List of wars: 1945–1989

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

1945–1949

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Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1944	1963	Polish anti-communist resistance insurgency	Polish Committee of National Liberation (until 1945) Polish People's Republic (from 1945) MO ORMO ZOMO SB NKVD Supported by: Soviet Union	Polish anti-communist resistance movements ("Unbroken Soldiers") Home Army National Armed Forces Freedom and Independence Association ...and other various organized and un-organized groups
1944	1962	Romanian anti-communist resistance movement Part of World War II, the Cold War and anti-communist insurgencies in Central and Eastern Europe	Kingdom of Romania (until 1947) Romanian People's Republic (from 1947) PCR Securitate Supported by: Soviet Union	Anti-communist groups Nationalists Monarchists National Peasantists Iron Guards Supported by: United States United Kingdom CNR
1945	1949	1945 Khuzestan revolt^[1]	Iran	Khuzestan rebels
1945	1950	Crusader insurgency	Yugoslavia	Crusaders
1945	1949	Chinese Civil War (second phase) Part of the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War	1945–1949 Yan'an Soviet People's Republic of China (1949) Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army	1945–1949 Republic of China Kuomintang Republic of China Armed Forces
1945	1945	August Revolution Part of the Civil War in Vietnam (1945-49), French Indochina in World War II, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the Decolonisation of Asia	Việt Minh National Liberation Committee of Vietnam (from 16 to 25 August) Provisional Revolutionary Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam (from 28 August) Vanguard Youth (from 22 August) Supported by: United States – Bình Xuyên Hòa Hảo Cao Đài Trotskyist Vietnam Revolutionary League Vietnamese Provisional National Government Việt Quốc Đại Việt Nationalist	Empire of Vietnam National Unified Front Vanguard Youth (until 22 August) Supported by: Japan
1945	1949	Indonesian National Revolution Part of the aftermath of World War II and the decolonisation of Asia	Indonesia PDRI^[a] TNI POLRI Japanese holdouts British Indian volunteers^[b]^[2]	Netherlands^[c] Dutch East Indies KNIL NICA Pao An Tui^[d] United Kingdom^[e] British Raj^[e] Japan^[e] DI/TII (from 1949) FDR Small guerrilla groups
1948	Ongoing	Korean conflict Part of the Cold War in Asia (until 1991)	South Korea	North Korea
1945	1946	War in Vietnam (1945–46) Part of the aftermath of World War II and the Indochina Wars	British Empire United Kingdom India France Japan	Southern Resistance Committee of Viet Minh Vanguard Youth National Guard Southern Provisional Administrative Committee [vi] Vietnam People's Army Pro-Viet Minh Bình Xuyên Hòa Hảo Cao Đài Anti-communist Bình Xuyên Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng
1945	1946	1945 Hazara Rebellion	Hazara rebels	Kingdom of Afghanistan
1945	1946	Iran crisis of 1946 Part of the aftermath of the Second World War, prelude to the Cold War and Kurdish separatism in Iran	Iran Supported by: United Kingdom United States	Azerbaijan People's Government Republic of Mahabad Tudeh Military Network^[3] Supported by: Soviet Union
1946	1949	Greek Civil War Part of the Cold War (from 1947)	Kingdom of Greece Hellenic Army Royal Hellenic Air Force (minor participation) Royal Hellenic Navy (limited participation in support) Royal Gendarmerie MAY (1946–1948) TEA (1948–1949) Supported by: United Kingdom (1944–1947) United States (1946–1949)	Provisional Democratic Government (from 1947) Democratic Army (from December 1946) Communist Party of Greece and allies Ex-EAM members and other communist guerrillas' local groups (March 1946 – December 1946) People's Civil Guard Supported by: Yugoslavia (1946–1948) Bulgaria Albania Soviet Union (limited)
1946	1954	Hukbalahap Rebellion Part of the Cold War	Philippines Supported by: United States	Philippine Communist Party
1946	1946	Autumn Uprising of 1946	United States Army Military Government in Korea Right-wing groups: Korean National Youth Association Northwest Youth League	Communist Party of Korea National Council of Korean Labour Unions
1946	1946	Corfu Channel incident Part of the Cold War	Albania	United Kingdom
1946	1946	Punnapra-Vayalar uprising	Kingdom of Travanore	Laborers in Punnapra and Vayalar Communist Party of India
1946	1954	First Indochina War Part of the Indochina Wars, the Civil war in Vietnam (1945-1949), the decolonization of Asia, and the Cold War in Asia	Democratic Republic of Vietnam Việt Minh Lao Issara (1945-1949) Pathet Lao (1949-1954) Khmer Issarak	French Union France French Indochina State of Vietnam Kingdom of Cambodia Kingdom of Laos United States (1953–54) CIA
1946	1951	Telangana Rebellion	1946–1948: Hyderabad State Durras of Hyderabad Razakar movement (1947–1948) Supported by: Britain (1946–1947) 1948–1951: Government of India Hyderabad State Durras of Hyderabad Supported by: United States	Telangana peasants Andhra Mahasabha Communist Party of India Supported by: Congress socialists (Tirtha Group) Socialist Party of India (1948–1951)
1947	1947	Paraguayan Civil War (1947) Part of the Cold War (from 12 March 1947)	Paraguayan Government Military of Paraguay Colorado militias Supported by: Argentina United States	Liberal Party Febrerista Revolutionary Concentration Paraguayan Communist Party
1947	1949	Malagasy Uprising Part of the decolonisation of Africa	France French colonial empire PADESM (limited involvement)	Malagasy secret societies Jiny Panama Local militias MDRM (limited involvement) Supported by: United Kingdom (disputed; French intelligence claims)
1947	1947	1947 Poonch rebellion	Azad Army Predominantly Sudhans in Poonch^[4]^[5]^[6] Pahari-speaking people in Mirpur Division^[7]^[8] Supported by: Pakistan	Jammu and Kashmir State Forces
1948	1948	Annexation of Junagadh	Dominion of India	Junagadh State
1947	2025	Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts Part of the Kashmir conflict and the Cold War	India Bangladesh (1971)^[9]	Pakistan Alleged proxies: Kashmiri insurgents (1989–present) Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed United Jihad Council Hizbul Mujahideen People's Anti-Fascist Front The Resistance Front Dukhtaran-e-Millat^[10] Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Khalistani insurgents (1984–1995)^[11] Mizo insurgents (1961–1986)^[12]
1947	1949	Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars, Kashmir conflict, and the Partition of India	India Jammu and Kashmir^[f]	Pakistan
1947	1948	1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, the 1948 Palestine War and the decolonisation of Asia	Jewish National Council Haganah Palmach Irgun Lehi Foreign volunteers Allied Bedouin tribes	Arab Higher Committee Army of the Holy War Arab Liberation Army Jordan Arab Legion United Kingdom Mandatory Palestine
1948^[14] or 1947^[15]	1949	Safi Rebellion^[14]^[15]	Afghanistan	Safi rebels
1948	1948	Al-Wathbah uprising	Iraqi Police	Student Cooperation Committee (communists) Progressive Democrats Populists Kurdish Democrats Student wings of the National Democratic Party and the Independence Party
1948	1948	Costa Rican civil war Part of the Cold War	National Liberation Army Ulatista Forces Caribbean Legion Supported by: Guatemala United States	Government of Costa Rica Calderon forces People's Vanguard Party Nicaraguan National Guard
1948	Ongoing	Internal conflict in Myanmar	Union of Burma (1948–1962) Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1962–1988) Union of Myanmar (1988–2011) Myanmar (since 2011) SAC (since 2021)	National Unity Government (since 2021) People's Defence Force Ethnic armed organisations^[g]
1948	1949	Jeju uprising Part of the division of Korea and the Cold War	United States Army Military Government in Korea (until August 1948) South Korea (from August 1948) Northwest Youth League Korean Youth League [ko]	Workers' Party of South Korea Local supporters
1948	1958	La Violencia Part of the Colombian Civil Wars and the Cold War	Colombian Conservative Party Conservative party paramilitary groups Pájaros Chulavitas	Colombian Liberal Party and allied militias Liberal party paramilitary groups Colombian Communist Party Grupos de Autodefensas Campesinas
1948	1949	1948 Arab–Israeli War Part of the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel Before 26 May 1948: Yishuv Paramilitary groups: Haganah Palmach Hish Him Irgun Lehi Allied Bedouin tribes^[17]^[18] After 26 May 1948: Israel Defense Forces Minorities Unit Foreign volunteers: Mahal	Arab League: Egypt^[19] All-Palestine Protectorate^[h] Holy War Army^[h] Transjordan^[19] Iraq^[19] Syria^[19] Lebanon^[i] Saudi Arabia^[21] Yemen^[22] Irregulars: Arab Liberation Army Al-Najjada Holy War Army
1948	1960	Malayan Emergency Part of the decolonization of Asia and Cold War in Asia	British Commonwealth forces: United Kingdom Federation of Malaya Singapore Malacca (until 1957) Penang (until 1957) Kenya Southern Rhodesia (until 1953) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (from 1953) Fiji Australia New Zealand Supported by: Thailand (Thai–Malaysian border)	Communist forces: Malayan Communist Party Malayan National Liberation Army
1948	1948	Annexation of Hyderabad Part of Telangana Rebellion and the Political integration of India	Dominion of India	Hyderabad
1948	1948	Madiun Affair Part of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia TNI POLRI	People's Democratic Front PKI PS PBI SOBSI Pesindo
1948	1948	Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion Part of the division of Korea	South Korea	Workers' Party of South Korea Local supporters 14th regiment
1948	1950	Pre-Korean War insurgency^[23]	South Korea	Anti-government insurgents Pro-North Korean rebels
1949	1949	1949 Hazara Rebellion	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Hazara rebels
1949	1956	Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel	Palestinian Fedayeen Supported by: All-Palestine Protectorate Kingdom of Egypt (until 1953) Republic of Egypt (from 1953) Syria Jordan
1949	1949	Palace Rebellion	Phibun regime Royal Thai Army	Democracy February 26 Movement Royal Thai Navy Royal Thai Marine Corps
1949	1953	Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern China Part of the Chinese Civil War	China	National Revolutionary Army
1949	1962	Darul Islam rebellion Part of the aftermath of the Indonesian National Revolution and Cold War in Asia	Republic of Indonesia	Islamic State of Indonesia 426 Battalion (1951–1952) Legion of the Just Ruler (until 1950)
1949	Ongoing	Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes Part of the Taliban insurgency and Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Pakistan	Afghanistan Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (since 2012)^[24]^[25] Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (2015–2020)^[26]

