List of wars involving Egypt

This list is about wars involving Egypt.

Egypt Eyalet and Khedivate of Egypt (1517–1914)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Head of State	Egyptian losses
Fraser Expedition (1807)	Egypt Eyalet	United Kingdom	Victory Defeat of the British forces.	Muhammad Ali of Egypt	?
Egyptian–Wahhabi War (1811–1818)	Ottoman Empire Egypt Eyalet	Diriyah	Victory Execution of Abdullah bin Saud.		~2,000[1]
Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)	Ottoman Empire Egypt Eyalet	Greece	Defeat Establishment of the Kingdom of Greece.		?
Saudi Revolt (1821–1824)	Egypt Eyalet	Nejd	Defeat Beginning of the Second Saudi State.		?
First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831–1833)	Egypt Eyalet	Ottoman Empire	Victory Egypt gained the Aleppo Vilayet and Syria.		"Minimal"[2]
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839–1841)	Egypt Eyalet	Ottoman Empire  United Kingdom	Defeat Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.		?
Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876)	Egypt	Ethiopia	Defeat Invasion of Ethiopia repelled.	Isma'il Pasha	2,000+[3]
‘Urabi Revolt (1879–1882)	Tewfik Pasha  United Kingdom	Ahmed ‘Urabi	Defeat of ‘Urabi Exile of ‘Urabi, British occupation of Egypt.	Tewfik of Egypt	?
Mahdist War (1881–1899)	Egypt  United Kingdom  Italy  Belgium Ethiopia	Mahdist Sudan	Victory Formation of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.		?

Post-independence

Conflict	Egypt and allies	Opponents	Results	Head of State	Minister of Defense	Egyptian losses
						Military	Civilians
First Arab-Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt  Iraq Transjordan Syria  Lebanon Saudi Arabia HWA ALA	Israel	Defeat Tactical and strategic Arab failure. 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state.	Farouk of Egypt	Ismail Chirine	1,200- 2,000	Unknown
1951 Anglo-Egyptian War[4] (1951–1952)	Egypt	United Kingdom	Defeat Ended with the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.			Unknown	Unknown
Suez Crisis (1956)	Egypt	Israel United Kingdom France	Defeat[5] (political victory)[6] UNEF demilitarized zone established.	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Abdel Hakim Amer	1,650– 3,000	~1,000
North Yemen Civil War (1962–1967)	Yemen Arab Republic  Egypt	Kingdom of Yemen  Saudi Arabia	Stalemate Khartoum Resolution, Egyptian withdrawal.		Abdel Wahab el-Beshry	~26,000	None
Sand War (1963)	Algeria  Egypt	Morocco	Stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig.			Unknown	None
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt  Syria  Jordan Iraq  Lebanon	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.		Shams Badran	10,000- 15,000	Unknown
War of Attrition (1967–1970)	Egypt Soviet Union	Israel	Both sides claimed victory Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai.		Mohamed Fawzi	2,882- 10,000
Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)	Nigeria  Egypt	Biafra	Victory Reincorporation of Biafra into Nigeria.			Unknown	None
October War (1973)	Egypt  Syria Iraq  Jordan  Algeria  Cuba  Morocco  Tunisia	Israel	Defeat[7] (strategic political gains)[8] Syrian invasion repelled, Egyptian Third Army surrounded; UN ceasefire. Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty[9]	Anwar Sadat	Ahmad Ismail Ali	5,000- 15,000	Unknown
Shaba I (1977)	Zaire  Morocco  Egypt	FNLC	Victory FNCL expelled from Katanga.		Mohamed el-Gamasy	None	None
Libyan–Egyptian War (1977)	Egypt	Libya	Ceasefire Libyan invasion of Egypt repelled.			~100	Unknown
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait United States  United Kingdom  Saudi Arabia  France  Canada  Egypt  Syria  Morocco  Oman  Qatar	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored. Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure	Hosni Mubarak	Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb	11	None
Sinai Insurgency (2011–)	Egypt	Islamic State	Ongoing Ongoing conflict.	SCAF	Mohamed Tantawi	366- ~600	235
Intervention in Libya (2015–)	Libya  Egypt  UAE	GNC Shura Council Islamic State	Ongoing Egyptian military intervention.	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	Sedki Sobhi	None	21
Intervention in Yemen (2015–)	Hadi government  Saudi Arabia  UAE  Bahrain  Kuwait  Qatar  Jordan  Morocco  Sudan  Egypt  Senegal	Houthi government Houthis Saleh loyalists	Ongoing Houthis dissolve Yemeni government. Houthis take control of northern Yemen.			None	None

Notes

1. Ottoman and Egyptian losses combined. However, most of the forces deployed were Egyptian.
2. Egypt suffered much fewer casualties than the Ottomans.
3. Jesman, Czeslaw (January 1959). "Egyptian Invasion of Ethiopia". African Affairs (Oxford University Press) 58 (230): 75–81.
4. Egypt 1951 War with Britain, Globalsecurity.org
5. Mart, Michelle. Eye on Israel: How America Came to View the Jewish State as an Ally. p. 159. ISBN 0791466876.
6. Tal (2001) p 203
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. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
9. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.