1800 CE – 2026 CE
Conflicts of the modern era
311 conflicts whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.
Europe · 55
French Revolutionary Wars 1792 CE – 1802 CE Napoleonic Wars 1803 CE – 1815 CE Peninsular War 1807 CE – 1814 CE Finnish War 1808 CE – 1809 CE Greek War of Independence 1821 CE – 1829 CE Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) 1828 CE – 1829 CE Belgian Revolution 1830 CE – 1831 CE French Conquest of Algeria 1830 CE – 1847 CE Carlist Wars 1833 CE – 1876 CE First Schleswig War 1848 CE – 1851 CE Italian Wars of Unification 1848 CE – 1871 CE Crimean War 1853 CE – 1856 CE Second Schleswig War 1864 CE Austro-Prussian War 1866 CE Franco-Prussian War 1870 CE – 1871 CE Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 1877 CE – 1878 CE Ilinden Uprising (Macedonia) 1903 CE Balkan Wars 1912 CE – 1913 CE World War I 1914 CE – 1918 CE Russian Civil War 1917 CE – 1922 CE Ukrainian War of Independence 1917 CE – 1921 CE Estonian War of Independence 1918 CE – 1920 CE Finnish Civil War 1918 CE Latvian War of Independence 1918 CE – 1920 CE Polish-Ukrainian War 1918 CE – 1919 CE Greco-Turkish War 1919 CE – 1922 CE Irish War of Independence 1919 CE – 1921 CE Polish–Soviet War 1919 CE – 1921 CE Turkish War of Independence 1919 CE – 1923 CE Rif War 1921 CE – 1926 CE Irish Civil War 1922 CE – 1923 CE Sheikh Said Rebellion 1925 CE Spanish Civil War 1936 CE – 1939 CE Dersim Rebellion 1937 CE – 1938 CE Winter War 1939 CE – 1940 CE World War II 1939 CE – 1945 CE Continuation War 1941 CE – 1944 CE Yugoslav People's Liberation War 1941 CE – 1945 CE Lapland War 1944 CE – 1945 CE Greek Civil War 1946 CE – 1949 CE Algerian War of Independence 1954 CE – 1962 CE Hungarian Revolution 1956 CE The Troubles 1968 CE – 1998 CE Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 CE Turkish Invasion of Cyprus 1974 CE Kurdish–Turkish Conflict 1984 CE – 2026 CE Croatian War of Independence 1991 CE – 1995 CE Yugoslav Wars 1991 CE – 2001 CE Algerian Civil War 1992 CE – 2002 CE Bosnian War 1992 CE – 1995 CE Kosovo War 1998 CE – 1999 CE Russo-Georgian War 2008 CE Chechen Guerrilla Resistance 2009 CE – 2017 CE War in Donbas 2014 CE – 2022 CE Russia–Ukraine War 2022 CE – 2026 CE
Middle East · 46
Wahhabi Wars / First Saudi State 1744 CE – 1818 CE Russo-Persian Wars 1804 CE – 1828 CE Ethiopian–Egyptian War 1874 CE – 1876 CE Mahdist War 1881 CE – 1899 CE Anglo-Egyptian War 1882 CE First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895 CE – 1896 CE Arab Revolt (WWI) 1916 CE – 1918 CE Franco-Syrian War 1920 CE Iraqi Revolt of 1920 1920 CE Great Syrian Revolt 1925 CE – 1927 CE Arab Revolt in Palestine 1936 CE – 1939 CE Anglo-Iraqi War 1941 CE 1948 Arab-Israeli War 1948 CE – 1949 CE Suez Crisis 1956 CE Eritrean War of Independence 1961 CE – 1991 CE North Yemen Civil War 1962 CE – 1970 CE Aden Emergency 1963 CE – 1967 CE Dhofar Rebellion 1963 CE – 1976 CE Six-Day War 1967 CE War of Attrition 1967 CE – 1970 CE Black September (Jordanian Civil War) 1970 CE – 1971 CE Yom Kippur War 1973 CE Ethiopian Civil War 1974 CE – 