| Start
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Finish
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Name of Conflict
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Belligerents (excluding Belgium)
|
Outcome
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| Allies
|
Enemies
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| 1789
|
1790
|
Brabant Revolution
|
United Belgian States
|
Habsburg Austria
|
Austrian victory
|
| 1830
|
1839
|
Belgian Revolution
|
Belgian rebels
France
|
United Kingdom of the Netherlands
|
Treaty of London:
- Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium
|
| 1832
|
1834
|
Liberal Wars
|
Portugal
United Kingdom
France
Spain
|
Miguelites
|
Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored
|
| 1861
|
1867
|
French intervention in Mexico
|
Mexican Empire
France
Austrian Empire
Spain
United Kingdom
Egypt Eyalet
Polish Revolutionaries
|
United Mexican States
United States of America (entered in 1865)
|
French withdrawal, Republican victory
|
| 1881
|
1899
|
Mahdist War
|
British Empire
Kingdom of Italy
Congo Free State
Ethiopian Empire
|
Mahdist Sudanese
|
Anglo-Egyptian victory
|
| 1891
|
1892
|
Stairs Expedition to Katanga
|
Congo Free State
supported by:
Belgium
|
Yeke state of Msiri
|
Congo Free State victory
- Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince
- Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga
|
| 1892
|
1894
|
Belgo-Arab War
|
Congo Free State
|
Zanzibari slave traders
|
Congo Free State victory
|
| 1895
|
1895
|
Luba rebellion
|
Congo Free State
supported by:
Belgium
|
Luba rebels
|
Congo Free State victory
- Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines[1]
|
| 1895
|
1908
|
Batetela Rebellions
|
Congo Free State
|
Batetela people
|
Congo Free State victory
|
| 1905
|
1917
|
Kasongo Nyembo rebellion[1]
|
Congo Free State (until 1908)
Belgium
|
Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo
|
Belgian victory
- Kasongo Nyembo banished[1]
|
| 1914
|
1918
|
World War I
|
Allies:
France
British Empire
Russian Empire (1914–17)
United States (1917–18)
and others
|
Central Powers
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18)
|
Allied victory
|
| 1914
|
1918
|
East African campaign
(part of World War I)
|
Allies:
United Kingdom
Belgium
Portugal
|
Central Powers
German Empire
|
Allied victory
|
10 May
1940
|
28 May
1940
|
Battle of Belgium
(part of World War II)
|
Belgium
France
British Empire
Netherlands
Luxembourg
|
Nazi Germany
|
Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium
|
| 1940
|
1945
|
World War II
|
Allies
|
Axis powers
|
Allied victory
|
| 1950
|
1953
|
Korean War
|
United Nations (UN Resolution 84)
|
North Korea
China
Soviet Union
|
Ceasefire
|
| 1959
|
1962
|
Rwandan Revolution
|
|
|
Independence of the Republic of Rwanda
Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi
|
| 1960
|
1966
|
Congo Crisis
|
Katanga
South Kasai
|
Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo)
|
Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces
|
| 1978
|
1978
|
Shaba II
|
Zaire
France
United States
|
Front for the National Liberation of the Congo
|
Franco-Belgian victory
|
| 1990
|
1991
|
Gulf War
|
Coalition forces
|
Ba'athist Iraq
|
Coalition victory
|
| 1991
|
2003
|
Iraqi no-fly zones
|
United States
United Kingdom
France (1991–1998)
Australia
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Italy
|
Ba'athist Iraq
|
Coalition victory
|
| 1992
|
1995
|
Somali Civil War
|
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Pakistan
Italy
India
Greece
Germany
France
Canada
Botswana
Australia
|
United Somali Congress
|
Victory
- UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled.
- About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance.
- Civil war is ongoing.
|
| 1998
|
1999
|
Kosovo War
|
Kosovo Liberation Army
Albania
NATO force
|
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|
NATO victory
|
| 2001
|
2021
|
War in Afghanistan
|
Afghanistan
United States
ISAF
|
Taliban
|
Taliban victory
|
| 2011
|
|
2011 military intervention in Libya
|
National Transitional Council
NATO forces
|
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
|
Fall of Gaddafi régime
|
| 2014
|
ongoing
|
2014 military intervention against ISIS
|
|
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
|
Ongoing
|