 11 January 2022 2022 Kazakh unrest

Kyrgyzstan

• 1898 Andijan uprising of 1898
• 1916 Central Asian revolt of 1916
• 1990 Osh riots
• 1999 Batken Conflict
• 22 March – 11 April 2005 Tulip Revolution
• 6 April – 15 April 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
• 2010 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots
• 2021 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
• 2022 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes

Tajikistan

Dayuan

• 104–101 BCE War of the Heavenly Horses

The Dayuan (in Ferghana) was one of the three advanced civilizations of Central Asia around 130 BCE, together with Parthia and Greco-Bactria, according to the Chinese historical work Book of Han.

Tajik SSR

• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War

Tajikistan

• 1992 – 1997 Tajikistani Civil War
• 2010 – 2015 Insurgency in Gorno-Badakhshan (2010–2015)
  • 2012 2012 Gorno-Badakhshan clashes

Turkmenistan

• Seljuk-Ghaznavid Wars
  • 1040 Battle of Dandanaqan
• 1916–1934 Basmachi Movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War

Uzbekistan

Sogdia

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 327 BCE Siege of the Sogdian Rock

Sogdia, c. 300 BC.

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

• 250 BCE Independence
• 230 BCE Overthrow of Diodotus II
• 210 BCE Seleucid invasion
• 180 BCE Expansion into India
• 141 BCE Defeats against Parthia

Yuezhi Kingdom

• 162 BCE Yuezhi expansion

The migrations of the Yuezhi through Central Asia, from around 176 BC to AD 30.

Indo-Greek Kingdom

• 36 BCE Battle of Sogdiana

Kushan Empire

• 1st and 2nd Centuries CE Kushan expansion

Rouran Khaganate

• Origin and expansion

Göktürk Khaganate

• Göktürk civil war
• Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue
• Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
• 657 Conquest of the Western Turks

Khwarazmian dynasty

• 1216–1221 Mongol invasion of Central Asia

Mongol Empire

• 1262 Berke–Hulagu war

Timurid dynasty

• 1370 Siege of Balkh

Zunghar Khanate

• Conquest of the Tarim Basin and war with the Central Asians

Russian Empire

• The Great Game
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Russian Empire

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War
• 3 – 12 June 1989 Fergana massacre

Republic of Uzbekistan

• 13 May 2005 Andijan massacre
• 1 – 3 July 2022 2022 Karakalpak protests

East Asia

China

Longshan culture

• 2852–2070 BCE Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Period
  • c. 2500 BCE Battle of Banquan
  • c. 2500 BCE Battle of Zhuolu

Xia dynasty

• c. 1628–1600 BCE Rise of Shang
  • c. 1600 BCE Battle of Mingtiao

Shang dynasty

• c. 1628–1600 BCE Rise of Shang
  • c. 1600 BCE Battle of Mingtiao
• c. 1046 BC\
  • c. 1046 BCE Battle of Muye

Remnants of advanced, stratified societies dating back to the Shang found primarily in the Yellow River Valley

Zhou dynasty

• c. 1046 BCE Foundation of the Zhou dynasty
  • c. 1046 BCE Battle of Muye
• 771–476 BCE Spring and Autumn period
  • 632 BCE Battle of Chengpu
  • 595 BCE Battle of Bi
  • 588 BCE Battle of An
  • 575 BCE Battle of Yanling
  • 506 BCE Battle of Boju
  • 4th century BCE Gojoseon–Yan War
  • 478 BCE Battle of Lize
• 475–221 BCE Warring States period
  • 453 BCE Battle of Jinyang
  • 353 BCE Battle of Guiling
  • 342 BCE Battle of Maling
  • 293 BCE Battle of Yique
  • 260 BCE Battle of Changping
  • 230–221 BCE Qin's wars of unification

Qin dynasty

• 215 BCE Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 214 BCE Qin's campaign against the Yue tribes
• 209 BCE Dazexiang Uprising

Qin dynasty, c. 210 BC.

Han dynasty

• 206–202 BCE Chu–Han Contention
  • 207 BCE Battle of Julu
  • 205 BCE Battle of Pengcheng
  • 205 BCE Battle of Jingxing
  • 203 BCE Battle of Wei River
  • 202 BCE Battle of Gaixia
  • 200 BCE Battle of Baideng
• 154 BCE Rebellion of the Seven States
• 133 BCE – 89 Han–Xiongnu War
  • 133 BCE Battle of Mayi
  • 119 BCE Battle of Mobei
  • 99 BCE Battle of Tian Shan
  • 67 BCE Battle of Jushi
  • 36 BCE Battle of Zhizhi
  • 73 CE Battle of Yiwulu
  • 89 CE Battle of Ikh Bayan

The Han Empire in 87 BCE (core provinces in brown), with commanderies (red dots) and protectorates (green dots) shown

• 2nd century BCE Southward expansion of the Han dynasty
  • 111 BCE Han–Nanyue War
• 109–108 BCE Han-Gojoseon War
• 17–25 CE Lülin Rebellion
  • 23 Battle of Kunyang
• 189–220 End of the Han dynasty
  • 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion
  • 190 Campaign against Dong Zhuo
    • 190 Battle of Xingyang
  • 191 Battle of Yangcheng
  • 191 Battle of Jieqiao
  • 191 Battle of Xiangyang
  • 193 Battle of Fengqiu
  • 194 Battle of Yan Province
  • 194 Sun Ce's conquests in Jiangdong
  • 197 Battle of Wancheng
  • 198 Battle of Rangcheng
  • 198 Battle of Xiapi
  • 199 Battle of Yijing
  • 199 Campaign against Yuan Shu
  • 200 Battle of Guandu
  • 202 Battle of Bowang
  • 208 Battle of Xiakou
  • 208 Battle of Changban
  • 208 Battle to the Southwest of Xiakou
  • 208 Battle of Red Cliffs
  • 209 Battle of Jiangling
  • 211 Battle of Tong Pass
  • 213 Siege of Jicheng
  • 213 Battle of Lucheng
  • 214 Liu Bei's takeover of Yi Province
  • 215 Battle of Baxi
  • 215 Battle of Yangping
  • 217 Battle of Xiaoyao Ford
  • 218 Battle of Ruxu
  • 219 Battle of Mount Dingjun
  • 219 Battle of Han River
  • 219 Battle of Fancheng
  • 219 Lü Meng's invasion of Jing Province

Wei dynasty

• 220–280 Three Kingdoms
  • 222 Battle of Xiaoting
  • 225 Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign
  • Spring 228 – August 234 Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions
    • 228 Battle of Tianshui
    • 228 Battle of Jieting
    • 228 Battle of Shiting
    • 229 Siege of Chencang
    • 234 Battle of Wuzhang Plains
  • 227–228 Xincheng Rebellion
  • 244 Battle of Xingshi
  • 247–262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions

The territories of Cao Wei (in yellow), 262 CE.

