List of conflicts in Asia

This is a list of conflicts in Asia arranged by country, including wars between Asian nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-Asian nations that took place within Asia. It encompasses pre-colonial wars, colonial wars, wars of independence, secessionist and separatist conflicts, major episodes of national violence (riots, massacres, etc.), and global conflicts in which Asia was a theatre of war.

Central Asia

Kazakhstan

• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 673 – 751 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1209 – 1236 Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
    • 1219 – 1221 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulagu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1468 – 1500 Kazakh War of Independence
• 1508 Kazakh-Nogai War (1508)
• 1522 – 1538 First Kazakh Khanate Civil War
• 1577 Kazakh-Nogai War (1577)
• 1598 – 1599 Kazakh invasion of Northern Bukhara
• 1603 – 1605 Karakalpak rebellion (1603–1605)
• 1643 – 1756 Kazakh–Dzungar Wars
• 1717 – 1895 Russian conquest of Central Asia
  • 1837 – 1847 Kenesary's Rebellion
  • 1839 – 1840 Khivan campaign of 1839–1840
  • 1873 Khivan campaign of 1873
• 1870 Adai rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1916 – 1917 Central Asian revolt of 1916
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1916 – 1934 Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
• 1951 1951 anti-Chechen pogrom in Kazakhstan
• 1954 Kengir uprising
• 1986 Jeltoqsan
• 1989 – present Kazakh–Russian ethnic conflicts
• 2020 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes

Kyrgyzstan

• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 673 – 751 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1209 – 1236 Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
    • 1218 Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai
• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulagu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1717 – 1895 Russian conquest of Central Asia
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1916 – 1917 Central Asian revolt of 1916
• 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
• 1990 1990 Osh clashes
• 1999 Batken Conflict
• 2010 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes
• 2021 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
• 2022 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes

Tajikistan

• 336 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 104 BC – 101 BC War of the Heavenly Horses
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 673 – 751 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulagu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1916 – 1917 Central Asian revolt of 1916
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1916 – 1934 Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1992 – 1997 Tajikistani Civil War
• 2010 – 2015 Insurgency in Gorno-Badakhshan (2010–2015)
  • 2012 2012 Gorno-Badakhshan clashes
• 2021 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes
• 2022 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes

Turkmenistan

• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 633 – 651 Muslim conquest of Persia
    • 651 – 654 Muslim conquest of Khorasan
• 1040 Battle of Dandanaqan
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1209 – 1236 Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
    • 1219 – 1221 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulagu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1717 – 1895 Russian conquest of Central Asia
  • 1885 Panjdeh incident
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1916 – 1934 Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
    • 1917 – 1924 Khivan Revolution
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War

Uzbekistan

• 335 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 673 – 751 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
• 5th century – 7th century Hephthalite–Sasanian Wars
  • 614 – 616 Hephthalite–Gokturk raids of 614–616
• 583 – 603 Göktürk civil war
• 640 – 712 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1209 – 1236 Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
    • 1219 – 1221 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
• 1260 – 1294 Division of the Mongol Empire
  • 1260 – 1264 Toluid Civil War
    • 1262 Berke–Hulagu war
  • 1268 – 1301 Kaidu–Kublai war
• 1314 – 1318 Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war
• 1502 – 1788 Persian–Uzbek wars
  • 1510 Battle of Merv
  • 1512 Battle of Ghazdewan
• 1717 – 1895 Russian conquest of Central Asia
• 1720s – 1747 Campaigns of Nader Shah
  • 1737 – 1740 Nader Shah's Central Asian campaign
• 1855 – 1856 Karakalpak rebellion (1855–1856)
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1916 – 1934 Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
    • 1917 – 1925 Bukharan Revolution
    • 1917 – 1924 Khivan Revolution
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1916 – 1934 Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War

East Asia

China

Longshan culture

• c. 2500 BC Battle of Banquan
• c. 2500 BC Battle of Zhuolu

Xia dynasty

• c. 1600 BC Battle of Mingtiao

Shang dynasty

• c. 1046 BC Battle of Muye

Zhou dynasty

• c. 1042 BC – c. 1039 BC Rebellion of the Three Guards
• 860 BC Qi coup d'état of 860 BC
• 771 BC – 476 BC Spring and Autumn period
  • 771 BC Battle of Mount Li
  • 707 BC Battle of Xuge
  • 685 BC Battle of Qianshi
  • 684 BC Battle of Changshao
  • 657 BC – 651 BC Li Ji Unrest
  • 632 BC Battle of Chengpu
  • 627 BC Battle of Xiao
  • 595 BC Battle of Bi
  • 588 BC Battle of An
  • 575 BC Battle of Yanling
  • 506 BC Battle of Boju
  • 4th century BC Gojoseon–Yan War
  • 481 BC – 379 BC Usurpation of Qi by Tian
  • 478 BC Battle of Lize
• 475 BC – 221 BC Warring States period
  • 453 BC Battle of Jinyang
  • 353 BC Battle of Guiling
  • 342 BC Battle of Maling
  • 301 BC Battle of Chuisha
  • 293 BC Battle of Yique
  • 265 BC Zhao–Xiongnu War
  • 260 BC Battle of Changping
  • 259 BC – 257 BC Battle of Handan
  • 230 BC – 221 BC Qin's wars of unification

Qin dynasty

• 215 BC Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 214 BC Qin's campaign against the Yue tribes
• 209 BC – 208 BC Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising

Han dynasty

• 206 BC – 202 BC Chu–Han Contention
• 154 BC Rebellion of the Seven States
• 133 BC – 91 Han–Xiongnu War
• 2nd century BC Southward expansion of the Han dynasty
  • 138 BC – 111 BC Han campaigns against Minyue
  • 111 BC Han conquest of Nanyue
  • 135 BC – 109 BC Han conquest of Dian
  • 40 – 43 Trung sisters' rebellion
• 109 BC – 108 BC Han-Gojoseon War
• 17 – 25 Lulin Rebellion
• 18 – 27 Red Eyebrows Rebellion
• 172 Battle of Jwawon
• 189 – 220 End of the Han dynasty
  • 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion
  • 184 – 189 Liang Province rebellion
  • 189 Massacre of the Eunuchs
  • 190 Campaign against Dong Zhuo
  • 191 Battle of Yangcheng
  • 191 Battle of Jieqiao
  • 191 Battle of Xiangyang (191)
  • 192 Battle of Chang'an
  • 193 Battle of Fengqiu
  • 193 – 194 Cao Cao's invasion of Xu Province
  • 194 Battle of Yan Province
  • 194 Sun Ce's conquests in Jiangdong
  • 197 – 199 War between Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu
  • 198 Battle of Xiapi
  • 199 Battle of Yijing
  • 199 Campaign against Yuan Shu
  • 200 Battle of Guandu
  • 202 Battle of Bowang
  • 202 – 203 Battle of Liyang
  • 203 Battle of Xiakou
  • 204 Battle of Ye
  • 205 Battle of Nanpi
  • 207 Battle of White Wolf Mountain
  • 208 Battle of Jiangxia
  • 208 Battle of Red Cliffs
  • 211 Battle of Tong Pass (211)
  • 213 Siege of Jicheng
  • 213 Battle of Lucheng
  • 213 – 214 Liu Bei's takeover of Yi Province
  • 213 Battle of Ruxu (213)
  • 214 Battle of Qi Mountains
  • 214 – 215 Battle of Xiaoyao Ford
  • 215 Battle of Baxi
  • 215 Battle of Yangping
  • 215 Sun–Liu territorial dispute
  • 215 – 216 Battle of Ba
  • 217 Battle of Ruxu (217)
  • 217 – 219 Hanzhong Campaign
  • 219 Battle of Fancheng
  • 219 Lü Meng's invasion of Jing Province

Wei dynasty

• 220 – 280 Three Kingdoms
  • 222 Battle of Xiaoting
  • 222 – 225 Cao Pi's invasions of Eastern Wu
  • 225 Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign
  • 228 – 234 Zhuge Liang's Northern Expeditions
  • 227 – 228 Xincheng Rebellion
  • 228 Battle of Shiting
  • 230 Ziwu Campaign
  • 231 Battle of Hefei (231)
  • 233 Battle of Hefei (233)
  • 234 Battle of Hefei (234)
  • 238 Sima Yi's Liaodong campaign
  • 240 – 262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions
  • 241 Battle of Fancheng (241)
  • 241 Battle of Quebei
  • 244 Battle of Xingshi
  • 244 – 245 Goguryeo–Wei War
  • 247 – 262 Jiang Wei's Northern Expeditions
  • 249 Incident at the Gaoping Tombs
  • 251 – 258 Three Rebellions in Shouchun
    • 251 Wang Ling's Rebellion
    • 255 Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin's Rebellion
    • 257 – 258 Zhuge Dan's Rebellion
  • 253 Battle of Dongxing
  • 253 Battle of Hefei (253)
  • 260 Sima Zhao's regicide of Cao Mao
  • 263 – 271 Jiao Province Campaign
  • 263 Conquest of Shu by Wei
  • 264 Zhong Hui's Rebellion
  • 264 Siege of Yong'an

Jìn dynasty

• 220 – 280 Three Kingdoms
  • 270 – 280 Tufa Shujineng's Rebellion
  • 272 – 273 Battle of Xiling
  • 280 Conquest of Wu by Jin
• 291 War of the Eight Princes
• 304 – 439 Sixteen Kingdoms
  • 304 – 316 Upheaval of the Five Barbarians
  • 319 – 407 Goguryeo–Yan Wars
  • 350 – 351 Battle of Xiangguo (350–351)
  • 352 Battle of Liantai
  • 354 Huan Wen's expeditions
  • 383 Battle of Fei River
  • 395 Battle of Canhe Slope
  • 409 – 416 Liu Yu's Northern Expeditions

Liu Song dynasty

• 507 Battle of Zhongli
• 537 Battle of Shayuan

Sui dynasty

• 581 – 602 Sui-Turkic war
• 598 – 614 Goguryeo–Sui War
• 602 Sui–Early Lý War
• 617 – 621 Transition from Sui to Tang

Tang dynasty

• 626 Xuanwu Gate Incident
• 629 – 630 Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks
• 640 – 657 Emperor Taizong's campaign against the Western Regions
  • 640 Conquest of Karakhoja
  • 644 – 648 Conquest of Karasahr
  • 648 – 649 Conquest of Kucha
• 638 Tibetan attack on Songzhou
• 645 – 668 Goguryeo–Tang War
• 670 Battle of Dafei River
• 698 Battle of Tianmenling
• 7th century – 8th century Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
• 711 Battle of Bolchu
• 750 – 754 Tianbao War
• 755 – 763 An Lushan Rebellion
• 794 Battle of Shenchuan
• 835 Sweet Dew incident
• 874 – 884 Huang Chao Rebellion
• 884 – 923 Later Liang–Jin War
• 897 Battle of Qingkou

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

• 907 – 979 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
  • 909 Battle of Jisu
  • 919 Battle of Langshan Jiang
  • 945 – 947 Southern Tang conquest of Min
  • 955 – 958 Later Zhou conquest of Huainan
• 960 Chenqiao mutiny

Song dynasty

• 964 – 965 Song conquest of Later Shu
• 970 – 971 Song conquest of Southern Han
• 982 – 1119 Song–Xia wars
  • 982 – 1004 Li Jiqian's rebellion
  • 1040 – 1044 Yuanhao's invasion (1040–1044)
  • 1064 – 1067 Yizong raids
  • 1081 – 1085 Shenzong's invasion (1081–1085)
  • 1097 – 1098 Advance and fortify
  • 1103 – 1106 Song annexation of Tsongkha
  • 1113 – 1119 Huizong's invasion (1113–1119)
• 1042 – 1052 Nong Zhigao rebellions
• 1075 – 1077 Song–Đại Việt war
• 1125 – 1234 Jin–Song Wars
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1205 – 1279 Mongol conquest of China
    • 1205 – 1227 Mongol conquest of Western Xia
    • 1217 – 1233 Mongol conquest of Eastern Xia
    • 1235 – 1279 Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty

Liao dynasty

• 979 Battle of Gaoliang River

Jin dynasty

• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1205 – 1279 Mongol conquest of China
    • 1211 – 1234 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty

Yuan dynasty

• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1201 – 1308 Mongol conquest of Siberia
  • 1205 – 1279 Mongol conquest of China
    • 1205 – 1227 Mongol conquest of Western Xia
    • 1211 – 1234 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty
    • 1217 – 1233 Mongol conquest of Eastern Xia
    • 1235 – 1279 Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty
• 1351 Red Turban Rebellion
• 1357 – 1366 Ispah rebellion