1950–1959

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Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1950	1958	Kuomintang Islamic insurgency Part of the Cross-Strait conflict, the Chinese Civil War, and the Cold War	People's Republic of China Chinese Communist Party	Republic of China Kuomintang
1950	1950	APRA coup d'état Part of the aftermath of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia TNI	Legion of the Just Ruler (APRA)
1950	1950	Makassar Uprising Part of the aftermath of the Indonesian National Revolution	Republic of Indonesia	East Indonesia
1950	1966	Indonesian invasion of South Maluku Part of the aftermath of the Indonesian National Revolution	Indonesia TNI	Republic of South Maluku
1950	1950	La Revolución del 50	Peru	Rebels
25 June 1950	27 July 1953	Korean War Part of the Cold War and the Korean conflict	South Korea United Nations^[j] United States ... see other countries	North Korea China Soviet Union (air support only)
1950	1950	Battle of Chamdo Part of the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China and the Cold War	China	Tibet
1950	1954	Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts of the 1950s	United States Puerto Rico National Guard	Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Cadets of the Republic
1950s	1960s	Reprisal operations (Israel) Part of the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency (during the Arab–Israeli conflict)	Israel	All-Palestine Palestinian fedayeen Supported by: Kingdom of Egypt (1950–1953) Egypt (1953–1958) Egypt (UAR) (1958–1970) Jordan Syria
1951	1951	Manhattan Rebellion	Phibun's Government	Group of naval officers
1952	1955	Buraimi dispute	Trucial Emirates Emirate of Abu Dhabi British Empire Supported by Sultanate of Muscat and Oman Aden Protectorate	Saudi Arabia Supported by Al Bu Shamis tribe Na'im tribe
1952	1952	1952 Hazara Rebellion^[28]	Afghanistan	Rebels
1952	1952	Egyptian revolution of 1952 Part of the decolonisation of Africa and Asia, the Cold War, and the Arab Cold War	Free Officers Movement Supported by: United States^[29]^[30]	Kingdom of Egypt Supported by: United Kingdom
1952	1960	Mau Mau rebellion Part of the decolonisation of Africa	United Kingdom Kenya Uganda Southern Rhodesia	Mau Mau rebels^[k] Kenya Land and Freedom Army Maasai Bands (from 1954)^[32]
1953	1953	Air battle over Merklín Part of the Cold War	Czechoslovakia	United States
1953	1953	1953 Plzeň uprising Part of the Cold War	Czechoslovakia	Demonstrators
1953	1953	East German uprising of 1953 Part of the Cold War	East Germany Soviet Union	Anti-Stalinist demonstrators
1953	1959	Cuban Revolution	26th of July Movement Revolutionary Directorate of March 13th Second National Front of Escambray	Cuba Cuban Constitutional Army
1953	1953	1953 Iranian coup d'état Part of the Abadan Crisis and the Cold War	House of Pahlavi supporters United States^[l] United Kingdom^[l]	Iranian Government supporters
1954	1954	1954 Paraguayan coup d'état	Paraguayan Army Colorado Party	Government of Paraguay
1954	1954	Kengir uprising	Soviet Army MVD Gulag authorities	Kengir resistance
1954	1954	Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Part of the decolonisation of Asia and the Cold War	Indian nationalists and communists United Front of Goans National Liberation Movement Organization Goan People's Party Communist Party of India Azad Gomantak Dal Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh^[33] Supported by: India	Portugal Portuguese India
1954	1955	First Taiwan Strait Crisis Part of the Cold War and the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War	People's Republic of China	Republic of China United States
1954	1959	Jebel Akhdar War Part of the decolonisation of Asia and the Arab Cold War	Sultanate of Muscat United Kingdom	Imamate of Oman Supported by: Republic of Egypt Saudi Arabia
1954	1962	Algerian War Part of the Cold War and the decolonisation of Africa	FLN MNA PCA	French Fourth Republic (1954–1958) French Fifth Republic (1958–1962) La Main Rouge MPC ANPA FAF (1960–61) OAS (1961–62)
1954	Ongoing	Insurgency in Northeast India	India Indian Armed Forces Central Reserve Police Force Border Security Force SULFA^[34]^[35] Supported by: Bhutan (from 2003)^[36] Bangladesh (from 1971)^[37] Myanmar (from 2018)^[38]	Separatist groups: UNLFW National Democratic Front of Boroland (1986–2020) National Socialist Council of Nagaland United Liberation Front of Asom Kamtapur Liberation Organisation CorCom United National Liberation Front (1964–2023) People's Liberation Army of Manipur Kangleipak Communist Party People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup Maoist Communist Party of Manipur Zomi Revolutionary Army (1997–2005) Kuki National Army Tani Army National Liberation Front of Tripura (1989–2024) All Tripura Tiger Force (1990–2024) Karbi Longri N.C. Hills Liberation Front (2004–21) Bodo Liberation Tigers Force (1996-03) Other: Garo National Liberation Army (2009–18) Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (2000–10) People's Democratic Council of Karbi Longri (2016–21) Adivasi Cobra Force (1996–2012) Mizo National Front (1954–86) Tripura National Volunteers (1978–88) Dima Halam Daogah (2009–13) United People's Democratic Solidarity (1999–2014) Supported by: China (claimed by India)^[39] Myanmar (until 2018)^[40] Bhutan (until 2003)^[41] CPI (Maoist)^[42] Jihadist groups: MULT Assam (1996–2016) AQIS (2016–present)^[43]
1955	1955	Afghan tribal revolt of 1955	Afghanistan	Rebels
1955	1955	Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica	Costa Rica Supported by: United States Organization of American States	Calderón forces Supported by: Nicaragua Venezuela Dominican Republic Guatemala (Diplomatic Support)
1955	1955	Revolución Libertadora	Antiperonist rebels Argentine Navy Argentine Air Force Argentine Army Argentine opposition	Argentine Government Argentine Army Argentine Air Force Peronist Party Nationalist Liberation Alliance
1955	1964	Bamileke War Part of the decolonisation of Africa	Independence War Phase (1955–1960) France (1955–1960) French Cameroon Civil War Phase (1960–1964) Federal Republic of Cameroon France	Union of the Peoples of Cameroon Supported by: People's Socialist Republic of Albania^[44]
1955	1957	Upper Yafa uprisings^[45]	United Kingdom	Rebels
1955	1972	First Sudanese Civil War Part of the Sudanese Civil Wars and the South Sudanese wars of independence	SDF mutineers, bandits, and unaffiliated separatist militias ALF (1965–1970) Anyanya (from 1963)^[46] Israel (from 1969)^[47]^[48]^[49] Supported by: Ethiopia^[50]^[51] Uganda (from about 1970)^[50]^[48] Congo-Léopoldville^[52] Kenya^[50] France^[53]	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1955–1956) Republic of the Sudan (1956–1969) Democratic Republic of the Sudan (1969–1972) Combat support: Uganda (Joint operations on Ugandan territory, 1965–1969)^[54] Libyan Arab Republic (From 1969 and combat involvement at least in 1970)^[55] Non-combat support: United Arab Republic^[55]^[56] Soviet Union^[57]^[56] United Kingdom^[56]^[58] China^[56]^[58] Yugoslavia^[56]^[58] East Germany^[56]^[58] Czechoslovakia^[58] Saudi Arabia^[58] Kingdom of Libya (until 1969)^[58] Algeria^[58] United States^[59] West Germany^[59]
1 November 1955	30 April 1975	Vietnam War Part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War in Asia	North Vietnam Viet Cong and PRG Pathet Lao Khmer Rouge GRUNK (from 1970) China (1965–1969) Soviet Union North Korea	South Vietnam United States South Korea Australia New Zealand Laos Cambodia (1967–1970) Khmer Republic (1970–1975) Thailand Philippines Taiwan Spain
1955	1959	Cyprus Emergency Part of the Cyprus problem and Decolonisation	EOKA	United Kingdom British Cyprus Turkey Special Warfare Department Turkish Resistance Organisation
1956	1956	Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Part of the Cold War	Soviet Union Until 28 October: Hungary From 4 November: Kádár government	Hungarian revolutionaries From 28 October: Hungary (Nagy government)
1956	1956	1956 Poznań protests Part of the Cold War	Polish People's Army Internal Security Corps Służba Bezpieczeństwa	Protesters
1956	1956	Suez Crisis Part of the Cold War and the Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel United Kingdom France	Egypt
1956	1956	Quỳnh Lưu uprising Part of the Cold War	North Vietnamese Army	Quỳnh Lưu's Christians
1957	1958	Ifni War Part of the decolonisation of Africa	Morocco Army of Liberation Allied Sahrawi tribes	Spain West Africa France (1958) Mauritania
1957	1961	PRRI and Permesta rebellion	Indonesia	Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia Permesta
Late 1950s	Late 1950s	Anti-taxation uprising in Afghanistan^[60]	Afghanistan	Hazara rebels
1958	1958	14 July Revolution Part of the Arab Cold War	Free Officers 19th Brigade 20th Brigade	Arab Federation Kingdom of Iraq Royal Guard Supported by: Kingdom of Jordan
1958	1958	1958 Lebanon crisis Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Government Lebanese Armed Forces Kataeb Party Syrian Social Nationalist Party ARF Supported by: United States	Opposition Najjadeh Party Progressive Socialist Party Lebanese Communist Party Al-Mourabitoun Supported by: United Arab Republic
1958	1958	Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Part of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War	People's Republic of China	Republic of China United States
1958	Ongoing	Ethnic conflict in Nagaland Part of the Insurgency in Northeast India	India Indian Armed Forces Central Reserve Police Force Border Security Force State of Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Police State of Assam Assam Police State of Nagaland Nagaland Police State of Manipur Manipur Police Manipur Rifles Myanmar Sagaing Region Tatmadaw BGF NSCN-IM RNHPF (2013–17) NSCN-K (YA) (2017– ) NSCN-R (AC) ANLF RGN (1968–73)	NFA (Until 1980) NSCN (1980-88) NSCN Dissidents (1988-) NSCN-K (NS) (2020-) NSCN-K (AM) (2023-) NSCN-K (IS) (2023– ) Local Sumi militias ZUF MNPF MNRF (Until 2013) UNPC (Until 2013)
1958	1959	North Vietnamese invasion of Laos Part of the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War	North Vietnam Pathet Lao	Laos
1958	1959	Mexico–Guatemala conflict Part of the Guatemala–Mexico relations	Guatemala	Mexico
1959	1959	Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959) Part of the resistance against the Great Leap Forward	China	"Regiment of Spirit Soldiers"
1959	1959	1959 Tibetan uprising Part of the Cold War	People's Republic of China People's Liberation Army	Tibetan and Khampa protesters and guerrillas Remnants of the Tibetan Army Simultaneous rebellion in Kham and Amdo: Chushi Gangdruk Supported by: Republic of China United States (CIA) India (diplomatic)
1959	1959	1959 Mosul uprising Part of the Arab Cold War and Aftermath of the 14 July Revolution	Iraqi Government Communist Party Kurdistan Democratic Party^[61]^[62] Arab, Kurdish, and Assyrian peasants^[63]^[64]	Arab nationalists Ba'ath Party Sympathetic Arab tribes Supported by: United Arab Republic^[65]^[66]^[67] United States^[68] CIA (alleged)
1959	1975	Laotian Civil War Part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars, and the Cold War in Asia	Pathet Lao North Vietnam Neutralists (1960–1962) Patriotic Neutralists (1963–1969)	Kingdom of Laos Neutralists (1962–1966) United States South Vietnam (until 1975) Thailand Republic of China (until 1967)
1959	1965	Escambray rebellion Part of the consolidation of the Cuban Revolution	Government of Cuba Supported by: Soviet Union	Insurgents: Anti-communists Batista loyalists Supported by: CIA (1959–1961) Dominican Republic (1960)^[69] Partido Auténtico^[70]
1959	1959	Pashtun Revolt in Kandahar	Afghanistan	Pashtun rebels
1959	1959	Upper Yafa disturbances^[71]	United Kingdom Upper Yafa	Rebels Supported by: Yemen
1959	1959	Cuban invasion of Panama^[72]	Panama United States Guatemala	Cuba Revolutionary Action Movement May 22 Youth Revolutionary Movement
1959	1959	1959 Viqueque rebellion Part of the Cold War and the decolonization of Asia	Estado Novo	Permesta
1959	1959	Cuban invasion of the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	Cuba
1959	2011	Basque conflict Part of the European separatist movements in the Basque Country	Spain Ertzaintza National Police Corps Spanish Army Civil Guard Armed Police Corps Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups (1983–1987)^[73]^[74] France National Gendarmerie National Police	Anti-communist paramilitaries: Spanish Basque Battalion (1975–1981) Anti-Communist Apostolic Alliance (1976–1983) Spanish Armed Groups (1979–1980) Warriors of Christ the King (1968–1980) Spanish National Action (unknown) ETA Anti-Terrorism (1970s) Anti-Marxist Commandos (unknown) Falange y Tradición (2009) Basque National Liberation Movement: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna Iparretarrak (1972–2000) Iraultza (1982–1996) Autonomous Anti-Capitalist Commandos (late 1970s–1980s) Irrintzi (2005–2009) Kale borroka Hordago (1980s) Euskal Zuzentasuna (1977–1979) Supported by: Provisional IRA (IRA)

