List of wars involving Syria

This is a list of wars that independent Syria has been involved in since 1946 independence, including periods of the Syrian Republic (1930–58), United Arab Republic (1958-61) and Ba'athist Syria.

Conflict	Syria and allies	Opponents	Outcome	Head of State
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt Iraq Transjordan Syria Lebanon HWA ALF	Israel	Defeat Arab invasion repelled; tactical and strategic Arab failure. 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept most of the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state; Syria occupied parts of the Hula Valley and Jordan River, Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank. while All-Palestine Government established in Gaza under Egyptian protectorate.	Shukri al-Quwatli
First Kurdish–Iraqi War (1963–1970)	Iraq Syria	KDP	Stalemate Iraqi-Kurdish Autonomy Agreement	Lu'ay al-Atassi
Six Day War (1967)	Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.	Nureddin al-Atassi
Black September in Jordan (1970)	PLO Syria	Jordan	Defeat PLO driven out to Lebanon, Syrian withdrawal.	Nureddin al-Atassi
October War (1973)	Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Cuba Morocco Tunisia	Israel	Defeat^[1] Arab invasion of Israel repelled; UN ceasefire. Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.	Hafez al-Assad
Islamist uprising in Syria (1979–1982)	Syrian government	Muslim Brotherhood	Victory Muslim Brotherhood outlawed.
Lebanese Civil War (1976–1990)	Syria ADF LF (until 1976) LNM (from 1976) LNRF Amal PLO (1978-1983) Hezbollah Al-Tawhid	LNM (until 1976) PLO (1976 and 1985) LF Israel SLA United States France Italy Hezbollah (1987)	Victory Syrian occupation of Lebanon (until 2005). Taif Agreement, disarmament of Lebanese militias and Maronite influence in politics decreased. PLO expulsion from Lebanon. Creation of State of Free Lebanon in south Lebanon under Israeli protectorate until 2000.
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait United States United Kingdom Saudi Arabia France Canada Egypt Syria Qatar	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored. Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
Syrian Civil War (2011–)	Syrian Government TSR NDF Iran Hezbollah Muqawimun Kata'ib Hezbollah	Islamic Front Free Syrian Army SRF al-Nusra Front ISIS Syrian Kurdistan	Ongoing Countrywide uprising against Assad in Syria.	Bashar al-Assad

Lists of wars involving Middle Eastern countries

	Bahrain Cyprus Egypt Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Territories Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen (South Yemen)

Lists of wars involving Asian countries

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

References

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- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
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- 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.