• • • 255 Battle of Didao
  • 263 Conquest of Shu by Wei

Jìn dynasty

• 220–280 Three Kingdoms
  • 280 Conquest of Wu by Jin
• 291 War of the Eight Princes
• 304–439 Sixteen Kingdoms
  • 304 Wu Hu uprising
  • 354 Huan Wen's expeditions
  • 383 Battle of Fei River
  • 395 Battle of Canhe Slope
  • 409 Liu Yu's expeditions

Liu Song dynasty

• 420–589 Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • 537 Battle of Shayuan

Sui dynasty

• 602 Ly–Sui War
• 598–614 Goguryeo–Sui War
• 617–621 Transition from Sui to Tang
  • 617 Battle of JYP against Sahyo
  • 621 Battle of Hulao

Tang dynasty

Emperor Taizong's campaign against the oasis states (640–648)

China under the Tang dynasty c. 700 AD

• 629–630 Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks
  • 630 Battle of Yinshan
• 640–657 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
  • 640–648 Tang campaign against the oasis states
  • 640 Conquest of Karakhoja
  • 644–648 Conquest of Karasahr
  • 648–649 Conquest of Kucha
  • 657 Battle of Irtysh River
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks
• 645–668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 Siege of Yodong
  • 645 Siege of Ansi
  • 668 Siege of Pyongyang
• 660–663 Baekje-Tang War
  • 663 Battle of Baekgang
• 670 Battle of Dafei River
• 698 Battle of Tianmenling
• 7th century – 8th century Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
  • 717 Battle of Aksu
  • 751 Battle of Talas
• 745–749 Siege of Shibao fortress
• December 16, 755 – February 17, 763 An Lushan Rebellion
  • 756 Battle of Tong Pass
  • 756 Battle of Yongqiu
  • 757 Battle of Suiyang
  • 757 Battle of Xiangjisi
  • 758–759 Battle of Xiangzhou
  • 762 Battle of Luoyang
• 801–802 Battle of Weizhou
• 819 Battle of Yanzhou
• 874–884 Huang Chao Rebellion

Song dynasty

• 1129–1141 Yue Fei's campaign against Jin
• November 1125 – 13th century Jin–Song Wars
  • 1161 Battle of Tangdao
  • 1161 Battle of Caishi
• 1235–1279 Song–Yuan wars
  • 1273 Battle of Xiangyang
  • 1279 Battle of Yamen

Liao dynasty

• November 15, 976 – May 8, 997 Military campaigns of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty
  • 979–982 First campaign against Liao dynasty
    • 979 Battle of Gaoliang River
  • 982–988 Second campaign against Liao dynasty
    • 986 Chi go Pass Campaign
• February 12, 1101 – March 26, 1125 Reign of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao
  • 1114–1122 Jurchen invasion
  • 1123–1125 End of Liao dynasty

Jin dynasty

• 1206–1337 Mongol conquests
  • 1211–1234 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
    • 1211 Battle of Yehuling
    • 1215 Battle of Zhongdu

Yuan dynasty

Yuan dynasty in 1294

• 1351 Red Turban Rebellion
  • August 30 – October 4, 1363 Battle of Lake Poyang

Ming dynasty

• 1381 Ming conquest of Yunnan
• 1300s–1400s Miao Rebellions
• 1399–1402 Jingnan Campaign
• 1400s–1500s Ming–Turpan conflict
• 1406–1407 Ming–Hồ War
• 1405–1433 Treasure voyages
  • 1410 Ming–Kotte War
• 1206–1337 Mongol invasions
  • 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
• 1510 Prince of Anhua rebellion
• 1519 Prince of Ning rebellion
• 1521 First Battle of Tamao
• 1522 Second Battle of Tamao
• 1618–1683 Manchu conquest of China
  • 1619 Battle of Sarhu
  • 1626 Battle of Ningyuan
  • 1640 Battle of Songjin
  • 1644 Battle of Shanhai Pass
• 1633 Battle of the Southern Fujian Sea
• 1642 Battle of Nanyang
• 1644 Occupied Beijing

Qing dynasty

• 1652–1689 Sino–Russian border conflicts
• 1674–1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories
• 1683 Battle of Penghu
• 1690–1757 First Oirat–Manchu War
  • September 3, 1690 Battle of Ulan Butung
  • 1696 Battle of Zuunmod
• 1718 Battle of the Salween River
• 1747–1792 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1796 White Lotus Rebellion
• 1839–1842 First Anglo-Chinese War
  • 1839 First Battle of Chuenpi
  • 1840 Capture of Chusan
  • 1840 Battle of the Barrier
  • 1841 Second Battle of Chuenpi
  • 1841 Battle of the Bogue
  • 1841 Battle of First Bar
  • 1841 Battle of Whampoa
  • March 1841 Battle of Canton
  • May 1841 Battle of Canton
  • 1841 Battle of Amoy
  • 1841 Capture of Chusan
  • 1841 Battle of Chinhai
  • 1842 Battle of Ningpo
  • 1842 Battle of Tzeki
  • 1842 Battle of Chapu
  • 1842 Battle of Woosung
  • 1842 Battle of Chinkiang
• 1851–1864 Taiping Rebellion
  • 1850 Jintian Uprising
  • 1853 Battle of Nanjing
  • 1856 First rout the Army Group Jiangnan
  • 1858 Battle of Sanhe
  • 1860 Second rout the Army Group Jiangnan
  • 1861 Battle of Anqing
  • 1861 Battle of Guanzhong
  • 1861 Battle of Shanghai
  • 1862 Battle of Cixi
  • 1863 Battle of Suzhou
  • 1863 Battle of Changzhou
  • 1864 Third Battle of Nanking
  • 1864 Hubei Pocket
  • 1865 Fujian Pocket
• 1856–1873 Panthay Rebellion
• 1862–1877 Dungan Revolt
  • 1870 Battle of Ürümqi
• 1864–1869 Nien Rebellion
  • 1867 Battle of Inlon River
• 1856–1860 Second Anglo-Chinese War
  • 1856 Pearl River Forts
  • 1857 Fatshan Creek
  • 1858 First Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1859 Second Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1860 Third Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1860 Battle of Palikao
• August 1884 – April 1885 Franco-Chinese War
  • 1883 Sơn Tây Campaign
  • 1883 Battle of Paper Bridge
  • 1884 Bắc Ninh Campaign
  • 1884 Bắc Lệ ambush
  • 1884 Battle of Fuzhou
  • 1884 Kep Campaign
  • 1884 Keelung Campaign
  • 1885 Lạng Sơn Campaign
  • 1885 Battle of Shipu
  • 1885 Battle of Zhenhai
  • 1885 Siege of Tuyên Quang
  • 1885 Battle of Hòa Mộc
  • 1885 Battle of Bang Bo
  • 1885 Battle of Phu Lam Tao
  • 1885 Keelung Campaign
  • 1885 Pescadores Campaign

The Qing Empire in 1890

• 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War
  • 1895 Battle of Weihaiwei
• 1895–1896 Dungan Revolt
• 1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion
  • 1900 Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1900 Battle of Tientsin
  • 1900 Battle of Shanhaiguan
  • 1900 Battle of Beicang
  • 1900 Battle of Yangcun
  • 1900 Battle of Yingkou
  • 1900 Battles on Amur River
  • 1900 Battle of Peking
  • 1900 Seymour Expedition
  • 1900 Siege of the International Legations
• February 8, 1904 – 5 September 5, 1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution
  • 1911 Wuchang Uprising

Republic of China

• October 10, 1911 – February 12, 1912 Xinhai Revolution
• 1916–1928 Warlord Era
  • 1926–1928 Northern Expedition
• 1917 – 1949 Golok conflicts (1917–1949)
• 1927–1950 Chinese Civil War
• September 18, 1931 – February 27, 1932 Japanese invasion of Manchuria
  • September 18, 1931 – February 18, 1932 Mukden Incident
• April 1933 – December 1936 Actions in Inner Mongolia
  • January 1 – May 31, 1933 Defense of the Great Wall
• July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
• September 1, 1939 – 2 September 2, 1945 World War II
  • 1937–1945 Pacific War
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
• 7 November 1944 – 26 June 1946 Ili Rebellion
  • 1946 – 1948 Battle of Baitag Bogd

People's Republic of China

Area controlled by the People's Republic of China shown in dark green; claimed but uncontrolled regions shown in light green.

