List of conflicts in Asia

This is a list of wars and conflicts in Asia, particularly East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Russia. For a list of conflicts in Southwest Asia, Asia Pacific. see List of conflicts in the Near East for historical conflicts and List of conflicts in the Middle East, List of conflicts in Australia (related Asia Pacific) for contemporary conflicts.

Middle East

Main articles: History of the Middle East, Ancient Near East, Fertile Crescent, History of Mesopotamia, Upper Mesopotamia, History of the Levant, History of Anatolia, History of the Caucasus, History of Iraq, and History of Iran

Bahrain

• 1507 – 1625 Portuguese–Safavid wars
• 1521 Portuguese invasion of Bahrain
• 1717 1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain
• 1782 – 1783 Bani Utbah invasion of Bahrain
• 1809 Sack of Qatif (1809)
• 1867 – 1868 Qatari–Bahraini War
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1940 Bombing of Bahrain in World War II
• 2011 2011 Bahraini uprising
  • 2011 Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain
• 2011 – present Insurgency in Bahrain

Cyprus

• 1275 BC – 1205 BC Battles of Alashiya
• 499 BC – 449 BC Greco-Persian Wars
  • 499 BC – 493 BC Ionian Revolt
• 477 BC – 449 BC Wars of the Delian League
• 1217 – 1221 Fifth Crusade
• 1228 – 1243 War of the Lombards
• 1271 – 1272 Lord Edward's crusade
• 1368 Mamluk raid on Cyprus (1368)
• 1396 – 1718 Ottoman–Venetian wars
  • 1570 – 1573 Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)
• 1424 – 1426 Mamluk campaigns against Cyprus (1424–1426)
• 1526 – 1791 Ottoman–Habsburg wars
• 1955 – present Cyprus problem
  • 1955 – 1959 Cyprus Emergency
  • 1959 – 1974 Cyprus intercommunal violence
    • 1974 1974 Cypriot coup d'état
  • 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
• 1978 Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport

Iran

For a more comprehensive list, see List of conflicts in Iran.

Elam

• 655 BC – 639 BC Assyrian conquest of Elam

Achaemenid Empire

• 553 BC – 550 BC Medo-Persian conflict
  • 552 BC Battle of Hyrba
  • 551 BC Battle of the Persian Border

The Median Empire about 48 years before the Persian Revolt

• 385 BC Cadusian campaign of Artaxerxes II

Macedonian Empire

• 335 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi

Kingdoms of the Diadochi after the Battle of Ipsus, c. 301 BCE.

  Kingdom of Ptolemy I Soter

  Kingdom of Cassander

  Kingdom of Lysimachus

  Kingdom of Seleucus I Nicator

  Epirus

Other

  Carthage

  Roman Republic

  Greek colonies

Parthian Empire

• 238 BC – 129 BC Seleucid–Parthian wars
  • 238 BC Parni conquest of Parthia
  • 209 BC Battle of Mount Labus
  • 129 BC Battle of Ecbatana
• 66 BC – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
  • 40 BC – 33 BC Antony's Parthian War
  • 161 – 166 Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
  • 216 – 217 Parthian war of Caracalla

Sasanian Empire

• 224 Battle of Hormozdgan
• 230 – 240 Sasanian conquest of the Suren Kingdom
• 350 Shapur II's invasion of Armenia (350)
• 363 Julian's Persian expedition
• 363 – 371 Armeno-Sassanid War of 363–371
• 451 Battle of Avarayr
• 484 – 565 Hephthalite–Sasanian Wars
  • 484 Sukhra's Hephthalite campaign
• 502 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 440 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440
  • 572 – 591 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591
• 588 – 589 Perso-Turkic war of 588–589
• 589 – 591 Sasanian civil war of 589–591
• 614 – 616 Hephthalite–Gokturk raids of 614–616
• 628 – 632 Sasanian civil war of 628–632
• 633 – 651 Muslim conquest of Persia
  • 637 – 642 Muslim conquest of Khuzestan
  • 638 – 651 Arab conquest of Fars
  • 643 – 651 Muslim conquest of Northern Persia
  • 651 – 654 Muslim conquest of Khorasan

Rashidun Caliphate

The Rashidun Empire reached its greatest extent under Caliph Uthman, in 654.

• 656 – 661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680 – 692 Second Fitna
• 743 – 750 Third Fitna
  • 747 – 750 Abbasid revolution

Abbasid Caliphate

• 781 – 805 Tabaristan uprising
• 809 – 827 Fourth Fitna
• 816 – 837 Babak Khorramdin Revolt
• 864 – 1041 Caspian expeditions of the Rus'
• 874 Battle of al-Baida
• 900 Battle of Gorgan (900)
• 940 Battle of Iskhabad

Ghaznavid dynasty

• 999 – 1002 Ghaznavid-Saffarid war
• 999 – 1004 Ghaznavid-Samanid war
• 1006 – 1008 Kara-Khanid invasion of Khorasan
• 1012 – 1034 Ghaznavid campaigns in Persia

Seljuk Empire

• 1035 Battle of Nasa (1035)
• 1038 Battle of Nishapur (1038)
• 1038 Battle of Sarakhs (1038)
• 1063 Battle of Damghan (1063)
• 1073 Battle of Kerj Abu Dulaf
• 1090 – 1194 Nizari–Seljuk conflicts

Ghurid Empire

• 1200 – 1201 Ghurid conquest of Khorasan

Khwarazmian dynasty

• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1219 – 1258 Mongol conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia
    • 1219 – 1221 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
    • 1253 – 1256 Mongol campaign against the Nizaris

Ilkhanate

• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulegu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1336 Battle of Jaghatu
• 1342 Battle of Zava

Timurid Empire

• 1370 – 1508 Timurid conquests and invasions
  • 1387 Siege of Isfahan (1387)
• 1405 – 1411 Timurid War of Succession
• 1448 – 1449 Babur Mirza's Invasion of Khorasan
• 1459 Battle of Sarakhs (1459)
• 1478 Battle of Khoy (1478)

Safavid dynasty

• 1487 – 1524 Campaigns of Ismail I
  • 1501 Siege of Tabriz (1501)
  • 1503 Battle of Hamadan (1503)
• 1502 – 1788 Persian–Uzbek wars
  • 1578 Uzbek invasion of Khorasan (1578)
• 1505 – 1517 Ottoman–Persian War (1505–1517)
• 1507 – 1625 Portuguese–Safavid wars
  • 1507 Portuguese conquest of Hormuz
  • 1614 Capture of Cambarão
  • 1621 – 1622 Anglo-Persian capture of Qeshm
  • 1622 Anglo-Persian capture of Hormuz
• 1532 – 1555 Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–1555)
• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1609 – 1610 Siege of Dimdim
• 1623 – 1639 Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639)
• 1722 Battle of Gulnabad
• 1722 Siege of Isfahan
• 1721 Sack of Shamakhi
• 1726 – 1727 Ottoman–Hotaki War (1726–1727)
• 1720s – 1747 Campaigns of Nader Shah
  • 1726 – 1727 Khorasan campaign of Nader Shah
  • 1727 – 1728 Sabzevar expedition
  • 1729 – 1730 Restoration of Tahmasp II to the Safavid throne
  • 1730 – 1734 Rebellion of Sheikh Ahmad Madani
  • 1730 – 1732 Herat campaign of 1730–1732
  • 1730 – 1735 Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735)
  • 1733 – 1734 Mohammad Khan Baluch's Rebellion

Afsharid dynasty

• 1720s – 1747 Campaigns of Nader Shah
  • 1744 Moḥammad Taqi Khan Shirazi's Rebellion
• 1730s – 1747 Afsharid conquests in the Persian Gulf and Oman
• 1743 – 1746 Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746)
• 1747 – 1796 Division of the Afsharid Empire
• 1749 – 1751 Durrani Campaign to Khorasan (1749–51)
• 1754 – 1755 Durrani Campaign to Khorasan (1754–55)

Zand dynasty

• 1759 Battle of Astarabad (1759)
• 1765 Persian–Dutch War
• 1775 – 1776 Ottoman–Persian War (1775–1776)
• 1794 Siege of Kerman

Qajar dynasty

• 1804 – 1813 Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
• 1821 – 1823 Ottoman–Persian War (1821–1823)
• 1826 – 1828 Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)
• 1838 – 1915 British occupation of Bushehr
• 1848 – 1849 Battle of Fort Tabarsi
• 1856 – 1857 Anglo-Persian War
• 1879 – 1880 Uprising of Sheikh Ubeydullah
• 1905 – 1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution
• 1906 Ottoman invasion of Persia (1906)
• 1911 – 1913 Revolt of Salar-al-Daulah
• 1911 – 1921 Swedish volunteers in Persia
  • 1913 – 1915 Shiraz expedition
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Persian campaign (World War I)
• 1915 – 1921 Jungle Movement of Gilan
• 1920 Mohammad Khiabani's uprising
• 1921 1921 Persian coup d'état
• 1918 – present Kurdish separatism in Iran
  • 1918 – 1922 Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922)
• 1922 – present Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • 1922 – 1924 Sheikh Khazal rebellion

Pahlavi dynasty

• 1918 – present Kurdish separatism in Iran
  • 1926 Simko Shikak revolt (1926)
  • 1931 Jafar Sultan revolt
  • 1941 – 1944 Hama Rashid revolt
  • 1945 – 1946 Iran crisis of 1946
  • 1967 1967 Kurdish revolt in Iran
• 1929 – 1933 Persian tribal uprisings of 1929
• 1935 Goharshad Mosque rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
• 1953 1953 Iranian coup d'état
• 1971 Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
• 1974 – 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict

Islamic Republic of Iran

• 1918 – present Kurdish separatism in Iran
  • 1979 – 1996 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
  • 1984 – 1991 KDPI-Komala conflict
  • 1989 – 1996 KDPI insurgency (1989-96)
  • 2004 – present Iran-PJAK conflict
  • 2016 – present Western Iran clashes (2016–present)
• 1922 – present Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • 1979 1979 Khuzestan insurgency
  • 2005 2005 Ahvaz unrest
• 1948 – present Balochistan conflict
  • 2004 – present Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
• 1978 – 1979 Iranian Revolution
  • 1979 – 1983 Consolidation of the Iranian Revolution
    • 1979 – 1980 1979 Turkmen rebellion in Iran
    • 1979 – 1981 Iran hostage crisis
    • 1980 Nojeh coup plot
    • 1982 1982 Amol uprising
• 1980 – 1989 Iran-Iraq War
• 2004 2004 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel
• 2007 2007 Iranian arrest of Royal Navy personnel
• 2009 2009 Afghanistan–Iran clash
• 2011 – 2012 2011–2012 Strait of Hormuz dispute
• 2016 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident
• 2021 2021 Afghanistan–Iran clashes
• 2022 2022 Iran–Greece naval incident
• 2022 – 2023 Mahsa Amini protests
  • 2022 2022 Zahedan massacre
  • 2022 2022 Khash massacre
  • 2022 Attack on Izeh market
• 2023 2023 Iran drone attacks
• 2023 2023 Afghanistan–Iran clash
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • 2025 Iran–Israel war

Iraq

Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)

• c. 2600 BC Sumer–Elam war
• c. 2600 BC Siege of Uruk
• c. 26th century BC – c. 24th century BC Umma–Lagash war
• c. 1595 BC Sack of Babylon
• c. 1235 BCE Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BCE

Neo-Assyrian Empire

• 878 BC Battle of Suru
• 814 BC Battle of Dur-Papsukkal
• 796 BC Assyrian conquest of Aram
• 693 BC Battle of Diyala River
• 691 BC Battle of Halule
• 689 BC Siege of Babylon
• 655 BC – 639 BC Assyrian conquest of Elam
• 647 BC Battle of Susa
• 626 BC – 620 BC Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
• 616 BC – 605 BC Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
  • 614 BC Fall of Assur
  • 612 BC Battle of Nineveh (612 BC)

Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

• 878 BC Battle of Suru
• 814 Battle of Dur-Papsukkal
• 796 Assyrian conquest of Aram
• 693 BC Battle of Diyala River
• 691 BC Battle of Halule
• 689 BC Siege of Babylon
• 655 BC – 639 BC Assyrian conquest of Elam
• 647 BC Battle of Susa
• 626 BC – 620 BC Revolt of Babylon (626 BC)
• 616 BC – 605 BC Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire

Achaemenid Province of Athura

• 484 BC Babylonian revolts (484 BC)
• 539 BC Battle of Opis
• 539 BC Fall of Babylon

Macedonian Empire

• 335 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela

Wars of Alexander the Great

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi
  • 311 BC – 309 BC Babylonian War

Parthian Empire

• 238 BC – 129 BC Seleucid–Parthian wars

Roman Province of Mesopotamia

Expansion of the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire

• 54 BC – 628 Roman–Persian Wars
  • 54 BC – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
    • 194 – 198 Roman–Parthian War of 194–198
    • 161 – 166 Roman–Parthian War of 161–166
    • 216 – 217 Parthian war of Caracalla

Sasanian Province of Asorestan

Julian's unsuccessful campaign in 363 resulted in the loss of the Roman territorial gains under the peace treaty of 299.