1960–1969

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Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1960	1965	Congo Crisis Part of the decolonisation of Africa and the Cold War	1960–1963: Republic of the Congo Supported by: Soviet Union (1960) ONUC^[m] 1963–1965: Democratic Republic of the Congo United States Belgium Supported by: ONUC (1964)	1960–1963: Katanga South Kasai Supported by: Belgium^[n] 1960–1962: Free Republic of the Congo Supported by: Soviet Union 1963–1965: Kwilu and Simba rebels Supported by: Soviet Union China Cuba
1960	1961	Bajaur Campaign Part of the Afghanistan–Pakistan border conflict and the Cold War	Pakistan	Afghanistan
1960	1996	Guatemalan Civil War Part of the Central American crisis and Cold War	Government of Guatemala and Guatemalan military Government-led paramilitary organizations Mano Blanca Supported by: United States (1962–1996)^[79] Argentina (1976–1983) Logistics: Israel^[80]^[81] Taiwan^[82] Chile^[83] South Africa	URNG (from 1982) PGT (until 1998) MR-13 (1960–1971) FAR (1960–1971) EGP (1971–1996) ORPA (1979–1996) Supported by: Cuba FMLN Nicaragua (1979–1990)
1960	1961	1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border Part of the cross-strait conflict, the internal conflict in Myanmar, and the Cold War in Asia	People's Republic of China Union of Burma	Republic of China
1960	1960	1960 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt Part of the Opposition to Haile Selassie	Emperor Haile Selassie loyalists	Council of the Revolution Kebur Zabagna
1961	1974	Angolan War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War, the Decolonization of Africa and the Cold War	MPLA Material support: Soviet Union^[84] Cuba^[85]^[86] East Germany^[87] Romania Bulgaria^[88] Yugoslavia^[89] Tanzania^[90] Libya^[91] Brazil^[92] FNLA UNITA (until 1972) Material support: United States^[93] China^[94]^[95]^[96] Romania Israel Bulgaria^[88] Morocco^[97]^[98]^[99] Brazil^[92] Zambia^[100]^[101] FLEC RDL	Portugal UNITA (after 1972) South Africa Rhodesia
1961	1961	Bay of Pigs Invasion Part of the Cold War and the Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution	Cuba	United States Cuban DRF
1961	1962	French military rebellion in Algeria^[102]^[103] Part of the Algerian War	France	OAS
1961	1990	Nicaraguan Revolution Part of the Central American crisis and the Cold War in Latin America	FSLN EPS MAP-ML (1978–1979) MILPAS Panama (1978–1979) Nicaragua Junta of National Reconstruction (1979–1985) Supported by: Soviet Union (1980–1990) Costa Rica (1978–1982)^[104] Libya^[105]^[106]^[107] Mexico^[108] Cuba^[109] Bulgaria Czechoslovakia (until 1989) East Germany (until 1989) Hungary (until 1989) Poland (until 1989)^[110] North Korea PLO Algeria^[111] France^[112] Sweden (medical support)^[113]^[114] Chile (1970–1973) Venezuela (1978–1979) Canada (1984–1990)^[115]	Somoza regime (1961–1979) National Guard Contras (1979–1990) FDN UDN Fifteenth of September Legion ARDE MILPAS (after 1979) KISAN/YATAMA RN Supported by: United States Costa Rica (1982–1986)^[104] Israel^[116] Saudi Arabia Panama (1981–1987) Chile (1973–1990)^[117] Argentina (1976–1983) Colombia Imperial State of Iran (until 1979) Islamic Republic of Iran (Indirectly, since 1979)^[118] Brunei^[119] People's Republic of China^[110]^[120] Poland^[110] Romania^[120] Portugal^[120]
1961	1961	Bizerte crisis Part of the decolonisation of Africa and the spillover of the Algerian War	France	Tunisia
1961	1991	Eritrean War of Independence Part of Opposition to Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Civil War, the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split, the conflicts in the Horn of Africa, and the Revolutions of 1989	ELF (1961–1981) Supported by: Sudan^[121] Libya^[122]^[123] China (until 1972)^[124]^[125] Cuba (until 1975)^[122]^[126] Syria^[127]^[128] Iraq^[129]^[130] Saudi Arabia^[131] Somalia^[132]^[133] EPLF (since 1973) TPLF (since 1975) Supported by: Libya^[135]^[136] Sudan^[137] Somalia^[132] Syria^[127]^[128] Iraq^[137] Kuwait^[138] United Arab Emirates^[138]	1961–1974 Ethiopian Empire Supported by: United States^[139] Israel^[140]^[141] 1974–1991 Derg (1974–1987) PDR Ethiopia (1987–1991) Supported by: Soviet Union^[145] (1974–1990) Cuba (1974–1990) South Yemen (1974–1990) Israel^[140] North Korea^[146]
1961	1970	First Iraqi–Kurdish War Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict and the Arab–Israeli conflict	KDP Supported by: Iran^[147] Israel United States (alleged)^[147]	Before 1968: Iraq Syria (1963) Supported by: United States (from 1963)^[148]^[149] Egypt (1965)^[150] After 1968: Ba'athist Iraq
1961	1961	Rebellion of the Pilots	Elements of the Armed Forces still loyal to Trujillo	Dominican Air Force
1961	1961	1961 revolt in Somalia Part of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa and the separatism in Somalia	Somali Republic	Pro-Somaliland coup plotters
1961	1961	Annexation of Goa Part of the decolonisation of Asia and the Cold War	India	Portugal Portuguese India
1961	1962	Operation Trikora Part of the West New Guinea dispute and the Cold War in Asia	Netherlands Dutch New Guinea	Indonesia Soviet Union
1962	1964	Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964) Part of the Tuareg rebellions	Mali	Tuareg tribal and clan groups
1962	1962	El Carupanazo	Venezuelan government	Military rebels
1962	1962	El Porteñazo	Venezuelan government	Military rebels
1962	1963	1963 Argentine Navy revolt	Azules faction (most of the Army and the Air Force)	Colorados faction (mainly the Navy)
1962	1970	North Yemen Civil War	Yemen Arab Republic Egypt	Kingdom of Yemen Saudi Arabia
1962	Ongoing	Papua conflict Part of the West New Guinea dispute and Terrorism in Indonesia	Indonesia Papua New Guinea^[151]^[152]	Free Papua Movement
1962	1962	Sino-Indian War Part of the Sino-Indian border dispute	China	India
1962	1990	Communist insurgency in Sarawak Part of the Formation of Malaysia, Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation, Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) and Cold War in Asia	Anti-communist forces: United Kingdom Sarawak (until 1963) Malaysia Sarawak (after 1963) Supported by: Australia Brunei New Zealand United States Indonesia (after 1965) (Indo-Malay border)	Communist forces: North Kalimantan Communist Party^[153] Sarawak People's Guerrilla Force (SPGF) North Kalimantan People's Army (NKPA) Indonesia (1962–65) (military aid) Other support: Brunei People's Party North Kalimantan National Army (NKNA) Malayan Communist Party Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) Supported by: China^[154] North Vietnam (until 1975) North Korea^[155]^[156]
1962	1962	Brunei revolt Part of the beginning of Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and Formation of Malaysia	United Kingdom Brunei	Brunei People's Party
1963	Ongoing	Katanga insurgency Part of the Congo Crisis, First and Second Congo Wars, and other Congolese Civil Wars	Congo-Léopoldville (until 1971) Zaire (1971–1997) DR Congo (from 1997) ONUC (until 1964) MONUSCO (since 1999) Local self-defence groups^[157]	Katangese rebels: Katangese Gendarmerie (1960s) FLNC (1967–1991) Mai Mai Kata Katanga (since 2011) Mai Mai Gédéon CORAK CPK Alleged Support: FARDC elements^[158] Katangese businessmen^[158] FDLR Mai Mai Yakutumba CNPSC
1963	1963	1963 Cuban invasion of Venezuela^[159]	Venezuela	Cuba
1963	1966	Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation Part of the formation of Malaysia and the Cold War in Asia	The Commonwealth of Nations United Kingdom Malaysia^[o] Singapore^[p] Brunei Australia New Zealand	Indonesia Aligned parties: PKI^[160]^[161] NKCP^[162]^[163]^[164]^[154] PGRS^[154] PRB^[165]
1963	1970	Bale revolt Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict, Opposition to Haile Selassie and Conflicts in the Horn of Africa	Ethiopian Empire Supported by (since 1968): United States United Kingdom	Oromo and Somali rebels Supported by (1963–1969): Somali Republic
1963	1974	Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War and the Cold War	PAIGC Guinea (1970 only) Cuba	Portugal
1963	1963	Ramadan Revolution Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Iraqi Ba'ath Party Iraqi Armed Forces (Ba'athist elements) National Guard militia Supported by: United States^[166]^[167]	Iraqi Government Iraqi Armed Forces Iraqi Communist Party^[168]
1963	1963	1963 Syrian coup d'état Part of the Arab Cold War	Ba'ath Party Military Bureau	Second Syrian Republic National Party People's Party Muslim Brotherhood Arab Liberation Movement
1963	1976	Dhofar Rebellion Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Oman^[q] United Kingdom Iran (1973–1976) Jordan United Arab Emirates Support: Saudi Arabia (financial aid)	DLF (1963–1968) PFLOAG (1968–1974) NDFLOAG (1969–1971) PFLO (1974–1976) Support: South Yemen Soviet Union China Cuba North Korea Iraq
1963	1963	Ar-Rashid revolt	Iraqi Government Ba'ath Party Ba'ath National Guard Militia	Iraqi Communist Party Iraqi Army
1963	1963	Sand War Part of the Arab Cold War and the Cold War	Algeria Support: Egypt^[169] Cuba^[170]	Morocco Support: France^[171]
1963	1967	Aden Emergency Part of the Cold War, the Arab Cold War, and the decolonization of Asia	NLF	United Kingdom Federation of South Arabia Protectorate of South Arabia FLOSY Supported by: United Arab Republic
1963	1967	Shifta War Part of the Somali–Kenyan conflict	Kenya Colony (until Dec. 1963) Kenya (from Dec. 1963) Supported by: United Kingdom Ethiopian Empire^[172]	Northern Frontier Districts Liberation Movement Hawiye group Darod group Supported by: Somalia Soviet Union
1963	1963	November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Nasserists	Ba'athists
1963	1965	Simba rebellion Part of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War	Democratic Republic of the Congo Belgium United States Anyanya Banyamulenge militias (1965)^[173]	Simba rebels Gbenye-Olenga faction Soumialot faction Kabila-Massengo faction Rwandan exile groups^[174] Uganda^[175] Sudan^[176] Foreign support Soviet Union Cuba Tanganyika China^[176] Burundi Egypt^[176] Algeria^[176]
1964	1964	Zanzibar Revolution Part of the Cold War	Revolutionaries Afro-Shirazi Party Umma Party	Sultanate of Zanzibar
1964	1964	1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict and the Cold War]	Ethiopia Supported by: United States	Somalia Supported by: Egypt^[177]^[178]
1964	1964	1964 Brazilian coup d'état Part of the Cold War	Armed Forces (rebel) Supported by: State governors: Alagoas Espírito Santo Guanabara Minas Gerais Paraná Rio Grande do Sul São Paulo Congressional opposition United States	Brazilian Government Armed Forces (loyalist) Supported by: State governors: Pernambuco Sergipe National Union of Students Peasant Leagues
1964	Ongoing	Colombian conflict Part of the Cold War (1964–1991), the war on drugs (1971–present) and the war on terror (2001–present)^[179]^[180]^[181]^[182]	Colombia Supported by: Peru Panama^[183] Mexico Brazil^[184] Ecuador United States Spain^[185] United Kingdom^[186]	Colombian drug cartels and paramilitaries La Oficina Cartel (1993–) Clan del Golfo (2001–) Los Rastrojos (2004–)^[187] Los Pachenca [es] (2006–)^[188] Black Eagles (2006–2011) Ex-FARC Mafia (Since 2016 or 2017)^[189]^[190] AUC (1997–08) AAA (1978–99) CONVIVIR (1994–07) ACCU (1964–2009) Los Paisas [es] (2008–14)^[191] Libertadores del Vichada (2010–17)^[192] Bloque Meta (2010–17)^[192] ERPAC (1964–2010) Cali Cartel (1975–95) Medellín Cartel (1972–93) Norte del Valle Cartel (1985–2008) North Coast Cartel (1980–2010) MAS (1981–90) La Empresa Cartel (1990– ) La Guajira Cartel (1990– ) Supported by: Contras (1979–90) Mexican drug cartels and paramilitaries Sinaloa Cartel (1990–)^[193] Tijuana Cartel (1987–) CJNG (2009–) Gulf Cartel (1986–) Juárez Cartel (1989–) Los Zetas (1997–) BLO (2008–14) Guadalajara Cartel (1978–89) La Familia Michoacana (1980s–2011) Milenio Cartel (1995–2010) Colombian rebel guerrilla groups ELN (1964–) FARC dissidents (2016–)^[194] EPL/Los Pelusos (1967–) FARIP (1987–1996) FARC (1964–2017) ERP (1985–2007) CGSB (1987–90) M-19 (1974–90) MOEC (1964–95) MAQL (1984–91) ERC (1964–92) ERG (1964–2008) PRT (1964–91) Supported by: Venezuela^[195] Cuba^[196]^[197] Belarus^[198]^[199] (from 2008) Nicaragua (alleged)^[200] Libya (until 2011)^[201]^[202] Soviet Union (until 1989)^[197] Albania (financial support; 1960s–1970s)^[203] Cartel of the Suns^[204] FBL^[195] Shining Path (factions)^[205]^[206] ETA (1964–2018) PIRA (1969–98) PKK^[207]