• 1927 – 1950 Chinese Civil War
  • 1945－ 1949 Second Kuomintang-Communist Civil War
    • 1945 – 1949 Operation Beleaguer
    • November 1945 – April 1947 Campaign to suppress bandits in northeast China
    • 12 September – 2 November 1948 Liaoshen campaign
    • 6 November 1948 – 10 January 1949 Huaihai campaign
    • 29 November 1948 – 31 January 1949 Pingjin campaign
    • 20 April – 2 June 1949 Yangtze River Crossing campaign
    • May 12 – June 2, 1949 Shanghai Campaign
    • October 25 – 27, 1949 Battle of Guningtou
    • 16 April – 1 May 1950 Battle of Hainan Island
    • May 25 – August 7, 1950 Wanshan Archipelago Campaign
• 1949 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 12 October – 22 December 1949 Incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China
  • 4 – 10 April 1990 Barin uprising
  • 7 January 2007 2007 Xinjiang raid
  • 18 April 2014 2014 China–Vietnam border shootout
• 1950 – 1951 Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
  • 6 – 24 October 1950 Battle of Chamdo
• 1950 – 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 19 – 20 January 1974 Battle of the Paracel Islands
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1959 Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959)
• 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising
• 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1969 Sino–Soviet border conflict
  • 2 – 17 March 1969 Zhenbao (Damansky) Island incident
  • 13 August 1969 Tielieketi incident
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979 – 1991 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)
  • 14 March 1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 15 April – 4 June 1989 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  • 1989 People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 2001 Hainan Island incident
• 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Japan

• c. 7th century BCE Emperor Jinmu's Expedition
• c. 1st century BCE Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion
• c. 1st century – early 2nd century Yamato Takeru Expedition
• 146–189 or 178–184 Civil War of Wa
• c. 3rd century Empress Jingu Expedition
• 391-404 Goguryeo-Yamato Guerra
• 463 Kibi Clan Rebellion
• 479 Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion
• 527-528 Iwai Rebellion
• 534 Musashi no Kuni no Miyatsuko Rebellion
• 587 Battle of Shigisan
• 645 Isshi Incident
• 658-660 Abe's expedition to Hirafu
• August 27–28, 663 Battle of Baekgang
• 672 Jinshin Guerra
• 720-721 Hayato Rebellion
• 740 Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion
• 764 Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion
• 774-811 Thirty-Eight Year Guerra
• 780-781? Hoki Rebellion
• 788 Battle of Subuse
• 801 Conquest by Sakanoue in Tamuramaro
• 811 Last Conquest by Funya on Watamaro
• 878 Gangyo Rebellion
• 893 Kanbyo Silla pirate invasion
• 936-941 Johei-Tengyo Rebellion
• 947 Fujiwara no Koresuke Rebellion
• 1019 Toi invasion
• 1028–1030 Taira no the Tadatsune Rebellion
• 1051–1062 Zenkunen Guerra
• 1051 Battle of Onikiribe
• 1057 Battle of Kinomi
• 1062 Siege of Komatsu
• 1062 Siege of Koromogawa
• 1062 Siege of Kuriyagawa
• 1070 Enkyu Battle of Ezo
• 1083–1087 Gosannen Guerra
• 1087 Siege of Kanezawa
• 1107–1108 Minamoto no Yoshichika Rebellion
• 1156 Hogen Rebellion
• 1159 Heiji Rebellion
• 1180–1185 Genpei War
  • 1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama
  • 1180 Battle of Fujigawa
  • 1181 Battle of Sunomata-gawa
  • 1183 Battle of Kurikara
  • 1184 Siege of Hōjūjidono
  • 1184 Battle of Uji
  • 1184 Battle of Awazu
  • 1184 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
  • 1184 Battle of Kojima
  • 1185 Battle of Yashima
  • 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura
• 1189 Ōshū War
• 1213 Wada Rebellion
• 1247 Miura Rebellion
• 1221 Jōkyū War
• 1221 Battle of Uji
• 1274–1281 Mongol invasions of Japan
  • 1274 Battle of Bun'ei
  • 1281 Battle of Kōan
• 1331–1333 Genkō War
  • 1331 Siege of Kasagi
  • 1331 Siege of Akasaka
  • 1333 Siege of Chihaya
  • 1333 Battle of Bubaigawara
  • 1333 Siege of Kamakura
  • 1335 Nakasendai Rebellion
  • 1336 Battle of Tatarahama
  • 1336 Battle of Minatogawa
  • 1337 Siege of Kanegasaki
  • 1338 Battle of Ishiku
  • 1348 Battle of Shijō Nawate
  • 1350–1352 Incident Kannō
  • 1351 Battle of Uchidehama
  • 1359 Battle of Chikugogawa
  • 1399 Ōei Rebellion
  • 1416–1417 Rebellion of Uesugi Zenshū
  • 1438–1439 Eikyō Rebellion
  • 1440 Siege of Yūki
  • 1441 Incident Kakitsu
  • 1456–1457 Koshamain's Revolt
• 1455–1482 Kyōtoku Incident
  • 1455 Battle of Bubaigawara
  • 1459–1477 Battle of Irako
  • 1476–1480 Nagao Kageharu Rebellion
  • 1477 Battle of Egota-Numabukurohara
• 1467 Ōnin War
  • 1487–1505 Chōkyō Incident
  • 1504 Battle of Tachigawara
  • 1506 Battle of Kuzuryūgawa
  • 1509 Battle of Nyoigatake
  • 1510 Battle of Nagamorihara
  • 1510 Siege of Gongenyama
  • 1516 Siege of Arai
  • 1517 Battle of Arita-Nakaide
  • 1521 Battle of Iidagawara
  • 1523 Ningbo Turmoil
  • 1527 Battle of Katsuragawa
  • 1539 Battle of Tatenawate
  • 1531 Battle of Shiokawa no gawara
  • 1531 Kyoroku War
  • 1531 Battle of Daimotsu
  • 1532–1535 Tenbun War
  • 1532 Siege of Iimoriyama
  • 1532 Siege of Sakai
  • 1532 Siege of Yamashina Honganji
  • 1535 Battle of Idano
  • 1536 Battle of Un no Kuchi
  • 1536 Battle of Sanbuichigahara
  • 1536 Hanakura Incident
  • 1536 Battle of Sendanno
  • 1536 Battle of Un no kuchi
  • 1537 Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama
  • 1538 Battle of Kōnodai
  • 1540–1541 Siege of Koriyama
  • 1542 Battle of Azukizaka
  • 1542–1543 Siege of Toda Castle
  • 1542–1548 Utsuro Rebellion
  • 1546 Battle of Kawagoe
  • 1546 Battle of Odaihara
  • 1548 Battle of Azukizaka
  • 1548 Battle of Uedahara
  • 1550 Siege of Toishi
  • 1552 Battle of Kaizu
  • 1553, 1555, 1557, 1561, 1564 Battles of Kawankajima
  • 1554 Battle of Enshu-Omori
  • 1555 Battle of Ino
  • 1555 Battle of Miyajima
  • 1556 Battle of Nagaragawa
  • 1558 Battle of Ukino
  • 1558 Siege of Terabe
  • 1564 Battle of Kōnodai
  • 1566 Siege of Minowa
  • 1568 Siege of Hachigata
  • 1569 Battle of Mimasetoge
  • 1571 Battle of Takehiro
  • 1572 Siege of Iwamura Castle
  • 1578 Battle of Mimigawa
  • 1584 Battle of Okitanawate
  • 1589 Battle of Suriagehara
• 1467–1573 Sengoku period
• 1568–1603 Azuchi–Momoyama period
  • 1560 Battle of Okehazama
  • 1575 Battle of Nagashino
  • 1582 Battle of Yamazaki
  • 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
• 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea
  • 1592–1593 Battle of Bunroku
  • 1592 Battle of Hansan Island
  • 1592 Siege of Busanjin
  • 1592 Battle of Dadaejin
  • 1592 Siege of Dongnae
  • 1592 Battle of Sangju
  • 1592 Battle of Chungju
  • 1592 Battle of the Imjin River
  • 1592 Gangwon campaign
  • 1593 Battle of Haenju
  • 1597–1598 Battle of Keicho
  • 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang
  • 1597–1598 Siege of Ulsan
  • 1598 Battle of Sacheon
  • 1598 Battle of Noryang
• 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
  • Siege of Fushimi
  • Battle of Gifu Castle
  • Siege of Ueda
• 1609 Ryukyu's invasion
• 1614–1615 Siege of Osaka
• 1637–1638 Shimabara Rebellion
• 1868–1869 Boshin War
• 1874 Saga Rebellion
• 1876 Shinpūren Rebellion
• 1876 Akizuki Rebellion
• 1876 Hagi Rebellion
• 1877 Satsuma Rebellion
• 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War
  • 1894 Battle of Pungdo
  • 1894 Battle of Seonghwan
  • 1894 Battle of Pyongyang
  • 1894 Battle of Yalu River
  • 1894 Battle of Jiuliancheng
  • 1894 Battle of Lushunkou
  • 1895 Battle of Weihaiwei
  • 1895 Battle of Yingkou
  • 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan
  • 1895 Campaign Fishermen
  • 1895 Battle of Keelung
  • 1895 Hsinchu Campaign
  • 1895 Battle of Baguashan
  • 1895 Battle of Chiayi
  • 1895 Battle of Chiatung
  • 1895 Capitulation of Tainan
  • 1895 Battle of Changhsing
  • 1904–1905 Battle of Port Arthur
  • 1904 Battle of Yalu River
  • 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea
  • 1904 Battle of Nanshan
  • 1904 Battle of Shantung
  • 1904 Battle of Dairen
  • 1904 Battle of Liaoyang
  • 1905 Battle of Tsushima
  • 1905 Battle of Mukden
  • 1907 Namdaemun Battle
  • 1914 Siege of Tsingtao
  • 1920 Battle of Qingshanli
  • 1920 Battle of Fengwudong
  • 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  • 1937 Battle of Beiping – Tianjin
  • 1937 Battle of Shanghai
  • 1937 Battle of Pingxingguan
  • 1937 Battle of Nanjing
  • 1937 Battle of Taiyuan
  • 1937 Battle of Xuzhou
  • 1938 Battle of Taierzhuang
  • 1938 Battle of Wuhan
  • 1938 Battle of Canton
  • 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan Incident)
  • 1939 Battle of Changsha
  • 1940 Offensive of one hundred regiments
• 1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion
• 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914 Siege of Tsingtao
• 1937–1945 World War II
  • 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
  • 1939–1945 Pacific War
  • 1938–1945 Soviet-Japanese Border Wars
  • 1942 Battle of Midway
• June 1946 Shibuya incident
• 22 June 1966 – present Sanrizuka Struggle
• February 19 – 28, 1972 Asama-Sansō incident
• 1985 - 1989 Yama–Ichi War
• 2001 Battle of Amami-Ōshima