• 54 BC – 628 Roman-Persian Wars
  • 217 – 502 Roman–Sasanian wars
    • 229 – 233 First Mesopotamian campaign of Ardashir I
    • 232 Sasanian campaign of Severus Alexander
    • 237 – 241 Second Mesopotamian campaign of Ardashir I
    • 242 – 244 Sasanian campaign of Gordian III
    • c. 253 Siege of Emesa (253)
    • 259 – 267 Odaenathus' Sasanian campaigns
    • 283 Carus' Sasanian campaign
    • 293 – 298 Galerius' Sasanian campaigns
    • 337 – 361 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361
    • 363 Julian's Persian expedition
    • 363 – 371 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361
  • 502 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
    • 421 – 422 Roman–Sasanian War of 421–422
    • 440 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440
    • 502 – 506 Anastasian War
    • 526 – 532 Iberian War
    • 541 Belisarius' invasion of Mesopotamia (541)
    • 572 – 591 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591
    • 602 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
• 395 Hunnic raid of 395
• 589 – 591 Sasanian civil war of 589–591
• 604 – 611 Battle of Dhi Qar
• 633 – 644 Muslim conquest of Persia
  • 634 – 638 Arab conquest of Mesopotamia

Map detailing the route of Khalid ibn al-Walid's conquest of Iraq in 633

Rashidun Caliphate

• 633 – 644 Muslim conquest of Persia
  • 634 – 638 Arab conquest of Mesopotamia

Expansion of Rashidun Caliphate

• 656 – 661 First Fitna
  • 658 – 661 Mu'awiya I's Southern Campaigns (658–661)

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680 – 692 Second Fitna
• 703 Battle of Dayr al-Jamajim
• 743 – 750 Third Fitna

The Caliphate at the beginning of the Abbasid revolt, before the Battle of the Zab.

• 747 – 750 Abbasid revolution

Abbasid Caliphate

• 762 – 763 Alid revolt of 762–763
• 809 – 827 Fourth Fitna
• 861 – 870 Anarchy at Samarra
• 865 – 866 Abbasid civil war (865–866)
• 923 Sack of Basra (923)
• 946 Battle of Baghdad (946)
• 810 – 835 Zutt Rebellion
• 866 – 896 Kharijite Rebellion (866–896)
• 869 – 883 Zanj Rebellion
• 942 Battle of al-Mada'in
• 946 Battle of Baghdad (946)
• 1096 Siege of Mosul (1096)
• 1107 Battle of Mosul (1107)
• 1136 Siege of Baghdad (1136)
• 1157 Siege of Baghdad (1157)

Mongol Empire

• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1219 – 1258 Mongol conquest of Persia and Mesopotamia

Expansion of the Mongol Empire

Mamluk Sultanate

• 1370 – 1508 Timurid conquests and invasions
  • 1394 Capture of Baghdad (1394)

Ottoman Iraq

• 1532 – 1555 Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–55)
• 1623 – 1639 Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–39)
• 1722 – 1747 Campaigns of Nader Shah
  • 1730 – 1735 Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735)
    • 1732 – 1733 Nader Shah's Mesopotamian campaign
• 1801 – 1811 Wahhabi raids on Najaf
• 1802 Wahhabi sack of Karbala
• 1843 Siege of Karbala 1843
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Mesopotamian campaign

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration

• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
  • 1919 – 1930 Mahmud Barzanji revolts
• 1920 Iraqi revolt of 1920

Mandatory Iraq

• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
  • 1919 – 1930 Mahmud Barzanji revolts
• 1924 1924 Kirkuk massacre

Kingdom of Iraq

• 1901 – 1934 Unification of Saudi Arabia
  • 1927 – 1930 Ikhwan revolt
• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi-Kurdish conflict
  • 1931 – 1932 Ahmed Barzani revolt
  • 1943 – 1945 1943 Barzani revolt
• 1933 Simele massacre
• 1935 – 1935 1935–1936 Iraqi Shia revolts
• 1935 1935 Yazidi revolt
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1941 1941 Iraqi coup d'état
    • 1941 Anglo-Iraqi War
      • 1941 Farhud
• 1948 Al-Wathbah uprising
• 1958 14 July Revolution

First Iraqi Republic

• 1959 1959 Mosul uprising
• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • 1961 – 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
• 1963 Ramadan Revolution
• 1963 Ar-Rashid revolt
• 1963 November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état
• 1966 1966 Iraqi coup attempt
• 1968 17 July Revolution

Ba'athist Iraq

• 1918 – 2003 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
  • 1959 1959 Kirkuk massacre
  • 1961 – 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1968 – 2003 Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq
  • 1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1975 – 1983 PUK insurgency
  • 1979 – 1988 Al-Ansar insurgency
  • 1979 – 2003 Persecution of Feyli Kurds in Ba'athist Iraq
  • 1983 – 1986 Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
  • 1988 Anfal campaign
  • 1994 – 1997 Iraqi Kurdish Civil War
  • 2001 – 2003 Iraqi Kurdistan conflict (2001–2003)
• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • 1983 – 2025 PKK insurgency in Iraqi Kurdistan
• 1973 1973 Samita border skirmish
• 1974 – 1975 1974–75 Shatt al-Arab conflict
• 1977 1977 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 1979 – 1980 1979–1980 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 1979 – 2024 Assadist–Saddamist conflict
• 1980 – 1988 Iran–Iraq War
  • 1980 Iraqi invasion of Iran
  • 1985 – 1988 Tanker War
• 1981 Operation Opera
• 1982 Dujail massacre
• 1990 – 1991 Gulf War
  • 1991 Gulf War air campaign
  • 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign
• 1991 1991 Iraqi uprisings
• 1991 – 2003 Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
• 1999 1999 Shia uprising in Iraq
• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq

Coalition Provisional Authority

• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • 2003 – 2006 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency

Republic of Iraq

• 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
  • 2003 – 2011 Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
    • 2003 – 2006 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency
  • 2006 – 2008 Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)
    • 2006 – 2007 Islamic Army–Al-Qaeda conflict
• 2006 – present Sadrist–Khomeinist conflict
• 2011 – 2013 Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
• 2013 – 2017 War in Iraq (2013–2017)
  • 2014 – 2021 US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
  • 2014 – present Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
  • 2017 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
• 2017 – present Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
• 2019 2019 Sinjar clashes
• 2019 2019 Israeli airstrikes in Iraq
• 2019 – 2021 2019–2021 Iraqi protests
• 2021 – 2022 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis
• 2022 2022 Erbil missile attacks
• 2023 2023 unrest in Kirkuk
• 2023 2023 Makhmour clashes
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • 2023 – 2024 Attacks on US bases during the Gaza war
  • 2025 2025 Iraq drone atacks

Israel

Canaan

• c. 2000 BCE Battle of Siddim
• c. 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)

The Egyptian Empire at its maximum territorial extent in the 15th century BCE

• Fall of Jericho
• Battle of the Waters of Merom
• Mid 12th century BCE Battle of Mount Tabor
• c. 1200 BCE Battle of Gibeah
• Battle of Aphek
• c. 1084 BC Battle of Mizpah
• c. 1020 BC Battle of the Wood of Ephraim

United Kingdom of Israel and Judah

Different interpretations of what the Bible says about the extent of King David's empire

• c. 1010 BC Siege of Jebus

Kingdom of Judah

• 931 BC – 913 BC Jeroboam's Revolt
• 911 BC – 870 BC Battle of Zephath
• 874 BC Israelite–Aramean War
• 736 BC – 732 BC Syro-Ephraimite War
• 701 BC Sennacherib's campaign in Judah
• 635 BC Fall of Ashdod
• 626 BC – 609 BC Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire
  • 609 BC Battle of Megiddo (609 BC)
• 601 BC – 587 BC Judah's revolts against Babylon

Babylonian Province of Yehud

• 601 – 587 BCE Judah's revolts against Babylon

Persian Province of Yehud Medinata

• 335 – 323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 274 BC – 168 BC Syrian Wars
  • 219 BC – 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
  • 202 BC – 195 BC Fifth Syrian War
• 167 BC – 160 BC Maccabean Revolt

Hasmonean Kingdom

• 73 BC – 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 67 BC – 63 BC Hasmonean civil war
• 40 BC – 38 BC Pompeian–Parthian invasion of 40 BC
• 37 BC Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC)
• 36 BC Antony's Atropatene campaign

Roman Province of Judea

• 66 – 136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 66 – 73 First Jewish–Roman War
  • 115–117 Second Jewish–Roman War

Roman Province of Syria Palaestina

• 66 – 136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 132 – 136 Third Jewish–Roman War

Byzantine Province of Palaestina Prima

• 602 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
  • 614 – 628 Jewish revolt against Heraclius
• 622 – 750 Muslim conquests
  • 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
    • 634 – 638 Muslim conquest of the Levant

Rashidun Province of Jund Filastin

• 637 Siege of Jerusalem (637)

Map detailing the route of Khalid ibn Walid's invasion of Northern Syria.

Abbasid Province of Jund Filastin

• 1099 – 1291 The Crusades
  • 1099 First Crusade

Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states in the context of the Near East in 1135

• 1099 – 1291 Crusades
  • 1107 – 1110 Norwegian Crusade
  • 1122 – 1124 Venetian Crusade
  • 1145 – 1149 Second Crusade
  • 1152 – 1155 Rögnvald Kali's Crusade
  • 1189 – 1192 Third Crusade
  • 1197 Crusade of 1197
  • 1217 – 1221 Fifth Crusade
  • 1228 – 1229 Sixth Crusade
  • 1239 – 1241 Barons' Crusade
  • 1268 – 1302 Fall of Outremer
  • 1271 – 1272 Lord Edward's crusade
• 1260 – 1300 Mongol raids into Palestine

The 1260 Mongol offensives in the Levant. The early successful attacks on Aleppo and Damascus led to smaller attacks on secondary targets such as Baalbek, al-Subayba, and Ajlun as well as raids against other Palestine towns, perhaps including Jerusalem. Smaller raiding parties reached as far south as Gaza.

Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus

• 1516 – 1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)
• 1834 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine

Ottoman Vilayet of Syria

• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1915 – 1918 Sinai and Palestine campaign

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration

• 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
  • 1920 1920 Nebi Musa riots
  • 1920 Battle of Tel Hai
• 1920 Franco-Syrian War

Mandatory Palestine

• 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
  • 1921 Jaffa riots
  • 1929 1929 Palestine riots
    • 1929 1929 Hebron massacre
  • 1933 1933 Palestine riots
  • 1936 – 1939 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
  • 1944 – 1947 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
    • 1944 – 1945 The Saison
  • 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine war
    • 1947 – 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1940 – 1941 Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II

State of Israel

• 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine War
  • 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
• 1949 – 1956 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
• 1951 – 1966 Retribution operations
• 1951 Al-Hamma incident
• 1956 Suez Crisis
• 1964 – 1967 War over Water (Jordan River)
• 1967 Six-Day War
• 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
• 1968 – 1982 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
• 1973 Yom Kippur War
• 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
• 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
• 2000 – 2005 Second Intifada
• 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
• 2006 2006 Gaza cross-border raid
• 2006 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict
• 2006 Second Lebanon War
• 2006 2006 Israeli operation in Beit Hanoun
• 2008 Operation Hot Winter
• 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09)
• 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
• 2010 March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes
• 2010 2010 Gaza flotilla raid
• 2010 2010 Palestinian militancy campaign
• 2012 March 2012 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2012 2012 Gaza War
• 2013 Hanikra border clash
• 2014 2014 Gaza War
• 2015 January 2015 Shebaa Farms incident
• 2015 – 2016 2015–2016 wave of violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2019 November 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• 2022 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 May 2023 Gaza–Israel clashes
• 2023 2023 Eritrean clashes in Tel Aviv
• 2023 – present Gaza war
  • 2023 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2023 – present Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • 2025 Iran–Israel war

Jordan

• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
  • 1834 Peasants' revolt in Palestine
• 1905 Shoubak revolts
• 1910 Karak revolt
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1915 – 1918 Sinai and Palestine campaign
    • 1916 – 1918 Arab Revolt
• 1921 – 1923 Kura rebellion
• 1923 Adwan Rebellion
• 1901 – 1934 Unification of Saudi Arabia
  • 1922 – 1924 Ikhwan raids on Transjordan
• 1957 1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attempt
• 1967 Six-Day War
• 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
• 1970 – 1971 Black September
• 2011 – present Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – present Spillover of the Syrian civil war
    • 2012 – 2018 Jordanian–Syrian border incidents during the Syrian civil war
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • 2023 – 2024 Attacks on US bases during the Gaza war

Kuwait

• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 633 – 651 Muslim conquest of Persia
• 1900 – 1901 Kuwaiti–Rashidi war
• 1901 – 1934 Unification of Saudi Arabia
  • 1919 – 1920 Kuwait–Najd War
• 1961 Operation Vantage
• 1990 – 1991 Gulf War
  • 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
  • 1991 Gulf War air campaign
  • 1991 Liberation of Kuwait campaign

Lebanon

• 694 Battle of Amioun
• 752 – 760 Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759
• 1107 – 1110 Norwegian Crusade
• 1100 Battle of the Dog River
• 1163 Battle of al-Buqaia
• 1271 – 1272 Lord Edward's crusade
  • 1271 Siege of Tripoli (1271)
• 1292 – 1305 Kisrawan campaigns (1292–1305)
• 1383 Battle of Beirut (1383)
• 1403 Boucicaut's expedition to the Levant (1403)
• 1520 Battle of Beirut (1520)
• 1623 Battle of Anjar
• 1658 – 1667 Druze power struggle (1658–1667)
• 1771 Battle of Lake Huleh (1771)
• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
  • 1834 – 1835 Alawite revolt (1834–1835)
• 1838 1838 Druze revolt
• 1860 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus
• 1925 – 1927 Great Syrian Revolt
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1941 Syria–Lebanon campaign
• 1945 Levant Crisis
• 1948 – present Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
  • 1948 – present Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • 1968 – 1982 Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
  • 1982 – present Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
    • 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
    • 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
    • 2013 Hanikra border clash
    • 2015 January 2015 Shebaa Farms incident
    • 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
      • 2023 – present Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
      • 2024 – present 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
• 1958 Lebanon Crisis
• 1961 1961 Lebanese coup attempt
• 1975 – 1991 Lebanese Civil War
  • 1982 1982 Lebanon War
• 1976 – 2015 Bab al-Tabbaneh–Jabal Mohsen conflict
• 1999 – 2000 Dinnieh clashes
• 2006 2006 Lebanon War
• 2007 2007 Lebanon conflict
• 2008 2008 Lebanon War
• 2011 – present Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – 2017 Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon
• 2021 2021 Beirut clashes
• 2023 2023 Ain al-Hilweh clashes

