List of wars involving the United Arab Emirates

Ras Al Khaimah

• Al-Qawasim

United Kingdom

• East India Company

• Over half of the largest vessels destroyed at Ras Al Khaimah

Ras Al Khaimah

• Al-Qawasim

United Kingdom

• East India Company

Supported by Omani Empire

• Hassan bin Rahma Al Qasimi deposed
• Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi restored as ruler
• Signing of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820

Bahrain
Abu Dhabi (1867)

Qatar

• British intervention and signing of the Anglo-Bahraini Treaty of 1868
• British recognition of Al-Thani in Qatar
• Independence of Qatar from Bahrain

• No territorial changes
• British-mediated peace agreement in 1893

Trucial Emirates

• Emirate of Abu Dhabi

British Empire
Supported by
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman
Aden Protectorate

Supported by

• Al Bu Shamis tribe
• Na'im tribe

• Surrender of Saudi forces
• Ceasefire agreement with Bedouin tribes
• Saudi Arabia withdraws and Oman regains control of Na'im and Al Bu Shamis, Buraimi and Hamasah
• Emirate of Abu Dhabi consolidates control of Al Ain
• Start of the Saudi Arabia – United Arab Emirates border dispute

• Syria
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• United Arab Emirates
• Libya
• South Yemen

• ADF mission goals achieved^[1]
• ADF becomes an all-Syrian force in 1979

• State of Kuwait resumes self-governance over all Kuwaiti sovereign territory
• Establishment of a demilitarized zone and construction of a separation barrier along the Iraq–Kuwait border

Anti-Gaddafi forces

Qatar

NATO

• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Denmark
• France
• Greece
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Norway^[4]
• Poland (only humanitarian and medical aid)^[5]
• Romania
• Spain
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States

Minor border clashes:
Tunisia

• Tunisian Army
• Tunisian Police

Supported by:
 Egypt^[8][9]

• Complete overthrow and collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
• Killing of Muammar Gaddafi and end of his rule over Libya on 20 October 2011
• Start and continuation of the Libyan Crisis
• Assumption of interim control by National Transitional Council; remained in power until August 8, 2012
• UN authorisation of NATO led military intervention
• Diplomatic recognition of NTC as sole governing authority for Libya by 105 countries, UN, EU, AL and AU
• Factional violence in the aftermath of the war leading to another civil war in 2014

• Ceasefire ratified on 23 October 2020
• Egyptian military intervention

• Unilateral US-Arab intervention against Syrian Islamists

• Houthis
• Saleh loyalists

• Houthis dissolve Yemeni government
• Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
• War between the Hadi government and the STC

United States

United Arab Emirates

Iran

• Iranian missile and drone retaliation which involved the bombing of cities and infrastructure in the UAE
• Damage reported at Dubai International Airport and many other civilian infrastructure^[10]
• UAE authorities reported interception of some of the incoming missiles^[11]