Korea

• 108 BCE Wiman Joseon–Han War
• 57 BCE–668 CE Conflicts of Three Kingdoms
  • 391–413 King Gwanggaeto conquests
• 598–614 Goguryeo–Sui War
  • 612 Battle of Salsu
• 645–668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 Siege of Yodong
  • 645 Siege of Ansi
  • 668 Siege of Pyongyang
• 892–936 Conflicts of Later Three Kingdoms
• 993–1019 Goryeo–Khitan War
• 1104–1107 Jurchen campaigns
• 1231–1259 Mongol invasions of Korea
• December 1359 – November 1360 Red Turban invasions of Goryeo
• 1396 Second Tsushima Expedition
• 1419 Third Tsushima Expedition
• 1443 Joseon Northern Expedition
• 1510 Sampo Invasion
• 1592–1598 Japanese-Korean War (1592–98)
  • 1592 Siege of Busan
  • 1592 Siege of Dongnae
  • 1592 Battle of Sangju
  • 1592 Battle of Chungju
  • 1592 Battle of the Imjin River
  • 1592 Joseon naval campaigns
  • 1592 Siege of Jinju
  • 1593 Siege of Haengju
  • 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang
  • 1598 Battle of Noryang Point
• 1618–1683 Ming-Manchu War
• 1627 First Manchurian-Korean War
• 1636 Second Manchurian-Korean War
• 1866 French campaign against Korea
• 1871 United States expedition to Korea
• 1875 Ganghwa Island incident
• 1882 Imo Incident
• 1884 Gapsin Coup
• 1894–1895 Donghak Peasant Revolution
• 1900 Boxer Rebellion
• 1902 Korean Invasion of Manchuria
• 1905 Eulsa Righteous War
• 1907 Jeungmi Righteous War
• 1909 Great Korean Militia Roundup Campaign
• 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea
• 1910–1945 Korean Liberation Army And Japanese war
• 1920 Battle of Fengwudong
• 1920 Battle of Chongsanli
• 1921 Massacre of Svobodny
• 1946 Autumn Uprising of 1946
• 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion
• 1948 – 1949 Jeju uprising
• 1950 – 1953 Korean War
• 1953 – present Korean border incidents
  • 1966 – 1969 Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69)
    • January 17 – 29, 1968 Blue House raid
    • 20–23 January 1968 USS Pueblo incident
    • October 30 – December 26, 1968 Uljin–Samcheok Landings
    • 15 April 1969 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
  • 1993 – 1994 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis
  • 17 September – 5 November 1996 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident
  • 22 June 1998 1998 Sokcho submarine incident
  • 17 – 18 December 1998 1998 Yeosu submersible incident
  • 9 – 15 June 1999 Battle of Yeongpyeong (1999)
  • 29 June 2002 Battle of Yeongpyeong (2002)
  • 10 November 2009 Daecheong incident
  • 26 March 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking
  • 23 November 2010 2010 Yeonpyeong bombardment
• 1971 Unit 684 mutiny
• 18 – 27 May 1980 Gwangju Uprising

Mongolia

Xiongnu

• 215 BCE Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 133 BCE – 89 CE Han–Xiongnu War
• 60–53 BCE Xiongnu Civil War

Rouran Khaganate

• 330–555 Origin and expansion

Turkic Khaganate

• 581–593 Göktürk civil war

Turkic khaganates c. 600 CE

• 626–649 Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue
• 640–657 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks

Uyghur Khaganate

• 744–848 The rise of Uyghurs in Mongolia

Mongol Empire

• 1207 Mongol conquest of Siberia

Golden Horde

• 1380–1390 Tokhtamysh–Timur war
• 1206–1337 Mongol invasions
• Tatar invasions
• 1938–1945 World War II
  • 1938–39 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
  • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria

Taiwan

• 1635–1636 Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
• 1652 Guo Huaiyi Rebellion
• 1661 Siege of Fort Zeelandia
• 1683 Battle of Penghu
• 1787–1788 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1895 Japanese conquest of Taiwan
• February 27 – May 16, 1947 February 28 Incident
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

South Asia

Bangladesh

• 1303 Conquest of Sylhet
• 1512–1516 Bengal Sultanate–Kingdom of Mrauk U War
• 1576 Battle of Rajmahal
• 1611 Conquest of Bakla
• 1665 Conquest of Chittagong
• 1757 Battle of Plassey

East Pakistan

• 1949 – 1950 Nachole Uprising
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 25 March 1971 – 16 December 1971 1971 Bangladesh genocide
  • 26 March 1971 – 20 May 1971 Operation Searchlight
  • 25 April — 15 August 1971 Operation Jackpot
  • 25 April – 1 May 1971 Operation Barisal
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

People's Republic of Bangladesh

• 1948 – present Rohingya conflict
  • 1991 – 1992 Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation
• 1972 – 1975 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency
• 15 August 1975 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 3 November 1975 3 November 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 7 November 1975 7 November 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1976 1976 Bogra mutiny
• 1977 1977 Bogra mutiny
• 1977 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny
• 1977 – present Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
• 17 June 1980 1980 Bangladeshi coup attempt
• 24 March 1982 1982 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1993 – present Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh
• 1994 1994 Bangladesh Ansar mutiny
• May 1996 1996 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 1999 – present Terrorism in Bangladesh
  • 1 – 2 July 2016 July 2016 Dhaka attack
• 2000 2000 Naf War
• 2001 – ongoing Bangladesh–India border skirmishes
  • 2001 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2005 2005 Bangladesh-India border clash
  • 2019 2019 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
• 2006 – 2008 2006–2008 Bangladesh political crisis
• 2008 2008 Bangladesh–Myanmar naval standoff
• 2009 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt
• December 2011 2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 2015 2015 Bangladesh–Arakan Army border clash
• 2018 – 2019 Bangladesh drug war

Bhutan

• 1766–1788 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1954 – present Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 2003 2003 South Bhutan clashes
  • 2003 – 2004 Operation All Clear

India

Bharathvarsha

• c. 15000 BCE Ramayana War
• c. 5300 BCE – Kurukshetra War

Bharat

• c. 1700 BCE – c. 1000 BCE Battle of the Ten Kings
• 543–504 BCE Vijaya's conquest of Sri Lanka

Kingdom of Magadha

• 500–321 BCE Kingdom of Magadha conflicts
  • 323–298 BCE Chandragupta Maurya's conquests
  • 265–264 BCE Kalinga War
• 424–321 BCE Nanda Empire conflicts
  • 424–321 BCE Nanda Dynasty conflicts
  • 321–320 BCE Conquest of the Nanda Empire

Maurya Empire

• 265-264 BCE Kalinga war

Indo-Scythian Kingdom

• 320–550 Gupta Empire conflicts

Gupta Empire

• 320–550 Gupta Empire conflicts

Empire of Harsha

• 606–647 Empire of Harsha Conflicts

Delhi Sultanate

• 1206–1451 Delhi Sultanate conflicts
• 1206–1337 Mongol conquests
  • 1221–1308 Mongol invasions of India
    • Spring 1221 Battle of Indus
    • December 20, 1305 Battle of Amroha

Vijaynagara Empire

1336–1646 Vijayanagara Empire conflicts

• 1520 Battle of Raichur
• 1565 Battle of Talikota

Mughal Empire

• 1526–1757 Mughal Empire conflicts
  • 1526 First Battle of Panipat
  • 1527 Battle of Khanwa
  • 1556 Second Battle of Panipat
  • 1615–82 Ahom–Mughal conflicts
  • 1649–53 Mughal–Safavid war
  • 1739 Battle of Karnal

Maratha Empire

• 1681–1707 Mughal–Maratha wars
• 1737–1758 Maratha conquests of North and Northwest India
• 1761 Third Battle of Panipat
• 1777–1818 Anglo-Maratha wars
• 1780–1787 Maratha–Mysore wars

Sikh Empire

• 1799–1849 Sikh Empire conflicts
  • 1708 Battle of Chamkaur
  • 1700 First Battle of Anandpur
  • 1687 Battle of Nadaun
  • 1897 Battle of Saragarhi
  • 1701–1704 Second Battle of Anandpur
  • September 18, 1688 Battle of Bhangani
  • 1837 Battle of Jamrud
• 1841–1842 Sino-Sikh war
• 1855–1856 Nepalese–Tibetan war

Company rule in India

• 1766–1799 Anglo-Mysore Wars
  • 1766–1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1780–1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1789–1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1798–1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
• 1777–1818 Anglo-Maratha Wars
  • 1777–1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1803–1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1817–1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
• 1799–1802 Polygar Wars
• 1814–1816 Gurkha War
• 1816–1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• 1841–1842 Sino-Sikh War
• 1845–1849 Anglo-Sikh Wars
  • 1845–1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
  • 1848–1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
• 1845–1849 British Empire conflicts
  • 1845 Battle of Mudki
  • 1845 Battle of Ferozeshah
  • 1846 Battle of Aliwal
  • February 10, 1846 Battle of Sobraon
  • 1848 Battle of Ramnagar
  • 1849 Battle of Chillianwala
  • 1849 Battle of Gujrat
  • 1849 Siege of Multan
• 1857 Indian Rebellion/Indian Mutiny
  • 1857 Siege of Delhi
  • 1857 Siege of Cawnpore
  • 1857 Siege of Lucknow
  • 1857 Battle of Jhelum
  • 1857 Siege of Arrah
  • 1858 Jhansi

British Raj

• 1823–1886 Anglo-Burmese wars
  • 1823–1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1852–1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1885–1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1839–1860 Opium Wars
  • 1839–1848 First Opium War
  • 1856–1860 Second Opium War
• 1839–1919 Anglo-Afghan Wars
  • 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
  • 1878–1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
  • 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1888 Sikkim Expedition
• 1897–1898 Tirah Campaign
• Indian independence movement
• 1905 Partition of Bengal
• 1905–1947 Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• 1920–1935 Non-cooperation movement
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939–1945 India in World War II
  • 1941–1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
  • 1942–1945 Battles and operations of the Indian National Army
• 1942–1945 Battles and operations of the Indian National Army
• 1942–1945 Quit India Movement
• 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny
• 1946 Punnapra-Vayalar uprising
• 1946 – 1947 Tebhaga movement

Dominion of India

• 1946 – 1951 Telangana Rebellion
• 1947 Partition of India
• 1947 – 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• 1948 Annexation of Junagadh
• 1948 Annexation of Hyderabad

Republic of India

• 1954 – ongoing Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 1954 – present Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh
  • 1958 – present Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • 1966 Mizo National Front uprising
  • 1980 – present Insurgency in Manipur
  • 1990 – 2024 Insurgency in Tripura
  • 1990 – present Assam separatist movements
  • 1992 – present Insurgency in Meghalaya
• 13 June 1954 Coup d'état of Yanaon
• 1954 Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• 1961 Annexation of Goa
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1967 – ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 13 April 1984 Operation Meghdoot
• 1984 – 1995 Insurgency in Punjab
  • 1 – 10 June 1984 Operation Blue Star
  • June – September 1984 Operation Woodrose
• 1989 – ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 28 – 29 September 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 1991 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
• 1999 Kargil War
• 1999 Atlantique incident
• 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2008 2008 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2011 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish
• 2013 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2014 – 2015 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2016 – 2018 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 26 February 2019 2019 Balakot airstrike
  • 27 February 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Maldives