1964	1979	Rhodesian Bush War Part of the Cold War and decolonisation of Africa	ZANU (ZANLA)^[208] ZAPU (ZIPRA) Mozambique^[209] ANC (MK)^[209] Zambia^[210]	Rhodesia (1964–1979) Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979) Portugal (1964–1974)^[r] South Africa (from 1967)^[211]
1964	1992	FULRO insurgency Part of the Persecution of the Montagnard in Vietnam, Racism in Vietnam, Vietnam War (until 1975), Cambodian Civil War (until 1975), Cambodian–Vietnamese War, (until 1991) insurgency in Laos, and the Cold War (until 1991)	Communist forces: North Vietnam (1964–1976) Viet Cong (until 1975) Vietnam (after 1976) People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989) Khmer Rouge (1967-1975)	FULRO BAJARAKA FLC FLHP FLKK Supported by: China Cambodia Khmer Republic (1970–1975) GRUNK Khmer Rouge (1975–1992) United States (1970–1975)^[212] France (1974–1992) Anti-communist forces: South Vietnam (1964–1975) United States (1964–1972)^[212]
1964	1974	Mozambican War of Independence Part of the Portuguese Colonial War, the Decolonisation of Africa, and the Cold War	FRELIMO COREMO Support: Soviet Union^[213]^[214] Cuba^[215]^[216]^[217]^[218] Czechoslovakia^[219] East Germany^[219] Sweden^[219]^[220] Romania^[221]^[222] Bulgaria^[223]^[224]^[225] China^[226] Yugoslavia^[227]^[228] Tanzania^[229]^[230]^[231] Somalia^[232]^[233] Zambia^[234]^[235]^[236] Egypt^[237]^[238]^[239] Algeria^[240] Morocco^[98] Libya^[241]^[242] Senegal^[219] Guinea^[219] Brazil^[92]	Portugal Support: South Africa^[243]^[244] Rhodesia^[245]^[246] Malawi^[247]^[248]^[249] Israel^[250]
1964	1982	Mexican Dirty War Part of the Cold War	Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party DFS – Security Directorate (Intelligence) Armed Forces (Military) Judicial Police (Law enforcement) United States (small arms, ammunition, and explosives, as well as supporting the Mexican government and asking for action against leftists)^[251]	Far-left groups Mexican Communist Party People's Guerrilla Group Party of the Poor National Revolutionary Civic Association [es] Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre National Liberation Forces Various other social and armed movements in the country
1965	1965	Dominican Civil War Part of the Cold War	Loyalist faction United States IAPF Brazil Paraguay Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador Honduras^[252]	Constitutionalist faction Dominican Revolutionary Party Social Christian Revolutionary Party June 14th Revolutionary Movement [es]
1965	1966	American occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66)	United States (pro-government state intervener) Organization of American States (OAS)	Constitutionalists
1965	1965	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts and Cold War	India	Pakistan
1965	1965	30 September Movement Part of the Cold War in Asia, Konfrontasi and the transition to the New Order	Government of Indonesia Indonesian Army (Loyalist factions) Indonesian Army (Suharto factions)^[253]^[254] Supported by: United Kingdom^[255]^[256] United States^[257]^[258]^[259]	30 September Movement Tjakrabirawa Angkatan kelima in Lubang Buaya Communist Party of Indonesia Indonesian Air Force (Denied, but suspected by the army) Supported by: China^[260]
1965	1983	Communist insurgency in Thailand Part of the Cold War and Indochina Wars	Thailand Royal Thai Armed Forces Royal Thai Police Border Patrol Police Volunteer Defense Corps Thahan Phran Internal Security Operations Command Village Scouts Nawaphon Red Gaurs Kingdom of Laos (until 1975) ROC 93rd Division^[261] Malaysia^[262]^[263] Supported by: United States Shan United Revolutionary Army^[264] Karen National Union^[265]	Communist Party of Thailand People's Liberation Army of Thailand Federation of Farmers and Workers National Student Center of Thailand Ethnic groups, especially the Hmong Pathet Lao Malayan Communist Party^[266] Communist Party of Burma^[267] Supported by: Khmer Rouge (until 1978) People's Republic of Kampuchea (since 1979) People's Republic of China (until 1980) North Vietnam
1965	1979	Chadian Civil War (1965–1979) Part of the Cold War	FROLINAT (from 1966) First Liberation Army (until 1975) Second Liberation Army (1968–76) Third Liberation Army (from 1968) Various splinter factions FLT (until 1975) Volcan Army (from 1970) FAP (from 1976) FAN (1976–78, 1979)^[268] Tribal and peasant rebels Libya (1969–72, from 1975) Supported by: Algeria^[269] Kingdom of Libya (non-combat, until 1969)^[270]	Chad Chadian Armed Forces FROLINAT's First Liberation Army (c. 1975)^[271] FAN (1978–79)^[268] France Supported by: Egypt Israel
1966	1967	Guerrilha do Caparaó [pt]	Brazil	Rebels
1966	1977	Crisis in French Somaliland^[272]	FLCS	France French Somaliland
1966	1967	Stanleyville mutinies	Congo-Léopoldville	Armée Nationale Congolaise (ANC) mutineers
1966	1990	South African Border War Part of the Cold War and the decolonisation of Africa	SWAPO (PLAN) MPLA (FAPLA)^[273] Cuba SWANU^[274] ANC (MK) Zambia^[275] Military advisers and pilots: Soviet Union^[276] East Germany^[277]	South Africa TGNU (1985–1989)^[278] Portugal (until 1974)^[279] UNITA (from 1975)^[280] FNLA (1975)^[273]
1966	1969	Korean DMZ Conflict Part of the Korean conflict and the Cold War	South Korea United States	North Korea
1966	1967	Ñancahuazú Guerrilla War Part of the Cold War	Bolivia United States	ELN Cuba
1967	1968	1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran Part of the Iranian-Kurdish conflict	Imperial State of Iran SAVAK	Revolutionary Committee leadership: Kurdish tribesmen KDP-I
1966	1975	Araguaia Guerrilla War Part of the armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship	Brazilian military government • Brazilian Army • Brazilian Air Force • Brazilian Navy	Communist Party of Brazil Supported by: People's Socialist Republic of Albania^[203]
1967	1975	Cambodian Civil War Part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars, the Sino-Soviet Split, and the Cold War in Asia	Khmer Rouge GRUNK (1970–1975) FUNK Khmer Rumdo North Vietnam Viet Cong Pathet Lao	Cambodia (1967–1970) Khmer Republic (1970–1975) Khmer Serei (until 1972) United States South Vietnam Laos FULRO
1967	1967	Machurucuto raid	Venezuelan National Guard Venezuelan Army	Revolutionary Left Movement Cuban guerrillas Supported by: Cuba
1967	Ongoing	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency	India^[281] Indian Armed Forces Central Reserve Police Force Border Security Force State Armed Police Forces District Reserve Guard Militias: (until 2011)^[282] Tritiya Prastuti Committee Salwa Judum Sunlight Sena Kuer Sena^[283] Ranvir Sena^[284]^[285] Bhumi Sena Lorik Sena	Naxalites CPI (Maoist) PLGA JJP^[286] PLFI RCC (2006–2019)^[287] OMP (2002–2015)^[288] CPI(ML) Liberation (1974–1992) Lal Sena CPI(ML) Janashakti (1992–2013) CPUSI (1997–2005)^[289] CPI(ML) ND CPI(ML) MM (until 2012) ABNES (until 2002) TNLA^[290] (until 2005)^[291] Supported by: ULFA^[292] NSCN^[292] PLA-MP MCPM KCP Declared support: International Communist League^[293] CPN (Maoist) CPN (2014)^[294] NPA^[295] PBSP^[296] (until 2021) PBCP^[297] (until 2021) CIC (until 1977) CCP (Maoist) (until 1976)^[298]
1967	1967	Six-Day War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War	Israel	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq^[299] Minor involvement: Lebanon^[300]
1967	1970	War of Attrition Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War	Israel	Egypt Soviet Union Kuwait^[301] PLO Jordan Syria^[302] Cuba
1967	1970	Nigerian Civil War Part of the Cold War and the decolonisation of Africa	Nigeria Egypt^[s] Supported by: United Kingdom^[303] Soviet Union^[304] Ethiopia^[305]	Biafra Republic of Benin Supported by: China^[306]^[307] Tanzania^[308]^[309]^[310] Zambia Gabon Côte d'Ivoire Covert support: France^[311]^[312] Portugal^[311]^[312] Israel^[311]^[312] South Africa^[311]^[312] Rhodesia^[311]^[312]
1967	1967	Nathu La and Cho La clashes	India	China
1967	1974	PGRS/Paraku Rebellion^[313]	Indonesia	PGRS/Paraku
1968	2019	Moro conflict Part of the Cold War, Civil conflict in the Philippines, war on terror, North Borneo dispute and War against the Islamic State	Philippines Supported by: United States (advisors)^[314] Australia^[315]^[316] Indonesia^[317]^[318] Malaysia (since 2001)^[317]^[319]^[320]^[321] Russia^[322] China^[323] International Monitoring Team (IMT) Brunei Indonesia Japan Libya Malaysia Norway European Union Ilaga	Bangsamoro MNLF (until 1996)^[324] MILF (until 2014) Former support: Libya (until 2011)^[325]^[326]^[327]^[328]^[329]^[330] Malaysia (until 2001)^[331]^[332]^[333] NDFP MRLO Jihadist groups BIFF ASG (1991–2024) Maute group (2013–2017)^[334]^[335]^[336] AKP (2014 – c. 2021) KIM (2011–2013)^[337] Rajah Sulaiman Movement (until 2005)^[338]^[339]
1968	1989	Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) Part of the Cold War in Asia and continuation of the Malayan Emergency	Anti-communist forces: Malaysia^[340] Singapore^[341] Thailand^[342]^[263] Supported by: United Kingdom^[343] New Zealand^[343] Indonesia (from 1965)	Communist forces: Malayan Communist Party^[344] Malayan National Liberation Army^[344] Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction (1970–1983) Communist Party of Malaya/Marxist–Leninist (1974–1983) Malaysian Communist Party (1983–1987) North Kalimantan Communist Party Communist Party of Thailand (until 1983)^[345] Supported by: China (until 1976)^[346]^[347] Soviet Union^[346] Indonesia (1962–1965)
1968	1968	Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Part of the Cold War and the Prague Spring	Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union Poland Bulgaria Hungary Logistics support: East Germany^[t]	Czechoslovakia Supported by: Albania Romania China^[348] Yugoslavia^[349]
1960s	1998^[u]	The Troubles	Irish republican paramilitaries: Provisional IRA (PIRA) Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Official IRA (OIRA) Continuity IRA (CIRA) Real IRA (RIRA) Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) Ulster loyalist paramilitaries: Ulster Defence Association (UDA) Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) Red Hand Commando (RHC) Ulster Resistance (UR) Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV)	State security forces: British Armed Forces Royal Ulster Constabulary Irish Defence Forces Gardaí
1968	1988	Years of Lead (Italy) Part of the Cold War	Italian government SISMI SISDE Armed Forces Carabinieri State Police Supported by: Gladio CIA^[351]	Far-left terrorists: Red Brigades^{[N 1]} Front Line^{[N 2]} October 22 Group^{[N 3]} PAC^{[N 4]} Continuous Struggle^{[N 5]} Workers' Power^{[N 6]} Workers' Autonomy^{[N 7]} Supported by: RAF^[352] Sigurimi (alleged) PLO (alleged) KGB (alleged)^[353] Stasi (alleged) Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (alleged)^[354] UDBA (alleged) Far-right terrorists: New Order^{[N 8]} National Vanguard^{[N 9]} Black Order^[355] NAR^{[N 10]} Third Position^{[N 11]} Supported by: Propaganda Due^[356]^[357] SISMI (factions)^[358] CIA^[359]^[360]^[361] Greek Junta Magliana Gang^[362] Sicilian Mafia (alleged)
1968	1971	1968–1971 East Pakistan communist insurgency	Pakistan	PBSA
1969	1969	Rupununi Uprising	Guyana Guyana Defence Force	Rupununi rebels Support: Venezuela (alleged)^{[disputed – discuss]}
1969	1969	Sino-Soviet border conflict Part of the Cold War and the Sino-Soviet split	China	Soviet Union
1969	Ongoing	Communist rebellion in the Philippines Part of the Civil conflict in the Philippines	Philippines United States^[363] Anti-communist militia Alsa Masa (1986–?)	CPP * NPA MLPP-RHB^[364] APP^[364] RPA^[364] ABB^[364] CPLA^[364] Support: People's Republic of China (1969–1976) Libya (1980s–2011) North Korea (Alleged) Vietnam (1980s)
1969	1969	Football War	El Salvador	Honduras
1969	1969	Al-Wadiah War Part of the Arab Cold War	Saudi Arabia Supported by: Pakistan (air support)	South Yemen

