List of wars involving Syria

This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Syria since independence, including periods of the Arab Kingdom of Syria (1920), Mandatory Syrian Republic, Syrian Republic (1946–63), United Arab Republic (1958–61) and Ba'athist Syria.

Conflict Syria
and allies
Opponents Outcome Head of State
Franco-Syrian War
(1920)
Syria  France Defeat
King Faisal
Great Syrian Revolt
(1925–1927)
Syrian rebels  France Defeat
  • Revolt crushed
None[1]
Levant Crisis
(1945)
Syria  France Victory
  • British-enforced ceasefire[2]
Shukri al-Quwatli
First Arab–Israeli War
(1948–1949)
Egypt
 Iraq
Transjordan
Syria
 Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
HWA
ALA
 Israel Defeat
First Iraqi–Kurdish War
(1963–1970)
 Iraq
 Syria
KDP Stalemate
Lu'ay al-Atassi
Six-Day War
(1967)
 Egypt
 Syria
 Jordan
Iraq
 Lebanon
 Israel Defeat
Nureddin al-Atassi
Black September
(1970)
PLO
 Syria
 Jordan Defeat
  • PLO expelled to Lebanon, Syrian raid repelled
October War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 Israel Defeat[3]
Hafez al-Assad
Islamist uprising in Syria
(1979–1982)
Government of Syria Muslim Brotherhood Government victory
  • Muslim Brotherhood outlawed
Lebanese Civil War
(1976–1990)
 Syria
ADF (until 1979)
LF (until 1976)
LNM (from 1976)
Jammoul
PLO (1978–83)
Amal
Hezbollah
 Iran
Al-Tawhid
LNM (until 1976)
PLO (1976 and 1985)
LF
SLA
 Israel
 United States
 France
 Italy
 United Kingdom
Hezbollah (1987)
Victory
Gulf War
(1990–1991)
 Kuwait
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Canada
 Egypt
 Syria
 Oman
 Pakistan
 United Arab Emirates
 Qatar
 Australia
Iraq Victory
Syrian Civil War
(2011–present)
 Syria
 Russia
Hezbollah
 Iran
Syrian Opposition
 Turkey
Ahrar al-Sham
Tahrir al-Sham
 ISIL
Northern Syria
CJTF–OIR
Ongoing
  • Countrywide civil war
  • American-led intervention against ISIL and Tahrir al-Sham
  • Russian intervention against ISIL and the Syrian opposition
  • Turkish operation against SDF and the Syrian government
Bashar al-Assad

See also

References

  1. The revolt was effectively led by Sultan al-Atrash
  2. Wall, Irwin M. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945–1954, pp. 32–33. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  3. References:
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