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List of wars involving Bangladesh

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This is a list of battles and wars that involved or occurred in Bangladesh since its formation.

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Conflict	Bangladesh and allied forces	Opposition forces	Results
Bangladeshi War of Independence (1971) Location: Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bay of Bengal	Bangladesh India (3–16 December 1971)	Pakistan	Victory Independence of Bangladesh
Internal conflict in Bangladesh (1972–present) Location: Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Various anti-Government groups	Ongoing First phase crushed Establishment of military rule in Bangladesh Second phase crushed Signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord^[1] Preservation of the territorial integrity of Bangladesh Third phase ongoing
Communist insurgency in Bangladesh (1972–1975) Location: Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Communist insurgents Gonobahini Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party	Victory Crushing of the insurgency Establishment of military rule in Bangladesh
Chittagong Hill Tracts Conflict (1977–1997) Location: Chittagong Hill Tracts	Bangladesh	Tribal insurgents Shanti Bahini Supported by: India (alleged)^[2]^[3]	Victory Signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord^[1] Preservation of the territorial integrity of Bangladesh
Gulf War (Operation Moru-prantar) (1991) Location: Iraq and Kuwait	Bangladesh United States Kuwait France Saudi Arabia United Kingdom and other states: Syria^[4] Morocco Oman Pakistan Canada United Arab Emirates Qatar Thailand Italy Australia Netherlands Niger Philippines Sweden Argentina Senegal Spain Bahrain Belgium Poland South Korea Singapore Norway Czechoslovakia Greece Denmark^[5] New Zealand Hungary	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait
Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2002) Location: Sierra Leone	Bangladesh Sierra Leone Pakistan Guinea Nigeria Jordan and other states: Ghana United Kingdom United States Kenya Belarus Russia India Ukraine Norway Germany New Zealand	RUF AFRC (1997–2002) West Side Boys (1998–2000) Liberia (1997–2002) NPFL (1991–2002) Libya Burkina Faso Moldova	Victory Rebels defeated.
1999 East Timorese crisis (1999–2005) Location: East Timor	Bangladesh Timor-Leste Pakistan Malaysia Turkey Jordan and other states: Egypt Tajikistan Singapore Senegal Niger Nigeria Gambia Benin New Zealand Thailand Argentina Australia Austria Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Denmark Fiji France Germany Ghana Ireland Italy Japan Kenya Mexico Mozambique Namibia Nepal Norway Peru Philippines Portugal Russia Samoa Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Spain South Korea Sri Lanka Sweden Ukraine Uruguay United Kingdom United States Vanuatu Zambia Zimbabwe	Pro-Indonesia militia	Victory Stabilisation of East Timor and defeat of militia. 1 Bangladeshi killed and 1 wounded by IED^[6]
2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes (2001) Location: Kurigram	Bangladesh	India	Inconclusive Bangladesh later agreed to return the bodies of 16 Indian soldiers the next day.
Bangladesh Rifles Revolt (2009) Location: Dhaka	Bangladesh	Mutineers from Bangladesh Rifles	Victory Crushing of the revolt^[7]
Central African Republic Civil War (2012–present) Operation BEKPA 2 Location:Central African Republic	Central African Republic Russia Rwanda Bangladesh (As a part of MINUSCA)	Coalition of Patriots for Change Republic of Logone MPC PRNC Lord's Resistance Army	Ongoing Bangladesh sent special operations forces to operate as MINUSCA in Central African Republic^[8]^[9]

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