Oman

• 1819 Persian Gulf campaign of 1819
• 1820 – 1821 Bani Bu Ali expedition
• 1913 – 1920 Muscat rebellion
• 1952 – 1955 Buraimi dispute
• 1954 – 1959 Jebel Akhdar War
• 1965 – 1976 Dhofar Rebellion
• 1970 1970 Omani coup d'état

Palestine

• late 19th century – present Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
  • 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
    • 1929 1929 Palestine riots
      • 1929 1929 Hebron massacre
    • 1933 1933 Palestine riots
    • 1936 – 1939 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
    • 1944 – 1947 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
      • 1944 – 1945 The Saison
    • 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine war
      • 1947 – 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
      • 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
  • 1948 – present Gaza–Israel conflict
    • 1956 1956 Rafah massacre
    • 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
    • 2000 – 2005 Second Intifada
    • 2001 – present Salafi jihadist insurgency in the Gaza Strip
    • 2009 Battle of Rafah (2009)
    • 2006 – present Fatah-Hamas conflict
      • 2007 Battle of Gaza (2007)
      • 2009 2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza
    • 2006 2006 Gaza beach explosion
    • 2006 2006 Gaza cross-border raid
    • 2006 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict
    • 2006 2006 Israeli operation in Beit Hanoun
    • 2008 2008 breach of the Egypt–Gaza border
    • 2008 Operation Hot Winter
    • 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09)
    • 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
    • 2010 March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes
    • 2010 2010 Gaza flotilla raid
    • 2012 March 2012 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2012 2012 Gaza War
    • 2014 2014 Gaza War
    • 2018 – 2019 2018–2019 Gaza border protests
    • 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2019 November 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2022 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2023 May 2023 Gaza–Israel clashes
    • 2023 – present Gaza war
      • 2023 – present Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      • 2023 – present Gaza genocide
      • 2023 – present Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
      • 2024 – present Hamas–Popular Forces conflict
  • 1949 – 1956 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
  • 1951 – 1966 Reprisal operations
  • 1953 Qibya massacre
  • 1953 Qibya massacre
  • 2006 Operation Bringing Home the Goods
  • 2015 – 2016 2015–2016 wave of violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
  • 2022 – present Palestinian Authority–West Bank militias conflict
• 1948 – present Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1956 Suez Crisis
  • 1967 Six-Day War

Qatar

• 1811 Battle of Khakeekera
• 1867 – 1868 Qatari–Bahraini War
• 1881 – 1893 Qatari–Abu Dhabi War
• 1893 Battle of Al Wajbah
• 1937 1937 Qatari–Bahraini conflict
• 1972 1972 Qatari coup d'état
• 1995 1995 Qatari coup d'état
• 1996 1996 Qatari coup attempt
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • 2025 Iran–Israel war
    • 2025 2025 Iranian strikes on Al Udeid Air Base
  • 2025 2025 Israeli attack on Doha

Saudi Arabia

Conquests of Muhammad and the Rashidun

Muslim conquests

• 623 – 632 List of expeditions of Muhammad
• 632 – 633 Ridda wars

Map detailing arenas of Ridda campaigns.

Rashidun Caliphate

• 656 – 661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

• 680 – 692 Second Fitna
• 743 – 750 Third Fitna

Abbasid Caliphate

• 762 – 763 Alid Revolt (762–763)

First Saudi state

Ibrahim Pasha's Campaign against the Saudis in Nejd

• 1811 – 1818 Ottoman–Wahhabi War

Second Saudi state

• 1836 Expedition to Najd (1836)
• 1891 Battle of Mulayda

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• 1901 – 1934 Unification of Saudi Arabia
  • 1903 – 1907 Saudi–Rashidi War (1903–1907)
  • 1915 – 1918 Second Saudi-Rashidi War
  • 1918 – 1919 First Saudi–Hashemite War
  • 1919 – 1920 Kuwait–Najd War
  • 1921 Conquest of Ha'il
  • September 1924 – December 1925 Saudi conquest of Hejaz
  • 1927 – 1930 Ikhwan Revolt
  • 1934 Saudi–Yemeni War (1934)
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1940 Bombing of Bahrain in World War II
• 1969 Al-Wadiah War
• 1979 Grand Mosque seizure
• 1979 – present Qatif conflict
  • 1979 1979 Qatif Uprising
  • 2017 – 2020 2017–2020 Qatif unrest
• 1987 1987 Mecca incident
• 1991 Gulf War
  • 1991 Gulf War air campaign
• 2004 – 2014 Houthi insurgency
  • 2009 – 2010 Operation Scorched Earth
• 2005 Ar Rass raids
• 2014 – ongoing Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)
  • 2015 – ongoing Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
    • 2015 – ongoing Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
• 2023 – present Gaza war
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis

Syria

Chalcolithic period of Mesopotamia

• c. 2423 BC – c. 2300 BC Mari-Ebla War

Akkadian Empire

• Early 23rd century BC Sargon of Akkad's campaigns northeast of the Akkadian Empire

Sargon of Akkad's conquests.

Assyria

• c. 1760 BC Hammurabi's Conquests in the North
• c. 1760 BC Hammurabi's War with Assyria
• c. 1732 BC Puzur-Sin's Uprising
• c. 1732 BC – c. 1720 BC Assyrian Civil War

Hittite Empire

• c. 1650 BC – c. 1620 BC Campaigns of Hattusili I
• c. 1600 BC – c. 1595 BC Campaigns of Mursili I

The Assyrians, the Mitanni, the Egyptians, and the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BCE

• c. 1457 BC – c. 1456 BC Thutmose III's First Syria Campaign
• c. 1456 BC – c. 1455 BC Thutmose III's Second Syria Campaign
• c. 1455 BC – c. 1454 BC Thutmose III's Third Syria Campaign
• c. 1454 BC – c. 1453 BC Thutmose III's Fourth Syria Campaign
• c. 1450 BC – c. 1449 BC Thutmose III's Fifth Syria Campaign
• c. 1449 BC – c. 1448 BC Thutmose III's Sixth Syria Campaign
• c. 1448 BC – c. 1447 BC Thutmose III's Seventh Syria Campaign
• c. 1447 BC – c. 1446 BC Thutmose III's Attack on Mitanni (Eighth Syria Campaign)
• c. 1445 BC – c. 1444 BC Thutmose III's Ninth Syria Campaign
• c. 1444 BC – c. 1443 BC Thutmose III's Tenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1443 BC – c. 1442 BC Thutmose III's Eleventh Syria Campaign
• c. 1442 BC – c. 1441 BC Thutmose III's Twelfth Syria Campaign
• c. 1441 BC – c. 1440 BC Thutmose III's Thirteenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1440 BC – c. 1439 BC Thutmose III's Fourteenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1439 BC – c. 1438 BC Thutmose III's Fifteenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1438 BC – c. 1437 BC Thutmose III's Sixteenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1437 BC – c. 1436 BC Thutmose III's Seventeenth Syria Campaign
• c. 1345 BC Great Syrian War
• c. 1276 BC – c. 1275 BC Ramesses II's First Syrian Campaign
• c. 1274 BC Ramesses II's Second Syrian Campaign
• c. 1270 BC Ramesses II's Third Syrian Campaign
• c. 1270 BC – c. 1269 BC Ramesses II's Later Syrian Campaigns

Neo-Assyrian Empire

• c. 1235 BC Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BCE
• c. 1206 BC – c. 1150 BC Late Bronze Age collapse
  • c. 1190 BC Destruction of Ugarit
• 856 BC – 732 BC Assyrian conquest of Aram
• 736 BC – 732 BC Syro-Ephraimite War
• 701 BC Sennacherib's campaign in Judah
• 652 BC – 646 BC Shamash-shum-ukin's Civil War
• 605 BC Battle of Carchemish
• 605 BC Battle of Hamath

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 281 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 274 BC – 168 BC Syrian Wars
  • 274 BC – 271 BC First Syrian War
  • 260 BC – 253 BC Second Syrian War
  • 246 BC – 241 BC Third Syrian War
  • 219 BC – 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
  • 202 BC – 195 BC Fifth Syrian War
  • 170 BC – 168 BC Sixth Syrian War

Roman Syria

• 235 – 284 Crisis of the Third Century
• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 634 – 638 Muslim conquest of the Levant

Abbassid Caliphate

• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 962 Sack of Aleppo (962)
• 854 – 855 Homs revolts (854–855)
• 903 Battle of Hama (903)

Ayyubid Sultanate

• 1124 – 1125 Siege of Aleppo (1124)
• 1129 Crusade of 1129
• 1138 Siege of Aleppo (1138)
• 1147 – 1150 Second Crusade
• 1178 Battle of Hama (1178)
• 1229 Siege of Damascus (1229)

Mamluk Sultanate

• 1260 – 1323 Mongol invasions of the Levant
• 1280 Battle of al-Jassora
• 1302 Fall of Ruad
• 1386 Zahiri Revolt
• 1400 Sack of Aleppo (1400)

Ottoman Syria

• 1516 Massacre of the Telal
• 1658 – 1667 Druze power struggle (1658–1667)
• 1711 Battle of Ain Dara
• 1818 Catholic–Orthodox clash in Aleppo (1818)
• 1831 – 1833 Egyptian–Ottoman War (1831–1833)
• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
  • 1834 – 1835 Alawite revolt (1834–1835)
• 1838 1838 Druze revolt
• 1850 Massacre of Aleppo (1850)
• 1860 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus
• 1909 – 1910 Hauran Druze Rebellion

French Mandate of Syria

• 1919 – 1921 Alawite revolt of 1919
• 1920 Franco-Syrian War
• 1920 – 1921 Hananu Revolt
• 1925 – 1927 Great Syrian Revolt
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II
    • 1941 Syria–Lebanon campaign
• 1945 Levant Crisis

Syrian Arab Republic

• 1947 1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo
• 1948 – 1979 Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1967 Six-Day War
  • 1973 Yom Kippur War
• 1949 March 1949 Syrian coup d'état
• 1949 August 1949 Syrian coup d'état
• 1949 December 1949 Syrian coup d'état
• 1951 1951 Syrian coup d'état
• 1954 1954 Syrian coup d'état
• 1957 Syrian Crisis of 1957
• 1961 1961 Syrian coup d'état
• 1962 1962 Syrian coup d'état attempt
• 1963 1963 Syrian coup d'état
• 1964 1964 Hama riot
• 1966 1966 Syrian coup d'état
• 1970 Corrective Movement (Syria)
• 1976 – 1982 Islamist uprising in Syria
• 1984 1984 Syrian coup attempt
• 1979 – 2024 Assadist-Saddamist conflict
• 2004 2004 Qamishli riots
• 2007 Operation Outside the Box
• 2011 – present Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – 2024 Syrian revolution
  • 2011 – 2012 Early insurgency phase of the Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – present Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
  • 2012 – 2013 2012–2013 escalation of the Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – present Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War
    • 2016 – 2017 Operation Euphrates Shield
    • 2017 – 2024 Turkish military operation in Idlib Governorate
    • 2018 Operation Olive Branch
    • 2019 2019 Turkish offensive into northeastern Syria
    • 2024 – 2025 Turkish–Syrian National Army offensive in Northern Syria (2024–2025)
  • 2012 – 2016 Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
  • 2012 – present Rojava conflict
  • 2014 – present War against the Islamic State
  • 2014 – present US intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015)
  • 2015 Palmyra offensive (May 2015)
  • 2015 – 2024 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • 2018 – 2019 Idlib demilitarization (2018–2019)
  • 2019 Northwestern Syria offensive (April–August 2019)
  • 2019 – 2020 Northwestern Syria offensive (2019–2020)
  • 2024 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
  • 2024 – present Western Syria clashes
  • 2025 – present Druze insurgency in Southern Syria (2025–present)

Turkey

Hittite Empire

The Hittite Empire, c. 1400 BCE (shown in Blue).

• c. 1400 – c. 1350 BC Hittite Wars of Survival
• c. 1312 BC Battle of Ganuvara
• c. 13 century BC Battle of Nihriya
• c. 1260 BC – c. 1240 BC Trojan War

Lydian Empire

• 585 BC Battle of Halys

Achaemenid Empire

• 547 BC Battle of Pteria
• 547 BC Battle of Thymbra
• 547 BC Siege of Sardis (547 BC)
• 499 BC – 449 BC Greco-Persian Wars
  • 499 BC – 493 BC Ionian Revolt
  • 492 BC – 490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece
  • 480 BC – 478 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece
  • 477 BC – 449 BC Wars of the Delian League
• 431 BC – 404 BC Peloponnesian War

Macedonian Empire

• 335 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great

The Siege of Miletus and the Battle of Issus are shown on this map of the Achaemenid Empire around the time of Darius the Great and Xerxes.

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 238 BC – 129 BC Seleucid–Parthian wars

Roman Republic

• 192 BC – 188 BC Roman–Syrian War
• 92 BC – 629 Roman-Persian Wars

Expansion of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

Kingdom of Pontus

• 88 BC – 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
  • 88 BC – 84 BC First Mithridatic War
  • 83 BC – 81 BC Second Mithridatic War
  • 75 BC – 63 BC Third Mithridatic War

Roman Empire

• 66 BC – 217 Roman-Parthian Wars

Byzantine Empire

Territorial development of the Roman Empire between the years CE 300 and 1453 (Animated map).

