List of wars involving El Salvador

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of El Salvador.

1800s

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
Salvadoran-Mexican War	El Salvador	Mexico Guatemala	Defeat El Salvador is annexed to Mexico
First Central American Civil War (1827–1829)	El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala	Victory
War of 1832 (1832)	El Salvador	Honduras Nicaragua	Defeat
Malespín's War (1844)	El Salvador Honduras	Nicaragua	Victory
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1845	El Salvador	Honduras	Status Quo Ante Bellum
Filibuster War (1856–1857)	Costa Rica Nicaragua Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States United Kingdom (naval support)	Filibusters	Victory William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy
War of 1863 (1863)	El Salvador Honduras	Guatemala Salvadoran Deserters	Defeat Overthrow of Gerardo Barrios Francisco Dueñas becomes President
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1871 (1871)	El Salvador	Honduras	Defeat •Francisco Dueñas is overthrown •Santiago González becomes president
First Guatemalan–Salvadoran intervention in Honduras (1872)	El Salvador Guatemala	Honduras	Victory
Second Guatemalan–Salvadoran intervention in Honduras (1873)	El Salvador Guatemala	Honduras	Victory
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)	El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala Honduras	Victory Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
First Totoposte War (1890)	El Salvador	Guatemala Salvadoran Exiles	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Revolution of the 44 (1894)	Salvadoran government	Anti-government rebels Supported by: Guatemala Honduras	Rebel victory Carlos Ezeta deposed Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez becomes president

1900s

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
Second Totoposte War (1903)	El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles	Guatemala	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Third Totoposte War (1906)	El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles	Guatemala	Stalemate
War of 1907 (1907)	El Salvador	Nicaragua Salvadoran Exiles American Filibusters Honduras	Victory Status quo ante bellum
World War II (1941–1945)	United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Chile Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)	Dominican Loyalists United States Brazil Paraguay Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador	Dominican Constitutionalists	Victory Juan Bosch excluded from Presidency Election of Joaquín Balaguer
Football War (1969)	El Salvador	Honduras	Ceasefire Status quo ante bellum Ceasefire by OAS intervention
Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)	El Salvador	FMLN	Ceasefire Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992 Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created) FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

2000s-present

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
Iraq War (2003–2009)	Iraq United States United Kingdom South Korea Italy Poland Australia New Zealand Georgia Ukraine Netherlands Romania Japan Denmark Spain El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic MNF–I United States United Kingdom Australia Romania El Salvador Estonia Bulgaria Moldova Albania Ukraine Denmark Czech Republic South Korea Azerbaijan Singapore Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic of Macedonia Latvia Poland Kazakhstan Mongolia Georgia Tonga Armenia Slovakia Lithuania Italy Norway Japan Hungary Netherlands Portugal New Zealand Thailand Philippines Honduras Dominican Republic Spain Nicaragua Iceland	Baath Loyalists ISI al-Qaeda in Iraq Mahdi Army Special Groups IAI Ansar al-Sunnah Ba'athist Iraq	Victory Invasion and occupation of Iraq Defeat of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq
Afghanistan War (2011–2014)	Afghanistan United States United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand Germany Italy France Denmark Georgia Poland Romania Turkey Bulgaria Romania Spain El Salvador ISAF Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador Estonia Finland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Jordan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mongolia Montenegro Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Republic of Macedonia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Tonga Ukraine United Arab Emirates Northern Alliance	Taliban al-Qaeda Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan HI-Gulbuddin Hezb-e Islami Khalis Haqqani network Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed East Turkestan Islamic Movement Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Islamic Emirate of Waziristan Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Islamic Jihad Union	Defeat American victory in the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan leading to the destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps and fall of the Taliban government (2001) Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Start of Taliban insurgency Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011 "Afghanization" of Afghan conflict. Withdrawal of most US troops after 2014 End of Operation Enduring Freedom; start of 2015 phase of war, and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. End of US and ISAF led combat mission; beginning of NATO-led training and assistance mission. Doha Agreement and progressive withdrawal of remaining US troops after 2020 Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021 Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021, and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban On 30 August 2021 the last American military plane departed Afghanistan. Billions of dollars of foreign-origin military hardware that was formerly in custody of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan seized by Taliban

Conflict

Allies

Opponents

Results

Iraq War
(2003–2009)

Iraq

United States

United Kingdom

South Korea

Italy

Poland

Australia

New Zealand

Georgia

Ukraine

Netherlands

Romania

Japan

Denmark

Spain

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Dominican Republic

MNF–I

ISI

IAI

Victory

Invasion and occupation of Iraq
Defeat of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein
Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war
Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security
Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government
U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq

Afghanistan War
(2011–2014)

Afghanistan

United States

United Kingdom

Canada

Australia

New Zealand

Germany

Italy

France

Denmark

Georgia

Poland

Romania

Turkey

Bulgaria

Romania

Spain

El Salvador

ISAF

Northern Alliance

Taliban

al-Qaeda

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

East Turkestan Islamic Movement

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Islamic Emirate of Waziristan

Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi

Islamic Jihad Union

Defeat

American victory in the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan leading to the destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps and fall of the Taliban government (2001)
Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Start of Taliban insurgency
- Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011
"Afghanization" of Afghan conflict. Withdrawal of most US troops after 2014
End of Operation Enduring Freedom; start of 2015 phase of war, and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. End of US and ISAF led combat mission; beginning of NATO-led training and assistance mission.
Doha Agreement and progressive withdrawal of remaining US troops after 2020
Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021
Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021, and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban
On 30 August 2021 the last American military plane departed Afghanistan.
Billions of dollars of foreign-origin military hardware that was formerly in custody of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan seized by Taliban

References

Montúfar, Manuel (1832). Memorias para la historia de la revolución de Centro-América (in Spanish). Impreso por Aburto y Blanco, en la oficina del gobierno.
"U.S. Troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon". Reuters. January 15, 2021.
"Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". The White House. 16 August 2021.
Gibbons-Neff, Thomas; Katzenberg, Lauren (2021-08-30). "The U.S. military finishes its evacuation, and an era ends in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Lou, Mary (2022-01-01). "Taliban a 'major U.S. arms dealer' after weaponry left behind in Afghanistan, watchdog warns". Just The News.

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