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Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1970	1971	Reggio revolt Part of the Years of Lead	Government of Italy Christian Democracy (National) Italian Communist Party Italian Socialist Party CGIL	Christian Democracy (Calabrian) Italian Social Movement National Vanguard Italian Democratic Socialist Party Italian Anarchist Federation CISNAL
1970	1971	Black September Part of the Arab Cold War	Jordan Jordanian Armed Forces	PLO Fatah Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Syria (until November 1970) Syrian Armed Forces Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) Supported by: Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG) People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK)
1970	1970	Corrective Movement (Syria) Part of the Arab Cold War	Syrian Arab Armed Forces	Syrian Government Ba'ath Party
1970	1970	Teoponte Guerrilla Part of the Cold War	Bolivia	ELN (Teoponte)
1971	1971	1971 Ugandan coup d'état Part of the Cold War	Ugandan putschists Rebel military faction Rebel police faction Supported by: Israel^[365]	Ugandan government Loyal state institutions
1971	1971	Bangladesh Liberation War Part of the independence of Bangladesh, the Indo-Pakistani conflicts, and the Cold War	Bangladesh India (3–16 Dec.)	Pakistan
1971	1971	1971 JVP insurrection Part of the Cold War	Ceylon Sri Lankan Coalition (from 15 May) SLFP CCP (Pro-Soviet) LSSP Military intervention: India Pakistan Soviet Union	JVP Supported by: North Korea^[366]^[367]^[368] Albania (arms support)^[369] China (alleged) ASBPI^[370]^[371] CCP (Maoist) (alleged) Diplomatic support: South Yemen^[372]
1971	1971	Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs Part of the Unification of the United Arab Emirates	Imperial State of Iran	Emirate of Sharjah Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah
1972	1981	Eritrean Civil Wars Part of the Eritrean War of Independence, the Ethiopian Civil War and conflicts in the Horn of Africa	EPLF TPLF	ELF
1972	1975	1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency Part of the Cold War in Asia	Government of Bangladesh Awami League/BAKSAL (1972–75) Chhatra League Sramik League Military-Supreme Court Administration (1975) Mujibist insurgents:^[v] Kader Bahini^[373] Pro-Mujibist military factions East Bengal Regiment (factions) 46th Independent Infantry Brigade	Socialist insurgents: Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Jasad Chhatra League Maoist insurgents: Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party Anti-Mujibist military factions 2nd Field Artillery Bengal Lancers 1st Bengal Cavalry 10th Bengal Regiment (factions) Other anti-Mujibist factions Trade unionists^[w] Awami League (factions) Military junta of Bangladesh (1975)^[x]
1972	Ongoing	Maoist insurgency in Turkey	Government of Turkey	TKP/ML TİKKO MKP Maoist Party Centre
1972	1972	1972 invasion of Uganda^[374]	Uganda Libya Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)	Ugandan rebels People's Army UPC supporters Tanzania
1973	1973	1973 Samita border skirmish Part of Iraq–Kuwait relations	Iraq	Kuwait
1973	1977	1970s operation in Balochistan Part of the Insurgency in Balochistan and the Cold War	Pakistan Iran Supported by: Oman	Baloch separatists Pashtun Zalmay^[375]
1973	1973	1973 Chilean coup d'état Part of the Cold War in South America	Chilean Armed Forces Chilean Army Chilean Navy Chilean Air Force Carabineros de Chile Supported by: Nationals Christian Democrats (parts) Radical Democrats United States^[y] Canada^[378]^[379] Australia^[380] United Kingdom^[381]^[382]	Chilean Government Popular Unity GAP Revolutionary Left Movement Other working-class militants^[383] Supported by: Cuba
1968	1988	Armed resistance in Chile (1973–1990) Part of the Operation Condor and the Cold War	Junta Chilean Armed Forces Chilean Army Chilean Navy Chilean Air Force Police forces: Carabineros de Chile PDI DINA (1974–1977) CNI (1977–1990) Political support: RN PN AN UDI Supported by: Israel^[384] South Africa^[385] Francoist Spain Rhodesia^[386] Brazil India South Korea^[387] China^[388]^[389] Uruguay West Germany United States (until 1976)^[z]	Guerrillas MIR (1973–1987) FPMR (1983–1997) MAPU Lautaro (1982–1994) MIR-EGP-PL (1987–1994) GAP (1973) Cordones industriales (1973) Political support: PSCh PCCh Supported by: Nicaragua Cuba Libya^[391] Soviet Union North Korea EPR (Argentina) Tupamaros (Uruguay) ELN (Bolivia)
1973	1973	Yom Kippur War Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Cold War	Israel	Egypt Syria Expeditionary forces Saudi Arabia^[392] Algeria^[393] Jordan Libya Iraq Kuwait^[394] Tunisia Morocco^[395] Cuba North Korea^[396]
1973	Ongoing	Oromo conflict Part of the Ethiopian Civil War and Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)	Ethiopia Former combatants: Ethiopian Empire (until 1975) Derg (1975–87) PDRE (1987–91) TGE (1991–95)	OLF (until 2018) OLA (initially part of OLF, independent from 2018) IFLO (1985–87) EUPF (1993–2012)^[397] Supported by:^[aa] Eritrea (1998–2018)^[398] Egypt (alleged)^[399]
1974	1974	Battle of the Paracel Islands Part of the Vietnam War	China People's Liberation Army Navy of China	South Vietnam Republic of Vietnam Navy
1974	1974	Arube uprising	Ugandan government	Putschists
1974	1975	Second Iraqi–Kurdish War Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict and the Cold War	Iraq Supported by: Soviet Union^[400]	KDP Iran Supported by: Israel^[150] United States^[401]
1974	1975	1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict Part of the Arvand River dispute and the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War	Iran KDP	Iraq
1974	1974	Turkish invasion of Cyprus Part of the Cold War and Cyprus problem	Turkey Turkish Resistance Organisation	Republic of Cyprus EOKA B Greece
1974	1991	Ethiopian Civil War Part of the Eritrean War of Independence, the Ethiopian–Somali conflict, the Oromo conflict, the Cold War, and the Revolutions of 1989	EPRDF TPLF EPDM OPDO EPRP MEISON (from 1977) EDU OLF WSLF ALF Eritrean separatists: ELF (until 1981) EPLF Somali nationalists: WSLF ONLF^[402] Supported by: United States^[403] Somalia (1978–1991)^[404] China (from 1978)^[405] Romania (1978–1989)	Derg (1974–1987) PDR Ethiopia Supported by: Soviet Union (1974–1990) Cuba (1974–1990) South Yemen (1974–1990) Somali anti-Barre groups: USC SSDF SPM SNM
1974	1983	Dirty War Part of the Cold War and Operation Condor	Argentina Argentine Army Argentine Navy Argentine Air Force Secretariat of Intelligence Argentine Federal Police Argentine National Gendarmerie Argentine Naval Prefecture Argentine Anticommunist Alliance Justicialist Party (Right-wing faction) Supported by: Bolivia Brazil Chile Paraguay Peru Uruguay United States^[406]^[407]^[408] France Israel	ERP (1973–1979) Montoneros (1974–1980) FAP Resistencia Libertaria Supported by: Cuba
1975	1975	1975 Panjshir Valley uprising	Republic of Afghanistan	Forces loyal to Ahmad Shah Massoud
1975	1975	1975 China-India border skirmish	China	India
1975	Ongoing	Cabinda War Part of the Angolan Civil War (until 2002)	Angola Cuba (until 1991) Democratic People's Republic of Angola (1991) UNITA (joint operations, 1991) Military advisers and pilots: East Germany (until 1989)^[409] Soviet Union (until 1989)	FLEC FLEC-FAC Communist Committee of Cabinda Republic of Cabinda (1975–1976, 1999) Zaire (1975)^{[citation needed]}
1975	2002	Angolan Civil War Part of the aftermath of the Angolan War of Independence, and the Cold War (until 1991)	People's Republic of Angola/Republic of Angola MPLA Cuba (1975–1989) SWAPO (1975–1989)^[410] ANC (1975–1989)^[411]^[410] Executive Outcomes (1993–1995)^[412] FLNC (1975–2001)^[413]^[414] Namibia (2001–2002)^{[note 1]} Military advisers and pilots: Soviet Union (1975–1989)^[416]^[417] East Germany (1975–1989) North Korea (1980s)^{[note 2]}	Democratic People's Republic of Angola UNITA FNLA (1975–1976) FNLA (1976–1978)^[414] South Africa (1975–1989)^[418] Zaire (1975)^[421]^[414] FLEC
1975	1979	PUK insurgency Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	Iraq	PUK KDP
1975	1990^{[Note 1]}	Lebanese Civil War Part of the Cold War, Arab Cold War, Arab–Israeli conflict, Iran–Israel and Iran–Saudi proxy wars	Lebanese Front Kataeb Party Lebanese Forces Marada Brigades (until 1978) Guardians of the Cedars Al-Tanzim Lebanese Youth Movement (MKG) Tyous Team of Commandos Zahliote Group Shuraya Party Vanguard of the Maani Army (MDJ) (Other minor organizations) Army of Free Lebanon (until 1977) SLA (from 1976) Israel (from 1978) Tigers Militia (until 1980)	Lebanese National Movement (1975–1982) Jammoul (1982–1990) Al-Mourabitoun Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP) Communist Action Organization in Lebanon (OCAL) Lebanese Movement in Support of Fatah (LMSF) Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region Revolutionary Communist Group Sixth of February Movement Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party (SALVP) Popular Nasserist Organization (PNO) Lebanese Arab Army (LAA) Other minor organizations PLO (1975–1983) ASALA Hezbollah (1985–1990) Iran (from 1980, mainly IRGC and Army paramilitary units) Islamic Unification Movement (from 1982) Syria (1976, 1983–1991) Amal Movement PNSF Marada Brigades (left LF in 1978; aligned with Syria) Lebanese Armed Forces UNIFIL (from 1978) Multinational Force in Lebanon (1982–1984) United States UK France Italy Arab Deterrent Force (1976–1982)^[422] List Saudi Arabia (1976–1979) Sudan (1976–1979) UAE (1976–1979) Libya (1976 only) South Yemen (1976–1977)
1975	1991	Western Sahara War Part of the Western Sahara conflict	Morocco Mauritania (1975–1979) Supported by: United States France (1977–1978, aid from 1978) Saudi Arabia^[423]^[424]^[425]	Sahrawi Republic Supported by: Algeria (1976,^[426] aid from 1976) Libya (1976–1984)^[427]