• 421 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 421 – 422 Roman–Sasanian War
  • 502 – 506 Anastasian War
  • 526 – 532 Iberian War
  • 572 – 591 Roman–Persian War of 572–591
  • 602 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
• 532 Nika riots
• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
• 1081 – 1185 Komnenian restoration
  • 1091 Battle of Levounion
• 1182 Massacre of the Latins

Seljuq Empire

• 1048 – 1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars

Seljuk Empire in its zenith in 1092, upon the death of Malik Shah I

• 1090 – 1194 Nizari–Seljuk conflicts

Sultanate of Rum

• 1095 – 1291 The Crusades
  • 1095 – 1099 First Crusade
  • 1101 Crusade of 1101
  • 1145 – 1149 Second Crusade
  • 1189 – 1192 Third Crusade
  • 1202 – 1204 Fourth Crusade
• 1048 – 1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars

Expansion of the Sultanate of Rum in c. 1100–1240

Latin Empire

• 1204 – 1261 Bulgarian–Latin wars
• 1204 – 1261 Struggle for Constantinople (1204–1261)

Ottoman Empire

Greatest extent (red) with vassal states (light red) of the Ottoman Empire in 1590s.

• 1265 – 1479 Byzantine–Ottoman Wars
  • 1459 Fall of Constantinople
• 1291 – 1399 Crusades after the fall of Acre, 1291–1399
  • 1343 – 1351 Smyrniote crusades
• 1312 – 1918 Serbian–Ottoman wars
• 1345 – 1396 Bulgarian–Ottoman wars
• 1366 – 1526 Hungarian–Ottoman Wars
• 1396 – 1718 Ottoman–Venetian wars
  • 1416 Battle of Gallipoli (1416)
  • 1463 – 1479 Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)
• 1446 Buçuktepe rebellion
• 1511 Şahkulu rebellion
• 1519 – 1648 Celali rebellions
• 1526 Baba Zünnun Rebellion
• 1527 Kalender Çelebi rebellion
• 1589 Beylerbeyi event
• 1624 – 1628 Abaza rebellion
• 1648 Atmeydanı incident
• 1656 Çınar incident
• 1703 Edirne Incident
• 1806 1806 Edirne incident
• 1807 – 1808 Ottoman coups of 1807–1808
• 1821 Constantinople massacre of 1821
• 1826 Auspicious Incident
• 1843 – 1846 1843 and 1846 massacres in Hakkari
• 1876 1876 Ottoman coup d'état
• 1878 Çırağan incident
• 1894 1894 Sasun rebellion
• 1894 – 1897 Hamidian massacres
  • 1895 – 1896 Zeitun rebellion (1895–96)
  • 1896 Defense of Van (1896)
  • 1897 Khanasor Expedition
• 1897 Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• 1904 1904 Sasun uprising
• 1907 Bitlis uprising (1907)
• 1908 Young Turk Revolution
• 1909 31 March Incident
• 1909 Adana massacre
• 1912 1912 Ottoman coup d'état
• 1912 – 1913 Balkan Wars
  • 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1913 Expulsion of the Thracian Bulgarians
• 1913 – 1923 Greek genocide
• 1913 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
• 1914 Bitlis uprising (1914)
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1915 – 1916 Gallipoli campaign
    • 1914 – 1918 Sayfo
    • 1915 – 1917 Armenian genocide
• 1919 – 1923 Turkish War of Independence
  • 1918 – 1923 Anglo-Turkish War
  • 1918 – 1922 Franco-Turkish War
  • 1919 – 1922 Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
  • 1920 Turkish invasion of Armenia
  • 1920 – 1921 Revolts during the Turkish War of Independence
• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1921 Koçgiri rebellion

Republic of Turkey

• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1924 Beytüşşebab rebellion
  • 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion
  • 1927 – 1930 Ararat rebellion
  • 1930 Zilan massacre
  • 1937 – 1938 Dersim massacre
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • 2015 – 2025 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
  • 1983 – present Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
• 1934 1934 Thrace pogroms
• 1936 – 1953 Turkish Straits crisis
• 1938 Zini Rift Massacre
• 1943 Muğlalı incident
• 1955 Istanbul pogrom
• 1960 1960 Turkish coup d'état
• 1962 1962 Turkish coup attempt
• 1963 1963 Turkish coup attempt
• 1968 – 1980 Political violence in Turkey (1976–1980)
  • 1980 1980 Turkish coup d'état
• 1971 1971 Turkish military memorandum
• 1972 – ongoing Maoist insurgency in Turkey
  • 1990 – present DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey
• 1972 Kızıldere Incident
• 1986 Evros River incident
• 1993 1993 alleged Turkish military coup
• 1996 Imia crisis
• 1997 1997 Turkish military memorandum
• 2013 – present AKP–Gülen movement conflict
  • 2016 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
  • 2016 – ongoing Purges in Turkey (2016–present)
• 2013 – present Turkey–Islamic State conflict

United Arab Emirates

• 632 – 633 Ridda Wars
• 1809 Persian Gulf campaign of 1809
• 1819 Persian Gulf campaign of 1819
• 1881 – 1893 Qatari–Abu Dhabi War
• 1922 1922 Dhabyani coup d'état
• 1926 1926 Dhabyani coup d'état
• 1928 1928 Dhabyani coup d'état
• 1952 – 1955 Buraimi dispute
• 1954 – 1955 1954-1955 Dhabyani coup attempt
• 1965 1965 Sharjawi coup d'état
• 1966 1966 Dhabyani coup d'état
• 1971 Seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs
• 1972 1972 Sharjawi coup d'état attempt
• 1987 1987 Sharjawi coup attempt
• 2011 2011 Dhabyani coup attempt
• 2014 – present Yemeni civil war (2014–present)

Yemen

• 518 – 525 Aksumite invasion of Himyar
• 570 – 578 Aksumite–Persian wars
  • 570 Battle of Hadhramaut
  • 570 Siege of Sanaa (570)
  • 575 – 578 Sasanian reconquest of Yemen
• 1523 Battle of Ash-Shihr (1523)
• 1531 Battle of al-Shihr (1531)
• 1548 Battle of al-Shihr (1548)
• 1909 – 1910 Zaraniq rebellion (1909–1910)
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1919 Campaign in South Arabia
• 1925 – 1929 Zaraniq rebellion (1925–1929)
• 1931 1931 Saudi–Yemeni border skirmish
• 1931 – 1932 Najran conflict
• 1934 Saudi–Yemeni war (1934)
• 1948 al-Waziri coup
• 1955 1955 Yemeni coup attempt
• 1956 – 1960 Yemeni–Adenese clan violence
• 1962 – 1970 North Yemen Civil War
• 1963 – 1967 Aden Emergency
• 1967 1967 North Yemen coup d'état
• 1969 Al-Wadiah War
• 1972 First Yemenite War
• 1974 June 13 Corrective Movement
• 1978 – 1982 NDF Rebellion
• 1979 Second Yemenite War
• 1986 South Yemeni crisis
• 1994 Yemeni civil war (1994)
• 1995 Hanish Islands conflict
• 1998 – present Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
• 2002 – present US airstrikes on Yemen
• 2004 – 2014 Houthi insurgency
  • 2009 – 2010 Operation Scorched Earth
• 2009 – present South Yemen insurgency
• 2011 – 2012 Yemeni revolution
• 2014 – present Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
  • 2015 – ongoing Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
    • 2015 – present Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis

Central Asia

Afghanistan

• 962 Ghaznavid Empire
• 1709 Hotaki Empire and Durrani Empire
• The Great Game
• Khost rebellion (1856–1857)
• Khost rebellion (1912)
• Khost rebellion (1924–1925)
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
• 1944 – 1947 Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
• 1945 – 1946 1945 Hazara Rebellion
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 1959 – 1960 Dir campaign
  • 1960 – 1961 Bajaur Campaign
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 1949 1949 Hazara Rebellion
• 17 April 1973 1973 Afghan coup d'état
• 1975 1975 Panjshir Valley uprising
• 27 – 28 April 1978 Saur Revolution
• 1979 Herat uprising
• 1979 Chindawol uprising
• 1979 Bala Hissar uprising
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1989 – 1992 Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
• 1992 – 1996 Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
• 1996 – 2001 Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
• 2001 – 2021 War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • 7 October 2001 – 17 December 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan
  • June 4, 2006 – 2014 Helmand province campaign
  • April 2009 – December 2014 Kunduz province campaign
• 2015 – present Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• 2021 – present Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

• 1068 Battle of the Alta River
• 1382 Siege of Moscow (1382)
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• 1917–1923 Russian Civil War
  • 1917–1920 Alash Orda
• 1954 Kengir uprising
• 1986 Jeltoqsan
• 1989 – present Kazakh–Russian ethnic conflicts
• 5 – 8 February 2020 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes
• 2 – 11 January 2022 2022 Kazakh unrest

Kyrgyzstan

• 1898 Andijan uprising of 1898
• 1916 Central Asian revolt of 1916
• 1990 Osh riots
• 1999 Batken Conflict
• 22 March – 11 April 2005 Tulip Revolution
• 6 April – 15 April 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
• 2010 2010 South Kyrgyzstan riots
• 2021 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
• 2022 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes

Tajikistan

Dayuan

• 104–101 BCE War of the Heavenly Horses

The Dayuan (in Ferghana) was one of the three advanced civilizations of Central Asia around 130 BCE, together with Parthia and Greco-Bactria, according to the Chinese historical work Book of Han.

Tajik SSR

• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War

Tajikistan

• 1992 – 1997 Tajikistani Civil War
• 2010 – 2015 Insurgency in Gorno-Badakhshan (2010–2015)
  • 2012 2012 Gorno-Badakhshan clashes

Turkmenistan

• Seljuk-Ghaznavid Wars
  • 1040 Battle of Dandanaqan
• 1916–1934 Basmachi Movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War

Uzbekistan

Sogdia

• 335–323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 327 BCE Siege of the Sogdian Rock

Sogdia, c. 300 BC.

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

• 250 BCE Independence
• 230 BCE Overthrow of Diodotus II
• 210 BCE Seleucid invasion
• 180 BCE Expansion into India
• 141 BCE Defeats against Parthia

Yuezhi Kingdom

• 162 BCE Yuezhi expansion

The migrations of the Yuezhi through Central Asia, from around 176 BC to AD 30.

Indo-Greek Kingdom

• 36 BCE Battle of Sogdiana

Kushan Empire

• 1st and 2nd Centuries CE Kushan expansion

Rouran Khaganate

• Origin and expansion

Göktürk Khaganate

• Göktürk civil war
• Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue
• Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
• 657 Conquest of the Western Turks

Khwarazmian dynasty

• 1216–1221 Mongol invasion of Central Asia

Mongol Empire

• 1262 Berke–Hulagu war

Timurid dynasty

• 1370 Siege of Balkh

Zunghar Khanate

• Conquest of the Tarim Basin and war with the Central Asians

Russian Empire

• The Great Game
• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Russian Empire

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

• 1916–1934 Basmachi movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 1984 – 1988 Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War
• 3 – 12 June 1989 Fergana massacre

Republic of Uzbekistan

• 13 May 2005 Andijan massacre
• 1 – 3 July 2022 2022 Karakalpak protests

East Asia

China

Longshan culture

• 2852–2070 BCE Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Period
  • c. 2500 BCE Battle of Banquan
  • c. 2500 BCE Battle of Zhuolu

Xia dynasty

• c. 1628–1600 BCE Rise of Shang
  • c. 1600 BCE Battle of Mingtiao

Shang dynasty

• c. 1628–1600 BCE Rise of Shang
  • c. 1600 BCE Battle of Mingtiao
• c. 1046 BC\
  • c. 1046 BCE Battle of Muye

Remnants of advanced, stratified societies dating back to the Shang found primarily in the Yellow River Valley

Zhou dynasty

• c. 1046 BCE Foundation of the Zhou dynasty
  • c. 1046 BCE Battle of Muye
• 771–476 BCE Spring and Autumn period
  • 632 BCE Battle of Chengpu
  • 595 BCE Battle of Bi
  • 588 BCE Battle of An
  • 575 BCE Battle of Yanling
  • 506 BCE Battle of Boju
  • 4th century BCE Gojoseon–Yan War
  • 478 BCE Battle of Lize
• 475–221 BCE Warring States period
  • 453 BCE Battle of Jinyang
  • 353 BCE Battle of Guiling
  • 342 BCE Battle of Maling
  • 293 BCE Battle of Yique
  • 260 BCE Battle of Changping
  • 230–221 BCE Qin's wars of unification

Qin dynasty

• 215 BCE Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 214 BCE Qin's campaign against the Yue tribes
• 209 BCE Dazexiang Uprising

Qin dynasty, c. 210 BC.

