List of wars: 1990–2002 - Misplaced Pages

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This is a list of wars that began between 1990 and 2002. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.

Started	Ended	Name of Conflict	Belligerents
Started	Ended	Name of Conflict	Victorious party (if applicable)	Defeated party (if applicable)
1990	2022	DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey	Turkey	DHKP-C
1990	1995	Eelam War II Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	Tamil Tigers
1990	1991	Gulf War	Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Italy Canada Australia Egypt Syria Qatar Coalition Forces	Iraq
1990	1994	Rwandan Civil War	FPR	Government of Rwanda France Zaire Interahamwe Impuzamugambi
1990	1990	1990 Mindanao crisis	Philippines	Federal Republic of Mindanao
1990	1992	Transnistria War Part of the Transnistria conflict	Transnistria Russian Volunteers 14th Guards Army Ukrainian volunteers Don Cossacks	Moldova Romanian volunteers and advisors
1990	1995	Tuareg rebellion (1990–1995)	Mali Niger Ganda Iso	Arab Islamic Front of Azawad Popular Front for the Liberation of Azawad United Movements and Fronts of Azawad Front for the Liberation of Air and Azaouak Front for the Liberation of Tamoust
1991	1992	1991–1992 South Ossetia War Part of the Georgian–Ossetian conflict	South Ossetia North Ossetian volunteers Russia	Georgia
1991	Ongoing	Somali Civil War	1986–1991: Armed rebel groups: SSDF SNM SPM USC SDF 1992–1995: United Nations UNOSOM I Unified Task Force UNOSOM II 2006–2009: Transitional Federal Government Ethiopia AMISOM Allied armed groups: ARPCT Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a 2009–present: Federal Government of Somalia AMISOM Advisers/Operators United States	1986–1991: Somali Democratic Republic (until 1991) SNA Allied rebel groups: SNF (after 1991) 1992–1993: USC 2006–2009: Islamic Courts Union Oromo Liberation Front Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia Al-Shabaab Ras Kamboni Brigades Jabhatul Islamiya Muaskar Anole 2009–present: Al-Qaeda Al-Shabaab Foreign Mujahideen Hizbul Islam Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (since 2015)
1991	1991	Operation Traíra Part of the Colombian conflict	Brazil Colombia	FARC
1991	1991	1991 Iraqi uprisings	Ba'athist Iraq	Shia militias Kurdistan
1991	2002	Sierra Leone Civil War	Sierra Leone Kamajors South African Mercenaries Nigerian-led ECOMOG Group United Kingdom	Revolutionary United Front Armed Forces Revolutionary Council West Side Boys Liberia
1991	1995	Croatian War of Independence Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Croatia	SFR Yugoslavia (1991–1992) Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991–1995) Republika Srpska (1992–1995)
1991	1991	Ten-Day War Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Slovenia	SFR Yugoslavia
1991	1991	1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt	Government of the Soviet Union Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet Council of Ministers	State Committee on the State of Emergency Communist Party KGB
1991	1994	Djiboutian Civil War	Djibouti France	Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy
1991	1993	Georgian Civil War	Georgian State Council Russia	Zviadists National Guard of Georgia
1991	2002	Algerian Civil War	Algerian government	Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
1992	1992	1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts	Venezuela	Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200
1992	1995	Bosnian War Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian Herzeg-Bosnia (1992; 1994–1995) Croatia (1992; 1994–1995) NATO (1995)	Republika Srpska Republic of Serbian Krajina Western Bosnia (1993-1995) Supported by: FR Yugoslavia
1992	1996	Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)	Taliban Al Qaeda Supported by: Pakistan Saudi Arabia Hezbi Islami(Supported by Pakistan) Hezb-i Wahdat (Supported by Iran) Junbish-i Milli (Supported by Uzbekistan and Russia)	Islamic State of Afghanistan Jamiat-i Islami Shura-i Nazar Ittehad-i Islami Harakat-i Islami Hezbi Islami (until August 1992) --> Junbish-i Milli (until 1994) Hezb-i Wahdat (until December 1992)
1992	1997	Tajikistani Civil War	Tajikistan Russia Uzbekistan	Taliban Afghanistan
1992	1993	War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) Part of the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict and the Georgian Civil War	Abkhazia Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus	Georgia
1992	1992	East Prigorodny conflict	North Ossetian militia and security forces North Ossetian Republican Guard South Ossetian militia Don Cossacks Terek Cossacks Russian Army	Ingush militia
1993	1994	Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–1994)	Republic of the Congo government Gabon	Congolese Party of Labour