1975	Ongoing	Insurgency in Laos Part of the Third Indochina War	Lao PDR Lao People's Revolutionary Party Supported by: Vietnam Vietnam People's Army (alleged direct involvement and intervention) Soviet Union (until 1989)	Lao Resistance Movement^[428] Hmong insurgents Supported by: Thailand (until 1990) United States (until 1990) Neo Hom (1981–2007)^[429]^[430] Royalists: Lao National Liberation Front Royal Lao Democratic Government (1982) Supported by: Royal Lao Government in Exile China (until 1988)^[431] Khmer Rouge (until 1999) Democratic Kampuchea (until 1979) Party of Democratic Kampuchea (1981–1990) Rightists: United Front for the Liberation of Laos Supported by: Thailand (early to mid–1980s)
1975	1976	Indonesian invasion of East Timor Part of the Cold War in Asia and the decolonisation of Asia (from 28 November)	Indonesia ABRI PGET UDT^[432] APODETI	East Timor FRETILIN (FALINTIL)
1976	Early 1980s	Rebellion of the Lost [pt]	Brazil	Rebels
1976	1982	Islamist uprising in Syria Part of the Arab Cold War and Assadist–Saddamist conflict	Syria Supported by: Soviet Union^[433]^[434]	Fighting Vanguard^[435]^[436] Muslim Brotherhood (after mid-1979)^[437]^[438] Pro-Iraqi Ba'athists^[439] Supported by: Ba'athist Iraq (1980–1982) Jordan^[440]^[441] West Germany^[442]
1976	2005	Insurgency in Aceh	Indonesia Indonesian National Armed Forces Indonesian National Police	Free Aceh Movement
1976	Ongoing	Corsican conflict	France French Armed Forces (1 barracks on Corsica) National Gendarmerie National Police Municipal Police Anti-separatist paramilitaries Front d'Action Nouvelle Contre l'Indépendance et l'Autonomie^[443] Criminal groups Corsican mafia	Corsican Separatist Paramilitaries National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) FLNC-Canal Historique (FLNC-CS) (1988–1998) FLNC-Canal Habituel (FLNC-CA) (1988–1997) Resistenza (1989–2003) Fronte Ribellu (1996–1999) FLNC-5 Maghju (FLNC-5M) (1996–1999) Armata Corsa (AC) (1999–2001) FLNC-Unione di i Cumbattenti (FLNC-UC) (1999–present) FLNC-22 Uttrovi (FLNC-22U) (2002–present) Armata di U Populu Corsu (APC) (2004–2006) FLNC-5 Maghju 1976 (FLNC-1976) (2007–present) FLNC-21 Maghju (FLNC-21M) (2021–present) Other small groups
1968	1980	Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980) Part of the Cold War	Nationalist Right-wing groups: Grey Wolves (MHP) Turkish Revenge Brigade Turkish mafia^[444] TÜRK-İŞ MİSK (MHP) Islamist Right-wing groups: Raiders Organization (MSP) Turkish National Student Union ---- Centre-right groups: Justice Party Republican Reliance Party Supported by: Counter-Guerrilla	Far-left groups: DEV-GENÇ TİİKP TKP/ML (TİKKO) THKO DEV-YOL THKP-C/MLSPB THKP-C Progressive Youth Association (TKP) DİSK Liberation Movement People's Path DEV-SOL Left-wing groups: Workers' Party of Turkey Unity Party Centre-left groups: Republican People's Party
1977	1977	1977 Shia uprising in Iraq^[445]	Ba'athist Iraq	Iraqi rebels
1977	1992	Mozambican Civil War Part of the aftermath of the Mozambican War of Independence, and the Cold War	Mozambique (People's Republic until 1990) FRELIMO UNAMO (1988–1992)^[446] ZANU (until 1979) Zimbabwe (from 1980) Soviet Union Tanzania Malawi (from 1987)^[447]	RENAMO PRM (merged with RENAMO in 1982) UNAMO (1987–1988)^[446] COREMO^[448] UNIPOMO^[449] FUMO^[449] Rhodesia (until 1979)^[450] Ex-Flechas^[449] South Africa (from 1978)^[451]
1977	1977	Shaba I Part of the Shaba Invasions and the Cold War	Zaire Morocco Egypt France Belgium Supported by: United States Saudi Arabia Sudan^[452] Nigeria^[453]^[454]	Congolese National Liberation Front (FNLC) Supported by: Angola Cuba Soviet Union East Germany^[455]
1977	1978	Ogaden War Part of the Ethiopian Civil War, the Ethiopian–Somali conflict, and the Cold War	Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union^[456] South Yemen^[457]	Somalia WSLF
1977	1977	Egyptian–Libyan War Part of the Arab Cold War	Egypt	Libya
1977	Ongoing	Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict Part of the Cold War and Terrorism in Bangladesh	First phase (1977–1997): Bangladesh Second phase (2022–present): Bangladesh PCJSS-MN Larma UPDF-D	First phase (1977–1997): Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti Logistical support: India^[458] Second phase (2022–present): PCJSS UPDF Second phase (2022–present): Kuki-Chin National Front
1978	1979	Iranian Revolution Part of Constitutionalization attempts in Iran and the Cold War	Revolutionary Council Islamist Opposition Combatant Clergy Association Islamic Association of Students Islamic Association of Teachers Islamic Association of Engineers Islamic Association of Physicians Islamic Coalition Societies Fada'iyan-e Islam Mojahedin Liberal Democratic Opposition Freedom Movement of Iran National Front JAMA Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Confederation of Iranian Students Leftist Opposition Mojahedin-e-Khalq Fadaiyan-e-Khalq Tudeh Party Sarbedaran Peykar Movement of Militant Muslims Razmandegan Worker's Way Komalah Union of Communist Militants	Imperial State of Iran Pro-Shah Groups Regency Council^[ab] Rastakhiz Party (until 1 November 1978) Imperial Army^[ac] Imperial Guard SAVAK Shahrbani Gendarmerie
1978	1987	Chadian–Libyan War Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Anti-Libyan Chadian factions FAT (1978–1979) FAN (1978–1983) FANT (1983–1987) GUNT (1986–1987) France Inter-African Force Zaire Nigeria Senegal NFSL Supported by: DR Sudan (1978–1985)^[459] Sudan (1985–1987)^[459] Egypt (1977–1981)^[459] Israel^[460] Iraq^[461] Algeria (pre-reapproachment)^[462] United States^[463]	Libya Islamic Legion^[459] Pro-Libyan Chadian factions FROLINAT GUNT (1979–1986) Codos (1983–1986) FAP (1978–1986) Pro-Libyan Palestinian and Lebanese groups^[464] PLO (1987)^[465]^[466] Abu Nidal Organization^[464] Supported by: Algeria^[462] East Germany Soviet Union
1978	1978	1978 South Lebanon conflict Part of the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Israeli–Lebanese conflict	Israel SLA	PLO
1978	1978	Saur Revolution Part of the Cold War and the Afghan conflict	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan	Republic of Afghanistan
1978	1978	Shaba II Part of the Shaba Invasions and the Cold War	Zaire France Belgium Morocco United States	FNLC
1978	1979	Uganda–Tanzania War	Tanzania Uganda National Liberation Front Kikosi Maalum Front for National Salvation Save Uganda Movement Others Mozambique Supported by: Zambia Angola Ethiopia Algeria	Uganda Libya Palestine Liberation Organization Supported by: Pakistan Saudi Arabia
1978	2025	Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency Part of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict	Turkey Ministry of National Defense General Staff Special Forces Command TAF Turkish Air Force Turkish Land Forces Turkish Naval Forces Ministry of Interior Turkish National Police Police Special Operations Gendarmerie General Command JİTEM (until early 1990s) JÖH Village Guards^[467]^[468] National Intelligence Organization Other forces: Counter-Guerrilla (until 1992) Grey Wolves (not militarily involved)^[469] Turkish Revenge Brigade (not militarily involved)^[470]^[471]^[472] Some Kurdish tribes (incorporated into Village Guards in 1985)^[473]^[474]	Kurdistan Communities Union PKK (until 2025) HPG YJA-STAR YDG-H: YPS YPS-Jin SDF YPG^[475]^[476]^[477]^[478]^[479]^[480] YPG International YPJ Anti-Terror Units PJAK YRK HPJ Sinjar Alliance Êzîdxan Women's Units Sinjar Resistance Units HBDH DKP MKP-HKO-PHG MLKP THKP-C/MLSPB-DC TKEP/L TKP/ML^[481] DK (until 2017)^{[note 3]} International Freedom Battalion Kurdish Hezbollah (1983–1991; 1998–2002)^[482]^[483]^[484]^[485]^[486]^[487] TAK
1978	1989	Cambodian–Vietnamese War Part of the Third Indochina War, the Cold War in Asia, and the Sino-Soviet split	Vietnam FUNSK (from 1978) Post-invasion: Until April 1989: Vietnam People's Republic of Kampuchea Cuba (reconstruction experts) From April 1989: State of Cambodia	Democratic Kampuchea (1977–1982) Thailand (border clashes) Post-invasion: Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (1982–1990) Khmer Rouge KPNLF FUNCINPEC Thailand (border clashes)^[488]
1978	1982	NDF Rebellion Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	North Yemen Islamic Front Supported by: Republic of China United States	NDF Supported by: South Yemen Libya
1979	1979	1979 Khuzestan insurgency Part of the Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution and Arab separatism in Khuzestan	Interim Government Islamic Republic of Iran (From 6 November)	DRFLA APCO PFLA AFLA Supported by: Iraq^[489]
1979	1979	Sino-Vietnamese War Part of the Third Indochina War, the Sino-Soviet split and the Cold War in Asia	China	Vietnam
1979	1991	Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) Part of the Third Indochina War, the Sino-Soviet Split and the Cold War in Asia	China	Vietnam
1979	1979	Yemenite War of 1979 Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	North Yemen	South Yemen
1979	1996	1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran Part of Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution, Iran–Iraq War, and Kurdish separatism in Iran	Interim Government Islamic Republic of Iran (1980−83)	KDP-I Komala IPFG OIPFG (Minority)^[490]^[491] Sipay Rizgari Supported by: Iraq^[492]
1979	1979	1979 Herat uprising Part of the 1979 uprisings in Afghanistan	Afghanistan Afghan Army Afghan Air Force	Jamiat-e Islami Iran^[493]
1979	1980	Al-Ansar insurgency	Ba'athist Iraq	Shi'ite rebels
1979	1980	1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq	Iraq	Shiite rebels
1979	1979	Grand Mosque seizure	Saudi Arabia Supported by: France^[494]^[495]^[496]^[497]	Ikhwan^[498]
1979^[ad]	1992	Salvadoran Civil War Part of the Central American crisis and the Cold War	Salvadoran government (Revolutionary Government Junta until 1982) Paramilitary death squads Foreign mercenaries (unknown number, possibly hundreds) Supported by: United States	FMLN (CRM, FDR) FPL (BPR) ERP (LP-28) RN (FARN, FAPU) PRTC (MLP) PCES (UDN) Supported by: Soviet Union Cuba Ethiopia^[510] Nicaragua
1979	1989	Soviet–Afghan War Part of the Cold War and the Afghan conflict	Afghan mujahideen	Soviet Union Afghanistan