Han dynasty

• 206–202 BCE Chu–Han Contention
  • 207 BCE Battle of Julu
  • 205 BCE Battle of Pengcheng
  • 205 BCE Battle of Jingxing
  • 203 BCE Battle of Wei River
  • 202 BCE Battle of Gaixia
  • 200 BCE Battle of Baideng
• 154 BCE Rebellion of the Seven States
• 133 BCE – 89 Han–Xiongnu War
  • 133 BCE Battle of Mayi
  • 119 BCE Battle of Mobei
  • 99 BCE Battle of Tian Shan
  • 67 BCE Battle of Jushi
  • 36 BCE Battle of Zhizhi
  • 73 CE Battle of Yiwulu
  • 89 CE Battle of Ikh Bayan

The Han Empire in 87 BCE (core provinces in brown), with commanderies (red dots) and protectorates (green dots) shown

• 2nd century BCE Southward expansion of the Han dynasty
  • 111 BCE Han–Nanyue War
• 109–108 BCE Han-Gojoseon War
• 17–25 CE Lülin Rebellion
  • 23 Battle of Kunyang
• 189–220 End of the Han dynasty
  • 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion
  • 190 Campaign against Dong Zhuo
    • 190 Battle of Xingyang
  • 191 Battle of Yangcheng
  • 191 Battle of Jieqiao
  • 191 Battle of Xiangyang
  • 193 Battle of Fengqiu
  • 194 Battle of Yan Province
  • 194 Sun Ce's conquests in Jiangdong
  • 197 Battle of Wancheng
  • 198 Battle of Rangcheng
  • 198 Battle of Xiapi
  • 199 Battle of Yijing
  • 199 Campaign against Yuan Shu
  • 200 Battle of Guandu
  • 202 Battle of Bowang
  • 208 Battle of Xiakou
  • 208 Battle of Changban
  • 208 Battle to the Southwest of Xiakou
  • 208 Battle of Red Cliffs
  • 209 Battle of Jiangling
  • 211 Battle of Tong Pass
  • 213 Siege of Jicheng
  • 213 Battle of Lucheng
  • 214 Liu Bei's takeover of Yi Province
  • 215 Battle of Baxi
  • 215 Battle of Yangping
  • 217 Battle of Xiaoyao Ford
  • 218 Battle of Ruxu
  • 219 Battle of Mount Dingjun
  • 219 Battle of Han River
  • 219 Battle of Fancheng
  • 219 Lü Meng's invasion of Jing Province

Wei dynasty

• 220–280 Three Kingdoms
  • 222 Battle of Xiaoting
  • 225 Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign
  • Spring 228 – August 234 Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions
    • 228 Battle of Tianshui
    • 228 Battle of Jieting
    • 228 Battle of Shiting
    • 229 Siege of Chencang
    • 234 Battle of Wuzhang Plains
  • 227–228 Xincheng Rebellion
  • 244 Battle of Xingshi
  • 247–262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions

The territories of Cao Wei (in yellow), 262 CE.

• • • 255 Battle of Didao
  • 263 Conquest of Shu by Wei

Jìn dynasty

• 220–280 Three Kingdoms
  • 280 Conquest of Wu by Jin
• 291 War of the Eight Princes
• 304–439 Sixteen Kingdoms
  • 304 Wu Hu uprising
  • 354 Huan Wen's expeditions
  • 383 Battle of Fei River
  • 395 Battle of Canhe Slope
  • 409 Liu Yu's expeditions

Liu Song dynasty

• 420–589 Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • 537 Battle of Shayuan

Sui dynasty

• 602 Ly–Sui War
• 598–614 Goguryeo–Sui War
• 617–621 Transition from Sui to Tang
  • 617 Battle of JYP against Sahyo
  • 621 Battle of Hulao

Tang dynasty

Emperor Taizong's campaign against the oasis states (640–648)

China under the Tang dynasty c. 700 AD

• 629–630 Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks
  • 630 Battle of Yinshan
• 640–657 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
  • 640–648 Tang campaign against the oasis states
  • 640 Conquest of Karakhoja
  • 644–648 Conquest of Karasahr
  • 648–649 Conquest of Kucha
  • 657 Battle of Irtysh River
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks
• 645–668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 Siege of Yodong
  • 645 Siege of Ansi
  • 668 Siege of Pyongyang
• 660–663 Baekje-Tang War
  • 663 Battle of Baekgang
• 670 Battle of Dafei River
• 698 Battle of Tianmenling
• 7th century – 8th century Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
  • 717 Battle of Aksu
  • 751 Battle of Talas
• 745–749 Siege of Shibao fortress
• December 16, 755 – February 17, 763 An Lushan Rebellion
  • 756 Battle of Tong Pass
  • 756 Battle of Yongqiu
  • 757 Battle of Suiyang
  • 757 Battle of Xiangjisi
  • 758–759 Battle of Xiangzhou
  • 762 Battle of Luoyang
• 801–802 Battle of Weizhou
• 819 Battle of Yanzhou
• 874–884 Huang Chao Rebellion

Song dynasty

• 1129–1141 Yue Fei's campaign against Jin
• November 1125 – 13th century Jin–Song Wars
  • 1161 Battle of Tangdao
  • 1161 Battle of Caishi
• 1235–1279 Song–Yuan wars
  • 1273 Battle of Xiangyang
  • 1279 Battle of Yamen

Liao dynasty

• November 15, 976 – May 8, 997 Military campaigns of Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty
  • 979–982 First campaign against Liao dynasty
    • 979 Battle of Gaoliang River
  • 982–988 Second campaign against Liao dynasty
    • 986 Chi go Pass Campaign
• February 12, 1101 – March 26, 1125 Reign of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao
  • 1114–1122 Jurchen invasion
  • 1123–1125 End of Liao dynasty

Jin dynasty

• 1206–1337 Mongol conquests
  • 1211–1234 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
    • 1211 Battle of Yehuling
    • 1215 Battle of Zhongdu

Yuan dynasty

Yuan dynasty in 1294

• 1351 Red Turban Rebellion
  • August 30 – October 4, 1363 Battle of Lake Poyang

Ming dynasty

• 1381 Ming conquest of Yunnan
• 1300s–1400s Miao Rebellions
• 1399–1402 Jingnan Campaign
• 1400s–1500s Ming–Turpan conflict
• 1406–1407 Ming–Hồ War
• 1405–1433 Treasure voyages
  • 1410 Ming–Kotte War
• 1206–1337 Mongol invasions
  • 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
• 1510 Prince of Anhua rebellion
• 1519 Prince of Ning rebellion
• 1521 First Battle of Tamao
• 1522 Second Battle of Tamao
• 1618–1683 Manchu conquest of China
  • 1619 Battle of Sarhu
  • 1626 Battle of Ningyuan
  • 1640 Battle of Songjin
  • 1644 Battle of Shanhai Pass
• 1633 Battle of the Southern Fujian Sea
• 1642 Battle of Nanyang
• 1644 Occupied Beijing

Qing dynasty

• 1652–1689 Sino–Russian border conflicts
• 1674–1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories
• 1683 Battle of Penghu
• 1690–1757 First Oirat–Manchu War
  • September 3, 1690 Battle of Ulan Butung
  • 1696 Battle of Zuunmod
• 1718 Battle of the Salween River
• 1747–1792 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1796 White Lotus Rebellion
• 1839–1842 First Anglo-Chinese War
  • 1839 First Battle of Chuenpi
  • 1840 Capture of Chusan
  • 1840 Battle of the Barrier
  • 1841 Second Battle of Chuenpi
  • 1841 Battle of the Bogue
  • 1841 Battle of First Bar
  • 1841 Battle of Whampoa
  • March 1841 Battle of Canton
  • May 1841 Battle of Canton
  • 1841 Battle of Amoy
  • 1841 Capture of Chusan
  • 1841 Battle of Chinhai
  • 1842 Battle of Ningpo
  • 1842 Battle of Tzeki
  • 1842 Battle of Chapu
  • 1842 Battle of Woosung
  • 1842 Battle of Chinkiang
• 1851–1864 Taiping Rebellion
  • 1850 Jintian Uprising
  • 1853 Battle of Nanjing
  • 1856 First rout the Army Group Jiangnan
  • 1858 Battle of Sanhe
  • 1860 Second rout the Army Group Jiangnan
  • 1861 Battle of Anqing
  • 1861 Battle of Guanzhong
  • 1861 Battle of Shanghai
  • 1862 Battle of Cixi
  • 1863 Battle of Suzhou
  • 1863 Battle of Changzhou
  • 1864 Third Battle of Nanking
  • 1864 Hubei Pocket
  • 1865 Fujian Pocket
• 1856–1873 Panthay Rebellion
• 1862–1877 Dungan Revolt
  • 1870 Battle of Ürümqi
• 1864–1869 Nien Rebellion
  • 1867 Battle of Inlon River
• 1856–1860 Second Anglo-Chinese War
  • 1856 Pearl River Forts
  • 1857 Fatshan Creek
  • 1858 First Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1859 Second Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1860 Third Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1860 Battle of Palikao
• August 1884 – April 1885 Franco-Chinese War
  • 1883 Sơn Tây Campaign
  • 1883 Battle of Paper Bridge
  • 1884 Bắc Ninh Campaign
  • 1884 Bắc Lệ ambush
  • 1884 Battle of Fuzhou
  • 1884 Kep Campaign
  • 1884 Keelung Campaign
  • 1885 Lạng Sơn Campaign
  • 1885 Battle of Shipu
  • 1885 Battle of Zhenhai
  • 1885 Siege of Tuyên Quang
  • 1885 Battle of Hòa Mộc
  • 1885 Battle of Bang Bo
  • 1885 Battle of Phu Lam Tao
  • 1885 Keelung Campaign
  • 1885 Pescadores Campaign

The Qing Empire in 1890

• 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War
  • 1895 Battle of Weihaiwei
• 1895–1896 Dungan Revolt
• 1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion
  • 1900 Battle of Taku Forts
  • 1900 Battle of Tientsin
  • 1900 Battle of Shanhaiguan
  • 1900 Battle of Beicang
  • 1900 Battle of Yangcun
  • 1900 Battle of Yingkou
  • 1900 Battles on Amur River
  • 1900 Battle of Peking
  • 1900 Seymour Expedition
  • 1900 Siege of the International Legations
• February 8, 1904 – 5 September 5, 1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution
  • 1911 Wuchang Uprising

Republic of China

• October 10, 1911 – February 12, 1912 Xinhai Revolution
• 1916–1928 Warlord Era
  • 1926–1928 Northern Expedition
• 1917 – 1949 Golok conflicts (1917–1949)
• 1927–1950 Chinese Civil War
• September 18, 1931 – February 27, 1932 Japanese invasion of Manchuria
  • September 18, 1931 – February 18, 1932 Mukden Incident
• April 1933 – December 1936 Actions in Inner Mongolia
  • January 1 – May 31, 1933 Defense of the Great Wall
• July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
• September 1, 1939 – 2 September 2, 1945 World War II
  • 1937–1945 Pacific War
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
• 7 November 1944 – 26 June 1946 Ili Rebellion
  • 1946 – 1948 Battle of Baitag Bogd

People's Republic of China

Area controlled by the People's Republic of China shown in dark green; claimed but uncontrolled regions shown in light green.

• 1927 – 1950 Chinese Civil War
  • 1945－ 1949 Second Kuomintang-Communist Civil War
    • 1945 – 1949 Operation Beleaguer
    • November 1945 – April 1947 Campaign to suppress bandits in northeast China
    • 12 September – 2 November 1948 Liaoshen campaign
    • 6 November 1948 – 10 January 1949 Huaihai campaign
    • 29 November 1948 – 31 January 1949 Pingjin campaign
    • 20 April – 2 June 1949 Yangtze River Crossing campaign
    • May 12 – June 2, 1949 Shanghai Campaign
    • October 25 – 27, 1949 Battle of Guningtou
    • 16 April – 1 May 1950 Battle of Hainan Island
    • May 25 – August 7, 1950 Wanshan Archipelago Campaign
• 1949 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 12 October – 22 December 1949 Incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China
  • 4 – 10 April 1990 Barin uprising
  • 7 January 2007 2007 Xinjiang raid
  • 18 April 2014 2014 China–Vietnam border shootout
• 1950 – 1951 Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
  • 6 – 24 October 1950 Battle of Chamdo
• 1950 – 1953 Korean War
• 1950 – 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 19 – 20 January 1974 Battle of the Paracel Islands
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1959 Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959)
• 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising
• 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1969 Sino–Soviet border conflict
  • 2 – 17 March 1969 Zhenbao (Damansky) Island incident
  • 13 August 1969 Tielieketi incident
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979 – 1991 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)
  • 14 March 1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 15 April – 4 June 1989 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  • 1989 People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 2001 Hainan Island incident
• 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Japan