1991 CE Lebanese Civil War 1975 CE – 1990 CE Iran-Iraq War 1980 CE – 1988 CE 1982 Lebanon War 1982 CE – 1985 CE Tanker War (Iran–Iraq War naval phase) 1984 CE – 1988 CE First Intifada 1987 CE – 1993 CE Nagorno-Karabakh Wars 1988 CE – 2023 CE Gulf War 1990 CE – 1991 CE First Chechen War 1994 CE – 1996 CE Chechen Interwar Period 1996 CE – 1999 CE Eritrean–Ethiopian War 1998 CE – 2000 CE Second Chechen War 1999 CE – 2009 CE Second Intifada 2000 CE – 2005 CE Iraq War 2003 CE – 2011 CE Second Lebanon War 2006 CE Houthi-Saudi Border Conflict 2009 CE – 2010 CE Syrian Civil War 2011 CE – 2024 CE Yemen Civil War & Houthi Campaign 2014 CE – 2026 CE Second Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020 CE Tigray War 2020 CE – 2022 CE Israel–Gaza War 2023 CE – 2026 CE Sudan Civil War 2023 CE – 2026 CE Israel–Lebanon War 2024 CE – 2026 CE 2026 Iran War 2026 CE
South Asia · 29
Durrani Empire Conquests 1747 CE – 1823 CE Anglo-Maratha Wars 1775 CE – 1818 CE First Anglo-Afghan War 1839 CE – 1842 CE Sino-Sikh War (Dogra-Tibetan War) 1841 CE – 1842 CE Anglo-Sikh Wars 1845 CE – 1849 CE Indian Frontier Campaigns 1849 CE – 1898 CE Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857 CE – 1858 CE Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878 CE – 1880 CE British Expedition to Tibet 1903 CE – 1904 CE Third Anglo-Afghan War 1919 CE Waziristan Campaigns 1919 CE – 1939 CE Moplah Revolt (Malabar Rebellion) 1921 CE First Kashmir War 1947 CE – 1949 CE Indo-Pakistani Wars 1947 CE – 1971 CE Tibetan Uprising 1959 CE Sino-Indian War 1962 CE Second Kashmir War 1965 CE Naxalite–Maoist Insurgency 1967 CE – 2026 CE Bangladeshi War of Independence 1971 CE Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971 CE Sri Lankan Tamil Insurgency 1976 CE – 1983 CE Soviet–Afghan War 1979 CE – 1989 CE Sri Lankan Civil War 1983 CE – 2009 CE Nepalese Civil War 1996 CE – 2006 CE Kargil War 1999 CE War in Afghanistan 2001 CE – 2020 CE Insurgency in Balochistan 2004 CE – 2026 CE 2025 India–Pakistan Conflict 2025 CE 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan War 2026 CE
East Asia · 44
Konbaung–Siam Wars 1759 CE – 1855 CE Tay Son Rebellion 1771 CE – 1802 CE White Lotus Rebellion 1796 CE – 1804 CE Anglo-Burmese Wars 1824 CE – 1885 CE First Opium War 1839 CE – 1842 CE Nien Rebellion 1851 CE – 1868 CE Taiping Rebellion 1851 CE – 1864 CE Panthay Rebellion 1856 CE – 1873 CE Second Opium War 1856 CE – 1860 CE Dungan Revolt 1862 CE – 1877 CE Boshin War 1868 CE – 1869 CE Dutch–Aceh War 1873 CE – 1914 CE Satsuma Rebellion 1877 CE Sino-French War 1884 CE – 1885 CE Donghak Peasant Revolution 1894 CE – 1895 CE First Sino-Japanese War 1894 CE – 1895 CE Philippine Revolution 1896 CE – 1898 CE Boxer Rebellion 1899 CE – 1901 CE Philippine-American War 1899 CE – 1902 CE Boxer Protocol and Eight-Nation Alliance 1900 CE – 1901 CE Russo-Japanese War 1904 CE – 1905 CE Xinhai Revolution 1911 CE – 1912 CE Northern Expedition (China) 1926 CE – 1928 CE Chinese Civil War 1927 CE – 1949 CE Central Plains War (China) 1930 CE Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1931 