Ming dynasty

• 1378 – 1385 Wu Mian rebellion
• 1381 – 1382 Ming conquest of Yunnan
• 1386 – 1388 Ming–Mong Mao War (1386–1388)
• 1387 Ming campaign against the Uriankhai
• 1388 Battle of Buir Lake
• 14th century – 15th century Miao rebellions in the Ming dynasty
• 1397 Lin Kuan rebellion
• 1397 – 1398 Dao Ganmeng rebellion
• 1399 – 1402 Jingnan Campaign
• 15th century – 16th century Ming–Turpan conflict
• 1409 Battle of Kherlen
• 1425 Zhu Gaoxu rebellion
• 1436 – 1449 Luchuan–Pingmian campaigns
• 1448 – 1449 Deng Maoqi rebellion
• 1449 Tumu Crisis
• 1449 Defense of Beijing
• 1461 Rebellion of Cao Qin
• 1510 – 1512 Rebellion of 1510
• 1510 Prince of Anhua rebellion
• 1519 Prince of Ning rebellion
• 1523 Ningbo incident
• 1540s – 1567 Jiajing wokou raids
• 1542 Palace plot of Renyin year
• 1583 – 1619 Jurchen unification
• 1590 – 1600 Bozhou rebellion
• 1592 Ordos campaign (1592)
• 1618 – 1683 Transition from Ming to Qing
  • 1621 – 1629 She–An Rebellion
  • 1628 – 1644 Late Ming peasant rebellions
• 1642 Battle of Nanyang

Qing dynasty

• 1652 – 1689 Sino–Russian border conflicts
• 1673 – 1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories
• 1678 – 1680 Dzungar conquest of Altishahr
• 1679 – 1684 Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war
• 1687 – 1758 Dzungar–Qing Wars
  • 1715 – 1720 Second Dzungar-Qing War
• 1701 Battle of Dartsedo
• 1735 – 1736 Miao Rebellion (1735–1736)
• 1739 Coup of Hongxi
• 1747 – 1792 Ten Great Campaigns
  • 1755 First campaign against the Dzungars
  • 1756 – 1758 Second campaign against the Dzungars
  • 1757 – 1759 Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas
  • 1758 – 1759 Pacification of Xinjiang
  • 1747 – 1776 Jinchuan campaigns
    • 1747 – 1749 First campaign against the Jinchuan
    • 1771 – 1776 Second campaign against the Jinchuan
• 1759 – 1866 Afaqi Khoja revolts
• 1765 – 1769 Sino-Burmese War
• 1781 Jahriyya revolt
• 1788 – 1792 Sino-Nepalese War
• 1795 – 1806 Miao Rebellion (1795–1806)
• 1796 – 1804 White Lotus Rebellion
• 1813 Eight Trigrams uprising of 1813
• 1839 – 1842 First Opium War
• 1841 – 1842 Dogra–Tibetan war
• 1849 Battle of Tysami
• 1851 – 1864 Taiping Rebellion
• 1854 – 1949 Yangtze Patrol
• 1854 – 1856 Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)
• 1854 – 1873 Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)
• 1855 – 1867 Punti-Hakka Clan Wars
• 1855 – 1856 Nepal–Tibet War (1855–1856)
• 1855 Battle of the Leotung
• 1856 – 1873 Panthay Rebellion
• 1857 Ningpo massacre
• 1861 Xinyou Coup
• 1862 – 1877 Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
• 1864 – 1869 Nian Rebellion
• 1856 – 1860 Second Opium War
• 1884 – 1885 Franco-Chinese War

The Qing Empire in 1890

• 1891 Jindandao incident
• 1894 – 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
• 1895 – 1896 Dungan Revolt (1895)
• 1899 – 1901 Boxer Rebellion
• 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1905 Batang uprising
• 1910 Chinese expedition to Tibet (1910)
• 1911 Second Guangzhou Uprising
• 1911 – 1912 1911 Revolution
  • 1911 Wuchang Uprising
  • 1911 – 1912 Xinhai Lhasa turmoil
  • 1911 – 1912 1911 Revolution in Xinjiang
• 1911 – 1914 Bai Lang Rebellion

Republic of China

• 1854 – 1949 Yangtze Patrol
  • 1918 USS Monocacy incident
  • 1920 Alice Dollar incident
• 1911 – 1914 Bai Lang Rebellion
• 1913 Second Revolution (Republic of China)
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1914 Siege of Tsingtao
• 1915 – 1916 National Protection War
• 1916 – 1928 Warlord Era
  • 1917 Manchu Restoration
  • 1920 Zhili–Anhui War
  • 1920 – 1922 Guangdong–Guangxi War
  • 1920 – 1926 Spirit Soldier rebellions (1920–1926)
  • 1922 First Zhili–Fengtian War
  • 1923 Lincheng Outrage
  • 1924 Second Zhili–Fengtian War
  • 1924 1924 Beijing Coup
  • 1925 Anti-Fengtian War
  • 1925 – 1927 Yunnan–Guangxi War
  • 1926 March 18 Massacre
  • 1926 – 1928 Northern Expedition
  • 1927 April 12 Incident
• 1917 – 1949 Golok conflicts (1917–1949)
• 1920 Battle of Samdunja
• 1920 Battle of Fengwudong
• 1920 Hunchun incident
• 1920 Battle of Qingshanli
• 1924 Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising
• 1925 Shameen Incident
• 1926 Canton Coup
• 1927 – 1930 Muslim conflict in Gansu (1927–1930)
  • 1927 Shanghai massacre
• 1927 – 1950 Chinese Civil War
  • 1927 Autumn Harvest Uprising
  • 1930 Li Lisan line
  • 1930 – 1934 Encirclement campaigns (Chinese Civil War)
  • 1934 – 1935 Long March
  • 1934 – 1937 Southern Guerilla War
  • 1945 – 1949 Operation Beleaguer
  • 1945 – 1947 Campaign to suppress bandits in northeast China
  • 1948 Liaoshen campaign
  • 1948 – 1949 Huaihai campaign
  • 1948 – 1949 Pingjin campaign
  • 1949 Yangtze River Crossing campaign
  • 1949 Shanghai Campaign
• 1928 Jinan incident
• 1928 Huanggutun incident
• 1928 – 1929 Red Spears' uprising in Shandong
• 1929 Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong
  • 1929 Beijing Revolt
• 1929 – 1930 Central Plains War
  • 1929 Chiang-Gui War
• 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
• 1930 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 1931 – 1934 Kumul Rebellion
  • 1935 Charkhlik revolt
  • 1937 Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)
  • 1944 – 1946 Ili Rebellion
    • 1946 – 1948 Battle of Baitag Bogd
• 1930 – 1932 Sino-Tibetan War of 1930–1932
  • 1932 – 1933 Qinghai–Tibet War
• 1931 – 1932 Japanese invasion of Manchuria
• 1931 – 1942 Pacification of Manchukuo
• 1932 – 1939 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
• 1932 January 28 incident
• 1932 Han–Liu War
• 1933 Defense of the Great Wall
• 1933 – 1936 Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933–36)
• 1934 Two-Liu war
• 1934 War in Ningxia (1934)
• 1937 – 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
  • 1939 – 1940 1939–40 Winter Offensive
  • 1940 – 1941 Hundred Regiments Offensive
  • 1943 – 1945 Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
  • 1944 Operation Ichi-Go
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1945 Soviet–Japanese War
      • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria

People's Republic of China

• 1927 – 1949 Chinese Civil War
  • 1945 – 1949 Operation Beleaguer
  • 1945 – 1947 Campaign to suppress bandits in northeast China
  • 1948 Liaoshen campaign
  • 1948 – 1949 Huaihai campaign
  • 1948 – 1949 Pingjin campaign
  • 1949 Yangtze River Crossing campaign
  • 1949 Shanghai Campaign
  • 1950 Battle of Hainan Island
  • 1950 Wanshan Archipelago Campaign
• 1930 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 1949 Incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China
• 1950 – 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
• 1950 – 1951 Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
  • 1950 Battle of Chamdo
• 1950 – 1953 Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries
• 1950 – 1953 Korean War
• 1953 Dongshan Island Campaign
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1959 Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959)
• 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising
• 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
• 1961 – 1972 Project National Glory
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1969 Sino–Soviet border conflict
• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 1979 – 1991 Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991)
  • 1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 1989 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 2001 Hainan Island incident
• 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2014 Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

Hong Kong

• 1521 Battle of Tunmen
• 1522 Battle of Sincouwaan
• 1839 – 1842 First Opium War
• 1855 – 1868 Punti–Hakka Clan Wars
• 1855 Battle of Ty-ho Bay
• 1861 North Star affair
• 1899 Six-Day War (1899)
• 1927 Irene incident
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1941 Battle of Hong Kong

Japan

• Civil War of Wa
• 463 Kibi Clan Rebellion
• 479 Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion
• 527 – 528 Iwai Rebellion
• 552 – 587 Soga–Mononobe conflict
• 587 Battle of Shigisan
• 645 Isshi Incident
• 672 Jinshin War
• 720 – 721 Hayato rebellion
• 740 Fujiwara no Hirotsugu rebellion
• 764 Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion
• 774 – 812 Thirty-Eight Years' War
• 810 Kusuko Incident
• 935 – 940 Tengyō no Ran
• 1019 Toi invasion
• 1051 – 1062 Former Nine Years' War
• 1083 – 1089 Gosannen War
• 1156 Hōgen rebellion
• 1160 Heiji rebellion
• 1177 Shishigatani incident
• 1180 – 1185 Genpei War
• 1201 Kennin Rebellion
• 1221 Jōkyū War
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1274 – 1281 Mongol invasions of Japan
    • 1274 Battle of Bun'ei
    • 1281 Battle of Kōan
• 1331 – 1333 Genkō War
• 1336 Battle of Tatarahama (1336)
• 1336 Battle of Minatogawa
• 1337 Siege of Kanegasaki (1337)
• 1338 – 1339 Sieges of Kuromaru
• 1348 Battle of Shijōnawate
• 1350 – 1351 Kannō disturbance
• 1351 Battle of Yawata
• 1419 Ōei Invasion
• 1428 Shōchō uprising
• 1440 – 1441 Yūki War
• 1441 Kakitsu uprising
• 1456 – 1457 Koshamain's War
• 1454 – 1482 Kyōtoku incident
• 1467 – 1615 Sengoku period
  • 1467 – 1477 Ōnin War
  • 1487 – 1488 Kaga Rebellion
  • 1535 Battle of Idano
  • 1545 – 1546 Siege of Kawagoe Castle
  • 1551 Tainei-ji incident
  • 1555 Battle of Itsukushima
  • 1553 – 1564 Battles of Kawanakajima
  • 1560 Battle of Okehazama
  • 1570 Battle of Anegawa
  • 1570 – 1580 Ishiyama Hongan-ji War
  • 1575 Battle of Nagashino
  • 1577 Battle of Tedorigawa
  • 1579 – 1582 Tenshō Iga War
    • 1579 First Tenshō Iga War
    • 1581 Second Tenshō Iga War
  • 1582 Honnō-ji Incident
  • 1582 Battle of Yamazaki
  • 1585 Invasion of Shikoku (1585)
  • 1586 – 1587 Kyūshū campaign
  • 1590 Siege of Odawara (1590)
  • 1591 Kunohe rebellion
  • 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
  • 1603 Rokugō rebellion
  • 1609 Invasion of Ryukyu
  • 1615 Siege of Osaka Castle
• 1637 – 1638 Shimabara Rebellion
• 1651 Keian Uprising
• 1669 – 1672 Shakushain's revolt
• 1686 Jōkyō uprising
• 1789 Menashi–Kunashir rebellion
• 1853 – 1867 Bakumatsu
  • 1861 Tsushima incident
  • 1862 – 1866 Teradaya incident
  • 1863 – 1864 Shimonoseki campaign
  • 1863 Bombardment of Kagoshima
  • 1863 Tenchūgumi incident
  • 1864 – 1865 Mito rebellion
  • 1864 Kinmon incident
  • 1864 First Chōshū expedition
  • 1866 Second Chōshū expedition
• 1868 Two Lords Incident
• 1868 – 1869 Boshin War
  • 1868 Kobe Incident
  • 1868 Sakai incident
• 1874 Saga Rebellion
• 1876 Shinpūren Rebellion
• 1876 Akizuki Rebellion
• 1876 Hagi Rebellion
• 1877 Satsuma Rebellion
• 1878 Takebashi incident
• 1882 Fukushima incident (1882)
• 1884 Chichibu incident
• 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War
• 1932 May 15 incident
• 1934 Military Academy incident
• 1936 February 26 incident
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1942 – 1945 Japan campaign
      • 1942 – 1945 Air raids on Japan
        • 1942 Doolittle Raid
      • 1945 Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign
      • 1945 Battle of Sagami Bay
  • 1945 Kyūjō incident
  • 1945 Matsue incident
• 1946 Shibuya incident
• 1972 Asama-Sansō incident
• 1985 – 1989 Yama–Ichi War
• 2001 Battle of Amami-Ōshima