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Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1980	1980	1980 Gafsa Uprising Part of the Cold War and the Arab Cold War	Tunisia Supported by: United States Sixth Fleet^[511] France Morocco	Arab Nationalist Rebels Supported by: Libya Algeria^[512]
1980	2000	Internal conflict in Peru Part of the Cold War (1980–1991) and the war on drugs (1980–present)	Government of Peru Supported by: Rondas campesinas^{[note 4]} ASPRET (since 2023) International support: China Colombia^[515] Cuba Japan North Korea^[516] Russia^[517]^[518] Soviet Union^[517] Spain^[519] United States^[520]^[521]	Shining Path (PCP-SL) CBMR (since 2001) CRH (2004–2012) FARC dissidents Supported by: FUDEPP (since 2014) Hezbollah (since 2016) ICL (since 2022) Libya (until 2011)^[522] ANO (1988) FARC-EP (until 2016) MOVADEF (2009–2024) RIM (1984–2012) MPCP^{[note 5]} Supported by: China (self-claim)^[524] ASPRET (until 2022) Ethnocacerists Supported by: ASPRET (2011–2022) Hezbollah MPCP (until 2022) FAR-EPT^{[note 6]} MRTA (1982–1997) Supported by: Cuba^[526] (denied) Libya^[526] Soviet Union^[526] FMLN^[527] M-19^[528] FSLN^[529]^[526]
1980	1980	Gwangju Uprising Part of the Minjung movement	South Korean Government Hanahoe DSC ROK Army National Police	Gwangju citizenry Protesters Armed citizens Citizens' Settlement Committee Students' Settlement Committee
1980	1980	Nojeh coup plot Part of the Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution	Islamic Republic of Iran Government of Islamic Republic of Iran Cabinet of Rajai Revolutionary Council Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization^[530] Intelligence aid: Tudeh Party (alleged)	Azadegan Organization Neqab Organisation Iran Patriotic Officers (NUPA) Supported by: Iraq (alleged)
1980	1980	Coconut War	Vanuatu Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands United Kingdom France	Nagriamel rebels Support: Phoenix Foundation
1980	1988	Iran–Iraq War Part of the Cold War, the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict	Iran KDP PUK ISCI Islamic Dawa Party Hezbollah^[531] Shia volunteers^[ae]	Iraq DRFLA^[538]^[539] MEK NCRI PDKI^[540] Salvation Force^[541] Arab volunteers^[af]
1980	1986	Ugandan Bush War Part of the Cold War	National Resistance Movement (NRM) PRA UFF West Nile rebels: Uganda Army (1980)^[550] UNRF (I) (1980–85)^[550] FUNA (1980–85)^[550] Nile Regiment^[551] UFM (1980–83) FEDEMU (1983–85)^[552] ULM^[553] UNLF-AD^[554] Rwenzururu movement (until 1982) Karamojong groups	Ugandan government UNLF/UPC FEDEMU (from 1985) FUNA (from 1985) UNRF (I) (from 1985) UFM (from 1985) Tanzania (until 1985) North Korea (1981–1985) Zaire (1986, alleged)^[555]
1981	1981	Paquisha War Part of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian conflicts	Peru	Ecuador
1981	1981	1981 Entumbane uprising Part of the aftermath of the Rhodesian Bush War	Zimbabwe	ZIPRA elements ZANLA elements
1981	1981	1981 Gambian coup d'état attempt Part of the Cold War	The Gambia Senegal Supported by: United Kingdom	Gambia Socialist Revolutionary Party
1982	Ongoing	Casamance conflict	Senegal Guinea-Bissau (1998–1999,^[556] 2021^[557]) Turkey (2021, alleged by MFDC)	MFDC Three main factions (Sadio, Badiatte, and Diatta Groups)^[558] Various splinter factions^[559] Guinea-Bissau rebels (1998–1999)^[560] Supported by: Guinea-Bissau (2000s, alleged)^[557] The Gambia (1994–2017)
1982	1982	1982 Amol uprising Part of the consolidation of the Iranian Revolution	Iran	Union of Iranian Communists
1982	1982	Falklands War Part of the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute	United Kingdom	Argentina
1982	1982	Ndogboyosoi War	All People's Congress (APC)	Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)
1982	1985	1982 Lebanon War Part of the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Israeli–Lebanese conflict	Israel Lebanese Forces South Lebanon Army	PLO Syria Others: Lebanese National Resistance Front Al-Mourabitoun PKK^[561]^[562]^[563]
1982	1982	1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict and the Somali Rebellion	Somalia	Ethiopia SSDF
1983	1983	Chadian–Nigerian War	Nigeria	Chad
1983	2005	Second Sudanese Civil War Part of the Sudanese Civil Wars and the South Sudanese wars of independence	SPLA SPLA-Mainstream^[564] SPLA-Agar SPDF ALF Titweng^[565] SSLM NDA Sudanese Alliance Forces^[566] Anyanya II Eastern Coalition Derg (until 1987)^[567] PDR Ethiopia (1987–1991)^[567] FDR Ethiopia (1995–1998)^[568] Eritrea (1996–1998, 2002–2005)^[569] Uganda (from 1993)^[570]^[571] Non-combat aid: Libya (1983–1985)^[572]^[573] Israel^[574] Cuba (until 1991)^[575]	Sudan Armed Forces PDF Army of Peace Muraheleen Ex-FAR and Interahamwe^[576] SSDF SPLA dissidents SPLA-Nasir SPLA-United^[564] SSIM/A Nuer White Army Ugandan insurgents: LRA^[577] WNBF^[578] UNRF (II)^[578] Zaire (1994–1997)^[579]^[580] al-Qaeda (1991–1996)^[581]^[568]^{[irrelevant citation]} Iraq^[ag] China^[ah] Combat aid: Libya (1986–1991)^[585]^[586] DR Congo (1998–2003) Non-combat aid: Iran^[587] Belarus (from 1996)^[588]^[589]
1983	2009	Sri Lankan Civil War Part of the Cold War, spillover into the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection	Sri Lanka India (1987–1990)	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Other Tamil militant groups
1983	1987	Eelam War I Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
1983	1986	1983–1986 Kurdish rebellions in Iraq Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict and the Iran–Iraq War	Iraq	KDP Supported by: Iran PUK Kurdish mujahideen
1983	1983	United States invasion of Grenada Part of the Cold War	United States Grenadian Opposition Caribbean Peace Force: Barbados Jamaica Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Grenada (PRG) Cuba Soviet Union
1984	2003	Siachen conflict Part of the Kashmir conflict	India	Pakistan
1982	2000	South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Hezbollah Amal Lebanese Communist Party Jammoul PFLP–GC	Israel South Lebanon Army
1985	1985	Agacher Strip War	Mali	Burkina Faso
1986	1986	South Yemen Civil War Part of the Arab Cold War	al-Toghmah	al-Zomrah
1986	1986	1986 United States bombing of Libya Part of the Cold War	United States	Libya
1986	1992	Surinamese Interior War	Surinamese National Army	Jungle Commando Tucayana Amazonas
1986	1987	Ciskei-Transkei conflict	Ciskei	Transkei Ciskei dissidents
1986	1987	Sumdorong Chu standoff	India	China
1987	1989	1987–1989 JVP insurrection Part of the Cold War and Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka India Pro-government paramilitaries: Eagles of the Central Hills Black Cats ...and at least 8 other minor groups Anti-JVP leftist militias: Peoples Revolutionary Red Army Vikalpa Kandayama^[590]	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya Patriotic People's Armed Troops
1987	1989	War of the Tribes	Tajammu al-Arabi Sudan Supported by: Libya	Fur tribes Supported by: Chad
1987	1991	Singing Revolution Part of the Revolutions of 1989 and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union	Estonia Popular Front of Estonia Estonian Citizens' Committee Congress of Estonia Heritage Society MRP-AEG Estonian National Independence Party Estonian Social Democratic Independence Party Communist Party (pro-independence faction) Estonian Social Democratic Party Latvia Popular Front of Latvia Helsinki-86 Latvian National Independence Movement Citizens' Congress Environmental Protection Club Communist Party (pro-independence faction) Latvian Social Democratic Party Lithuania Sąjūdis Lithuanian Liberty League Communist Party (pro-independence faction) Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania Lithuanian Riflemen's Union	Soviet Union Soviet Army KGB OMON Interfront Communist Party of Lithuania (pro-Moscow faction) Yedinstvo Communist Party of Latvia (pro-Moscow faction) International Front of the Working People of Latvia Communist Party of Estonia (pro-Moscow faction) Intermovement
1987	1993	First Intifada Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel	Al-Qiyada al-Muwhhada Fatah Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestinian Communist Party Hamas Palestinian Islamic Jihad
1987	Ongoing	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Part of the Cold war (Until 1991)	Uganda Zaire (until 1997) DR Congo (from 1997) Central African Republic (from 2008) South Sudan Arrow Boys UFDR MONUC^[591] Russia (since April 2024) Wagner Group^[592] Supported by: United States (2011–2017)^[593]^[594]^[595] North Korea(until 1990s)	Lord's Resistance Army Supported by: Sudan (1994–2002)^[596] Allied Democratic Forces
1988	1994	First Nagorno-Karabakh War Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the Wars in the Caucasus	Nagorno-Karabakh^[ai] Armenia^[aj] Armenian Revolutionary Federation Foreign groups: Kuban Cossacks^[597] Ossetian volunteers^[598] Slavic mercenaries^[599]	Azerbaijan (from 1991) Soviet Union (until 1991)^[ak] Azerbaijan SSR Foreign groups: Hezbe Wahdat^[604] Hezb-e-Islami^[605] Grey Wolves^[606] Chechen volunteers^[607] UNA-UNSO^[608]^[609]^[610] Slavic mercenaries^[599] Turkish volunteers^[611]^[612]
1988	1988	1988 Maldives coup d'état attemptPart of the Indian Intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war	India Maldives	People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam Maldivian rebels
1988	1998	Bougainville conflict	Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) Supported by: Solomon Islands Fiji (alleged)	Papua New Guinea Buka Liberation Front Bougainville Resistance Force Supported by: Australia Indonesia^[613]
1989	1989	1989 Paraguayan coup d'état	1st Army Corps	Government of Paraguay
1989	1992	Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) Part of the Cold War, Revolutions of 1989, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Afghan conflict	Afghan Interim Government^[614] Jamiat-e Islami Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (until July 1989)^[614] National Islamic Front of Afghanistan Ittehad-e Islami Hezb-i Islami Khalis Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami^[615] Independent Factions: Khalq (1990)^[616] Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (from July 1989)^[614] Junbish-i Milli (from 1992) Foreign Mujahideen: Al Qaeda^[617] Maktab al-Khidamat Various factions also fought among each other Supported by: Pakistan United States Saudi Arabia United Kingdom China Germany Iran	Republic of Afghanistan Supported by: Soviet Union (until 1991) India Commonwealth of Independent States (from 1991)^[618] Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Russia (until January 1992)
1989	1991	Mauritania–Senegal Border War	Mauritania Supported by: Syria Iraq	Senegal FLAM
1989	1996	KDPI insurgency (1989–1996) Part of the Kurdish separatism in Iran	Iran	KDP-I
1989	Ongoing	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Part of the Kashmir conflict	India Indian Armed Forces Indian Army Central Armed Police Force Jammu and Kashmir Police	Political Parties: APHC JIJK Armed groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba TRF JeM MJC HuJI Hizbul Mujahideen PAFF Other separatist movements & insurgent militant groups^[619]^[620]^[621] Former armed groups: JKLF (active until 1992) HUM (active until 2001) Al-Umar-Mujahideen (active until 2006) DeM^[10] (active until 2018) Al-Badr (active until 2022) Al-Qaeda^[622] AQIS^[623] AGH (active until 2022) Supported by: Pakistan D-Company^[624] Islamic State IS Hind^[625] ISJK^[626] (until 2019)
1989	1989	1989 Philippine coup d'état attempt	Philippines United States (minor air support)	Reform the Armed Forces Movement
1989	1989	Romanian Revolution Part of the Revolutions of 1989	Revolutionaries Anti-communists Communist Party dissidents After 22 December 1989: National Salvation Front Romanian Armed Forces	Government (until 22 December 1989) Securitate Miliția Army of the Socialist Republic of Romania Communist Party loyalists
1989	1990	United States invasion of Panama the war on drugs and Cold War	United States	Panama
1989	1997	First Liberian Civil War the Liberian Civil Wars and spillover of the Sierra Leone Civil War	Anti-Doe Armed Forces elements NPFL INPFL (1989–1992) NPFL-CRC (1994–1996) Supported by: Libya Burkina Faso RUF	Liberian government Loyalist Armed Forces elements ULIMO (1991–1994) ULIMO-K (1994–1996) ULIMO-J (1994–1996) LPC (1993–1996) LUDF (later becoming ULIMO) LDF (1993–1996) Supported by: ECOMOG Nigeria (from 1990) Ghana (from 1990) Guinea (from 1990) The Gambia (from 1990) Sierra Leone (1990–1991) UNOMIL (September 22, 1993 – September 12, 1997)