CE – 1932 CE Second Sino-Japanese War 1937 CE – 1945 CE Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939 CE Franco-Thai War 1940 CE – 1941 CE Soviet Invasion of Manchuria (Operation August Storm) 1945 CE First Indochina War 1946 CE – 1954 CE Hukbalahap Rebellion 1946 CE – 1954 CE Malayan Emergency 1948 CE – 1960 CE Chinese Annexation of Tibet 1950 CE – 1951 CE Korean War 1950 CE – 1953 CE Vietnam War 1955 CE – 1975 CE Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (Konfrontasi) 1963 CE – 1966 CE Cambodian Civil War 1967 CE – 1975 CE Moro Conflict 1968 CE – 2019 CE Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1969 CE Aceh Insurgency (GAM) 1976 CE – 2005 CE Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1977 CE – 1991 CE Sino-Vietnamese War 1979 CE Myanmar Civil War 2021 CE – 2026 CE
Africa · 69
Kanem–Bornu Wars 700 CE – 1846 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1550 CE – 1836 CE Rozvi Empire Wars 1684 CE – 1834 CE Oyo–Dahomey Wars 1726 CE – 1823 CE Merina Unification of Madagascar 1787 CE – 1828 CE First Barbary War 1801 CE – 1805 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate 1804 CE – 1808 CE Ashanti–Fante Wars 1806 CE – 1831 CE Mfecane (The Crushing) 1815 CE – 1840 CE Rise of the Zulu Kingdom (Mfecane) 1816 CE – 1828 CE Anglo-Ashanti Wars 1824 CE – 1900 CE El Hadj Umar Tall's Jihad 1852 CE – 1864 CE Fall of Kaabu 1867 CE Anglo-Zulu War 1879 CE First Boer War 1880 CE – 1881 CE Mandinka Wars (Samori Ture's Resistance) 1883 CE – 1898 CE Franco-Dahomean Wars 1890 CE – 1894 CE Matabele Wars 1893 CE – 1897 CE Second Boer War 1899 CE – 1902 CE Somaliland Campaign (Dervish War) 1899 CE – 1920 CE Wadai War (French Conquest of Chad) 1899 CE – 1913 CE Herero and Nama War 1904 CE – 1908 CE Maji Maji Rebellion 1905 CE – 1907 CE Bambatha Rebellion 1906 CE Italo-Senussi War 1911 CE – 1932 CE Italo-Turkish War 1911 CE – 1912 CE East African Campaign (WWI) 1914 CE – 1918 CE Italo-Abyssinian Border War (Walwal Incident) 1934 CE – 1935 CE Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935 CE – 1937 CE Malagasy Uprising 1947 CE – 1948 CE Mau Mau Uprising 1952 CE – 1960 CE First Sudanese Civil War 1955 CE – 1972 CE Congo Crisis 1960 CE – 1965 CE Angolan War of Independence 1961 CE – 1974 CE Portuguese Colonial Wars 1961 CE – 1974 CE Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963 CE – 1974 CE Sand War (Algeria–Morocco) 1963 CE Mozambican War of Independence 1964 CE – 1974 CE Rhodesian Bush War 1964 CE – 1979 CE Zanzibar Revolution 1964 CE South African Border War 1966 CE – 1990 CE Nigerian Civil War (Biafra) 1967 CE – 1970 CE Angolan Civil War 1975 CE – 2002 CE Western Sahara War 1975 CE – 1991 CE Mozambican Civil War 1977 CE – 1992 CE Ogaden War 1977 CE – 1978 CE Chad–Libya Conflict (Toyota War) 1978 CE – 1987 CE US-Libya Confrontations 1981 CE – 1989 CE Second Sudanese Civil War 1983 CE – 2005 CE Liberian Civil Wars 1989 CE – 2003 CE Rwandan Civil War & Genocide 1990 CE – 1994 CE Sierra Leone Civil War 1991 CE – 2002 CE Somali Civil