Macau

• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1809 – 1810 Battle of the Tiger's Mouth
• 1839 – 1842 First Opium War
• 1849 Passaleão incident

Mongolia

• 215 BC Qin's campaign against the Xiongnu
• 133 BC – 91 Han–Xiongnu War
• 60 BC – 53 BC Xiongnu Civil War
• 581 – 593 Göktürk civil war
• 626 – 649 Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue
  • 657 Conquest of the Western Turks
• 629 – 630 Tang campaigns against the Western Turks
• 1206 – 1337 Mongol invasions and conquests
• 1409 Battle of Kherlen
• 1687 – 1758 Dzungar–Qing Wars
  • 1715 – 1720 Second Dzungar-Qing War
• 1911 – 1912 1911 Revolution
  • 1911 Mongolian Revolution of 1911
• 1917 – 1923 Russian Civil War
  • 1918 – 1923 Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1921 Mongolian Revolution of 1921
• 1930 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 1944 – 1946 Ili Rebellion
    • 1946 – 1948 Battle of Baitag Bogd
• 1932 1932 armed uprising in Mongolia
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1938 – 1939 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
  • 1945 Soviet invasion of Manchuria

North Korea

• 109 BC – 108 BC Han conquest of Gojoseon
• 319 – 407 Goguryeo–Yan Wars
• 364 – 407 Silla–Goguryeo and Paekche–Kaya–Wa War
• 598 – 614 Goguryeo–Sui War
• 645 – 668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 – 648 First conflict of the Goguryeo–Tang War
• 993 – 1019 Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 993 First conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 1010 – 1011 Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 1018 – 1019 Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
• 10th century – 17th century Korean–Jurchen border conflicts
• 1186 – 1202 Silla restoration movement
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1231 – 1259 Mongol invasions of Korea
• 1270 – 1273 Sambyeolcho Rebellion
• 1359 – 1360 Red Turban invasions of Goryeo
• 1388 Wihwado Retreat
• 1467 Yi Siae's Rebellion
• 1592 – 1598 Imjin War
• 1618 – 1683 Transition from Ming to Qing
• 1624 Yi Kwal's Rebellion
• 1812 Hong Kyŏngnae's Rebellion
• 1866 General Sherman incident
• 1894 – 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
• 1937 Battle of Pochonbo
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1945 Soviet–Japanese War
      • 1945 Seishin Operation
• 1945 – present Korean conflict
  • 1950 – 1953 Korean War
    • 1951 Chinese spring offensive
  • 1953 – present Korean border incidents
    • 1966 – 1969 Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69)
    • 1968 Pueblo incident
    • 1969 1969 EC-121 shootdown incident
    • 1975 Major Henderson incident
    • 1976 Operation Paul Bunyan
  • 1993 – 1994 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis
  • 2017 – 2018 2017–2018 North Korea crisis

South Korea

• 109 BC – 108 BC Han conquest of Gojoseon
• 3rd century – 562 Fall of the Gaya confederacy
• 319 – 407 Goguryeo–Yan Wars
• 364 – 407 Silla–Goguryeo and Paekche–Kaya–Wa War
• 598 – 614 Goguryeo–Sui War
• 645 – 668 Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 645 – 648 First conflict of the Goguryeo–Tang War
  • 660 – 663 Paekche–Tang War
• 993 – 1019 Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 993 First conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 1010 – 1011 Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
  • 1018 – 1019 Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1231 – 1259 Mongol invasions of Korea
• 1592 – 1598 Imjin War
• 1604 Battle of Dangpo (1604)
• 1618 – 1683 Transition from Ming to Qing
• 1624 Yi Kwal's Rebellion
• 1866 French campaign against Korea (1866)
• 1871 United States expedition to Korea
• 1875 Ganghwa Island incident
• 1882 Imo Incident
• 1884 Gapsin Coup
• 1885 – 1887 Port Hamilton incident
• 1894 – 1895 Donghak Peasant Revolution
• 1895 Assassination of Empress Myeongseong
• 1907 Battle of Namdaemun
• 1945 – present Korean conflict
  • 1946 Autumn Uprising of 1946
  • 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon rebellion
  • 1948 – 1949 Jeju uprising
  • 1950 – 1953 Korean War
    • 1950 Battle of Pusan Perimeter
    • 1951 Chinese spring offensive
  • 1953 – present Korean border incidents
    • 1966 – 1969 Korean DMZ Conflict (1966–69)
    • 1968 Blue House raid
    • 1968 Uljin–Samcheok Landings
    • 1976 Operation Paul Bunyan
    • 1996 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident
    • 1998 1998 Sokcho submarine incident
    • 1998 1998 Yosu submersible incident
    • 1999 Battle of Yeongpyeong (1999)
    • 2002 Battle of Yeongpyeong (2002)
    • 2009 Daecheong incident
    • 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking
    • 2010 2010 Yeonpyeongdo bombardment
  • 1993 – 1994 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis
  • 2017 – 2018 2017–2018 North Korea crisis
• 1961 May 16 coup
• 1971 Unit 684 mutiny
• 1979 1979 South Korean coup d'état
• 1980 Coup d'état of May Seventeenth
• 1980 Gwangju Uprising
• 2024 2024 South Korean martial law crisis

Taiwan

• 1618 – 1683 Transition from Ming to Qing
• 1620s – 1670s Sino-Dutch conflicts
  • 1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay
  • 1661 – 1662 Siege of Fort Zeelandia
• 1626 Spanish expedition to Formosa
• 1635 – 1636 Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa
• 1641 Battle of San Salvador (1641)
• 1642 Battle of San Salvador (1642)
• 1652 Guo Huaiyi rebellion
• 1670 Battle of Shalu Village
• 1673 – 1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories
• 1731 – 1732 Ta-Chia-hsi revolt
• 1786 – 1788 Lin Shuangwen rebellion
• 1839 – 1842 First Opium War
• 1867 Rover incident
• 1867 Formosa Expedition
• 1871 Mudan incident
• 1874 Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874)
• 1884 – 1885 Sino-French War
• 1894 – 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
• 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
• 1896 Xincheng Incident
• 1907 Beipu uprising
• 1914 Truku War
• 1915 Tapani incident
• 1927 – 1950 Chinese Civil War
  • 1950 Battle of Guningtou
• 1930 Musha Incident
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
• 1954 – 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
• 1961 – 1972 Project National Glory
• 1995 – 1996 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

Southeast Asia

Brunei

• 1500s Tondo War
• 1578 Castilian War
• 1660 – 1673 Bruneian Civil War of 1660
• 1670s – 1862 Pacification of Lanun
• 1769 – 1788 Twenty Years' War
• 1826 – 1828 Bruneian Civil War of 1826
• 1836 – 1840 Sarawak Uprising of 1836
• 1845 – 1846 Anglo-Bruneian War
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South West Pacific theatre of World War II
      • 1945 Borneo campaign
• 1962 Brunei revolt

Cambodia

• 950 – 1220 Khmer–Cham wars
  • 1177 Battle of Tonlé Sap
• 1431 Fall of Angkor
• 1591 – 1594 Siamese–Cambodian War (1591–1594)
• 1593 – 1599 Cambodian–Spanish War
• 1594 Fall of Longvek
• 1643 – 1644 Cambodian–Dutch War
• 1771 – 1802 Tây Sơn wars
• 1771 – 1773 Siamese–Vietnamese War (1771–1773)
• 1813 – 1845 Vietnamese invasions of Cambodia
  • 1812 – 1813 Cambodian conflict (1812–1813)
  • 1820 Cambodian rebellion (1820)
  • 1840 – 1841 Cambodian Uprising (1840–1841)
  • 1840 – 1845 Siamese–Vietnamese War (1840–1845)
• 1833 – 1834 Siamese–Vietnamese War (1833–1834)
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1944 – 1945 Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
      • 1945 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1968 – 1975 Cambodian Civil War
• 1975 Mayaguez incident
• 1964 – 1992 FULRO insurgency
• 1978 – 1989 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
  • 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1979 – 1998 Khmer Rouge insurgency
• 1997 1997 Cambodian coup d'état
• 2000 2000 Cambodian coup d'état attempt
• 2003 2003 Phnom Penh riots
• 2008 – 2011 2008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
• 2025 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border crisis

East Timor

• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • • 1941 – 1945 South West Pacific theatre of World War II
      • 1942 – 1943 Battle of Timor
• 1959 1959 Viqueque rebellion
• 1975 East Timorese civil war
• 1975 Operation Flamboyan
• 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

• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1293 Mongol invasion of Java
• 1275 – 1292 Pamalayu
• 1292 Jayakatwang rebellion
• c. 14th century – 1487 Majapahit–Sundanese conflicts
• 1355 – 1362 Majapahit invasion of Nan Sarunai
• c. 15th century Malacca–Majapahit conflict
• 1404 – 1406 Regreg War
• 1478 – 1527 Demak–Majapahit conflicts
• 1509 – 1641 Malay–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1521 Attack on Bintan (1521)
  • 1525 Battle of Lingga
  • 1526 Siege of Bintan
• 1512 – 1527 Demak–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1527 Conquest of Sunda Kelapa
• 1519 – 1639 Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1521 Battle of Aceh (1521)
  • 1522 Pedir expedition (1522)
  • 1523 – 1524 Acehnese conquest of Pasai
  • 1528 Battle of Aceh (1528)
  • 1606 Aceh expedition (1606)
• 1527 – 1579 Banten invasions of Pajajaran
• 1528 – 1629 Malay-Acehnese conflicts
• 1530 – 1605 Ternatean–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1582 Ternate expedition (1582)
  • 1585 Ternate expedition (1585)
  • 1603 Ternate expedition (1603)
• 1566 – 1648 Eighty Years' War
• 1570 – 1575 War of the League of the Indies
• 1596 Banten invasion of Palembang
• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1609 – 1621 Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands
• 1614 – 1625 Mataram conquest of Surabaya
• 1618 – 1619 Jayakarta War
• 1619 Fall of Jayakarta
• 1628 – 1757 Dutch–Mataram conflicts
• 1646 Battle of Passempe
• 1648 Massacre of ulema by Amangkurat I
• 1656 – 1659 Banten–Dutch war (1656–1659)
• 1666 – 1669 Makassar War
• 1674 – 1681 Trunajaya rebellion
• 1704 – 1757 Javanese Wars of Succession
  • 1704 – 1708 First Javanese War of Succession
  • 1719 – 1723 Second Javanese War of Succession
  • 1749 – 1757 Third Javanese War of Succession
• 1740 1740 Batavia massacre
• 1741 – 1743 Java War (1741–1743)
• 1749 Battle of Penfui
• 1792 – 1815 French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  • 1792 – 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
    • 1793 – 1801 East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
    • 1806 – 1807 Java campaign of 1806–1807
    • 1810 Invasion of the Spice Islands
    • 1811 Invasion of Java (1811)
    • 1812 – 1813 Sambas expeditions
• 1803 – 1837 Padri War
• 1812 British expedition to Palembang
• 1812 Sack of Yogyakarta
• 1813 Kedopok War
• 1814 Buleleng expedition
• 1814 British expedition to Makassar
• 1819 First expedition to Palembang
• 1821 Second expedition to Palembang
• 1823 Expedition to the West Coast of Borneo
• 1824 – 1825 First Bone War
• 1825 – 1830 Java War
• 1831 Dutch expedition on the west coast of Sumatra
• 1832 First Sumatran expedition
• 1838 – 1839 Second Sumatran expedition
• 1846 Dutch intervention in northern Bali (1846)
• 1848 Dutch intervention in northern Bali (1848)
• 1849 Dutch intervention in Bali (1849)
• 1851 – 1859 Palembang Highlands Expeditions
• 1854 – 1855 Expedition against the Chinese in Montrado
• 1855 – 1864 Nias Expedition
• 1858 Dutch intervention in Bali (1858)
• 1859 – 1860 Second Bone War
• 1859 – 1863 Banjarmasin War
• 1864 – 1868 Pasoemah Expedition
• 1873 – 1904 Aceh War
• 1884 – 1885 Mandor rebellion
• 1885 Jambi uprising
• 1890 Edi Expedition
• 1894 Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem
• 1903 Kerinci Expedition
• 1905 South Sulawesi expeditions of 1905
• 1906 Dutch intervention in Bali (1906)
• 1908 Dutch intervention in Bali (1908)
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1944 – 1945 Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
      • 1945 Battle of the Malacca Strait
    • 1941 – 1945 South West Pacific theatre of World War II
      • 1941 – 1942 Dutch East Indies campaign
      • 1942 – 1943 Battle of Timor
      • 1942 – 1945 New Guinea campaign
      • 1945 Borneo campaign
• 1945 – 1949 Indonesian National Revolution
• 1949 – 1962 Darul Islam rebellion
• 1950 APRA coup d'état
• 1950 Makassar Uprising
• 1950 Invasion of Buru
• 1950 Invasion of Ambon
• 1958 – 1961 Permesta rebellion
• 1958 – 1961 PRRI rebellion
• 1961 – 1962 Operation Trikora
  • 1962 Battle of Arafura Sea
• 1962 – present Papua conflict
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
• 1965 30 September Movement
• 1965 – 1966 Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66
  • 1965 Operation Black Crow
• 1967 Operation Security and Order
• 1968 Operation Trisula
• 1976 – 2005 Insurgency in Aceh
• 1981 – present Terrorism in Indonesia
  • 2016 – 2022 Operation Madago Raya
• 1984 Tanjung Priok massacre
• 1989 Talangsari incident
• 1999 – 2002 Maluku sectarian conflict
• 2001 Sampit conflict
• 2003 2003 Bawean incident
• 2012 MT Zafirah hijacking