• 3 November 1988 1988 Maldives coup attempt

Nepal

• 1790–1792 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1814–1816 Anglo-Nepalese War
• 1855–1856 Nepalese–Tibetan War
• 1950 – 1951 1951 Nepalese revolution
• 1996 – 2006 Nepal Civil War

Pakistan

• 535 BCE Persian Invasion
• 326 BCE Alexander the Great's Conquests
• 305–303 BCE Seleucid-Maurya War
• 711 Umayyad Invasion
• 1001 Ghaznavid Invasion
• 1306 Mongol Invasion
• 1526 Mughal Conquests
• 1747 Durrani Invasion
• 1838–1845 Anglo Sikh Wars
• 1839–1919 Anglo-Afghan Wars
• 1947 Partition of India
• 1947 1947 Poonch rebellion
• 1947 – 1949 Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948
• 1948 – ongoing Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 1948 – 1950 First Balochistan conflict
  • 1958 – 1960 Second Balochistan conflict
  • 1963 – 1969 Third Balochistan conflict
  • 1973 – 1977 1970s operation in Balochistan
• 1948 – 1954 Waziristan rebellion (1948–1954)
  • June 1949 1949 Mughalgai raid
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 1959 – 1960 Dir campaign
  • 1960 – 1961 Bajaur Campaign
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 1950 – 1955 PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation
• 1951 Rawalpindi conspiracy
• 1953 Lahore riots of 1953
• 1955 – 1956 1955 Poonch uprising
• 1958 1958 Pakistani military coup
• 1959 1959 Canberra shootdown
• 1965 Operation Desert Hawk
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1970 – present Sectarian violence in Pakistan
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
    • 17 – 20 December 1971 1971 Pakistan Military Officer's Revolt
• 1972 – 1992 First MQM insurrection
• 1973 1973 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1976 1976 Dir rebellion
• 1977 1977 Pakistani military coup
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1981 – 1987 KHAD-KGB campaign in Pakistan
  • 26 – 27 April 1985 Badaber uprising
  • May 1986 – November 1988 Pakistan–Soviet air confrontations
  • April 6, 1989 – November 28, 1990 Afghan SCUD attacks in Pakistan
• 1980 1980 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1984 1984 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 13 April 1984 Operation Meghdoot
• 1989 – ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 28 – 29 September 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
• 1992 – 1994 Operation Clean-up
• 1994 – present Second MQM insurrection
  • 2012 – present Lyari Operation
• 1995 1995 Pakistani coup attempt
• 1999 Kargil War
• 1999 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
• 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2003 – present Insurgency in Sindh
• 2004 – ongoing Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2004 – 2018 Drone strikes in Pakistan
  • 2008 – 2012 Pakistan–United States skirmishes
• 2008 2008 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2011 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish
• 2013 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2014 – 2015 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2016 – 2018 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 26 February 2019 2019 Balakot airstrike
  • 27 February 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2024 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes

Sri Lanka

• 161 or 162 BCE Battle of Vijithapura
• 862 Anuradhapura invasion of Pandyan
• 1165–1181 Polonnaruwa-Pagan war
• 1169–1177 Pandyan civil war
• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1410 or 1411 Ming-Kotte War
• 1527–1658 Sinhalese-Portuguese war
  • 1557–1558 Siege of Kotte
  • 1559 Battle of Mulleriyawa
  • 1560–1621 Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom
  • 1594 Campaign of Danture
  • 1638 Battle of Gannoruwa
• 1796 East India Company conquest
• 1803–1815 Kandyan Wars
• 1818 Uva-Wellassa Rebellion
• 1848 Matale Rebellion
• 1914–1948 Sri Lankan independence movement
• 27 January 1962 1962 Ceylonese coup attempt
• 1971 1971 JVP Insurrection
• 1983 – 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War
  • 1976 – 1987 Eelam War I
  • 1987 – 1989 1987–1989 JVP insurrection
  • 1987 – 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War
  • 1990 – 1995 Eelam War II
  • 1995 – 2002 Eelam War III
  • 2006 – 2009 Eelam War IV
• 9 January 2015 2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup attempt
• 2019 Sainthamaruthu shootout

Southeast Asia

Brunei

• 1962 Brunei revolt

Cambodia

• c. 100 Preah Thaong and Neang Neak conflict
• Apex and decline of Funan

900 AD
Red: Khmer Empire
Light green: Haripunjaya
Yellow: Champa

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola invasions
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1968 – 1975 Cambodian Civil War
    • 18 March 1969 – 26 May 1970 Operation Menu
    • April 29 – July 22, 1970 Cambodian campaign
    • 18 March 1970 1970 Cambodian coup d'état
    • 19 May 1970 – 15 August 1973 Operation Freedom Deal
    • 17 April 1975 Fall of Phnom Penh
  • 12 – 15 May 1975 Mayaguez incident
• 1964 – 1992 FULRO insurgency
• 1978 – 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
  • 1979 – 1998 Cambodian conflict (1979–1998)
  • 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1997 1997 Cambodian coup d'état
• 24 November 2000 2000 Cambodian coup d'état attempt
• 2003 2003 Phnom Penh riots
• 2008 – 2011 Cambodian–Thai border dispute

East Timor

• 1975 East Timorese civil war
• 1975 – 1976 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
• 1975 – 1999 Indonesian occupation of East Timor
• 1999 – 2002 1999 East Timorese crisis
• 2006 2006 East Timorese crisis
• 2006 – 2013 Operation Astute

Indonesia

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola invasions
• 1293 Mongol invasion of Java
• 1704–1708 First Javanese War of Succession
• 1719–1722 Second Javanese War of Succession
• 1749–1755 Third Javanese War of Succession
• 1803–1837 Padri War
• 1945 – 1949 Indonesian National Revolution
  • 1948 Madiun affair
• 1949 – 1962 Darul Islam rebellion
• 1950 APRA coup d'état
• 1950 Makassar Uprising
• 1950 Invasion of Ambon
• 1958 – 1961 Permesta rebellion
• 1958 – 1961 PRRI rebellion
  • 17 April – 24 May 1958 Operation 17 Agustus
• 1961 – 1962 Operation Trikora
• 1962 – present Papua conflict
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
• 1965 30 September Movement
• 1975 – 1976 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
• 1975 – 1999 Indonesian occupation of East Timor
• 1976 – 2005 Insurgency in Aceh
• 1981 – present Terrorism in Indonesia
• 12 September 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre
• December 25, 1998 – December 20, 2001 Poso riots
• 14 January 1999 – 13 February 2002 Maluku sectarian conflict
• 2001 Sampit conflict
• 2003 2003 Bawean incident
• 2012 MT Zafirah hijacking
• 2016 – 2022 Operation Madago Raya
• 25 November 2023 2023 Bitung clashes

Laos

• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1959 – 1975 Laotian Civil War
  • 1958 – 1959 North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
  • December 25, 1959 — December 16, 1960 1960 Laotian coups
  • 13 – 16 December 1960 Battle of Vientiane
  • 18 — 23 April 1964 1964 Laotian coups
  • January 27 — February 4, 1965 1965 Laotian coups
  • October 21 – 22, 1966 1966 Laotian coup d'état
  • 29 July – 1 August 1967 1967 Opium War
  • 23 November 1973 1973 Laotian coup attempt