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Notes

[a]
1948-1949, after Operation Kraai
[b]
after 1947
[c]
from 1946
[d]
claimed neutrality
[e]
until 1946
[f]
Jammu and Kashmir fought a Pakistani invasion of its territories as a sovereign princely state from 22 October 1947 to 26 October 1947, when it signed an instrument of accession to India in exchange for military support.^[13] After this point, Jammu and Kashmir fought as an autonomous princely state within the Union of India until the end of the war.
[g]
The government of Myanmar refers to all insurgent groups as "ethnic armed organisations", including groups like the All Burma Students' Democratic Front and Communist Party of Burma, which do not fight for a specific ethnic group's interests.^[16]
[h]
After 22 September 1948
[i]
Lebanon had decided to not participate in the war and only took part in the battle of al-Malikiya on 5–6 June 1948.^[20]
[j]
On 9 July 1951 troop constituents were: US: 70.4%; ROK: 23.3%; other UNC: 6.3%.^[27]
[k]
The name Kenya Land and Freedom Army is sometimes heard in connection with Mau Mau. KLFA was the name that Dedan Kimathi used for a coordinating body which he tried to set up for Mau Mau. It was also the name of another militant group that sprang up briefly in the spring of 1960; the group was broken up during a brief operation from 26 March to 30 April.^[31]
[l]
Covertly
[m]
ONUC, the United Nations Operation in the Congo, included troops from Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Ethiopia, Ireland, Guinea, Sweden, Mali, Sudan, Liberia, Canada, India, Indonesia and the United Arab Republic among others.^[75]
[n]
The secession of Katanga and South Kasai was also supported by South Africa, France, Portuguese Angola and the neighbouring Central African Federation.^[76]^[77] However, neither was ever officially recognised by any state.^[78]
[o]
Before Federation, the three separate entities Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo participated independently
[p]
Until 1965
[q]
Muscat and Oman before 1970.
[r]
Portuguese forces assisted the Rhodesians in cross-border operations into Portuguese Mozambique. See Operation Flotilla and Operation Birch.
[s]
Close air support
[t]
Invasion cancelled, troops prepared, part of the executive staff
[u]
The exact starting date of the Troubles is disputed; the most common dates proposed include the formation of the modern Ulster Volunteer Force in 1966,^[350] the civil rights march in Derry on 5 October 1968, the beginning of the 'Battle of the Bogside' on 12 August 1969 or the deployment of British troops on 14 August 1969.
[v]
During Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed's military junta and Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem's interim government
[w]
Non-BJSL aligned trade unionists were considered enemies by the BAKSAL regime
[x]
From 15 August to 6 November
[y]
The United States was not involved in the logistics and planification of the 11th September, 1973 coup but wanted the fall of Allende and helped opposition groups marginally.^[376]^[377]
[z]
The Kennedy Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act (1976) created an US. weapon embargo against Chile^[390]
[aa]
Alleged by the government of Ethiopia.^{[citation needed]}
[ab]
Regency Council was practically dissolved on 22 January 1979, when its head resigned to meet Ruhollah Khomeini.
[ac]
Imperial Iranian Army revoked their allegiance to the throne and declared neutrality on 11 February 1979.
[ad]
Three dates that are often cited as the start date of the Salvadoran Civil War: 15 October 1979 when the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état occurred,^[499]^[500]^: 155^[501]^: 206^[502]^: 4^[503]^: 40 sometime during 1980,^[504]^{: 221 & 223}^[505]^: 688^[506]^: 781^[507]^: 211 and 10 January 1981 when the final offensive of 1981 began.^[508]^: 242^[509]^: 31
[ae]
from:
Afghanistan^[532]^[533]

Iraq^[534]

Lebanon^[535]

Pakistan^[536]

Kuwait^[537]

Bahrain^[537]

India^[537]
[af]
from:^[542]^[543]
Egypt^[542]

Jordan^[544]^[545]^[546]

Morocco^[543]^[542]

North Yemen^[547]

Sudan^[548]^[549]

Tunisia^[542]
[ag]
Iraqi support for Sudan during the war mostly consisted of weapons shipments;^[582] according to the South Sudanese, however, at least one unit of Iraqi paratroopers fought alongside the SAF near Juba. About 200 Iraqi soldiers were allegedly killed, and the site of their remains became known as "Jebel Iraqi".^[583] The International Institute for Strategic Studies also stated that Iraqi forces fought alongside Sudanese government troops.^[584]
[ah]
Although China was not officially involved in the war, it sent troops to the country in order to protect oil fields and thereby aid the Sudanese military. China also provided Sudan with weaponry.^[584]
[ai]
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) until 1991.
[aj]
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Armenia) until 1990 (renamed Republic of Armenia)/1991 (declared independence).
[ak]
Soviet authorities generally sided with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.^[600] Soviet troops were present in Nagorno-Karabakh for 2+1⁄2 years and supported Azerbaijani militias.^[601] Soviet troops directly intervened during Operation Ring in April–May 1991 on the Azerbaijani side.^[602]^[603]

[1]
Disbanded by police.
[2]
Disbanded by members due to increasing police pressure. Most already joined the Red Brigades; others focused on politics.
[3]
Dismantled by police. Members merged into the Red Brigades and Partisan Action Groups.
[4]
Dismantled by police.
[5]
Disbanded due to internal feuds. Some members merged into the Red Brigades whilst others formed Prima Linea.
[6]
Disbanded due to internal disagreements. Some members merged into the group Autonomous Worker.
[7]
Dissolved due to police pressure and members merging into the PAC, Red Brigades, and Prima Linea. Those imprisoned often associated with NAP.
[8]
Banned, some joined Ordine Nero.
[9]
Banned. Its members joined Ordine Nero.
[10]
Dismantled.
[11]
Dissolved by police. Used by NAR as a cover name later on.

[1]
Irritated by UNITA cross-border raids, the Namibian Defence Force retaliated by sending units into southern Angola and destroying a UNITA training camp at Licua in late January 2001.^[415] The Namibian troops were not withdrawn from Angola until May 2002.^[415]
[2]
The North Korean Military Mission in Angola had about 1,500 personnel attached to FAPLA in 1986, most likely advisers, although their exact duties are uncertain.^[418] Their presence in Angola may have been indirectly subsidised by the Soviet Union.^[419] Up to 3,000 North Korean military personnel served in Angola throughout the 1980s.^[420]
[3]
Merged with the Revolutionary Communard Party (DKP) in 2017.
[4]
These autonomous units have been organised by the Armed Forces since 1982, taking the name of "Self-Defence Committees" (CAD) since 1991.^[513] Since its establishment in 2006, most rondas have been organised under the Sole National Central of Peasant Rounds of Peru (CUNARC-P).^[514]
[5]
Until 2018, the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP) was unofficially referred to as the "Shining Path remnants" (Remanentes de Sendero Luminoso) or as the "Shining Path in the VRAEM" (Sendero Luminoso en el VRAEM). The Peruvian government continues to refer to the MPCP as the direct successor to the Shining Path.^[523]
[6]
The Revolutionary Armed Forces – Tupacamarist People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias – Ejército Popular Tupacamarista) was established in 2015 by Julio César Vásquez Vásquez, a former member of the MRTA.^[525]

List of wars: 1945–1989

1945–1949

1950–1959

1960–1969

1970–1979

1980–1989

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