Laos

• 1568 – 1569 Burmese–Siamese War (1568–1569)
• 1771 – 1802 Tây Sơn wars
• 1778 – 1779 Lao–Siamese War (1778–1779)
• 1826 – 1828 Lao rebellion (1826–1828)
• 1893 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis
• 1901 – 1936 Holy Man's Rebellion
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
  • 1959 – 1975 Laotian Civil War
    • 1959 — 1960 1960 Laotian coups
    • 1964 1964 Laotian coups
  • 1965 1965 Laotian coups
  • 1966 1966 Laotian coup d'état
  • 1967 1967 Opium War
  • 1973 1973 Laotian coup attempt
• 1975 – present Insurgency in Laos
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War

Malaysia

• 1447 – 1456 Siamese invasions of Malacca
• 1500 Siamese invasion of Malacca (1500)
• 15th century Malacca–Majapahit conflict
• 1509 – 1641 Malay–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1511 Capture of Malacca (1511)
  • 1520 Battle of Pago
  • 1523 Battle of Muar River
  • 1535 Battle of Ugentana
  • 1536 Battle of Ugentana (1536)
  • 1551 Siege of Malacca (1551)
  • 1587 Siege of Johor (1587)
  • 1606 Siege of Malacca (1606)
  • 1641 Siege of Malacca (1641)
• 1528 – 1629 Malay-Acehnese conflicts
  • 1613 – 1615 Acehnese invasion of Johor
  • 1619 Acehnese invasion of Kedah
  • 1620 Acehnese conquest of Perak
• 1519 – 1639 Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts
• 1570 – 1575 War of the League of the Indies
• 1578 Castilian War
• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1660 – 1673 Bruneian Civil War of 1660
• 1666 – 1681 Johor–Jambi wars
• 1670s – 1862 Pacification of Lanun
• 1769 – 1788 Twenty Years' War
• 1821 – 1842 Siamese invasion of Kedah
• 1831 – 1832 Naning War
• 1845 – 1846 Anglo-Bruneian War
• 1857 – 1863 Pahang Civil War
• 1861 – 1874 Larut Wars
• 1867 – 1874 Klang War
• 1875 – 1876 Perak War
• 1879 Jementah Civil War
• 1891 – 1895 Pahang Uprising
• 1894 – 1905 Mat Salleh Rebellion
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
• 1915 Kelantan rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1941 – 1942 Malayan Campaign
      • 1944 – 1945 Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
      • 1945 Battle of the Malacca Strait
    • 1941 – 1945 South West Pacific theatre of World War II
      • 1945 Borneo campaign
  • 1943 – 1944 Jesselton revolt
• 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)
• 1985 Memali incident
• 2000 Sauk Siege
• 2015 MT Orkim Harmony hijacking

Myanmar (Burma)

• 1165 – 1181 Polonnaruwa–Pagan War
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1277 – 1287 First Mongol invasion of Burma
  • 1300 – 1301 Second Mongol invasion of Burma
• 1385 – 1423 Forty Years' War
• 1530 – 1666 Mrauk U invasion of Chittagong
• 1534 – 1541 Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War
• 1538 – 1545 Toungoo–Ava War
• 1539 – 1617 Burmese-Portuguese conflicts
  • 1605 1605 Syriam battles
• 1548 – 1549 Burmese–Siamese War (1547–1549)
• 1584 – 1593 Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)
• 1593 – 1600 Burmese–Siamese War (1593–1600)
• 1598 – 1599 Mrauk U invasion of Pegu
• 1609 – 1622 Burmese–Siamese War (1609–1622)
• 1662 – 1664 Burmese–Siamese War (1662–1664)
• 1687 – 1688 Anglo-Siamese War
• 1717 – 1749 Manipuri–Burmese wars of 1717 to 1749
• 1752 – 1757 Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War
• 1755 – 1792 Ten Great Campaigns
  • 1765 – 1769 Sino-Burmese War (1765–69)
• 1759 – 1760 Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760)
• 1765 – 1767 Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
• 1785 Konbaung conquest of Arakan
• 1788 Tavoy campaign (1788)
• 1792 – 1794 Burmese–Siamese War (1792–1794)
• 1802 – 1805 Burmese–Siamese War (1802–1805)
• 1809 – 1812 Burmese–Siamese War (1809–1812)
• 1816 – 1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• 1824 – 1885 Anglo-Burmese wars
  • 1823 – 1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1852 – 1853 Second Anglo-Burmese War
  • 1885 – 1886 Third Anglo-Burmese War
• 1849 – 1855 Burmese–Siamese War (1849–1855)
• 1885 – 1895 Burmese resistance movement 1885–1895
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 Burma campaign
      • • 1941 – 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma
        • 1942 – 1943 Burma campaign (1942–1943)
        • 1944 Burma campaign (1944)
        • 1944 – 1945 Burma campaign (1944–1945)
• 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
  • 1960 – 1961 1960–61 campaign at the China–Burma border
  • 1961 – present Kachin conflict
  • 1962 1962 Burmese coup d'état
  • 1988 – present Karen–Mon conflict
  • 2009 2009 Kokang incident
  • 2015 2015 Kokang offensive
  • 2021 2021 Myanmar coup d'état
  • 2021 – present Myanmar Civil War
    • 2023 – present Operation 1027

Philippines

• 1500 Tondo War
• 1521 Battle of Mactan
• 1565 Dagami revolt
• 1565 – 1898 Spanish–Moro conflict
• 1565 – 1898 Igorot resistance to Spanish colonization
• 1566 – 1648 Eighty Years' War
• 1571 Battle of Bangkusay
• 1574 Battle of Manila (1574)
• 1578 Castilian War
• 1582 1582 Cagayan battles
• 1587 – 1588 Tondo Conspiracy
• 1596 Magalat revolt
• 1601 Igorot revolt
• 1603 Sangley Rebellion (1603)
• 1607 Caquenga's Revolt
• 1621 – 1622 Bankaw revolt
• 1621 Tamblot uprising
• 1621 Irraya Revolt
• 1639 – 1640 Sangley Rebellion (1639)
• 1662 Sangley Massacre (1662)
• 1756 – 1763 Seven Years' War
  • 1762 – 1763 Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763)
• 1792 – 1815 French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
  • 1792 – 1802 French Revolutionary Wars
    • 1793 – 1801 East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars
  • 1796 – 1808 Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)
  • 1803 – 1815 Napoleonic Wars
• 1828 Palmero Conspiracy
• 1872 1872 Cavite mutiny
• 1896 – 1898 Philippine Revolution
  • 1898 Spanish–American War
• 1899 – 1913 Philippine–American War
  • 1902 – 1913 Moro Rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1944 – 1945 Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
    • 1941 – 1945 South West Pacific theatre of World War II
      • 1941 – 1942 Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
      • 1944 – 1945 Philippines campaign (1944–1945)
    • 1941 – 1945 Philippine resistance against Japan
• 1946 – 1954 Hukbalahap rebellion
• 1948 – 1955 Kamlon rebellion
• 1969 – present Civil conflict in the Philippines
  • 1968 – 2019 Moro conflict
  • 1969 – present New People's Army rebellion
  • 2002 – 2017 Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines
  • 2014 – present ISIL insurgency in the Philippines
• 1986 People Power Revolution
  • 1986 February 1986 Reform the Armed Forces Movement coup
• 1986 Siege of the Manila Hotel
• 1986 God Save the Queen Plot
• 1987 January 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• 1987 August 1987 Philippine coup attempt
• 1989 Camp Cawa-Cawa siege
• 1989 1989 Philippine coup attempt
• 1990 Hotel Delfino siege
• 1990 1990 Mindanao revolt
• 2003 Oakwood mutiny
• 2008 2008 Parañaque shootout
• 2007 Manila Peninsula siege
• 2012 – present Scarborough Shoal standoff
• 2016 – present Philippine drug war
  • 2021 2021 PNP–PDEA shootout
• 2022 Ungkaya Pukan clash

Singapore

• 1396 Sack of Singapore
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1915 1915 Singapore Mutiny
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
      • 1941 – 1942 Malayan Campaign
      • 1942 Fall of Singapore
      • 1944 – 1945 Bombing of South-East Asia (1944–1945)
• 1963 – 1966 Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation]

Thailand

• 1441 – 1474 Ayutthaya–Lan Na War (1441–1474)
• 1548 – 1549 Burmese–Siamese War (1547–1549)
• 1563 – 1564 Burmese–Siamese War (1563–1564)
• 1568 – 1569 Burmese–Siamese War (1568–1569)
• 1584 – 1593 Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593)
• 1609 – 1622 Burmese–Siamese War (1609–1622)
• 1662 – 1664 Burmese–Siamese War (1662–1664)
• 1688 Siamese revolution of 1688
• 1759 – 1760 Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760)
• 1765 – 1767 Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767)
• 1767 – 1771 Taksin's reunification of Siam
• 1775 – 1776 Burmese–Siamese War (1775–1776)
• 1778 – 1779 Lao–Siamese War (1778–1779)
• 1785 – 1786 Burmese–Siamese War (1785–1786)
• 1792 – 1794 Burmese–Siamese War (1792–1794)
• 1797 – 1798 Burmese–Siamese War (1797–1798)
• 1802 – 1805 Burmese–Siamese War (1802–1805)
• 1809 – 1812 Burmese–Siamese War (1809–1812)
• 1826 – 1828 Lao rebellion (1826–1828)
• 1849 – 1855 Burmese–Siamese War (1849–1855)
• 1865 – 1890 Haw wars
• 1901 – 1936 Holy Man's Rebellion
• 1902 – 1904 Ngiao rebellion
• 1933 June 1933 Siamese coup d'état
• 1933 Boworadet Rebellion
• 1935 Rebellion of the Sergeants
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1941 Frarco-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 (Thailand)
• 1957 1957 Thai coup d'état
• 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 Cambodian–Vietnamese War
  • 1979 – 1989 Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
• 1987 – 1988 Thai–Laotian Border War
• 1991 1991 Thai coup d'état
• 2004 – present South Thailand insurgency
• 2006 2006 Thai coup d'état
• 2008 – 2011 2008–2011 Cambodian–Thai border crisis
• 2014 2014 Thai coup d'état
• 2025 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict

Vietnam

• 111 BC Han–Nanyue War
• 138 BC – 43 Southward expansion of the Han dynasty
  • 40 – 43 Trung sisters' rebellion
• 263 – 270 Jiao Province Campaign
• 602 Sui–Early Lý War
• 605 Sui–Lâm Ấp war
• 846 – 866 Tang–Nanzhao conflicts in Annan
• 938 – 939 Battle of Bạch Đằng River (938)
• 950 – 1220 Khmer–Cham wars
  • 1128 – 1150 Đại Việt–Khmer War
• 966 – 968 Anarchy of the 12 Warlords
• 981 Song–Đại Cồ Việt war
• 982 Champa–Đại Cồ Việt war (982)
• 1041 – 1052 Nong Zhigao rebellions
• 1075 – 1077 Song–Đại Việt war
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1257 – 1288 Mongol invasions of Vietnam
• 1367 – 1390 Champa–Đại Việt War (1367–1390)
• 1406 – 1407 Ming conquest of Đại Ngu
• 1418 – 1427 Lam Sơn uprising
• 1471 Champa–Đại Việt War (1471)
• 1479 – 1484 Đại Việt–Lan Xang War (1479–1484)
• 1516 – 1521 Trần Cao rebellion
• 1533 – 1677 Lê–Mạc War
• 1627 – 1775 Trịnh–Nguyễn War
• 1771 – 1802 Tây Sơn wars
  • 1784 – 1785 Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút
• 1777 – 1820 French assistance to Nguyễn Ánh
• 1788 – 1789 Qing-Tây Sơn War
• 1820 Cambodian rebellion (1820)
• 1825 – 1827 Phan Bá Vành's Rebellion
• 1822 – 1823 Ja Lidong rebellion
• 1826 Nduai Kabait rebellion
• 1833 – 1835 Lê Văn Khôi revolt
• 1833 – 1834 Siamese–Vietnamese War (1833–1834)
• 1833 – 1835 Nông Văn Vân's Rebellion
• 1834 – 1835 Ja Thak Wa uprising
• 1840 – 1841 Cambodian Uprising (1840–1841)
• 1840 – 1845 Siamese–Vietnamese War (1840–1845)
• 1847 Bombardment of Tourane (1847)
• 1858 – 1885 French conquest of Vietnam
  • 1858 – 1862 Cochinchina campaign
  • 1873 – 1874 Garnier Expedition
  • 1883 – 1886 Tonkin campaign
    • 1884 – 1886 Sino-French War
• 1884 – 1913 Yên Thế Insurrection
• 1885 – 1896 Cần Vương movement
• 1886 – 1896 Pacification of Tonkin
• 1913 – 1916 1916 Cochinchina uprising
• 1917 – 1918 Thái Nguyên uprising
• 1930 Yên Bái mutiny
• 1930 – 1931 Nghệ-Tĩnh Soviets
• 1933 – present Xinjiang conflict
  • 2014 2014 China–Vietnam border shootout
• 1937 Dieu Python movement
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina
  • 1940 – 1941 Franco-Thai War
    • 1940 1940 Cochinchina uprising
  • 1941 – 1945 South-East Asian theatre of World War II
    • 1945 Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
    • 1945 August Revolution
• 1945 – 1949 Civil conflicts in Vietnam (1945–1949)
• 1945 – 1946 War in Vietnam (1945–1946)
• 1946 Haiphong incident
• 1946 – 1954 First Indochina War
• 1955 1955 South Vietnamese conflict
• 1955 – 1975 Vietnam War
  • 1956 Quỳnh Lưu uprising
  • 1959 – 1963 War in Vietnam (1959–1963)
  • 1960 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  • 1969 Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969
  • 1963 Buddhist crisis
    • 1963 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
  • 1964 January 1964 South Vietnamese coup]
  • 1964 1964 FLHP rebellion
  • 1964 September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt
  • 1964 December 1964 South Vietnamese coup
  • 1965 1965 South Vietnamese coup
  • 1972 Easter Offensive
  • 1975 1975 spring offensive
• 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

South Asia

Afghanistan

• 208 BC – 206 BC Siege of Bactra
• 208 BC Battle of the Arius
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 633 – 651 Muslim conquest of Persia
    • 642 – 705 Muslim conquests of Afghanistan
    • 651 – 654 Muslim conquest of Khorasan
• 998 Battle of Ghazni (998)
• 999 – 1002 Ghaznavid–Saffarid war
• 999 – 1004 Ghaznavid–Samanid war
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1209 – 1236 Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
    • 1219 – 1221 Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
• 1504 Siege of Kabul (1504)
• 1505 Campaign against Sultan Masudi Hazaras
• 1505 – 1506 First Campaign against Turkoman Hazaras
• 1557 – 1739 Mughal–Persian wars
  • 1605 – 1606 Siege of Kandahar (1605–1606)
  • 1622 – 1623 Mughal–Safavid war (1622–1623)
  • 1648 – 1653 Mughal–Safavid war (1649–1653)
• 1709 Kandahar Rebellion (1709)
• 1720s – 1747 Campaigns of Nader Shah
  • 1726 – 1727 Khorasan campaign of Nader Shah
  • 1729 Herat campaign of 1729
  • 1730 – 1732 Herat campaign of 1730–1732
  • 1737 – 1738 Siege of Kandahar
• 1769 – 1770 Durrani campaign in Khorasan (1769–1770)
• 1809 Battle of Nimla (1809)
• 1818 Battle of Kafir Qala
• 1833 Siege of Herat (1833)
• 1833 – 1834 1833–1834 expedition of Shah Shujah Durrani
• 1834 Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834)
• 1837 – 1838 First Herat War
• 1838 – 1839 Afghan Turkestan Campaign (1838–39)
• 1838 – 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
• 1843 Hazarajat Campaign of 1843
• 1849 – 1850 Afghan Conquest of Balkh
• 1855 – 1856 Conquest of Kandahar
• 1856 Second Herat War
• 1856 – 1857 Khost rebellion (1856–1857)
• 1859 Afghan Conquest of Kunduz
• 1862 – 1863 Herat campaign of 1862–1863
• 1863 – 1869 Afghan Civil War (1863–1869)
• 1878 – 1880 Second Anglo-Afghan War
• 1888 – 1893 Hazara genocide
  • 1889 Battle of Sheikh Ali (1889)
  • 1893 Battle of Uruzgan
• 1912 Khost rebellion (1912)
• 1913 Urtatagai conflict (1913)
• 1916 – 1934 Basmachi movement
  • 1930 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930)
• 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
• 1923 Alizai rebellion of 1923
• 1924 – 1925 Khost rebellion (1924–1925)
• 1925 – 1926 Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926)
• 1928 – 1929 Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
• 1944 – 1947 Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947
• 1945 – 1946 1945 Hazara Rebellion
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 – present 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 1949 1949 Hazara Rebellion
• 1973 1973 Afghan coup d'état
• 1975 1975 Panjshir Valley uprising
• 1978 – present Afghan conflict
  • 1978 Saur Revolution
  • 1979 1979 uprisings in Afghanistan
    • 1979 1979 Herat uprising
    • 1979 – 1981 1979 Hazara 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)
    • 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan
    • 2006 – 2014 Helmand province campaign
    • 2009 – 2014 Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan
• 2015 – present Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• 2021 – present Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

Bangladesh

• Varendra rebellion
• 550 – 560 Gauda–Gupta War
• 1303 Conquest of Sylhet
• 1324 Tughlaq campaign of Bengal
• 1415 – 1420 Bengal–Jaunpur confrontation
• 1498 Bengal–Kamata War
• 1512 – 1516 Bengal–Mrauk U War (1512–1516)
• 1530 – 1666 Mrauk U invasion of Chittagong
• 1572 – 1612 Mughal conquest of Bengal
• 1613 Conquest of Bhulua
• 1642 – 1698 Dano-Mughal War
• 1665 Mughal conquest of Chittagong
• 1756 – 1763 Seven Years' War
  • 1763 – 1765 Bengal War
• 1763 – 1800 Sannyasi rebellion
• 1782 Muharram Rebellion
• 1830s – 1860s Faraizi uprisings
• 1830 – 1831 Titumir Rebellion
• 1930 Chittagong armoury raid
• 1937 – 1950 Tanka movement
• 1946 – 1947 Tebhaga movement
• 1948 – present Rohingya conflict
  • 1991 – 1992 Operation Clean and Beautiful Nation
• 1949 – 1950 Nachole Uprising
• 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
• 1972 Liberation of Mirpur
• 1972 1972 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny
• 1972 – 1975 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency
• 1975 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1975 3 November 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 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
• 1980 1980 Bangladeshi coup attempt
• 1981 Assassination of Ziaur Rahman
• 1982 1982 Bangladesh coup d'état
• 1993 – 2022 Maoist insurgency in Bangladesh
• 1994 1994 Bangladesh Ansar mutiny
• 1996 1996 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 1999 – present Terrorism in Bangladesh
  • 2016 July 2016 Dhaka attack
• 2001 – present Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2001 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2005 2005 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2008 2008 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2013 2013 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2019 2019 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
• 2002 – 2003 Operation Clean Heart
• 2008 2008 Bangladesh–Myanmar naval standoff
• 2009 2009 Bangladesh Rifles revolt
• 2011 2011 Bangladesh coup d'état attempt
• 2018 – 2019 Bangladesh drug war
• 2025 – present Operation Devil Hunt

Bhutan

• 1634 Second Battle of Simtokha Dzong
• 1864 – 1865 Duar War
• 1954 – present Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 2003 2003 South Bhutan clashes
  • 2003 – 2004 Operation All Clear

India

Bharathvarsha

• c. 5300 BC Kurukshetra War

Bharat

• c. 14th century BCE Battle of the Ten Kings
• 535 BC – 323 BC Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley

Magadha

• 544 BC – 400 BC Avanti–Magadhan War
• 540 BC – 535 BC Magadha–Anga war
• 484 BC – 468 BC Magadha–Vajji war

Nanda Empire

• 323 BC – 321 BC Nanda–Mauryan War

Maurya Empire

• 336 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 327 BC – 325 BC Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
• 323 BC – 321 BC Nanda–Mauryan War
• 305 BC – 303 BC Seleucid–Mauryan War
• 265 BC – 264 BC Kalinga War

Shunga Empire

• 180s BC – 113 BC Shunga–Greek War

Satavahana dynasty

• 15 – 2nd century Saka–Satavahana Wars

Kushan Empire

• c. 2nd century CE Kanishka's Central Asian campaign

Vakataka dynasty

• 335 – 413 Gupta–Saka Wars

Gupta Empire

• 335 – 413 Gupta–Saka Wars
• 498 First Battle of Eran
• 515 Aulikara−Hunnic War
• 510 Second Battle of Eran
• 528 Battle of Sondani
• 550 – 560 Gauda–Gupta War

Pandya dynasty

• 190 Battle of Venni
• 830 Battle of Tellaru
• 862 Anuradhapura invasion of Pandya
• 879 Battle of Thirupurambiyam
• 1169 – 1177 Pandyan Civil War (1169–1177)
• 1188 Battle of Nettur
• 1311 Malik Kafur's invasion of the Pandya kingdom

Pallava dynasty

• 618 – 619 Battle of Narmada
• 618 – 619 Battle of Pullalur
• 642 Battle of Vatapi
• 642 Battle of Manimangala
• 992 – 1120 Chola–Chalukya Wars

Chalukya dynasty

• 618 – 619 Battle of Narmada
• 618 – 619 Battle of Pullalur
• 642 Battle of Vatapi
• 642 Battle of Manimangala
• 992 – 1120 Chola–Chalukya Wars

Pratihara dynasty

• 712 – 740 Umayyad campaigns in India
• 785 – 816 Tripartite Struggle
• 973 – 1167 Ghaznavid campaigns in India

Pala Empire

• Varendra rebellion
• 785 – 816 Tripartite Struggle
• 1019 – 1021 Chola Expedition of the Ganges

Rashtrakuta Empire

• 712 – 740 Umayyad campaigns in India
• 785 – 816 Tripartite Struggle

Chola Empire

• 948 – 949 Battle of Takkolam
• 988 Battle of Kandalur Salai
• 992 – 1120 Chola–Chalukya Wars
• 1097 Chola invasion of Kalinga (1097)
• 1110 Chola invasion of Kalinga (1110)

Delhi Sultanate

• 1206 – 1337 Mongol conquests
  • 1221 – 1308 Mongol invasions of India
• 1243 Battle of Katasin
• 1277 – 1281 Balban's campaign of Bengal
• 1291 Capture of Jhain
• 1293 Alauddin Khalji's raid on Bhilsa
• 1297 – 1298 Khalji invasion of Mithila
• 1299 – 1304 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Gujarat
• 1301 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Ranthambore
• 1301 Rebellions against Alauddin Khalji
• 1303 Siege of Chittorgarh (1303)
• 1305 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Malwa
• 1308 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Devagiri
• 1308 Siege of Siwana
• 1310 Siege of Warangal (1310)
• 1311 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Jalore
• 1311 Siege of Dwarasamudra
• 1318 Siege of Warangal (1318)
• 1321 – 1521 Mewar–Delhi conflicts
• 1323 Siege of Warangal (1323)
• 1320 Battle of Saraswati
• 1320 Battle of Lahrawat
• 1324 Tughlaq campaign of Bengal
• 1326 – 1327 Siege of Kampili
• 1346 – 1347 Rebellion of Ismail Mukh
• 1353 – 1359 Ekdala Wars
• 1370 – 1508 Timurid conquests and invasions
  • 1398 Sack of Delhi (1398)
• 1361 – 1370 Siege of Kangra Fort
• 1421 – 1432 Jasrat's invasions of Delhi Sultanate
• 1526 Battle of Hisar Firoza

Bengal Sultanate

• 1206 – 1682 Muslim invasions of Assam
  • 1257 Yuzbak Khan's invasion of Kamarupa
  • 1498 Bengal–Kamata War
  • 1532 – 1533 Turbak's invasion of Assam
• 1353 – 1359 Ekdala Wars
• 1415 – 1420 Bengal–Jaunpur confrontation
• 1498 Bengal–Kamata War
• 1534 Battle of Surajgarh
• 1568 Bengal Sultanate conquest of Orissa
• 1572 – 1612 Mughal conquest of Bengal