1993	1993	1993 Russian constitutional crisis	President of Russia Main Administration of Protection Ministry of the Interior Ministry of Defence Kantemirovskaya Tank Division Taman Division FAPSI Alpha Group Vympel	Supreme Soviet of Russia Congress of People's Deputies of Russia Vice President of Russia Supporters of the Supreme Soviet and Alexander Rutskoy
1993	2005	Burundian Civil War	Government forces: Burundian government Burundian military Supported by: ONUB African Union Mission in Burundi	Hutu militias: CNDD-FDD FNL Tutsi militias
1993	2021	Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh	Bangladesh	Maoist groups PBCP PBCP-J PBSP BCP GMF
1994	1996	Chiapas conflict	Mexico	Zapatista Army of National Liberation
1994	1994	1994 Zapatista Uprising Part of the Chiapas conflict	Mexico	Zapatista Army of National Liberation
1994	2018	Insurgency in Ogaden	Ethiopia	Ogaden National Liberation Front
1994	1994	1994 Bophuthatswana crisis	BDF Mutineers SADF	Government of Bophuthatswana Afrikaner Volksfront AWB
1994	1997	Iraqi Kurdish Civil War Part of the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict	PUK INC PKK KCP Iran (from 1995) SCIRI Supported by: United States (from 1996)	KDP Iraq Turkey PDKI Iran (until 1995)
1994	1994	Yemeni Civil War (1994)	Yemen	Democratic Republic of Yemen
1994	2024	Armenian-Azerbaijani border conflict Part of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Armenia Supported by: Russia	Azerbaijan Supported by: Turkey
1994	1996	First Chechen War Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Supported by: Arab World France Japan Turkey United Kingdom United States	Russia Supported by: China Greece Serbia
1994	1999	Caprivi conflict	Namibia	Caprivi Liberation Army
1995	1995	Cenepa War	Peru	Ecuador
1995	2002	Eelam War III Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War	Sri Lanka	Tamil Tigers
1995	2018	Second Afar Insurgency Part of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict	Ethiopia RSADO DMLEK EPLF ENSF DFEU	Eritrea ARDUF
1995	1995	1995 Sudanese-Ugandan border conflict	Uganda	Sudan
1995	1995	Hanish Islands conflict	Eritrea	Yemen
1996	1999	Arab-Masalit conflict	Arab tribes Sudan	Masalit tribes
1996	2006	Nepalese Civil War	Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)	Kingdom of Nepal (Government) Supported by: United States India United Kingdom France Portugal European Union China
1996	2001	Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) Part of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)	Islamic State of Afghanistan After the September 11 attacks: United States of America United Kingdom Canada Australia Supported by: Iran India	Taliban Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan al-Qaeda Supported by: Pakistan
1996	1997	First Congo War	AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola	Zaire UNITA Army for the Liberation of Rwanda Interahamwe
1996	Ongoing	ADF insurgency	Uganda Democratic Republic of the Congo	Allied Democratic Forces National Army for the Liberation of Uganda
1997	1997	1997 Albanian civil unrest	Albania Germany Italy	Ad hoc local Albanian militias
1997	1997	1997 Sudanese-Eritrean border conflict	Eritrea	Sudan
1997	1999	Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999)	Republic of the Congo (Denis Sassou Nguesso government) Cobra militia Rwandan Hutu militia Angola	Republic of the Congo (Pascal Lissouba government) Cocoye militia Ninja militia Nsiloulou militia Mamba militia
1997	1997	1997 clashes in Cambodia	Hun Sen (CPP) Vietnam	Norodom Ranariddh (FUNCINPEC) Khmer Rouge
1998	1998	1998 Monrovia clashes	Liberian government (Taylor loyalists)	Johnson's forces (ex-ULIMO-J) Limited involvement: Nigeria United States
1998	1999	Kosovo War Part of the Yugoslav Wars	KLA Republic of Kosova (Until 1999) NATO Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States	Yugoslavia
1998	2000	Eritrean–Ethiopian War	Ethiopia CIS Mercenaries Supported by: Ukraine Libya Bulgaria	Eritrea CIS Mercenaries Supported by: Russia Belarus United States Israel
1998	1998	War in Abkhazia (1998) Part of the Georgian–Abkhazian conflict	Abkhazia	White Legion Mkhedrioni Forest Brotherhood
1998	1999	Guinea-Bissau Civil War	Military rebels MFDC Supported by: United States	Guinea-Bissau Senegal Guinea Supported by: France
1998	2003	Second Congo War	Pro-government: Democratic Republic of the Congo Angola Chad Namibia Zimbabwe Anti-Ugandan forces: LRA Sudan (Alleged) ADF UNRF II FNI Anti-Rwandan militias: FDLR Mai-Mai Interahamwe RDR ALiR Other Hutu-aligned forces Anti-Burundi militias: CNDD-FDD FROLINA	RCD RCD-Goma MLC Forces for Renewal UPC Other Tutsi-aligned forces Supported by: Uganda Rwanda Burundi UNITA
1998	1998	1998 Saudi-Yemeni border clash
1998	2022	Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen	Republic of Yemen Supported by: United States Houthis Supported by: Iran	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Aden-Abyan Islamic Army Islamic Jihad of Yemen Supported by: al-Shabaab
