List of recent wars - Definition and Overview

List of Recent Wars

• 1982 - 2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
• 1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
• 1990-1991 Gulf War between Iraq and United Nations-led coalition
• 1990-1992 Rwanda Civil War
• 1991-2001 Yugoslav Wars
  • 1991 Slovenian War
  • 1991-1995 Croatian War
  • 1992-1995 Bosnian War
  • 1998-1999 Kosovo War
• 1991-1993 Georgian civil wars
  • 1991-1992 South Ossetian war
  • 1992-1994 Abkhazian War
  • 1993 Georgian civil war, western Georgia
• 1991-1997 Sierra Leone Civil War
• 1993-1999 Burundi Civil War
• 1994 Yemen Civil War
• 1994-1996 First Chechen War
• 1995 Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador
• 1996-1997 Liberian Civil War
• 1996-1997 First Congo War: rebels, Rwanda, Uganda, etc vs Mobutu government
• 1998-2000 Border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea
• 1999 Kargil War
• 1999-2003 Second Liberian Civil War
• 2004-Haiti rebellion

Ongoing wars

• 1964-Colombian Insurgencies (aka Colombian Civil War, Colombian Conflict)
• 1977-Somalian Civil War
• 1978-Wars in Afghanistan
  • 1978-1979 Mujahideen and tribal forces against Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
  • 1979-1989 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
  • 1989-1993 Civil War between different tribal military forces
  • 1994-2001 Civil War between Taliban movement and Northern alliance
  • 2001-2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
  • 2002-Conflict between U.S.-backed central government and Taliban guerillas, as well as dissident regional factions
• 1992-Civil War in Algeria
• 1994-Zapatista Rebellion in Mexico (the fighting has already ended).
• 1995-Second Ugandan Civil War
• 1996-Nepalese Peoples War
• 1998-Second Congo War: the bloodiest ongoing war, with an estimated 3.8 million dead
• 1999-Second Chechen War
• 2001-Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire
• 2003-2003 invasion of Iraq¹
• 2003 Darfur conflict, Sudan

also see

• List of Old wars

• List of wars