Rajput Confederacy

• 1175 – 1206 Ghurid campaigns in India
• 1197 Battle of Kasahrada (1197)
• 1222 – 1229 Battle of Bhutala
• 1293 Alauddin Khalji's raid on Bhilsa
• 1299 – 1304 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Gujarat
• 1301 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Ranthambore
• 1305 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Malwa
• 1311 Alauddin Khalji's conquest of Jalore
• 1321 – 1521 Mewar–Delhi conflicts
• 1389 – 1489 Jaunpur–Bhojpur War
• 1437 – 1520 Mewar–Malwa conflicts
• 1446 Battle of Mandalgarh and Banas
• 1520 Rana Sanga's invasion of Gujarat
• 1527 – 1779 Mughal–Rajput wars
  • 1527 Battle of Khanwa
• 1532 – 1535 Siege of Chittorgarh (1535)
• 1686 – 1688 Battle of Bhangani
• 1747 Battle of Rajamahal
• 1748 Battle of Bagru
• 1759 Battle of Kakkor
• 1787 Battle of Lalsot

Kashmir Sultanate

• 1338 – 1339 Shah Mir–Lohara War
• 1419 – 1420 Kashmir Civil War (1419–1420)
• 1421 – 1432 Jasrat's invasions of Delhi Sultanate
• 1585 – 1589 Mughal conquest of Kashmir

Vijayanagara Empire

• 1362 – 1367 Bahmani–Vijayanagara War (1362–1367)
• 1365 – 1370 Kampana's invasion of Madurai
• 1375 – 1378 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1375–1378)
• 1398 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1398)
• 1406 War of the Goldsmith's Daughter
• 1417 – 1419 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1417–1419)
• 1423 Siege of Vijayanagar
• 1443 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1443)
• 1505 Yusuf Adil Shah's Invasion of Vijayanagara
• 1506 – 1659 Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts
• 1509 – 1512 Krishnadevaraya's Bahmani expedition
• 1520 Battle of Raichur
• 1538 – 1560 Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1560)
• 1542 – 1543 Vijayanagara Civil War (1542–1543)
• 1553 – 1554 Saif Ain-ul-Mulk's Rebellion
• 1565 Battle of Talikota
• 1617 – 1694 Madurai–Mysore Wars

Bahmani Kingdom

• 1362 – 1367 Bahmani–Vijayanagara War (1362–1367)
• 1375 – 1378 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1375–1378)
• 1398 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1398)
• 1406 War of the Goldsmith's Daughter
• 1417 – 1419 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1417–1419)
• 1423 Siege of Vijayanagar
• 1443 Bahmani–Vijayanagar War (1443)
• 1458 Battle of Devarakonda
• 1461 Gajapati invasion of Bidar
• 1475 – 1481 Bahmani invasion of Orissa
• 1509 – 1512 Krishnadevaraya's Bahmani expedition

Gujarat Sultanate

• 1505 – 1517 Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts
• 1508 – 1573 Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1508 Battle of Chaul
  • 1509 Battle of Diu
  • 1531 Siege of Diu (1531)
  • 1538 Siege of Diu (1538)
  • 1546 Siege of Diu (1546)
  • 1547 Battle of Bharuch
  • 1559 Portuguese conquest of Daman
• 1520 Rana Sanga's invasion of Gujarat

Kingdom of Calicut

• 15th century – 16th century Calicut–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1500 – 1513 First Luso-Malabarese War
  • 1526 Siege of Calicut (1526)

Ahmadnagar Sultanate

• 1543 Battle of Kalyani (1543)
• 1543 Vijayanagar Invasion of Bijapur (1543)
• 1547 – 1548 Ahmednagar invasion of Bidar
• 1549 Battle of Kalyani (1549)
• 1549 Siege of Paranda
• 1552 Vijaynagara Invasion of Bijapur (1552)
• 1557 – 1558 Siege of Gulbarga
• 1565 Battle of Talikota
• 1570 – 1575 War of the League of the Indies
• 1624 Battle of Bhatvadi
• 1633 Siege of Daulatabad
• 1634 Siege of Parenda (1634)

Mughal Empire

• 1206 – 1682 Muslim invasions of Assam
  • 1615 – 1682 Ahom–Mughal conflicts
• 1535 – 1693 Mughal–Portuguese conflicts
• 1526 First Battle of Panipat
• 1526 Siege of Sambhal
• 1527 – 1779 Mughal–Rajput wars
  • 1527 Battle of Khanwa
• 1528 Battle of Chanderi
• 1556 Battle of Tughlaqabad
• 1556 Second Battle of Panipat
• 1557 – 1739 Mughal-Persian Wars
• 1557 Siege of Mankot (1557)
• 1560 – 1570 Mughal conquest of Malwa
• 1564 – 1567 Mughal conquest of Garha
• 1572 – 1573 Mughal conquest of Gujarat
• 1606 Battle of Dewair (1606)
• 1621 Battle of Rohilla
• 1634 – 1638 Battle of Amritsar (1634)
• 1634 Battle of Amritsar (1634)
• 1634 Battle of Lahira
• 1635 Battle of Kartarpur
• 1638 Battle of Kiratpur
• 1642 – 1698 Dano-Mughal War
• 1648 Tranquebar Rebellion
• 1649 – 1653 Mughal–Safavid war (1649–53)
• 1658 – 1659 Mughal war of succession (1658–1659)
• 1661 – 1676 Shivaji's invasions of Janjira
• 1679 – 1684 Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war
• 1681 – 1707 Deccan wars
• 1682 Battle of Anandpur (1682)
• 1685 Battle of Anandpur (1685)
• 1686 – 1690 Anglo-Mughal war (1686–1690)
• 1687 – 1688 Anglo-Siamese War
• 1691 Battle of Nadaun
• 1696 Battle of Guler (1696)
• 1699 Battle of Anandpur (1699)
• 1700 Battle of Anandpur (1700)
• 1700 First siege of Anandpur
• 1702 Battle of Basoli
• 1702 First battle of Chamkaur
• 1704 Second siege of Anandpur
• 1704 Battle of Chamkaur
• 1705 Battle of Muktsar
• 1707 – 1709 Mughal war of succession (1707–1709)
• 1709 Battle of Amritsar (1709)
• 1709 Battle of Sonipat
• 1709 Battle of Samana
• 1709 Battle of Kapuri
• 1710 Battle of Sadhaura
• 1710 Battle of Chappar Chiri
• 1710 Siege of Sirhind
• 1710 Siege of Jalalabad (1710)
• 1710 Battle of Bhilowal
• 1710 Battle of Rahon
• 1710 Battle of Thanesar (1710)
• 1710 Second Battle of Lohgarh
• 1712 Battle of Jammu
• 1713 Second Battle of Lohgarh
• 1714 Battle of Kiri Pathan
• 1715 Battle of Gurdas Nangal
• 1715 Siege of Gurdaspur
• 1720s – 1747 Naderian Wars
  • 1738 – 1739 Nader Shah's invasion of India
• 1720 Battle of Balapur
• 1724 Battle of Shakar Kheda
• 1729 Battle of Bundelkhand
• 1730 – 1731 Battle of Thikriwala
• 1736 Battle of Basarke
• 1738 Battle of Amritsar (1738)
• 1739 Battle of Karnal
• 1740 Chanda Sahib's invasion of Travancore
• 1741 Battle of Gangwana
• 1743 Siege of Trichinopoly (1743)
• 1744 – 1763 Carnatic wars
  • 1744 – 1748 First Carnatic War
• 1748 – 1769 Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani
• 1748 Battle of Sodhra and Badra
• 1748 Siege of Amritsar (1748)
• 1748 – 1749 Siege of Ram Rauni
• 1753 Safdarjung's rebellion
• 1757 Battle of Delhi (1757)
• 1761 Capture of Agra
• 1764 – 1788 Sikh attacks on Delhi
• 1770 Raid of Panipat (1770)
• 1772 Siege of Kunjpura (1772)
• 1779 Siege of Patiala (1779)

Maratha Empire

• 1681 – 1707 Mughal–Maratha wars
• 1683 – 1684 Maratha–Portuguese War (1683–1684)
• 1715 Battle of Pilsud
• 1728 Battle of Palkhed
• 1729 – 1732 Luso–Maratha War (1729–1732)
• 1737 Battle of Bhopal
• 1742 – 1751 Maratha invasions of Bengal
  • 1742 First Maratha invasion of Bengal
  • 1743 Second Maratha invasion of Bengal
• 1758 – 1761 Afghan–Maratha War
• 1761 Third Battle of Panipat
• 1766 – 1798 Maratha–Sikh clashes
• 1767 – 1799 Anglo-Mysore wars
  • 1767 – 1769 First Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1780 – 1784 Second Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1790 – 1792 Third Anglo-Mysore War
  • 1798 – 1799 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
• 1759 – 1787 Maratha–Mysore wars
• 18th century – 19th century Anglo-Maratha Wars
  • 1775 – 1782 First Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1803 – 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1817 – 1819 Third Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1843 Gwalior campaign
• 1787 Battle of Lalsot
• 1795 Battle of Kharda
• 1799 Battle of Fatehpur (1799)

Sikh Confederacy

• 1748 – 1837 Afghan–Sikh Wars
• 1774 Battle of Jammu (1774)

Sikh Empire

• 1748 – 1837 Afghan–Sikh Wars
• 1809 Nepal–Sikh war
• 1841 – 1842 Dogra–Tibetan war
• 1845 – 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
• 1848 – 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War

Company rule in India

• 1756 – 1763 Seven Years' War
• 1763 – 1765 Bengal War
• 1763 – 1800 Sannyasi rebellion
• 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
• 1766 – 1834 Chuar Rebellion
  • 1832 – 1833 Bhumij Revolt
• 1769 – 1805 Moamoria rebellion
• 1773 – 1774 First Rohilla War
• 1777 – 1818 Anglo-Maratha Wars
  • 1777 – 1783 First Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1803 – 1805 Second Anglo-Maratha War
  • 1817 – 1818 Third Anglo-Maratha War
• 1781 Banaras Uprising of 1781
• 1781 1781 revolt in Bihar
• 1786 Revolt of Radharam
• 1794 Second Rohilla War
• 1794 Battle of Padmanabham
• 1799 – 1805 Polygar Wars
• 1806 Vellore Mutiny
• 1808 – 1809 Travancore rebellion
• 1813 – 1859 Channar revolt
• 1816 – 1826 Burmese invasions of Assam
• 1817 – 1818 Paika Rebellion
• 1824 – 1885 Anglo-Burmese Wars
  • 1824 – 1826 First Anglo-Burmese War
    • 1824 Barrackpore mutiny of 1824
• 1828 Ahom rebellion
• 1829 – 1833 Anglo-Khasi War
• 1830 Nagar revolt
• 1831 – 1832 Kol uprising
• 1845 – 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
• 1848 – 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
• 1851 Battle of Kikrüma
• 1855 – 1856 Santhal rebellion
• 1857 – 1858 Indian Rebellion of 1857

British Raj

• 1859 Battle of Aberdeen (Andaman Islands)
• 1861 Phulaguri Uprising
• 1864 – 1865 Duar War
• 1867 Andaman Islands expedition
• 1879 – 1880 Rampa rebellion of 1879
• 1882 Salem riots of 1882
• 1888 Sikkim Expedition
• 1890 – 1895 Lushai Rising
• 1891 Anglo-Manipur War
• 1895 Kalugumalai riots of 1895
• 1897 – 1941 Bijolia movement
• 1910 Bastar rebellion
• 1914 – 1920 Tana Bhagat Movement
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
• 1917 – 1919 Kuki Rebellion of 1917–1919
• 1920 Sultana Daku 1920 Revolt
• 1921 – 1922 Malabar rebellion
• 1922 – 1924 Rampa Rebellion of 1922
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Indian Ocean campaign
    • • 1940 – 1942 Japanese raiders in the Indian Ocean
      • 1942 – 1945 Japanese occupation of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
      • 1942 Operation Stab
  • 1941 – 1945 Pacific War
    • 1942 – 1945 Burma Campaign
      • 1944 Burma campaign (1944)
• 1941 Kayyur incident
• 1946 – 1947 Tebhaga movement
• 1946 – 1951 Telangana Rebellion
• 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny
• 1946 Punnapra-Vayalar uprising

