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List of wars involving Ethiopia

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This is a list of wars involving the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (modern-day Ethiopia) and its predecessor states.

Ethiopian Empire (1270–1975)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Conquests of Amda Seyon I (1316–1332) Ethiopia Victories
Reconquests of Sabr Ad Din

(1415-1430)

Ethiopia Adal Sultanate Defeat
  • Gidaya, Mora, Adal, and Hargaya incorporated into the Adal Sultanate
Badley ad-Din II's Invasion of Ethiopia
(1445)
Ethiopia Adal Sultanate Victory
Abyssinian–Adal War
(1529–1543)
Stalemate
Iyasu II's Invasion of Sennar
(1738)
Ethiopia
 Sennar Sultanate Defeat
  • Iyasu II's army defeated
  • Several of the Ethiopian Emperor's valuables lost
Zemene Mesafint
(1769–1855)
Various factions Various factions Reunification of Ethiopia
Ottoman–Ethiopian border conflicts
(1832–1848)
Ethiopia  Egypt Victory
British Expedition to Abyssinia
(1867–1868)
Ethiopia  United Kingdom Defeat
Ethiopian–Egyptian War
(1874–1876)
Ethiopia Egypt Egypt Victory
  • Egyptian Khedive defeated
  • Collapse of Egyptian Khedivate
Mahdist War
(1881–1889)
Mahdist state Victory
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889 Ethiopia  Italy Victory[5]
Menelik's Expansions

(Late 19th century)

Victories
First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896)  Ethiopia  Italy Victory
  • Ethiopia retains independence
  • Italians defeated
Dervish War
(1900–1920)
Dervish State Ethiopian allied victory
  • Collapse of the Dervish State
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
(1935–1937)
 Ethiopia  Italy Defeat
East African Campaign
(1940–1941)
 Italy Ethiopian allied victory
Woyane rebellion
(1943)
 Ethiopia Tigrayan rebels Victory
  • Revolt crushed
Korean War
(1950–1953)
 South Korea
Stalemate
Congo Crisis
(1960–1964)
Congo-Léopoldville
Victory
Bale Revolt
(1963–1970)
 Ethiopia
Victory
  • Revolt crushed, peace agreement
1964 Ethiopian–Somali War
(1964)
 Ethiopia Stalemate
  • Military offensive of Ethiopia repulsed, ceasefire agreement[6][7]

Communist Ethiopia (1975–1991)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Eritrean War of Independence
(1961–1991)
 Ethiopia
and allies
ELF

EPLF

Defeat
Ethio-Somali War
(1977–1978)
 Ethiopia
and allies
Victory
  • Somali retreat from Ogaden with assistance from Soviet, Cuban, and South Yemani personnel
1982 Ethiopian-Somali Border War
(1982)
 Ethiopia
and allies
Somalia Somalia Stalemate
  • Ethiopian invasion halted
  • Ethiopia occupies the border towns of Galdogob and Balanbale until 1988
  • United States delivers emergency military and humanitarian aid to Somalia to prevent further attacks by Ethiopia[8]
Ethiopian Civil War
(1974–1991)
Ethiopia PDRE Regime change
  • Fall of government, installation of new TPLF-led government, the EPRDF

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (from 1995)

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Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Insurgency in Ogaden
(1995–2008)
 Ethiopia ONLF Victory
  • Military defeat of ONLF forces
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
(1998–2000)
 Ethiopia  Eritrea Victory
Ethiopian occupation of Somalia
(2006–2009)
Victory
  • Islamists withdrawal from Somalia
  • Withdrawal of ENDF from Mogadishu and majority of Somalia (2009)
Oromia–Somali clashes
(2016–present)
 Ethiopia Ongoing
OLA insurgency
(2018–present)
 Ethiopia OLA[broken anchor] Ongoing
Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
(2019–2022)
Ongoing
Tigray War
(2020–2022)
Victory
  • The Ethiopian Government and TPLF come to an agreement on terms mostly favorable to the Ethiopian Government
  • Eritrean Defense Forces maintain presence in Tigray
2020–21 Ethiopian–Sudanese clashes
(2020–present)
 Ethiopia
  • Amhara militias
 Sudan Ongoing
  • Most of the border recaptured by Sudan
War in Amhara
(2023–present)
 Ethiopia

OLA

Fano Ongoing

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Hassen, Mohammed. Oromo of Ethiopia with special emphasis on the Gibe region (PDF). University of London. p. 22.
  2. ^ J. Spencer Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia (Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege for the University Press, 1952), p. 75.
  3. ^ E. A. Wallis Budge, A history of Ethiopia, pp. 307–308.
  4. ^ Gikes, Patrick (2002). "Wars in the Horn of Africa and the dismantling of the Somali State". African Studies. 2. University of Lisbon: 89–102. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  5. ^ Sarkees, Meredith Reid; Wayman, Frank Whelon (2010). Resort to War: A Data Guide to Inter-State, Extra-state, Intra-State, and Non-State Wars, 1816–2007. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. p. 262. The conclusion of the war is coded as a compromise
  6. ^ "Somalia profile – Timeline". BBC Africa. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Onwar". Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  8. ^ "Somalia: Status of the Armed Forces" (PDF). Central Intelligence Agency. March 1982. Retrieved 20 October 2018.