1999	2002	Maluku sectarian conflict	Indonesia	Muslim society in Maluku Christian society in Maluku
1999	2005	1999 East Timorese crisis	East Timor Supported by: Australia New Zealand United Kingdom United States Portugal	Pro-Indonesian militias Aitarak Besi Merah Putih Laksaur Mahidi
1999	2003	Second Liberian Civil War	Rebel groups: Anti-Taylor Armed Forces elements LURD MODEL Guinea Supported by: Sierra Leone United Kingdom United States	Liberian government: Loyalist Armed Forces elements ATU SOD SSS NPFL/NPP militias RUF RDFG Supported by: Moldova
1999	1999	Kargil War Part of the Indo-Pakistani Wars	India	Pakistan
1999	2001	Insurgency in the Preševo Valley Part of the Yugoslav Wars	FR Yugoslavia	UÇPMB
1999	1999	Batken Conflict	Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
1999	2003	Ituri conflict Part of the Second Congo War and the Kivu conflict	Hema tribe: Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) RCD-Kisangani Uganda Democratic Republic of the Congo MONUC Artemis	Lendu tribe: Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) Popular Front for Justice in Congo (PFJC) Mai-Mai Simba
1999	1999	War of Dagestan Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict	Russia	Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan
1999	2009	Second Chechen War Part of the Chechen–Russian conflict	Russian Federation Chechen Republic Supported by: China Greece Hungary Republic of Ireland Serbia	Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1999–2007) Caucasian Front (2005–2007) Caucasus Emirate (2007–2009) Supported by: Arab World France Germany Iran Italy Japan South Korea Turkey United Kingdom United States
2000	2000	Six-Day War (2000) Part of the Second Congo War	Rwanda	Uganda
2000	2005	Second Intifada Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	Israel	Palestinian Authority Fatah (al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades) PFLP DFLP Hamas Islamic Jihad Popular Resistance Committees Others Supported by: Iraq (until 2003)
2000	2006	2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict	Israel	Hezbollah Supported by: Syria Iran
2001	2001	2001 insurgency in Macedonia Part of the Yugoslav Wars	Republic of Macedonia Arms support: Ukraine Bulgaria	National Liberation Army
2001	2001	2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes	Bangladesh	India
2001	2003	Islamist insurgency in Iraqi Kurdistan	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdistan Democratic Party United States United States Army	Ansar al-Islam Kurdistan Islamic Group Kurdistan Islamic Movement al-Qaeda
2001	2021	War on terror	Co-Belligerent States United States United Kingdom France Russia Other NATO members Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Other participants: Afghanistan Cameroon China Egypt India Iraq Lebanon Libya Mali Nigeria Pakistan Philippines Somalia Somaliland Syria Yemen Mozambique Abkhazia Algeria Andorra Artsakh Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Brunei Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Chad Colombia Congo Cuba Cyprus Djibouti Dominican Republic East Timor El Salvador Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Finland Georgia Ghana Honduras Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya North Korea South Korea Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Liechtenstein Malaysia Malta Maldives Mauritania Mexico Mongolia Morocco Moldova Myanmar Nepal New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Northern Cyprus Oman Panama Paraguay Peru Qatar Rwanda Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore South Africa South Ossetia Sri Lanka Sudan Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Togo Tonga Transnistria Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Axis of Resistance and allies: Iran Syria Houthis Hamas Hezbollah PIJ IRGC-backed Iraqi factions International missions: NATO—ISAF Resolute Support Mission Operation Enduring Freedom Allies Northern Alliance Multi-National Force – Iraq Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve	Terrorist groups: Al-Qaeda Lashkar al-Zil AQAP Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen) AQIM AQIS al-Shabaab {Tahrir al-Sham Khorasan Nusrat al-Islam AQKB Abdullah Azzam Brigades Tawhid al-Jihad (Gaza Strip) Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades Imam Shamil Battalion Islamist lone wolves ISIL Sinai Province Libya Province Jund al-Khilafah Khorasan Province Yemen Province Boko Haram Caucasus Province ISS Abu Sayyaf Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade IMU MIT Afghan Taliban Pakistani Taliban Other groups: East Turkestan Islamic Movement Osbat al-Ansar Haqqani network TNSM Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Lashkar-e-Taiba Lashkar-e-Omar Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Hizbul