Republic of India

• 1946 – 1951 Telangana Rebellion
• 1947 – present Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
  • 1947 – 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
  • 1965 Operation Desert Hawk
  • 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
  • 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
    • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  • 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 1999 Kargil War
  • 1999 1999 Pakistani Breguet 1150 Atlantic shootdown
  • 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
  • 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
    • 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
  • 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
  • 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2023 2023 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2025 2025 India–Pakistan crisis
    • 2025 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
• 1947 – 1948 Annexation of Junagadh
• 1948 Annexation of Hyderabad
• 1954 – present Insurgency in Northeast India
  • 1954 – present Insurgency in Arunachal Pradesh
  • 1958 – present Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • 1966 – 1986 Mizo National Front uprising
  • 1980 – present Insurgency in Manipur
  • 1989 – 2024 Insurgency in Tripura
  • 1990 – present Assam separatist movements
  • 1992 – present Insurgency in Meghalaya
• 1954 Coup d'état of Yanaon
• 1954 Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli
• 1961 Annexation of Goa
• 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 1967 – present Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes
• 1978 – 1995 Insurgency in Punjab
  • 1984 Operation Blue Star
• 1986 – 1987 Sumdorong Chu standoff
• 1989 – present Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• 1991 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
• 2001 – present Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2001 2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes
  • 2005 2005 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2008 2008 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2013 2013 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
  • 2019 2019 Bangladesh-Indian border clash
• 2011 Battle of Minicoy Island
• 2013 2013 Depsang standoff
• 2013 Operation Puttur
• 2017 2017 China–India border standoff
• 2020 – 2021 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes

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

Macedonian Empire

• 335 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi

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

• 656 – 661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

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

Abbasid Caliphate

• 755 Sunpadh Rebellion
• 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)
• 1064 – 1213 Georgian–Seljuk wars
  • 1209 – 1211 Georgian campaign against the Eldiguzids
• 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
• 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)
• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
• 1922 – present Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • 1979 1979 Khuzestan insurgency
• 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
• 2023 2023 Iran drone attacks
• 2023 2023 Afghanistan–Iran clash
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
  • 2025 Iran–Israel war

Maldives

• 1521 – 1650 Maldivian–Portuguese conflicts
• 1988 1988 Maldives coup attempt

Nepal

• 1744 – 1816 Unification of Nepal
  • 1744 Battle of Belkot
  • 1744 Battle of Nuwakot
  • 1762 Battle of Makwanpur (1762)
  • 1767 Battle of Sindhuli
  • 1767 Battle of Kirtipur
  • 1768 Battle of Kathmandu
  • 1768 Battle of Lalitpur
  • 1769 Battle of Bhaktapur
• 1814 – 1816 Anglo-Nepalese War
• 1847 Battle of Alau
• 1855 – 1856 Nepalese–Tibetan War
• 1885 1885 Nepal coup d'état
• 1950 – 1951 1951 Nepalese revolution
• 1960 1960 Nepal coup d'état
• 1996 – 2006 Nepal Civil War

Pakistan

• 336 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
  • 327 BC – 325 BC Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
• 1582 – 1612 Rind-Lashari War
• 1731 Battle of Kachhi
• 1748 – 1769 Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani
• 1749 Battle of Multan (1749)
• 1831 Battle of Balakot
• 1837 1837 Poonch Revolt
• 1843 British conquest of Sindh
• 1845 – 1846 First Anglo-Sikh War
• 1848 – 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War
• 1851 – 1852 Mohmand Expeditions (1851–1852)
• 1852 Khagan Expedition
• 1863 – 1864 Ambela campaign
• 1868 Second Black Mountain Expedition
• 1888 Hazara Expedition of 1888
• 1895 Chitral Expedition
• 1897 Tochi Expedition
• 1897 Siege of Malakand
• 1897 – 1898 Tirah campaign
• 1900 – 1902 Mahsud Waziri blockade
• 1908 Mohmand Expedition of 1908
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1917 North-West Frontier Theatre of WWI
• 1919 – 1920 Waziristan campaign (1919–1920)
• 1921 – 1924 Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)
• 1925 Pink's War
• 1935 Mohmand campaign of 1935
• 1936 – 1939 Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)
• 1947 1947 Poonch rebellion
• 1947 1947 Gilgit rebellion
• 1947 – present Sectarian violence in Pakistan
• 1947 – present Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
  • 1947 – 1948 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
  • 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
  • 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
    • 1971 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
  • 1959 1959 Canberra shootdown
  • 1984 – 2003 Siachen conflict
  • 1999 Kargil War
  • 2001 – 2002 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
  • 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
    • 2016 2016 Indian Line of Control strike
  • 2019 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
    • 2019 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes
  • 2020 – 2021 2020–21 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2023 2023 India–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 2025 2025 India–Pakistan crisis
    • 2025 2025 India–Pakistan conflict
• 1948 – present 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)
• 1949 – present Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
  • 1959 – 1960 Dir campaign
  • 1960 – 1961 Bajaur Campaign
  • 2017 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish
  • 2024 – presentAfghanistan–Pakistan clashes (2024–present)
• 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
• 1978 – present MQM militancy
  • 1992 – 1994 Operation Clean-up
  • 1994 – 2016 MQM Violence (1994–2016)
    • 2012 – 2023 Lyari Operation
• 1973 1973 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1976 1976 Dir rebellion
• 1977 1977 Pakistani military coup
• 1979 – 1989 Soviet–Afghan War
• 1980 1980 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1984 1984 Pakistan coup attempt
• 1989 – present Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• 1994 – 1995 Malakand insurrection (1994–1995)
• 1995 1995 Pakistani coup attempt
• 1999 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
• 2003 – present Insurgency in Sindh
• 2004 – present Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • 2004 – 2018 Drone strikes in Pakistan
  • 2008 – 2012 Pakistan–United States skirmishes
• 2011 2011 Chitral cross-border attacks

Sri Lanka

• 161 BC – 162 BC Battle of Vijithapura
• 992 – 1017 Chola conquest of Anuradhapura
• 1084 Velakkara revolt
• 1157 Queen Sugala rebellion
• 1169 – 1177 Pandyan Civil War (1169–1177)
• mid-13th century Malay invasions of Sri Lanka
• 1410 – 1411 Ming-Kotte War
• 1518 – 1658 Sinhalese–Portuguese conflicts
  • 1560 – 1621 Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom
• 1598 – 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War
• 1670 – 1675 Kandyan–Dutch war (1670–1675)
• 1764 – 1766 Kandyan–Dutch war (1764–1766)
• 1796 – 1818 Kandyan Wars
• 1818 Great Rebellion of 1817–1818
• 1848 Matale Rebellion
• 1939 – 1945 World War II
  • 1940 – 1945 Indian Ocean Campaign
• 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
• 2015 2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup attempt
• 2019 Sainthamaruthu shootout
• 2023 – present Operation Yukthiya

West Asia

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, and History of Iraq

Armenia

• c. 2492 BC Battle of Hayots Dzor
• 201 BC – 200 BC War of the Armenian Succession (201–200 BC)
• 88 BC – 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
  • 73 BC – 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 50 – 55 Iberian–Armenian War
• 54 BC – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
  • 58 – 63 Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
• 54 BC – 628 Roman–Persian Wars
  • 337 – 361 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361
    • 350 Shapur II's invasion of Armenia (350)
• 335 – 336 Sanesan invasion of Armenia (335-336)
• 363 – 371 Armeno-Sasanian War of 363–371
• 543 Battle of Anglon
• 850 – 855 Armenian Revolt (850–855)
• 921 Battle of Sevan
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1220 – 1236 Mongol invasions of Georgia
• 1651 – 1828 Russo-Persian Wars
  • 1722 – 1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)
  • 1796 Persian expedition of 1796
  • 1804 – 1813 Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
• 1722 – 1730 Syunik rebellion
• 1800 – 1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
• 1905 – 1907 Russian Revolution of 1905
  • 1905 – 1906 Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1906
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Caucasus campaign
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1917 – 1921 Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1918 – 1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920)
      • 1920 Soviet invasion of Armenia
• 1918 Armeno-Georgian War
• 1919 – 1923 Turkish War of Independence
  • 1920 Turkish invasion of Armenia
• 1920 May Uprising
• 1988 – present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 1988 – 1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • 2012 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
  • 2014 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • 2021 – present Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–present)
    • 2022 September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes
• 2016 2016 Yerevan hostage crisis
• 2021 2021 Armenian political crisis
• 2023 September 2023 Armenian coup attempt allegations
• 2023 November 2023 Armenian coup attempt allegations
• 2024 2024 Armenian coup attempt allegations
• 2025 2025 Armenian coup attempt allegations

Azerbaijan

• 1064 – 1213 Georgian–Seljuk wars
  • 1117 – 1124 Georgian conquest of Shirvan
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1220 – 1236 Mongol invasions of Georgia
• 1514 – 1823 Ottoman–Persian Wars
  • 1578 – 1590 Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590)
• 1651 – 1828 Russo-Persian Wars
  • 1722 – 1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)
  • 1796 Persian expedition of 1796
  • 1804 – 1813 Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
  • 1826 – 1828 Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)
• 1800 – 1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Caucasus campaign
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1917 – 1921 Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1918 – 1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920)
      • 1920 Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
• 1988 – present Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 1988 – 1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • 2008 2008 Mardakert clashes
  • 2010 2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  • 2010 2010 Mardakert clashes
  • 2012 2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes
  • 2014 2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2016 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2018 2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
  • 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
  • 2021 – present Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–present)
    • 2022 September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes
    • 2022 – 2023 Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh
  • 2023 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
• 1993 1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état
• 1995 1995 Azerbaijani coup attempt
• 2025 2025 Azerbaijani coup plot

Bahrain

• 656 – 661 First Fitna
• 1507 – 1625 Portuguese–Safavid wars
  • 1602 Safavid conquest of Bahrain
• 1529 Portuguese invasion of Bahrain
• 1717 1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain
• 1782 – 1783 Bani Utbah invasion of Bahrain
• 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

• c. 1275 BC – c. 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
• 1095 – 1303 Crusades
  • 1217 – 1221 Fifth Crusade
  • 1271 – 1272 Lord Edward's crusade
• 1228 – 1243 War of the Lombards
• 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

Georgia

• 88 BC – 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
  • 73 BC – 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 54 BC – 628 Roman–Persian wars
  • 526 – 532 Iberian War
  • 602 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
• 541 – 562 Lazic War
• 622 – 750 Early Muslim conquests
  • 735 – 737 Umayyad invasion of Georgia
• 914 Sajid invasion of Georgia
• 1008 – 1103 Unification of the Georgian realm
• 1012 – 1199 Georgian–Shaddadid wars
• 1014 – 1204 Byzantine–Georgian wars
• 1064 – 1213 Georgian–Seljuk wars
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1220 – 1236 Mongol invasions of Georgia
• 1212 Rebellion in Pkhovi and Didoya
• 1225 – 1229 Khwarazmian–Georgian wars
• 1302 – 1303 Azat Mousa's invasion of Georgia
• 1370 – 1508 Timurid invasions and conquests
  • 1386 – 1403 Timurid invasions of Georgia
• 1407 – 1502 Turkoman invasions of Georgia
• 1463 – 1491 Collapse of the Georgian realm
  • 1463 Battle of Chikhori
  • 1483 Battle of Aradeti
• 16th century – 19th century Lekianoba
  • 1755 Battle of Kvareli
  • 1778 – 1779 Battle of Ghartiskari
  • 1800 Battle of Niakhura
• 1508 Georgian campaign (1508)
• 1514 – 1823 Ottoman–Persian Wars
  • 1578 – 1590 Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590)
  • 1603 – 1612 Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612)
• 1520 Battle of Chikhori
• 1535 Battle of Murjakheti
• 1541 – 1566 Tahmasp I's Kakhetian and Kartlian campaigns
• 1547 Ottoman invasion of Guria
• 1556 Battle of Garisi
• 1568 – 1918 Russo-Turkish wars
  • 1768 – 1774 Russo-Turkish war (1768–1774)
  • 1806 – 1812 Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)
  • 1828 – 1829 Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
  • 1877 – 1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
• 1596 – 1597 Daryal war
• 1598 – 1599 Battle of Gori (1598–1599)
• 1599 Battle of Nakhiduri
• 1609 Battle of Tashiskari
• 1623 – 1658 Western Georgian civil war (1623–1658)
• 1626 Battle of Bazaleti
• 1651 – 1828 Russo-Persian Wars
  • 1722 – 1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)
  • 1796 Persian expedition of 1796
  • 1804 – 1813 Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)
  • 1826 – 1828 Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)
• 1659 Bakhtrioni uprising
• 1703 Ottoman invasion of western Georgia (1703)
• 1757 Battle of Khresili
• 1779 Battle of Rukhi
• 1795 Battle of Krtsanisi
• 1800 – 1864 Russian conquest of the Caucasus
• 1804 1804 Mtiuleti rebellion
• 1841 Rebellion in Guria (1841)
• 1853 – 1856 Crimean War
• 1875 – 1876 Svaneti uprising of 1875–1876
• 1905 – 1907 Russian Revolution of 1905
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Caucasus campaign
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1917 – 1921 Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1918 – 1919 Sochi conflict
    • 1920 1920 Georgian coup attempt
• 1918 Armeno-Georgian War
  • • • 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia
• 1924 August Uprising
• 1989 – present Abkhazia conflict
  • 1992 – 1993 War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)
  • 1998 War in Abkhazia (1998)
  • 2001 2001 Kodori crisis
  • 2006 2006 Kodori crisis
  • 2007 Bokhundjara incident
• 1989 – present Georgian–Ossetian conflict
  • 1991 – 1992 South Ossetian war (1991–1992)
• 1991 – 1993 Georgian Civil War
  • 1991 – 1992 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état
• 1998 1998 Georgian attempted mutiny
• 2000 – 2002 Pankisi Gorge crisis
• 2004 2004 Adjara crisis
• 2008 Russo-Georgian War
• 2009 2009 Georgian mutiny
• 2012 Lopota incident
• 2017 2017 Isani flat siege