• c. 7th century BCE Emperor Jinmu's Expedition
• c. 1st century BCE Takehaniyasuhiko Rebellion
• c. 1st century – early 2nd century Yamato Takeru Expedition
• 146–189 or 178–184 Civil War of Wa
• c. 3rd century Empress Jingu Expedition
• 391-404 Goguryeo-Yamato Guerra
• 463 Kibi Clan Rebellion
• 479 Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion
• 527-528 Iwai Rebellion
• 534 Musashi no Kuni no Miyatsuko Rebellion
• 587 Battle of Shigisan
• 645 Isshi Incident
• 658-660 Abe's expedition to Hirafu
• August 27–28, 663 Battle of Baekgang
• 672 Jinshin Guerra
• 720-721 Hayato Rebellion
• 740 Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion
• 764 Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion
• 774-811 Thirty-Eight Year Guerra
• 780-781? Hoki Rebellion
• 788 Battle of Subuse
• 801 Conquest by Sakanoue in Tamuramaro
• 811 Last Conquest by Funya on Watamaro
• 878 Gangyo Rebellion
• 893 Kanbyo Silla pirate invasion
• 936-941 Johei-Tengyo Rebellion
• 947 Fujiwara no Koresuke Rebellion
• 1019 Toi invasion
• 1028–1030 Taira no the Tadatsune Rebellion
• 1051–1062 Zenkunen Guerra
• 1051 Battle of Onikiribe
• 1057 Battle of Kinomi
• 1062 Siege of Komatsu
• 1062 Siege of Koromogawa
• 1062 Siege of Kuriyagawa
• 1070 Enkyu Battle of Ezo
• 1083–1087 Gosannen Guerra
• 1087 Siege of Kanezawa
• 1107–1108 Minamoto no Yoshichika Rebellion
• 1156 Hogen Rebellion
• 1159 Heiji Rebellion
• 1180–1185 Genpei War
  • 1180 Battle of Ishibashiyama
  • 1180 Battle of Fujigawa
  • 1181 Battle of Sunomata-gawa
  • 1183 Battle of Kurikara
  • 1184 Siege of Hōjūjidono
  • 1184 Battle of Uji
  • 1184 Battle of Awazu
  • 1184 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
  • 1184 Battle of Kojima
  • 1185 Battle of Yashima
  • 1185 Battle of Dan-no-ura
• 1189 Ōshū War
• 1213 Wada Rebellion
• 1247 Miura Rebellion
• 1221 Jōkyū War
• 1221 Battle of Uji
• 1274–1281 Mongol invasions of Japan
  • 1274 Battle of Bun'ei
  • 1281 Battle of Kōan
• 1331–1333 Genkō War
  • 1331 Siege of Kasagi
  • 1331 Siege of Akasaka
  • 1333 Siege of Chihaya
  • 1333 Battle of Bubaigawara
  • 1333 Siege of Kamakura
  • 1335 Nakasendai Rebellion
  • 1336 Battle of Tatarahama
  • 1336 Battle of Minatogawa
  • 1337 Siege of Kanegasaki
  • 1338 Battle of Ishiku
  • 1348 Battle of Shijō Nawate
  • 1350–1352 Incident Kannō
  • 1351 Battle of Uchidehama
  • 1359 Battle of Chikugogawa
  • 1399 Ōei Rebellion
  • 1416–1417 Rebellion of Uesugi Zenshū
  • 1438–1439 Eikyō Rebellion
  • 1440 Siege of Yūki
  • 1441 Incident Kakitsu
  • 1456–1457 Koshamain's Revolt
• 1455–1482 Kyōtoku Incident
  • 1455 Battle of Bubaigawara
  • 1459–1477 Battle of Irako
  • 1476–1480 Nagao Kageharu Rebellion
  • 1477 Battle of Egota-Numabukurohara
• 1467 Ōnin War
  • 1487–1505 Chōkyō Incident
  • 1504 Battle of Tachigawara
  • 1506 Battle of Kuzuryūgawa
  • 1509 Battle of Nyoigatake
  • 1510 Battle of Nagamorihara
  • 1510 Siege of Gongenyama
  • 1516 Siege of Arai
  • 1517 Battle of Arita-Nakaide
  • 1521 Battle of Iidagawara
  • 1523 Ningbo Turmoil
  • 1527 Battle of Katsuragawa
  • 1539 Battle of Tatenawate
  • 1531 Battle of Shiokawa no gawara
  • 1531 Kyoroku War
  • 1531 Battle of Daimotsu
  • 1532–1535 Tenbun War
  • 1532 Siege of Iimoriyama
  • 1532 Siege of Sakai
  • 1532 Siege of Yamashina Honganji
  • 1535 Battle of Idano
  • 1536 Battle of Un no Kuchi
  • 1536 Battle of Sanbuichigahara
  • 1536 Hanakura Incident
  • 1536 Battle of Sendanno
  • 1536 Battle of Un no kuchi
  • 1537 Siege of Musashi-Matsuyama
  • 1538 Battle of Kōnodai
  • 1540–1541 Siege of Koriyama
  • 1542 Battle of Azukizaka
  • 1542–1543 Siege of Toda Castle
  • 1542–1548 Utsuro Rebellion
  • 1546 Battle of Kawagoe
  • 1546 Battle of Odaihara
  • 1548 Battle of Azukizaka
  • 1548 Battle of Uedahara
  • 1550 Siege of Toishi
  • 1552 Battle of Kaizu
  • 1553, 1555, 1557, 1561, 1564 Battles of Kawankajima
  • 1554 Battle of Enshu-Omori
  • 1555 Battle of Ino
  • 1555 Battle of Miyajima
  • 1556 Battle of Nagaragawa
  • 1558 Battle of Ukino
  • 1558 Siege of Terabe
  • 1564 Battle of Kōnodai
  • 1566 Siege of Minowa
  • 1568 Siege of Hachigata
  • 1569 Battle of Mimasetoge
  • 1571 Battle of Takehiro
  • 1572 Siege of Iwamura Castle
  • 1578 Battle of Mimigawa
  • 1584 Battle of Okitanawate
  • 1589 Battle of Suriagehara
• 1467–1573 Sengoku period
• 1568–1603 Azuchi–Momoyama period
  • 1560 Battle of Okehazama
  • 1575 Battle of Nagashino
  • 1582 Battle of Yamazaki
  • 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
• 1592–1598 Japanese invasions of Korea
  • 1592–1593 Battle of Bunroku
  • 1592 Battle of Hansan Island
  • 1592 Siege of Busanjin
  • 1592 Battle of Dadaejin
  • 1592 Siege of Dongnae
  • 1592 Battle of Sangju
  • 1592 Battle of Chungju
  • 1592 Battle of the Imjin River
  • 1592 Gangwon campaign
  • 1593 Battle of Haenju
  • 1597–1598 Battle of Keicho
  • 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang
  • 1597–1598 Siege of Ulsan
  • 1598 Battle of Sacheon
  • 1598 Battle of Noryang
• 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
  • Siege of Fushimi
  • Battle of Gifu Castle
  • Siege of Ueda
• 1609 Ryukyu's invasion
• 1614–1615 Siege of Osaka
• 1637–1638 Shimabara Rebellion
• 1868–1869 Boshin War
• 1874 Saga Rebellion
• 1876 Shinpūren Rebellion
• 1876 Akizuki Rebellion
• 1876 Hagi Rebellion
• 1877 Satsuma Rebellion
• 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War
  • 1894 Battle of Pungdo
  • 1894 Battle of Seonghwan
  • 1894 Battle of Pyongyang
  • 1894 Battle of Yalu River
  • 1894 Battle of Jiuliancheng
  • 1894 Battle of Lushunkou
  • 1895 Battle of Weihaiwei
  • 1895 Battle of Yingkou
  • 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan
  • 1895 Campaign Fishermen
  • 1895 Battle of Keelung
  • 1895 Hsinchu Campaign
  • 1895 Battle of Baguashan
  • 1895 Battle of Chiayi
  • 1895 Battle of Chiatung
  • 1895 Capitulation of Tainan
  • 1895 Battle of Changhsing
  • 1904–1905 Battle of Port Arthur
  • 1904 Battle of Yalu River
  • 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea
  • 1904 Battle of Nanshan
  • 1904 Battle of Shantung
  • 1904 Battle of Dairen
  • 1904 Battle of Liaoyang
  • 1905 Battle of Tsushima
  • 1905 Battle of Mukden
  • 1907 Namdaemun Battle
  • 1914 Siege of Tsingtao
  • 1920 Battle of Qingshanli
  • 1920 Battle of Fengwudong
  • 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident
  • 1937 Battle of Beiping – Tianjin
  • 1937 Battle of Shanghai
  • 1937 Battle of Pingxingguan
  • 1937 Battle of Nanjing
  • 1937 Battle of Taiyuan
  • 1937 Battle of Xuzhou
  • 1938 Battle of Taierzhuang
  • 1938 Battle of Wuhan
  • 1938 Battle of Canton
  • 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan Incident)
  • 1939 Battle of Changsha
  • 1940 Offensive of one hundred regiments
• 1899–1901 Boxer Rebellion
• 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914 Siege of Tsingtao
• 1937–1945 World War II
  • 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
  • 1939–1945 Pacific War
  • 1938–1945 Soviet-Japanese Border Wars
  • 1942 Battle of Midway
• June 1946 Shibuya incident
• 22 June 1966 – present Sanrizuka Struggle
• February 19 – 28, 1972 Asama-Sansō incident
• 1985 - 1989 Yama–Ichi War
• 2001 Battle of Amami-Ōshima

Korea

• 108 BCE Wiman Joseon–Han War
• 57 BCE–668 CE Conflicts of Three Kingdoms
  • 391–413 King Gwanggaeto conquests
• 598–614 Goguryeo–Sui War
  • 612 Battle of Salsu
• 645–668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 Siege of Yodong
  • 645 Siege of Ansi
  • 668 Siege of Pyongyang
• 892–936 Conflicts of Later Three Kingdoms
• 993–1019 Goryeo–Khitan War
• 1104–1107 Jurchen campaigns
• 1231–1259 Mongol invasions of Korea
• December 1359 – November 1360 Red Turban invasions of Goryeo
• 1396 Second Tsushima Expedition
• 1419 Third Tsushima Expedition
• 1443 Joseon Northern Expedition
• 1510 Sampo Invasion
• 1592–1598 Japanese-Korean War (1592–98)
  • 1592 Siege of Busan
  • 1592 Siege of Dongnae
  • 1592 Battle of Sangju
  • 1592 Battle of Chungju
  • 1592 Battle of the Imjin River
  • 1592 Joseon naval campaigns
  • 1592 Siege of Jinju
  • 1593 Siege of Haengju
  • 1597 Battle of Myeongnyang
  • 1598 Battle of Noryang Point
• 1618–1683 Ming-Manchu War
• 1627 First Manchurian-Korean War
• 1636 Second Manchurian-Korean War
• 1866 French campaign against Korea
• 1871 United States expedition to Korea
• 1875 Ganghwa Island incident
• 1882 Imo Incident
• 1884 Gapsin Coup
• 1894–1895 Donghak Peasant Revolution
• 1900 Boxer Rebellion
• 1902 Korean Invasion of Manchuria
• 1905 Eulsa Righteous War
• 1907 Jeungmi Righteous War
• 1909 Great Korean Militia Roundup Campaign
• 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea
• 1910–1945 Korean Liberation Army And Japanese war
• 1920 Battle of Fengwudong
• 1920 Battle of Chongsanli
• 1921 Massacre of Svobodny
• 1946 Autumn Uprising of 1946
• 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion
• 1948 – 1949 Jeju uprising
• 1950 – 1953 Korean War
• 1953 – present Korean border incidents
  • 1966 – 1969 Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69)
    • January 17 – 29, 1968 Blue House raid
    • 20–23 January 1968 USS Pueblo incident
    • October 30 – December 26, 1968 Uljin–Samcheok Landings
    • 15 April 1969 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
  • 1993 – 1994 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis
  • 17 September – 5 November 1996 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident
  • 22 June 1998 1998 Sokcho submarine incident
  • 17 – 18 December 1998 1998 Yeosu submersible incident
  • 9 – 15 June 1999 Battle of Yeongpyeong (1999)
  • 29 June 2002 Battle of Yeongpyeong (2002)
  • 10 November 2009 Daecheong incident
  • 26 March 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking
  • 23 November 2010 2010 Yeonpyeong bombardment
• 1971 Unit 684 mutiny
• 18 – 27 May 1980 Gwangju Uprising

Mongolia

Xiongnu

• 215 BCE Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 133 BCE – 89 CE Han–Xiongnu War
• 60–53 BCE Xiongnu Civil War

Rouran Khaganate

• 330–555 Origin and expansion

Turkic Khaganate

• 581–593 Göktürk civil war

Turkic khaganates c. 600 CE

• 626–649 Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue
• 640–657 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks

Uyghur Khaganate

• 744–848 The rise of Uyghurs in Mongolia

Mongol Empire

• 1207 Mongol conquest of Siberia

Golden Horde

• 1380–1390 Tokhtamysh–Timur war
• 1206–1337 Mongol invasions
• Tatar invasions
• 1938–1945 World War II
  • 1938–39 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
  • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria

Taiwan

• 1635–1636 Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
• 1652 Guo Huaiyi Rebellion
• 1661 Siege of Fort Zeelandia
• 1683 Battle of Penghu
• 1787–1788 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1895 Japanese conquest of Taiwan
• February 27 – May 16, 1947 February 28 Incident
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

South Asia

Bangladesh

• 1303 Conquest of Sylhet
• 1512–1516 Bengal Sultanate–Kingdom of Mrauk U War
• 1576 Battle of Rajmahal
• 1611 Conquest of Bakla
• 1665 Conquest of Chittagong
• 1757 Battle of Plassey

East Pakistan

• 1949 – 1950 Nachole Uprising
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 25 March 1971 – 16 December 1971 1971 Bangladesh genocide
  • 26 March 1971 – 20 May 1971 Operation Searchlight
  • 25 April — 15 August 1971 Operation Jackpot
  • 25 April – 1 May 1971 Operation Barisal
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

People's Republic of Bangladesh

• 1948 – present Rohingya conflict
  • 1991 – 1992 Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation
• 1972 – 1975 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency
• 15 August 1975 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 3 November 1975 3 November 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 7 November 1975 7 November 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1976 1976 Bogra mutiny
• 1977 1977 Bogra mutiny
• 1977 1977 Bangladesh Air Force mutiny
• 1977 – present Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
• 17 June 1980 1980 Bangladeshi coup attempt
• 24 March 1982 1982 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1993 – present Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh
• 1994 1994 Bangladesh Ansar mutiny
• May 1996 1996 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 1999 – present Terrorism in Bangladesh
  • 1 – 2 July 2016 July 2016 Dhaka attack
• 2001 – ongoing Bangladesh–India border skirmishes
  • 2001 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2005 2005 Bangladesh-India border clash
  • 2019 2019 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
• 2006 – 2008 2006–2008 Bangladesh political crisis
• 2008 2008 Bangladesh–Myanmar naval standoff
• 2009 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt
• December 2011 2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 2015 2015 Bangladesh–Arakan Army border clash
• 2018 – 2019 Bangladesh drug war

Bhutan

• 1766–1788 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1954 – present Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 2003 2003 South Bhutan clashes
  • 2003 – 2004 Operation All Clear

India

Bharathvarsha

• c. 15000 BCE Ramayana War
• c. 5300 BCE – Kurukshetra War

Bharat

• c. 1700 BCE – c. 1000 BCE Battle of the Ten Kings
• 543–504 BCE Vijaya's conquest of Sri Lanka

