List of wars involving Jordan

This is a list of wars that Jordan has been involved in since independence in 1946.

Conflict	Jordan and allies	Opponents	Result	Monarch	Jordanian losses
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt  Iraq Jordan Syria HWA ALA  Lebanon	Israel	Defeat[1] Tactical and strategic Arab failure. 1949 Armistice Agreements Jordanian occupation of the West Bank	Abdullah I of Jordan	~1,000 dead
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt  Jordan  Syria Iraq	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.	Hussein of Jordan	~700
Black September (1970–1971)	Jordan	PLO  Syria	Victory PLO driven out to Lebanon.		82 dead
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt  Syria  Jordan Iraq	Israel	Defeat[2] (limited involvement) Arab invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire. Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.		23 dead
Operation Scorched Earth (2009–2010)	Yemen  Saudi Arabia  Jordan  Morocco	Houthis	Indecisive Houthis consolidate control over Sa'dah, eventually dissolving the Yemeni government.	Abdullah II of Jordan	Unknown
Libyan Civil War (2011)	NTC  NATO  France  United Kingdom United States  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  Netherlands  Norway  Spain  Turkey  Jordan  Qatar  Sweden  UAE	Libya	Victory Overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya Death of Muammar Gaddafi Dissolution of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya		None
Intervention against ISIS (2014–)	Iraq  Iraqi Kurdistan Free Syrian Army Syrian Kurdistan United States  United Kingdom  Jordan  Morocco  Australia  Belgium  Canada  Denmark  France  Bahrain  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  UAE	Islamic State al-Qaeda al-Nusra Front Khorasan Ahrar ash-Sham	Ongoing Unilateral US-Arab intervention against Syrian Islamists.		1 dead
Intervention in Yemen (2015–)	Hadi government  Saudi Arabia  UAE  Bahrain  Kuwait  Qatar  Jordan  Morocco  Egypt  Sudan	Houthi government Houthis Saleh loyalists	Ongoing Houthis dissolve Yemeni government. Houthis take control of northern Yemen.		None

References

1. ↑ Benny Morris, 1948. A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, 2008, p.419.
2. ↑ References:
   • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
   • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Double Day and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
   • Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
   • Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
   • 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
   • Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
   • Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.

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