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. 1235 BC 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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
    • 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

Rashidun Caliphate

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

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

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
• 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
• 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
  • 1961 – 1970 First Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1974 – 1975 Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
  • 1975 – 1983 PUK insurgency
  • 1979 – 1988 Al-Ansar insurgency
  • 1983 – 1986 Kurdish Rebellion of 1983
  • 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
• 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 – present Iraqi conflict
  • 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
    • 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq

Coalition Provisional Authority

• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • 1983 – 2025 PKK insurgency in Iraqi Kurdistan
• 2003 – present Iraqi conflict
  • 2003 – 2011 Iraq War
    • 2003 – 2006 2003–2006 phase of the Iraqi insurgency

Republic of Iraq

• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • 1983 – 2025 PKK insurgency in Iraqi Kurdistan
• 2003 – present Iraqi conflict
  • 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
  • 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)
• 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

• 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
• 167 BC – 160 BC Maccabean Revolt

Hasmonean Kingdom

• 73 BC – 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 67 BC – 63 BC Hasmonean civil war
• 54 BC – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
  • 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

• 46 – 48 Jacob and Simon uprising
• 66 – 136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 66 – 73 First Jewish–Roman War
  • 115 – 117 Diaspora Revolt
    • 116 – 118 Kitos War

Roman Province of Syria Palaestina

• 66 – 136 Jewish–Roman wars
  • 132 – 136 Bar Kokhba revolt

Byzantine Province of Palaestina Prima

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

Abbasid Province of Jund Filastin

• 793 – 796 Qays–Yaman war (793–796)
• 1099 – 1291 Crusades
  • 1099 First Crusade

Kingdom of Jerusalem

• 1095 – 1303 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
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1260 – 1323 Mongol invasions of the Levant
    • 1260 – 1300 Mongol raids into Palestine
• 1256 – 1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars
  • 1256 – 1270 War of Saint Sabas
• 1291 – 1399 Crusades after the fall of Acre, 1291–1399

Ottoman Eyalet of Damascus

• 1516 – 1517 Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)
• 1703 – 1705 Naqib al-Ashraf revolt
• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
  • 1834 Peasants' 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 Battle of Tel Hai
• 1920 Franco-Syrian War

Mandatory Palestine

• 1918 – present Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
    • 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

• 1918 – present Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 1947 – 1949 1948 Palestine war
    • 1948 – 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War
  • 1948 – present Gaza–Israel conflict
    • 1987 – 1993 First Intifada
    • 2000 – 2005 Second Intifada
    • 2006 2006 Gaza cross-border raid
    • 2006 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict
    • 2008 Operation Hot Winter
    • 2008 – 2009 Gaza War (2008–09)
    • 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 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 October 7 attacks
      • 2023 – present Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  • 1949 – 1956 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency
  • 1951 – 1966 Reprisal operations
  • 2015 – 2016 2015–2016 wave of violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• 1948 – present Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1948 – present Israeli–Lebanese conflict
    • 1982 – present Hezbollah–Israel conflict
      • 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
      • 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
      • 2006 2006 Lebanon War
      • 2015 January 2015 Shebaa Farms incident
      • 2023 – present Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  • 1956 Suez Crisis
  • 1967 Six-Day War
  • 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
  • 1973 Yom Kippur War
  • 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
    • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis
    • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • 2025 Iran–Israel war
• 2011 – present Syrian civil war
  • 2011 – present Spillover of the Syrian civil war
    • 2012 – present Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war
• 2023 2023 Eritrean clashes in Tel Aviv

Jordan

• 1095 – 1303 Crusades
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1260 – 1323 Mongol invasions of the Levant
• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
• 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
• 1948 – present Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1950s – 1960s Reprisal operations
  • 1964 – 1967 War over Water (Jordan River)
  • 1967 Six-Day War
  • 1967 – 1970 War of Attrition
  • 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
    • 2023 – 2024 Attacks on US bases during the Gaza war
    • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
• 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

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

• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 752 – 760 Mount Lebanon revolts of 752 and 759
• 694 Battle of Amioun
• 1095 – 1303 Crusades
  • 1107 – 1110 Norwegian Crusade
  • 1271 – 1272 Lord Edward's crusade
• 1292 – 1305 Kisrawan campaigns (1292–1305)
• 1367 Battle of Tripoli (1367)
• 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
    • 2010 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash
    • 2013 Hanikra border clash
  • 1982 – present Hezbollah–Israel conflict
    • 1985 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
    • 2000 – 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict
    • 2006 2006 Lebanon War
    • 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
      • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
• 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
• 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
• 2025 2025 Beirut protests

Oman

• 656 – 661 First Fitna
• 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

• 336 BC – 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 793 – 796 Qays–Yaman war (793–796)
• 1095 – 1303 Crusades
  • 1096 – 1099 First Crusade
  • 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
• 1834 – 1835 Syrian peasant revolt (1834–1835)
  • 1834 Peasants' revolt in Palestine
• late 19th century – present Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 1920 – 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine
    • 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
    • 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 cross-border raid
    • 2006 2006 Gaza–Israel conflict
    • 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
    • 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 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
  • 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
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1915 – 1918 Sinai and Palestine campaign
• 1948 – present Arab–Israeli conflict
  • 1956 Suez Crisis
  • 1967 Six-Day War
  • 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
    • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • 2025 Iran–Israel 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 Israeli attack on Doha

Saudi Arabia

Muslim conquests

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

Rashidun Caliphate

• 656 – 661 First Fitna

Umayyad Caliphate

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

Abbasid Caliphate

• 762 – 763 Alid Revolt (762–763)
• 786 Battle of Fakhkh

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)
• 1866 Attack on Dammam
• 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
  • 1924 – 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
• 1991 Gulf War
  • 1991 Gulf War air campaign
• 2004 – 2014 Houthi insurgency
  • 2009 – 2010 Operation Scorched Earth
• 2005 Ar Rass raids
• 2014 – present Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)
  • 2015 – present Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
    • 2015 – present Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • 2023 – present Red Sea crisis

Syria

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
• 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

Roman Syria

• 49 BC – 45 BC Caesar's civil war
• 235 – 284 Crisis of the Third Century
• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 634 – 638 Muslim conquest of the Levant

Abbasid Caliphate

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

County of Tripoli

• 1201 – 1219 War of the Antiochene Succession

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

• 1921 – present Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
• 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 Israeli invasion of Syria (2024–present)
  • 2024 – present Western Syria clashes
  • 2025 – present Druze insurgency in Southern Syria (2025–present)
  • 2025 – present SDF–Syrian transitional government clashes (2025–present)
• 2023 – present Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
    • 2025 Iran–Israel war

Turkey

Hittite Empire

• 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

Seleucid Empire

• 322 BC – 275 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 238 BC – 129 BC Seleucid–Parthian wars
• 201 BC – 200 BC War of the Armenian Succession (201–200 BC)

Roman Republic

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

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
  • 58 – 63 Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
• 49 BC – 45 BC Caesar's civil war
• 235 – 284 Crisis of the Third Century
• 306 – 353 Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
  • 313 Battle of Tzirallum
  • 324 Battle of Adrianople (324)
  • 324 Battle of the Hellespont
  • 324 Siege of Byzantium (324)
  • 324 Battle of Chrysopolis

Kingdom of Armenia

• 50 – 55 Iberian–Armenian War
• 54 BC – 217 Roman–Parthian Wars
  • 58 – 63 Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
• 54 BC – 628 Roman–Persian Wars
  • 337 – 361 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361
    • 350 Shapur II's invasion of Armenia (350)
• 335 – 336 Sanesan invasion of Armenia (335-336)
• 363 – 371 Armeno-Sasanian War of 363–371

Byzantine Empire

• 421 – 628 Byzantine–Sasanian wars
  • 421 – 422 Roman–Sasanian War (421–422)
  • 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
• 559 Battle by the Anastasian Wall (559)
• 559 Battle of Melantias
• 629 – 1050s Arab–Byzantine wars
  • 717 – 718 Siege of Constantinople (717–718)
• 639 – 661 Muslim conquest of Armenia
• 680 – 1355 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars
  • 894 – 896 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 894–896
  • 913 – 927 Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927
  • 968 – 971 Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria
• 702 – 703 Battle of Vardanakert
• 775 – 819 Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus'
• 775 Battle of Bagrevand
• 860 Siege of Constantinople (860)
• 907 Rus'–Byzantine War (907)
• 941 – 944 Rus'–Byzantine War (941–944)
• 1042 Battle of Ani
• 1043 Rus'–Byzantine War (1043)
• 1057 Battle of Petroe
• 1081 – 1185 Komnenian restoration
  • 1091 Battle of Levounion
• 1182 Massacre of the Latins
• 1220s – 1240s Mongol invasion of Europe
  • 1242 Mongol invasion of the Latin Empire
  • 1263 Mongol invasion of Byzantine Thrace
• 1256 – 1381 Venetian–Genoese Wars
  • 1350 – 1355 War of the Straits
• 1321 – 1328 Byzantine civil war of 1321–28

Seljuk Empire

• 1012 – 1199 Georgian–Shaddadid wars
• 1064 – 1213 Georgian–Seljuk wars
• 1048 – 1308 Byzantine–Seljuk wars
• 1064 – 1213 Georgian–Seljuk wars
• 1090 – 1194 Nizari–Seljuk conflicts
• 1206 – 1368 Mongol invasions and conquests
  • 1220 – 1236 Mongol invasions of Georgia

Sultanate of Rum

• 1095 – 1291 The Crusades
  • 1095 – 1099 First Crusade
    • 1096 People's Crusade
  • 1101 Crusade of 1101
  • 1145 – 1149 Second Crusade
  • 1189 – 1192 Third Crusade
  • 1202 – 1204 Fourth Crusade
• 1048 – 1308 Byzantine–Seljuq wars
• 1240 – 1241 Babai revolt

Cilician Armenia

• 1111 Siege of Zovk
• 1152 Battle of Mamistra
• 1201 – 1219 War of the Antiochene Succession
• 1266 Battle of Mari
• 1276 Second Battle of Sarvandik'ar
• 1292 Siege of Rumkale
• 1315 Siege of Malatya (1315)
• 1375 Fall of Sis

Latin Empire

• 1204 – 1261 Bulgarian–Latin wars
  • 1205 Battle of Adrianople (1205)
  • 1206 Battle of Rodosto
  • 1206 Battle of Rusion
  • 1235 Siege of Constantinople (1235)
• 1204 – 1261 Struggle for Constantinople (1204–1261)

Ottoman Empire

• 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
• 1543 Battle of Karagak
• 1543 Battle of Sokhoista
• 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
• 1853 – 1856 Crimean War
• 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
• 1896 Occupation of the Ottoman Bank
• 1897 Greco-Turkish War (1897)
• 1904 1904 Sasun uprising
• 1907 Bitlis uprising (1907)
• 1908 Young Turk Revolution
• 1909 31 March Incident
• 1912 1912 Ottoman coup d'état
• 1912 – 1913 Balkan Wars
  • 1913 Second Balkan War
• 1913 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
• 1914 Bitlis uprising (1914)
• 1914 – 1918 World War I
  • 1914 – 1918 Middle Eastern theatre of World War I
    • 1914 – 1918 Caucasus campaign
    • 1915 – 1916 Gallipoli campaign
• 1917 – 1922 Russian Civil War
  • 1917 – 1921 Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
    • 1918 – 1920 Armenian–Azerbaijani war (1918–1920)
• 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
  • 1978 – 2025 Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • 2015 – 2025 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
  • 1983 – present Kurdish Hezbollah insurgency
• 1936 – 1953 Turkish Straits crisis
• 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 – present Maoist insurgency in Turkey
  • 1990 – present DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey
• 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 – present 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
• 632 – 633 Ridda wars
• 744 – 750 Third Fitna
  • 747 – 748 Ibadi revolt
• 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
  • 2011 Battle of Sanaa (2011)
  • 2011 Battle of Taiz
• 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
  • 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict

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