Kingdom of Magadha

• 500–321 BCE Kingdom of Magadha conflicts
  • 323–298 BCE Chandragupta Maurya's conquests
  • 265–264 BCE Kalinga War
• 424–321 BCE Nanda Empire conflicts
  • 424–321 BCE Nanda Dynasty conflicts
  • 321–320 BCE Conquest of the Nanda Empire

Maurya Empire

• 265-264 BCE Kalinga war

Indo-Scythian Kingdom

• 320–550 Gupta Empire conflicts

Gupta Empire

• 320–550 Gupta Empire conflicts

Empire of Harsha

• 606–647 Empire of Harsha Conflicts

Delhi Sultanate

• 1206–1451 Delhi Sultanate conflicts
• 1206–1337 Mongol conquests
  • 1221–1308 Mongol invasions of India
    • Spring 1221 Battle of Indus
    • December 20, 1305 Battle of Amroha

Vijaynagara Empire

1336–1646 Vijayanagara Empire conflicts

• 1520 Battle of Raichur
• 1565 Battle of Talikota

Mughal Empire

• 1526–1757 Mughal Empire conflicts
  • 1526 First Battle of Panipat
  • 1527 Battle of Khanwa
  • 1556 Second Battle of Panipat
  • 1615–82 Ahom–Mughal conflicts
  • 1649–53 Mughal–Safavid war
  • 1739 Battle of Karnal

Maratha Empire

• 1681–1707 Mughal–Maratha wars
• 1737–1758 Maratha conquests of North and Northwest India
• 1761 Third Battle of Panipat
• 1777–1818 Anglo-Maratha wars
• 1780–1787 Maratha–Mysore wars

Sikh Empire

• 1799–1849 Sikh Empire conflicts
  • 1708 Battle of Chamkaur
  • 1700 First Battle of Anandpur
  • 1687 Battle of Nadaun
  • 1897 Battle of Saragarhi
  • 1701–1704 Second Battle of Anandpur
  • September 18, 1688 Battle of Bhangani
  • 1837 Battle of Jamrud
• 1841–1842 Sino-Sikh war
• 1855–1856 Nepalese–Tibetan war

Company rule in India

• 1766–1799 Anglo-Mysore Wars
  • 1766–1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1780–1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1789–1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1798–1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
• 1777–1818 Anglo-Maratha Wars
  • 1777–1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1803–1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1817–1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
• 1799–1802 Polygar Wars
• 1814–1816 Gurkha War
• 1816–1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• 1841–1842 Sino-Sikh War
• 1845–1849 Anglo-Sikh Wars
  • 1845–1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
  • 1848–1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
• 1845–1849 British Empire conflicts
  • 1845 Battle of Mudki
  • 1845 Battle of Ferozeshah
  • 1846 Battle of Aliwal
  • February 10, 1846 Battle of Sobraon
  • 1848 Battle of Ramnagar
  • 1849 Battle of Chillianwala
  • 1849 Battle of Gujrat
  • 1849 Siege of Multan
• 1857 Indian Rebellion/Indian Mutiny
  • 1857 Siege of Delhi
  • 1857 Siege of Cawnpore
  • 1857 Siege of Lucknow
  • 1857 Battle of Jhelum
  • 1857 Siege of Arrah
  • 1858 Jhansi

British Raj

• 1823–1886 Anglo-Burmese wars
  • 1823–1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1852–1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1885–1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1839–1860 Opium Wars
  • 1839–1848 First Opium War
  • 1856–1860 Second Opium War
• 1839–1919 Anglo-Afghan Wars
  • 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
  • 1878–1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
  • 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1888 Sikkim Expedition
• 1897–1898 Tirah Campaign
• Indian independence movement
• 1905 Partition of Bengal
• 1905–1947 Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• 1920–1935 Non-cooperation movement
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939–1945 India in World War II
  • 1941–1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
  • 1942–1945 Battles and operations of the Indian National Army
• 1942–1945 Battles and operations of the Indian National Army
• 1942–1945 Quit India Movement
• 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny
• 1946 Punnapra-Vayalar uprising
• 1946 – 1947 Tebhaga movement

Dominion of India

• 1946 – 1951 Telangana Rebellion
• 1947 Partition of India
• 1947 – 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• 1948 Annexation of Junagadh
• 1948 Annexation of Hyderabad

Republic of India

• 1954 – ongoing Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 1954 – present Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh
  • 1958 – present Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • 1966 Mizo National Front uprising
  • 1980 – present Insurgency in Manipur
  • 1990 – 2024 Insurgency in Tripura
  • 1990 – present Assam separatist movements
  • 1992 – present Insurgency in Meghalaya
• 13 June 1954 Coup d'état of Yanaon
• 1954 Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• 1961 Annexation of Goa
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1967 – ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 13 April 1984 Operation Meghdoot
• 1984 – 1995 Insurgency in Punjab
  • 1 – 10 June 1984 Operation Blue Star
  • June – September 1984 Operation Woodrose
• 1989 – ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 28 – 29 September 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 1991 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
• 1999 Kargil War
• 1999 Atlantique incident
• 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2008 2008 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2011 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish
• 2013 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2014 – 2015 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2016 – 2018 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 26 February 2019 2019 Balakot airstrike
  • 27 February 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Maldives

• 3 November 1988 1988 Maldives coup attempt

Nepal

• 1790–1792 Ten Great Campaigns
• 1814–1816 Anglo-Nepalese War
• 1855–1856 Nepalese–Tibetan War
• 1950 – 1951 1951 Nepalese revolution
• 1996 – 2006 Nepal Civil War

Pakistan

• 535 BCE Persian Invasion
• 326 BCE Alexander the Great's Conquests
• 305–303 BCE Seleucid-Maurya War
• 711 Umayyad Invasion
• 1001 Ghaznavid Invasion
• 1306 Mongol Invasion
• 1526 Mughal Conquests
• 1747 Durrani Invasion
• 1838–1845 Anglo Sikh Wars
• 1839–1919 Anglo-Afghan Wars
• 1947 Partition of India
• 1947 1947 Poonch rebellion
• 1947 – 1949 Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948
• 1948 – ongoing Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 1948 – 1950 First Balochistan conflict
  • 1958 – 1960 Second Balochistan conflict
  • 1963 – 1969 Third Balochistan conflict
  • 1973 – 1977 1970s operation in Balochistan
• 1948 – 1954 Waziristan rebellion (1948–1954)
  • June 1949 1949 Mughalgai raid
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 1959 – 1960 Dir campaign
  • 1960 – 1961 Bajaur Campaign
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 1950 – 1955 PC Pak Search Sudhan Operation
• 1951 Rawalpindi conspiracy
• 1953 Lahore riots of 1953
• 1955 – 1956 1955 Poonch uprising
• 1958 1958 Pakistani military coup
• 1959 1959 Canberra shootdown
• 1965 Operation Desert Hawk
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1970 – present Sectarian violence in Pakistan
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
    • 17 – 20 December 1971 1971 Pakistan Military Officer's Revolt
• 1972 – 1992 First MQM insurrection
• 1973 1973 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1976 1976 Dir rebellion
• 1977 1977 Pakistani military coup
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
  • 26 – 27 April 1985 Badaber uprising
  • May 1986 – November 1988 Pakistan–Soviet air confrontations
  • April 6, 1989 – November 28, 1990 Afghan SCUD attacks in Pakistan
• 1980 1980 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1984 1984 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 13 April 1984 Operation Meghdoot
• 1989 – ongoing Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
  • 28 – 29 September 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
• 1992 – 1994 Operation Clean-up
• 1994 – present Second MQM insurrection
  • 2012 – present Lyari Operation
• 1995 1995 Pakistani coup attempt
• 1999 Kargil War
• 1999 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
• 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2003 – present Insurgency in Sindh
• 2004 – ongoing Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2004 – 2018 Drone strikes in Pakistan
  • 2008 – 2012 Pakistan–United States skirmishes
• 2008 2008 India–Pakistan standoff
• 2011 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish
• 2013 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2014 – 2015 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2016 – 2018 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 26 February 2019 2019 Balakot airstrike
  • 27 February 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
• 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
• 2024 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes

Sri Lanka

• 161 or 162 BCE Battle of Vijithapura
• 862 Anuradhapura invasion of Pandyan
• 1165–1181 Polonnaruwa-Pagan war
• 1169–1177 Pandyan civil war
• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1410 or 1411 Ming-Kotte War
• 1527–1658 Sinhalese-Portuguese war
  • 1557–1558 Siege of Kotte
  • 1559 Battle of Mulleriyawa
  • 1560–1621 Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom
  • 1594 Campaign of Danture
  • 1638 Battle of Gannoruwa
• 1796 East India Company conquest
• 1803–1815 Kandyan Wars
• 1818 Uva-Wellassa Rebellion
• 1848 Matale Rebellion
• 1914–1948 Sri Lankan independence movement
• 27 January 1962 1962 Ceylonese coup attempt
• 1971 1971 JVP Insurrection
• 1983 – 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War
  • 1976 – 1987 Eelam War I
  • 1987 – 1989 1987–1989 JVP insurrection
  • 1987 – 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War
  • 1990 – 1995 Eelam War II
  • 1995 – 2002 Eelam War III
  • 2006 – 2009 Eelam War IV
• 9 January 2015 2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup attempt
• 2019 Sainthamaruthu shootout

Southeast Asia

Brunei

• 1962 Brunei revolt

Cambodia

• c. 100 Preah Thaong and Neang Neak conflict
• Apex and decline of Funan

900 AD
Red: Khmer Empire
Light green: Haripunjaya
Yellow: Champa

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola invasions
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1968 – 1975 Cambodian Civil War
    • 18 March 1969 – 26 May 1970 Operation Menu
    • April 29 – July 22, 1970 Cambodian campaign
    • 18 March 1970 1970 Cambodian coup d'état
    • 19 May 1970 – 15 August 1973 Operation Freedom Deal
    • 17 April 1975 Fall of Phnom Penh
  • 1 May 1975 – 1978 Cambodian–Vietnamese border clashes
  • 12 – 15 May 1975 Mayaguez incident
• 1964 – 1992 FULRO insurgency
• 1978 – 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
  • 1979 – 1998 Cambodian conflict (1979–1998)
  • 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1997 1997 Cambodian coup d'état
• 24 November 2000 2000 Cambodian coup d'état attempt
• 2003 2003 Phnom Penh riots
• 2008 – 2011 2008–2013 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
• 28 May 2025 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict

East Timor

• 1975 East Timorese civil war
• 1975 – 1976 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
• 1975 – 1999 Indonesian occupation of East Timor
• 1999 – 2002 1999 East Timorese crisis
• 2006 2006 East Timorese crisis
• 2006 – 2013 Operation Astute

Indonesia

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola invasions
• 1293 Mongol invasion of Java
• 1704–1708 First Javanese War of Succession
• 1719–1722 Second Javanese War of Succession
• 1749–1755 Third Javanese War of Succession
• 1803–1837 Padri War
• 1945 – 1949 Indonesian National Revolution
  • 1948 Madiun affair
• 1949 – 1962 Darul Islam rebellion
• 1950 APRA coup d'état
• 1950 Makassar Uprising
• 1950 Invasion of Ambon
• 1958 – 1961 Permesta rebellion
• 1958 – 1961 PRRI rebellion
  • 17 April – 24 May 1958 Operation 17 Agustus
• 1961 – 1962 Operation Trikora
• 1962 – present Papua conflict
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
• 1965 30 September Movement
• 1975 – 1976 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
• 1975 – 1999 Indonesian occupation of East Timor
• 1976 – 2005 Insurgency in Aceh
• 1981 – present Terrorism in Indonesia
• 12 September 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre
• December 25, 1998 – December 20, 2001 Poso riots
• 14 January 1999 – 13 February 2002 Maluku sectarian conflict
• 2001 Sampit conflict
• 2003 2003 Bawean incident
• 2012 MT Zafirah hijacking
• 2016 – 2022 Operation Madago Raya
• 25 November 2023 2023 Bitung clashes

Laos

• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1959 – 1975 Laotian Civil War
  • 1958 – 1959 North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
  • December 25, 1959 — December 16, 1960 1960 Laotian coups
  • 13 – 16 December 1960 Battle of Vientiane
  • 18 — 23 April 1964 1964 Laotian coups
  • January 27 — February 4, 1965 1965 Laotian coups
  • October 21 – 22, 1966 1966 Laotian coup d'état
  • 29 July – 1 August 1967 1967 Opium War
  • 23 November 1973 1973 Laotian coup attempt

• 1975 – present Insurgency in Laos
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War

Malaysia

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1786 East India Company conquest
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1941–1942 Malayan Campaign
• 1946 – 1950 Anti-cession movement of Sarawak
• 1948 – 1960 Malayan Emergency
• 1962 – 1990 Communist insurgency in Sarawak
• 1962 – present Cross border attacks in Sabah
  • 2013 2013 Lahad Datu standoff
• 1962 Raid on Limbang
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
• 1968 – 1989 Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)
• 13 May 1969 13 May incident
• 1985 Memali incident
• 1987 Operation Lalang
• 2000 Sauk Siege
• 2015 MT Orkim Harmony hijacking

Myanmar (Burma)

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1548–1549 Burmese–Siamese War
• 1765–1769 Sino-Burmese War
• 1816–1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• Anglo-Burmese wars
  • 1823–1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1852–1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1885–1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1941–1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
  • 1942–1945 Japanese occupation of Burma
  • 1942–1945 China Burma India Theater of World War II
• 1948 – ongoing Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • 1942 – present Rohingya conflict
    • 1978 Operation Dragon King
    • 1991 – 1992 Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation
    • 2016 – present Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present)
      • 2016 – present Rohingya genocide
  • 1948 – 1989 Communist insurgency in Burma
  • 1949 – present Karen conflict
  • 1958 – present Shan conflict
  • 1961 – present Zomi conflict
  • 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
  • 1961 – present Kachin conflict
  • 2 March 1962 1962 Burmese coup d'état
  • 1988 – present Karen–Mon conflict
  • 12 March – 21 September 1988 8888 Uprising
  • 2009 2009 Kokang incident
  • 2015 2015 Kokang offensive
  • 1 February 2021 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • 2021 – ongoing Myanmar Civil War
    • April 2021 – present Chin theater
    • 27 October 2023 – present Operation 1027

