List of wars involving Azerbaijan

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Azerbaijan and its predecessor states, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Caucasus Campaign of World War I (1914–1918)	Ottoman Empire 1918: Azerbaijan 1918: Germany Georgia Northern Caucasus	1914–1917: Russian Empire 1917: Russian Provisional Government Russian Republic Russian SFSR 1917–1918: Transcaucasian DFR 1918: Armenia United Kingdom Centrocaspian Dictatorship Baku Commune	Inconclusive See § Aftermath Independence of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Ottomans cedes Erzurum, Van, Trabzon to Armenia^[1]
Russian Civil War (1917–1922^[2])	Separatists: Poland Finland Ukraine Belarus Estonia Latvia Lithuania Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Northern Caucasus Basmachi	Bolsheviks: Russian SFSR Byelorussian SSR Ukrainian SSR Transcaucasian SFSR Regional forces White movement: Russian State South Russia Anti-Bolshevik left: Left SRs Green Army Makhnovshchina Right SRs and Mensheviks Allied Powers: Japan United Kingdom United States France Czechoslovakia Central Powers: Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire	Bolshevik victory (see § Aftermath)^[3]^[4]^[5] Establishment of the Soviet Union
Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920)	Azerbaijan Ottoman Empire Republic of Aras (1918–1919)	Armenia Russian SFSR Azerbaijani communists Armenian communists Turkish revolutionaries (1920)	Inconclusive Soviet invasion of Armenia and Azerbaijan, and subsequent victory Sovietization of Armenia and Azerbaijan Disputes over Karabakh and Nakhchivan settled in favor of Soviet Azerbaijan Most of Zangezur gained by Soviet Armenia
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan (1920)^{[citation needed]}	Azerbaijan	Russian SFSR Azerbaijani Bolsheviks Supported by: Ankara government	Soviet victory Overthrow of the ADR government Establishment of Azerbaijan SSR

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
World War II (1939–1945)	Soviet Union Soviet Azerbaijan	Germany Azerbaijani Legion	Victory 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom perished. Up to 40,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht.
Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)	Soviet Union Soviet Azerbaijan	Afghan Mujahideen	Defeat Afghan Mujahideen Victory Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan 10,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 200 of whom perished.^[6]

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)	Azerbaijan	Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia (1992–1994)	Defeat Armenian victory^[7]
2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict^{[citation needed]} (2016)	Azerbaijan	Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia	Inconclusive Inconclusive (see aftermath) Azerbaijan claims victory^[8]^[9] Armenia claims to have successfully repelled the Azerbaijani offensive^[10]^[11]
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020)	Azerbaijan	Artsakh Armenia	Victory Azerbaijani victory^[12]^[13]
Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh (2023)	Azerbaijan	Artsakh	Victory^[14] 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement Armenian-affiliated Artsakh state dissolved

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops (peak)
KFOR	1999	2008	Kosovo	34
MNF-I	2003	2008	Iraq	250
ISAF	2008	2021	Afghanistan	94

List of wars involving Azerbaijan

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Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920)

Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (1920–1991)

Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–)

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