List of wars involving Algeria

This list provides an overview of wars, battles and conflicts involving Algeria since its independence from France in 1962.

Conflict	Algeria and allies	Opponents	Results
Algerian War (1954–1962)	FLN MNA PCA	France OAS FAF	Military defeat, Political victory[1][2] Évian Accords, Algerian independence.
Kabyle Insurgency[3][4] (1963–1965)	FLN	FFS CNDR	FLN victory Rebellions quelled.
Sand War (1963)	Algeria UAR  Cuba	Morocco	Stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig.
Six-Day War[5] (1967)	UAR  Syria  Iraq  Jordan  Algeria  Lebanon	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.
October War[6] (1973)	Egypt  Syria Iraq  Jordan  Algeria  Cuba  Morocco  Tunisia	Israel	Defeat[7] Arab invasion of Israeli-controlled territories repelled; UN ceasefire. Geneva Conference and the Sinai II Agreement.
First Battle of Amgala[8][9] (1976)	Algeria Polisario Front	Morocco	Defeat[10] Algerian retreat from the Western Sahara War.
Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)	Algeria	FIS GIA	Government victory Islamic insurgency quelled.
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–)	Algeria	Al-Qaeda ISIL	Ongoing

See also

• Algeria
• Foreign relations of Algeria
• History of Algeria
• Politics of Algeria
• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

References

1. University of North Carolina Asheville
2. Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War, pp, 68-69.
3. Hugh Roberts, Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria, p.10, I.B.Tauris, 2014 (ISBN 9781845112516)
4. Michael U. Mbanaso & Chima J. Korieh, Minorities and the State in Africa, p.89, Cambria Press, 2010 (ISBN 9781621968740)
5. Dmitriy Komissarov & Yemif Gordon, Mikoyan Mig-21: Famous Russian Aircraft (Midland Publishing 2008), p.460 : "31 Algerian MiGs were dispatched to assist Egypt in the Six-Day War but the first six landed at el'Arish airbase on the Sinai Peninsula, which – unknown to the pilots – had recently been captured by the Israelis."
6. Algeria sent a squadron each of MiG-21s and Su-7s to Egypt, which arrived at the front between October 9 and October 11. It also sent an armored brigade of 150 tanks, the advance elements of which began to arrive on October 17, but reached the front only on October 24, too late to participate in the fighting.
7. References:
   • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
   • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
   • Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
   • Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
   • 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
   • Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
   • Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
8. John E. Jessup, An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996, p.487, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998 (ISBN 9780313281129)
9. Barry Rubin, Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East, p.214, Routledge, 2009 (ISBN 9781134048977)
10. (French) D. Frémy & M. Frémy, Quid 2005, p. 1325, col. A : Sahara Occidental, Histoire. Ed. Laffont (ISBN 2286007187)