Mujahideen Ansaru Mullah Dadullah Front Fidai Mahaz Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) Islamic Jihad Union Masked Brigade Jaish-e-Mohammed Ahrar ash-Sham Fatah al-Islam Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid Jaish al-Islam Indian Mujahideen Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group Soldiers of Egypt Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Rajah Sulaiman movement Salafia Jihadia Ansar al-Sharia (Mali) Ansar al-Sharia (Mauritania) Ansar al-Sharia (Morocco) Ansar al-Sharia (Egypt) Ansar al-Sharia (Yarmouk Area) Turaifie group Abu Sayyaf Jemaah Islamiyah Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique) Former groups: JTJ (until 2004) Free Aceh Movement (until 2005) al-Qaeda in Iraq (until 2006) Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (until 2007) Tunisian Combatant Group (until 2011) Islamic State of Iraq (until 2013) MOJWA (until 2013) Ansar al-Islam (until 2014) Jundallah Tehreek-e-Khilafat (until November 2014) Hizbul Islam (until 2014) Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (until March 2015) Islamic Courts Union (dis) Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (until 2015) Ansar al-Sharia (Syria) (until 2016) Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (until 2016) Caucasus Emirate (until 2016) Al-Nusra Front (until 2017) Harakat Sham al-Islam (until 2017) Jund al-Aqsa (until 2017) Ansar Dine (until March 2017) Al-Mourabitoun (until March 2017) Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) (until May 2017) Maute Group (until 2017) Islamic Emirate of Waziristan (until 2017/2018) Ansar al-Sharia (Derna, Libya) (until 2018) Rajah Sulaiman Movement (until ?) Islamic Jihad of Yemen (until ?) Black Banner Organization (until ?) Iraqi Baath Party loyalists
2001	2021	Taliban insurgency Part of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) and War on terror	Taliban Haqqani network Allied groups: Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (until 2016) al-Qaeda Islamic Jihad Union Turkistan Islamic Party Taliban splinter groups: (from 2015) Dadullah Front Fidai Mahaz High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate Alleged support Pakistan Russia China Qatar Iran Saudi Arabia	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Afghan National Security Forces RS (2015–present) Australia Croatia Czech Republic Georgia (IPAP) Germany Italy Romania Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States Allied militias: Jamiat-e Islami Junbish-i-Milli Hezbe Wahdat Support: India Formerly: ISAF (2001–14) Albania Armenia (IPAP) Australia (GP) Austria (PfP) Azerbaijan (PfP) Bahrain (ICI) Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina (IPAP) Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador Estonia Finland (PfP) France Georgia (IPAP) Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland (PfP) Italy Jordan (MD) Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mongolia (GP) Montenegro (PfP) Netherlands New Zealand (GP) Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Macedonia (MAP) Romania Singapore (2008–13) Slovakia Slovenia South Korea (GP) Spain Sweden (PfP) Switzerland (2004–08) (PfP) Tonga Turkey Ukraine (PfP) United Arab Emirates (ICI) United Kingdom United States
2002	2015	Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines	Republic of the Philippines Armed Forces of the Philippines United States of America (advisors) United States Armed Forces	Jihadist groups: Abu Sayyaf BIFF Maute Group Jemaah Islamiyah
2002	2003	2002–2003 conflict in the Pool Department	Republic of the Congo	Ninja militia
2002	2007	First Ivorian Civil War	Ivory Coast COJEP Supported by: Belarus Russia Bulgaria France UNOIC	FNCI Liberia Supported by: Burkina Faso
2002	Ongoing	Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa	NATO (2001–14) Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Netherlands Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States CJTF-HOA allies: Djibouti Somalia Ethiopia Sudan Seychelles Kenya Non-NATO allies: Australia Azerbaijan China European Union India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Malaysia New Zealand Pakistan Russia Singapore South Korea Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Dai Hong Dan incident: North Korea	Insurgents: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (from 2015) al-Qaeda (from 2002) Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen (from 2006) al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (2002–06) Islamic Courts Union (until 27 December 2006) Hizbul Islam (2009–14) Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (2007–09) Ras Kamboni Brigades (2007–10) Jabhatul Islamiya (2007–09) Mu'askar Anole (2007–09) Pirates: Somali Marines National Volunteer Coast Guard (NVCG) Marka group Puntland Group Yemeni Pirates