• 1975 – present Insurgency in Laos
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War

Malaysia

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1786 East India Company conquest
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1941–1942 Malayan Campaign
• 1946 – 1950 Anti-cession movement of Sarawak
• 1948 – 1960 Malayan Emergency
• 1962 – 1990 Communist insurgency in Sarawak
• 1962 – present Cross border attacks in Sabah
  • 2013 2013 Lahad Datu standoff
• 1962 Raid on Limbang
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
• 1968 – 1989 Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)
• 13 May 1969 13 May incident
• 1985 Memali incident
• 1987 Operation Lalang
• 2000 Sauk Siege
• 2015 MT Orkim Harmony hijacking

Myanmar (Burma)

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1548–1549 Burmese–Siamese War
• 1765–1769 Sino-Burmese War
• 1816–1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• Anglo-Burmese wars
  • 1823–1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1852–1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1885–1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1941–1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
  • 1942–1945 Japanese occupation of Burma
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
• 1948 – ongoing Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • 1942 – present Rohingya conflict
    • 1978 Operation Dragon King
    • 1991 – 1992 Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation
    • 2016 – present Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present)
      • 2016 – present Rohingya genocide
  • 1948 – 1989 Communist insurgency in Burma
  • 1949 – present Karen conflict
  • 1958 – present Shan conflict
  • 1961 – present Zomi conflict
  • 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
  • 1961 – present Kachin conflict
  • 2 March 1962 1962 Burmese coup d'état
  • 1988 – present Karen–Mon conflict
  • 12 March – 21 September 1988 8888 Uprising
  • 2009 2009 Kokang incident
  • 2015 2015 Kokang offensive
  • 1 February 2021 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • 2021 – ongoing Myanmar Civil War
    • April 2021 – present Chin theater
    • 27 October 2023 – present Operation 1027

Philippines

• 900–1565 Precolonial period
  • 1521 Battle of Mactan
• 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution
• 1898 Spanish–American War
  • 1898 Battle of Manila Bay
• 1898–1913 Philippine–American War
• World War II
  • 1942 Battle of Bataan
  • 1944 Battle of Surigao Strait
  • 1944 Battle off Samar
  • 1944 Battle of Mindoro
  • 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea
  • 1944 Battle of Leyte
  • 1945 Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
  • 1945 Battle of Luzon
  • 1945 Battle of Manila
  • 1945 Battle of Corregidor
  • 1945 Battle of Mindanao
  • 1945 Battle of Visayas
• 1942 – 1954 Hukbalahap rebellion
• 1948 – 1955 Kamlon rebellion
• 1968 – 2019 Moro conflict
  • March 21, 2000 – July 9, 2000 2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
    • February 15 – 17, 2000 Operation Valiancy
    • March 15 – 21, 2000 Operation Audacity
    • July 9, 2000 Battle of Camp Abubakar
  • June 2, 2001 Siege of Lamitan
  • November 19 – 22, 2001 2001 Misuari rebellion
  • February 11, 2003 Battle of the Buliok Complex
  • July 10 – 11, 2007 2007 Basilan beheading incident
  • August 9 – Late August 2008 Battle of North Cotobato
• 1969 – ongoing New People's Army rebellion
  • June 25, 1989 Rano massacre
  • August 21, 2022 2022 Samar boat explosion
• 2002 – 2017 Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  • September 9 – 28, 2013 Zamboanga City crisis
  • 2014 – present ISIL insurgency in the Philippines
    • January 27 – February 2, 2014 Operation Darkhorse
    • April 11 – 30, 2014 Battle of Basilan (2014)
    • January 25, 2015 Mamasapano clash
    • February – November 2016 2016 Butig clashes
    • April 9 – 14, 2016 Battle of Tipo-Tipo
    • June – July, 2016 June–July 2016 Sulu and Basilan clashes
    • April 11 – May 15, 2017 2017 Bohol clashes
    • May 23 – October 23, 2017 Battle of Marawi
• February 22 – 25, 1986 People Power Revolution
  • February 22, 1986 February 1986 Reform the Armed Forces Movement coup
• 1986 Siege of the Manila Hotel
• November 11 – 22, 1986 God Save the Queen Plot
• January 27 – 29, 1987 January 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• August 27 – 29, 1987 August 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• 3 – 5 January 1989 Camp Cawa-Cawa siege
• December 1 – 9, 1989 1989 Philippine coup attempt
• March 4, 1990 Hotel Delfino siege
• 1990 1990 Mindanao revolt
• 2003 Oakwood mutiny
• December 5, 2008 2008 Parañaque shootout
• 2007 Manila Peninsula siege
• 2012 – present Scarborough Shoal standoff
• July 1, 2016 – present Philippine drug war
  • February 21, 2021 2021 PNP–PDEA shootout

Thailand

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1548–1855 Burmese–Siamese wars
  • 1548 Burmese–Siamese War Toungoo–Ayutthaya
  • 1759–1760 Burmese–Siamese War Konbaung–Ayutthaya
  • 1775–1776 Burmese–Siamese War Konbaung–Bangkok
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1940–1941 French-Thai War
  • 1940–1941 Japanese invasion of Thailand
• 1947 1947 Thai coup d'état
• 1948 1948 Thai coup d'état
• 1948 Army General Staff plot
• 1949 Palace Rebellion
• 1951 Manhattan Rebellion
• 1951 Silent Coup
• 1965 – 1983 Communist insurgency in Thailand
• 1977 March 1977 Thai coup attempt
• 1977 October 1977 Thai coup d'état
• 1981 1981 Thai military rebellion
• 1985 1985 Thai coup attempt
• 1978 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War
• 1991 1991 Thai coup d'état
• 2004 – ongoing South Thailand insurgency
• 2006 2006 Thai coup d'état
• 2008 - 2011 Cambodian–Thai border dispute
• 2014 2014 Thai coup d'état