War 1991 CE – 2026 CE US Intervention in Somalia (UNOSOM) 1992 CE – 1994 CE Burundi Civil War 1993 CE – 2005 CE First Congo War 1996 CE – 1997 CE Second Congo War 1998 CE – 2003 CE War in Darfur 2003 CE – 2020 CE Somalia–Al-Shabaab War 2006 CE – 2026 CE Boko Haram Insurgency 2009 CE – 2026 CE First Libyan Civil War 2011 CE Libyan Civil Wars 2011 CE – 2020 CE Central African Republic Civil War 2012 CE – 2026 CE Northern Mali Conflict (Tuareg Rebellion) 2012 CE – 2013 CE Sahel Jihadist Insurgency 2012 CE – 2026 CE South Sudanese Civil War 2013 CE – 2020 CE Insurgency in Cabo Delgado 2017 CE – 2026 CE Eastern Congo War (M23) 2022 CE – 2026 CE Ethiopia–Fano Insurgency 2023 CE – 2026 CE
Americas · 59
Comanche Wars 1706 CE – 1875 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars 1782 CE – 1810 CE Haitian Revolution 1791 CE – 1804 CE South American Wars of Independence 1808 CE – 1833 CE Argentine War of Independence 1810 CE – 1818 CE Chilean War of Independence 1810 CE – 1826 CE Colombian War of Independence 1810 CE – 1819 CE Mexican War of Independence 1810 CE – 1821 CE Venezuelan War of Independence 1810 CE – 1823 CE War of 1812 1812 CE – 1815 CE Argentine Civil Wars 1814 CE – 1880 CE Cisplatine Province conflicts 1817 CE – 1820 CE Seminole Wars 1817 CE – 1858 CE Peruvian War of Independence 1820 CE – 1824 CE Brazilian War of Independence 1822 CE – 1824 CE Argentine-Brazilian War 1825 CE – 1828 CE Texan Revolution 1835 CE – 1836 CE War of the Confederation 1836 CE – 1839 CE Uruguayan Civil War (Guerra Grande) 1839 CE – 1851 CE Mexican–American War 1846 CE – 1848 CE Apache Wars 1849 CE – 1886 CE American Civil War 1861 CE – 1865 CE French Intervention in Mexico 1861 CE – 1867 CE War of the Triple Alliance 1864 CE – 1870 CE Ten Years' War 1868 CE – 1878 CE Red River Rebellion 1869 CE – 1870 CE Great Sioux War 1876 CE – 1877 CE Conquest of the Desert 1878 CE – 1885 CE War of the Pacific 1879 CE – 1884 CE Northwest Rebellion 1885 CE Samoan Civil Wars 1886 CE – 1899 CE Banana Wars 1898 CE – 1934 CE Spanish-American War 1898 CE Thousand Days' War (Colombia) 1899 CE – 1902 CE Mexican Revolution 1910 CE – 1920 CE U.S. Occupation of Haiti 1915 CE – 1934 CE Cristero War 1926 CE – 1929 CE Sandino Rebellion (Nicaragua) 1927 CE – 1933 CE Chaco War 1932 CE – 1935 CE Ecuadorian-Peruvian War 1941 CE Paraguayan Civil War 1947 CE Costa Rican Civil War 1948 CE La Violencia (Colombia) 1948 CE – 1958 CE Cuban Revolution 1953 CE – 1959 CE Guatemalan Civil War 1960 CE – 1996 CE Colombian Armed Conflict 1964 CE – 2026 CE Dominican Civil War 1965 CE Football War 1969 CE Dirty War 1976 CE – 1983 CE Nicaraguan Revolution & Contra War 1978 CE – 1990 CE Salvadoran Civil War 1979 CE – 1992 CE Shining Path Insurgency 1980 CE – 2000 CE Falklands War 1982 CE US Invasion of Grenada 1983 CE US Invasion of Panama 1989 CE – 1990 CE Cenepa War 1995 CE Mexican Drug War 2006 CE – 2026 CE Haitian Gang War 2020 CE – 2026 CE Ecuadorian Internal Conflict 2024 CE – 2026 CE
Oceania · 4
Elsewhere · 5
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