Philippines

• 900–1565 Precolonial period
  • 1521 Battle of Mactan
• 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution
• 1898 Spanish–American War
  • 1898 Battle of Manila Bay
• 1898–1913 Philippine–American War
• World War II
  • 1942 Battle of Bataan
  • 1944 Battle of Surigao Strait
  • 1944 Battle off Samar
  • 1944 Battle of Mindoro
  • 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea
  • 1944 Battle of Leyte
  • 1945 Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
  • 1945 Battle of Luzon
  • 1945 Battle of Manila
  • 1945 Battle of Corregidor
  • 1945 Battle of Mindanao
  • 1945 Battle of Visayas
• 1942 – 1954 Hukbalahap rebellion
• 1948 – 1955 Kamlon rebellion
• 1968 – 2019 Moro conflict
  • March 21, 2000 – July 9, 2000 2000 Philippine campaign against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
    • February 15 – 17, 2000 Operation Valiancy
    • March 15 – 21, 2000 Operation Audacity
    • July 9, 2000 Battle of Camp Abubakar
  • June 2, 2001 Siege of Lamitan
  • November 19 – 22, 2001 2001 Misuari rebellion
  • February 11, 2003 Battle of the Buliok Complex
  • July 10 – 11, 2007 2007 Basilan beheading incident
  • August 9 – Late August 2008 Battle of North Cotobato
• 1969 – ongoing New People's Army rebellion
  • June 25, 1989 Rano massacre
  • August 21, 2022 2022 Samar boat explosion
• 2002 – 2017 Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  • September 9 – 28, 2013 Zamboanga City crisis
  • 2014 – present ISIL insurgency in the Philippines
    • January 27 – February 2, 2014 Operation Darkhorse
    • April 11 – 30, 2014 Battle of Basilan (2014)
    • January 25, 2015 Mamasapano clash
    • February – November 2016 2016 Butig clashes
    • April 9 – 14, 2016 Battle of Tipo-Tipo
    • June – July, 2016 June–July 2016 Sulu and Basilan clashes
    • April 11 – May 15, 2017 2017 Bohol clashes
    • May 23 – October 23, 2017 Battle of Marawi
• February 22 – 25, 1986 People Power Revolution
  • February 22, 1986 February 1986 Reform the Armed Forces Movement coup
• 1986 Siege of the Manila Hotel
• November 11 – 22, 1986 God Save the Queen Plot
• January 27 – 29, 1987 January 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• August 27 – 29, 1987 August 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• 3 – 5 January 1989 Camp Cawa-Cawa siege
• December 1 – 9, 1989 1989 Philippine coup attempt
• March 4, 1990 Hotel Delfino siege
• 1990 1990 Mindanao revolt
• 2003 Oakwood mutiny
• December 5, 2008 2008 Parañaque shootout
• 2007 Manila Peninsula siege
• 2012 – present Scarborough Shoal standoff
• July 1, 2016 – present Philippine drug war
  • February 21, 2021 2021 PNP–PDEA shootout

Thailand

• 1020–1130 Medieval Chola Invasions
• 1548–1855 Burmese–Siamese wars
  • 1548 Burmese–Siamese War Toungoo–Ayutthaya
  • 1759–1760 Burmese–Siamese War Konbaung–Ayutthaya
  • 1775–1776 Burmese–Siamese War Konbaung–Bangkok
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1940–1941 French-Thai War
  • 1940–1941 Japanese invasion of Thailand
• 1947 1947 Thai coup d'état
• 1948 1948 Thai coup d'état
• 1948 Army General Staff plot
• 1949 Palace Rebellion
• 1951 Manhattan Rebellion
• 1951 Silent Coup
• 1965 – 1983 Communist insurgency in Thailand
• 1977 March 1977 Thai coup attempt
• 1977 October 1977 Thai coup d'état
• 1981 1981 Thai military rebellion
• 1985 1985 Thai coup attempt
• 1978 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War
• 1991 1991 Thai coup d'état
• 2004 – ongoing South Thailand insurgency
• 2006 2006 Thai coup d'état
• 2008 - 2011 2008–2013 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
• 2014 2014 Thai coup d'état
• 28 May 2025 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict

Vietnam

• 258–257 BCE Thuc–Lac Viet War
• 217–207 BCE Thuc–Qin War
• 111 BCE Trieu–Han War
• 39, 40–43 CE Trưng Sisters' Uprising, 137–138, 156–160, 178–181, 248, 299–319, 319–323, 468–485, 542–544, 548–570, 687, 722, 791–798, 803, 819–820, 905 Uprising wars against Chinese domination
• 938–939 Ngô Quyền war of independence
• 966–968 War between the 12 warlords
• 981 War against the Song dynasty
• 1075–1077 War against the Song dynasty
• 1257–58, 1284–85, 1287–88 Mongol invasions of Vietnam
• 982, 1312, 1372, 1377, 1388, 1446–1471, 1695, 1796 Viet-Champa wars
• 1407–1427 War against the Ming dynasty
• 1553–1592 Lê–Mạc civil war
• 1627–1673 Trịnh–Nguyễn War
• 1714–1755 Nguyen–Khmer War
• 1784–1785 Tây Sơn-Siam War
• 1788–1789 Qing—Tây Sơn War
• 1858–1885 French–Nguyễn war
• 1914–1918 First World War
  • Vietnam during the First World War
• 1940–1945 Second World War
  • Vietnam during the Second World War
• 1945 – 1946 War in Vietnam (1945–1946)
• 1946 Haiphong incident
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
  • 13 March – 7 May 1954 Battle of Điện Biên Phủ
• 1955 Battle of Saigon (1955)
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1956 Quỳnh Lưu uprising
  • 1959 – 1963 War in Vietnam (1959–1963)
    • 1958 – 1959 North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
    • 8 July 1959 1959 Biên Hòa compound raid
    • 2 January 1963 Battle of Ap Bac
  • 11 November 1960 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  • 1 November 1963 – 28 January 1969 Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969
    • December 28, 1964 – January 1, 1965 Battle of Binh Gia
    • November 14 – 18, 1965 Battle of Ia Drang
    • January 24 – March 6, 1966 Operation Masher
    • 13 September 1966 – 12 February 1967 Operation Thayer, Irving and Thayer II
    • 8 – 26 January 1967 Operation Cedar Falls
    • 22 February – 14 May 1967 Operation Junction City
    • 27 February 1967 – 28 February 1969 Battle of Con Thien
    • 11 September 1967 – 11 November 1968 Operation Wheeler/Wallowa
    • 3 – 23 November 1967 Battle of Dak To
    • 21 January – 9 July 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh
    • 30 January – 23 September 1968 Tet Offensive
      • 31 January – 2 March 1968 Battle of Huế
    • 8 April – 31 May 1968 Operation Toan Thang I
    • 29 April – 30 May 1968 May Offensive
    • 1 June 1968 – 16 February 1969 Operation Toan Thang II
    • 17 August – 27 September 1968 Phase III offensive
    • 1 December 1968 – 31 May 1969 Operation Speedy Express
  • 2 March 1965 – 2 November 1968 Operation Rolling Thunder
  • 8 May – 2 November 1963 Buddhist crisis
    • 1–2 November 1963 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
  • January 30, 1964 January 1964 South Vietnamese coup
  • December 19, 1964 December 1964 South Vietnamese coup
  • February 19 – 20, 1965 1965 South Vietnamese coup
  • March 26 – June 8, 1966 Buddhist Uprising
  • 28 January 1969 – 30 April 1975 Vietnamization
    • 17 February – 31 October 1969 Operation Toan Thang III
    • 13 – 20 May 1969 Battle of Hamburger Hill
    • 1 November 1969 – 1 May 1970 Operation Toan Thang IV
    • April 29 – July 22, 1970 Cambodian campaign
    • 8 February – 25 March 1971 Operation Lam Son 719
  • 30 March – 22 October 1972 Easter Offensive
  • 9 May – 23 October 1972 Operation Linebacker
  • 18 – 29 December 1972 Operation Linebacker II
  • 13 December 1974 – 30 April 1975 1975 spring offensive
    • March 3 – 18, 1975 Battle of Ban Me Thuot
    • March 5 – April 2, 1975 Hue–Da Nang Campaign
    • 9 – 21 April 1975 Battle of Xuân Lộc
    • 30 April 1975 Fall of Saigon
• 1964 – 1992 FULRO insurgency
• 1978 – 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979 – 1991 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)
• 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 2014 2014 China–Vietnam border shootout
• 2014 Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff
• April 15 – 22, 2017 2017 Hanoi hostage crisis

Asia-Pacific

• 1845–1872 New Zealand Wars
• 1855 Battle of Kaba
• 1878–1888 Nauruan Civil War
• 1886–1894 Samoan Civil War
  • 1887–1889 Samoan crisis
  • 1898–1899 Second Samoan Civil War
• 1910–1911 Sokehs rebellion
• 1914–1918 World War I
  • 1914 Battle of Bita Paka
  • 1914 Australian occupation of German New Guinea
• 1937–1945 World War II
  • 1942–1943 Guadalcanal campaign
  • 1942–1945 New Guinea campaign
  • 1942–1945 Solomon Islands campaign
• 1980 Coconut War
• 1984 Milperra massacre
• 10 July 1985 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
• 1987 1987 Fijian coups d'état
• 1988 – 1998 Bougainville Civil War
• 1998 – 2003 Solomon Islands Civil War
• 2000 – 2001 2000 Fijian coup d'état
• 2000 2000 Solomon Islands coup d'état
• 2003–2017 Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands
• 2005 – 2006 2005-2006 Fijian political crisis
  • 2006 2006 Fijian coup d'état
• 2009 – present Rock Machine–Rebels conflict
• 2021 – present Highlands conflict
• 2022 Kiriwina Island clashes

Chronological list of wars

20th century

• 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1911 Wuchang Uprising
• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1919 May Fourth Movement
• 1920 Zhili–Anhui War
• 1920–1921 Guangdong–Guangxi War
• 1922 First Zhili–Fengtian War
• 1924 Second Zhili–Fengtian War
• 1926–1928 Kuomintang – Warlords conflict
• 1927–1936 Chinese Civil War
• 1929 Sino-Soviet War
• 1929 Afghan civil war
• 1937–1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1939–1945 World War II
  • 1939–1945 Indian Ocean conflict
  • 1940 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
  • 1940–1941 Franco-Thai War
  • 1941 Japanese invasion of Thailand
  • 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Philippines
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Malaya
  • 1941–1942 Japanese invasion of Dutch Indies
  • 1942–1945 New Guinea campaign
  • 1942–1945 Burma Campaign
  • 1944–1945 Allied invasion of Philippines
  • 1944–1945 Japan campaign
  • 1945 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
  • 1945 British invasion of Malaya and Singapore
  • 1945 Borneo campaign
  • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria
• 1946–1950 Chinese Civil War
• 1946–1954 First Indochina War
• 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet
• 1950–1953 Korean War
• 1951–1954 Abadan Crisis
• 1954–1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1959 Tibetan uprising
• 1959–1975 Vietnam War
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1964 – today Manipur conflict
• 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
• 1967 – today Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict
• 1970–1995 Punjab insurgency
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
• 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1971 Maoist rebellion in Sri Lanka
• 1978–1979 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• 1979 – today Assam conflict
• 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1979–1998 Khmer Rouge insurgency
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1980 Coconut War
• 1983–2009 Sri Lankan Civil War
• 1984 Siachen conflict
• 1984 Operation Blue Star
• 1987–1988 Thai–Laotian Border War
• 1987 Fijian coups d'état
• 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
• 1988–1998 Bougainville Civil War
• 1989 – today Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• 1989 Tiananmen protests
• 1989 – 2024 Tripura Insurgency
• 1989–1992 Mujahideen – Communist war in Afghanistan
• 1992–1996 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
• 1992–1997 Tajikistani Civil War
• 1993 – today Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• 1995–1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1996–2001 Taliban–Northern Alliance conflict
• 1998–2001 Islamic insurgency in Uzbekistan
• 1998-2003 Solomon Islands Civil War
• 1999 Kargil War

21st century

• 2000-2001 Fijian coup d'état
• 2001 Bangladeshi-Indian border skirmish
• 2001 – 2021 War on Terror
  • 2001 – 2021 Afghanistan War
  • 2002 – 2015 Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  • 2002 – today Islamic terrorism in Indonesia
  • 2002 – today Islamic insurgency in Xinjiang
  • 2004 – today War in North-West Pakistan
  • 2004 – today South Thailand insurgency
• 2003–2004 Operation All Clear
• 2005 Islamic uprising in Uzbekistan
• 2005–2006 Fijian political crisis
  • 2006 Fijian military unrest
  • 2006 Fijian coup d'état
• 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis
• 2008–2009 2008–2013 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
• 2010 Uruzgan helicopter attack
• 2010 – 2022 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  • 2010 Mardakert clashes
  • 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
  • 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war
  • 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
• 2015 – today Islamic State-Taliban conflict
• 2016 India–Pakistan military confrontation
• 2016 – 2017 Kashmir unrest
• 2022 – today Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

See also

• List of conflicts in North America
• List of conflicts in Central America
• List of conflicts in South America
• List of conflicts in Europe
• List of conflicts in Africa
• List of conflicts in the Near East
• List of conflicts in the Middle East
• List of conflicts in Australia
• List of wars