Vietnam

• 258–257 BCE Thuc–Lac Viet War
• 217–207 BCE Thuc–Qin War
• 111 BCE Trieu–Han War
• 39, 40–43 CE Trưng Sisters' Uprising, 137–138, 156–160, 178–181, 248, 299–319, 319–323, 468–485, 542–544, 548–570, 687, 722, 791–798, 803, 819–820, 905 Uprising wars against Chinese domination
• 938–939 Ngô Quyền war of independence
• 966–968 War between the 12 warlords
• 981 War against the Song dynasty
• 1075–1077 War against the Song dynasty
• 1257–58, 1284–85, 1287–88 Mongol invasions of Vietnam
• 982, 1312, 1372, 1377, 1388, 1446–1471, 1695, 1796 Viet-Champa wars
• 1407–1427 War against the Ming dynasty
• 1553–1592 Lê–Mạc civil war
• 1627–1673 Trịnh–Nguyễn War
• 1714–1755 Nguyen–Khmer War
• 1784–1785 Tây Sơn-Siam War
• 1788–1789 Qing—Tây Sơn War
• 1858–1885 French–Nguyễn war
• 1914–1918 First World War
  • Vietnam during the First World War
• 1940–1945 Second World War
  • Vietnam during the Second World War
• 1945 – 1946 War in Vietnam (1945–1946)
• 1946 Haiphong incident
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
  • 13 March – 7 May 1954 Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
• 1955 Battle of Saigon (1955)
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1956 Quỳnh Lưu uprising
  • 1959 – 1963 War in Vietnam (1959–1963)
    • 1958 – 1959 North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
    • 8 July 1959 1959 Biên Hòa compound raid
    • 2 January 1963 Battle of Ap Bac
  • 11 November 1960 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  • 1 November 1963 – 28 January 1969 Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969
    • December 28, 1964 – January 1, 1965 Battle of Binh Gia
    • November 14 – 18, 1965 Battle of Ia Drang
    • January 24 – March 6, 1966 Operation Masher
    • 13 September 1966 – 12 February 1967 Operation Thayer, Irving and Thayer II
    • 8 – 26 January 1967 Operation Cedar Falls
    • 22 February – 14 May 1967 Operation Junction City
    • 27 February 1967 – 28 February 1969 Battle of Con Thien
    • 11 September 1967 – 11 November 1968 Operation Wheeler/Wallowa
    • 3 – 23 November 1967 Battle of Dak To
    • 21 January – 9 July 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh
    • 30 January – 23 September 1968 Tet Offensive
      • 31 January – 2 March 1968 Battle of Huế
    • 8 April – 31 May 1968 Operation Toan Thang I
    • 29 April – 30 May 1968 May Offensive
    • 1 June 1968 – 16 February 1969 Operation Toan Thang II
    • 17 August – 27 September 1968 Phase III offensive
    • 1 December 1968 – 31 May 1969 Operation Speedy Express
  • 2 March 1965 – 2 November 1968 Operation Rolling Thunder
  • 8 May – 2 November 1963 Buddhist crisis
    • 1–2 November 1963 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
  • January 30, 1964 January 1964 South Vietnamese coup
  • December 19, 1964 December 1964 South Vietnamese coup
  • February 19 – 20, 1965 1965 South Vietnamese coup
  • March 26 – June 8, 1966 Buddhist Uprising
  • 28 January 1969 – 30 April 1975 Vietnamization
    • 17 February – 31 October 1969 Operation Toan Thang III
    • 13 – 20 May 1969 Battle of Hamburger Hill
    • 1 November 1969 – 1 May 1970 Operation Toan Thang IV
    • April 29 – July 22, 1970 Cambodian campaign
    • 8 February – 25 March 1971 Operation Lam Son 719
  • 30 March – 22 October 1972 Easter Offensive
  • 9 May – 23 October 1972 Operation Linebacker
  • 18 – 29 December 1972 Operation Linebacker II
  • 13 December 1974 – 30 April 1975 1975 spring offensive
    • March 3 – 18, 1975 Battle of Ban Me Thuot
    • March 5 – April 2, 1975 Hue–Da Nang Campaign
    • 9 – 21 April 1975 Battle of Xuân Lộc
    • 30 April 1975 Fall of Saigon
• 1964 – 1992 FULRO insurgency
• 1978 – 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979 – 1991 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)
• 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 2014 2014 China–Vietnam border shootout
• 2014 Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff
• April 15 – 22, 2017 2017 Hanoi hostage crisis

Asia-Pacific

• 1845–1872 New Zealand Wars
• 1855 Battle of Kaba
• 1878–1888 Nauruan Civil War
• 1886–1894 Samoan Civil War
  • 1887–1889 Samoan crisis
  • 1898–1899 Second Samoan Civil War
• 1910–1911 Sokehs rebellion
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914 Battle of Bita Paka
  • 1914 Australian occupation of German New Guinea
• 1937–1945 World War II
  • 1942–1943 Guadalcanal campaign
  • 1942–1945 New Guinea campaign
  • 1942–1945 Solomon Islands campaign
• 1980 Coconut War
• 1984 Milperra massacre
• 10 July 1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
• 1987 1987 Fijian coups d'état
• 1988 – 1998 Bougainville Civil War
• 1998 – 2003 Solomon Islands Civil War
• 2000 – 2001 2000 Fijian coup d'état
• 2000 2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état
• 2003–2017 Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands
• 2005 – 2006 2005-2006 Fijian political crisis
  • 2006 2006 Fijian coup d'état
• 2009 – present Rock Machine–Rebels conflict
• 2021 – present Highlands conflict
• 2022 Kiriwina Island clashes

Chronological list of wars

20th century

• 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1911 Wuchang Uprising
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1919 May Fourth Movement
• 1920 Zhili–Anhui War
• 1920–1921 Guangdong–Guangxi War
• 1922 First Zhili–Fengtian War
• 1924 Second Zhili–Fengtian War
• 1926–1928 Kuomintang – Warlords conflict
• 1927–1936 Chinese Civil War
• 1929 Sino-Soviet War
• 1929 Afghan civil war
• 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939–1945 Indian Ocean conflict
  • 1940 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
  • 1940–1941 Franco-Thai War
  • 1941 Japanese invasion of Thailand
  • 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Philippines
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Malaya
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Dutch Indies
  • 1942–1945 New Guinea campaign
  • 1942–1945 Burma Campaign
  • 1944–1945 Allied invasion of Philippines
  • 1944–1945 Japan campaign
  • 1945 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
  • 1945 British invasion of Malaya and Singapore
  • 1945 Borneo campaign
  • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria
• 1946–1950 Chinese Civil War
• 1946–1954 First Indochina War
• 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet
• 1950–1953 Korean War
• 1951–1954 Abadan Crisis
• 1954–1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1959 Tibetan uprising
• 1959–1975 Vietnam War
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1964 – today Manipur conflict
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1967 – today Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict
• 1970–1995 Punjab insurgency
• 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1971 Maoist rebellion in Sri Lanka
• 1978–1979 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• 1979 – today Assam conflict
• 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1979–1998 Khmer Rouge insurgency
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1980 Coconut War
• 1983–2009 Sri Lankan Civil War
• 1984 Siachen conflict
• 1984 Operation Blue Star
• 1987–1988 Thai–Laotian Border War
• 1987 Fijian coups d'état
• 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
• 1988–1998 Bougainville Civil War
• 1989 – today Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• 1989 Tiananmen protests
• 1989 – today Tripura rebellion
• 1989–1992 Mujahideen – Communist war in Afghanistan
• 1992–1996 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
• 1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War
• 1993 – today Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• 1995–1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1996–2001 Taliban–Northern Alliance conflict
• 1998–2001 Islamic insurgency in Uzbekistan
• 1998-2003 Solomon Islands Civil War
• 1999 Kargil War

21st century

• 2000-2001 Fijian coup d'état
• 2001 Bangladeshi-Indian border skirmish
• 2001 – 2021 War on Terror
  • 2001 – 2021 Afghanistan War
  • 2002 – 2015 Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  • 2002 – today Islamic terrorism in Indonesia
  • 2002 – today Islamic insurgency in Xinjiang
  • 2004 – today War in North-West Pakistan
  • 2004 – today South Thailand insurgency
• 2003–2004 Operation All Clear
• 2005 Islamic uprising in Uzbekistan
• 2005–2006 Fijian political crisis
  • 2006 Fijian military unrest
  • 2006 Fijian coup d'état
• 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis
• 2008–2009 Cambodian-Thai stand-off
• 2010 Uruzgan helicopter attack
• 2010 – 2022 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  • 2010 Mardakert clashes
  • 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
  • 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• 2015 – today Islamic State-Taliban conflict
• 2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation
• 2016 – 2017 Kashmir unrest
• 2022 – today Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

See also

• List of conflicts in North America
• List of conflicts in Central America
• List of conflicts in South America
• List of conflicts in Europe
• List of conflicts in Africa
• List of conflicts in the Near East
• List of conflicts in the Middle East
• List of conflicts in Australia
• List of wars