List of wars involving Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire (11371975)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Abyssinian–Adal War
(15291543)
Ethiopia
Portugal
Adal Sultanate
Mogadishu Sultanate
Ottoman Empire
Victory
  • Adal Sultanate weakened.
Zemene Mesafint
(17691855)
Various factions Various factions Reunification of Ethiopia
British Expedition to Abyssinia
(18671868)
Ethiopia  United Kingdom Defeat
Ethiopian–Egyptian War
(18741876)
Ethiopia  Egypt Victory
  • Egyptian invasion repelled.
Mahdist War
(18851889)
 United Kingdom
 India
 Egypt
Ethiopia
Mahdist Sudan Victory
  • Sudanese invasion of Ethiopia repelled.
Battle of Dogali
(1887)
Ethiopia  Italy Victory
  • Italian garrison in Dogali destroyed.
First Italo-Ethiopian War
(18951896)
Ethiopia  Italy Victory
  • Italian invasion repelled.
Somaliland Campaign
(19001920)
 United Kingdom
 Italy
 Ethiopia
Dervish State Victory
  • Collapse of the Dervish State.
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
(19351936)
 Ethiopia  Italy Defeat
East African Campaign
(19401943)
 United Kingdom
 Ethiopia
 South Africa
 Belgium
 Free France
 Italy Victory
Korean War
(19501953)
 South Korea
 North Korea
 China
Stalemate
Congo Crisis
(1960–1964)
Congo-Léopoldville
 Katanga
 South Kasai
Victory
Bale Revolt
(19631970)
 Ethiopia Oromo and Somali rebels Victory
  • Revolt crushed, peace agreement
1964 Ethiopian–Somali War
(1964)[1]
 Ethiopia Somalia Somalia Victory
  • Somali troops and shiftas repelled.

Communist Ethiopia (19751991)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Ogaden War
(19771978)
Derg
 Cuba
 South Yemen
 Soviet Union
Somalia Somalia
WSLF
Victory
  • Somali retreat from Ogaden.
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
(1982)
Derg
Puntland SSDF
Somalia Somalia Defeat
  • Ethiopian-SSDF withdrawal from Somalia.
Eritrean War of Independence
(19611991)
Ethiopia Derg
Ethiopia PDRE
 Cuba
 Soviet Union
 South Yemen
EPLF
ELF
Defeat
Ethiopian Civil War
(19741991)
Ethiopia Derg
Ethiopia PDRE
 Cuba
EPRP
TPLF
Ethiopia MEISON
ANDM
Ethiopia EDUP
OLF
ONLF
WSLF
ALF
Regime change
  • Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government, to become EPRDF government.

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (from 1995)

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Insurgency in Ogaden
(19952008)
 Ethiopia ONLF Victory
  • Military defeat of ONLF forces.
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
(19982000)
 Ethiopia  Eritrea Victory
  • Ethiopia held all of the disputed territories.
War in Somalia
(20062009)
 Ethiopia
Somalia TFG
United Nations AMISOM
ICU
OLF
al-Shabaab
Indecisive
  • Islamists re-take Mogadishu.
  • Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia.
Operation Linda Nchi
(20112012)
 Kenya
 Ethiopia
Somalia TFG
Al-Shabaab Victory
  • Coordinated forces capture numerous towns.

Footnotes

  1. A part of the Shifta War; Somalia issued a medal for this Ethiopian-Somalian conflict.
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