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
(18111818)
Ottoman Empire
Egypt Eyalet
Diriyah Victory
~2,000[1]
Greek War of Independence
(18211829)
Ottoman Empire
Egypt Eyalet
Greece Greece Defeat
?
Saudi Revolt
(1821–1824)
Egypt Eyalet Nejd Defeat
?
First Egyptian-Ottoman War
(18311833)
Egypt Eyalet Ottoman Empire Victory
"Minimal"[2]
Egyptian invasion of Nejd
(18381843)
Egypt Eyalet Nejd Defeat
  • Egyptian retreat, Khalid ibn Saud toppled
?
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War
(18391841)
Egypt Eyalet Ottoman Empire
 United Kingdom
 Austria
Defeat
  • Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.
?
Ethiopian–Egyptian War
(18741876)
Egypt Ethiopia Defeat
  • Invasion of Ethiopia repelled.
Isma'il Pasha
2,000+[3]
‘Urabi Revolt
(18791882)
Tewfik Pasha
 United Kingdom
Ahmed ‘Urabi Defeat of ‘Urabi
Tewfik of Egypt
?
Mahdist War
(18811899)
Egypt
 United Kingdom
 Italy
 Belgium
Ethiopia
Mahdist Sudan Victory
?

Post-independence

Conflict Egypt
and allies
Opponents Results Head of State Minister of
Defense
Egyptian
losses
Military Civilians
Egyptian Revolution of 1919
(1919)
Wafd Party  United Kingdom
 Australia
Defeat
  • Revolts suppressed
None
800
First Arab-Israeli War
(19481949)
Egypt Egypt
 Iraq
Jordan Transjordan
Syria Syria
 Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
HWA
Arab League ALA
 Israel Defeat
Farouk of Egypt
Ismail Chirine
1,200-
2,000
Unknown
1951 Anglo-Egyptian War[4]
(19511952)
Egypt Egypt  United Kingdom Defeat
Unknown
Unknown
Suez Crisis
(1956)
Egypt 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
(19621967)
 Yemen Arab Republic
 Egypt
 Kingdom of Yemen
 Saudi Arabia
Stalemate
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 Iraq
 Israel Defeat
Shams Badran
10,000-
15,000
Unknown
War of Attrition
(19671970)
 Egypt
Soviet Union Soviet Union
PLO
 Jordan
 Israel Both sides claimed victory
  • Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai
Mohamed Fawzi
2,882-
10,000
Nigerian Civil War
(19671970)
 Nigeria
 Egypt
 Biafra Victory (limited involvement)
  • Reincorporation of Biafra into Nigeria
Unknown
None
October War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
Morocco Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 Cuba
 North Korea[7][8]
 Israel Defeat[9] (strategic political gains)[10]
Anwar Sadat
Ahmad Ismail Ali
5,000-
15,000
Unknown
Shaba I
(1977)
 Zaire
 Morocco
 Egypt
State of Katanga FNLC Victory
  • FNCL expelled from Katanga
Mohamed el-Gamasy
None
None
Libyan–Egyptian War
(1977)
Egypt Egypt Libya Ceasefire
  • Libyan invasion of Egypt repelled
~100
Unknown
Gulf War
(19901991)
 Kuwait
United States
 United Kingdom
 Saudi Arabia
 France
 Canada
 Egypt
 Syria
 Morocco
 Oman
 Qatar
 Australia
Iraq Victory
Hosni Mubarak
Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb
11
None
Sinai Insurgency
(2011)
 Egypt
 United Arab Emirates
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State Ongoing
  • Ongoing conflict
None
(SCAF)
Mohamed Tantawi
700+
235
Second Libyan Civil War
(2015)
 Libya
 Egypt
 United Arab Emirates
Libya GNC
Shura Council
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
Ongoing (limited involvement)
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Sedki Sobhi
None
21
Intervention in Yemen
(2015)
Yemen Hadi government
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
 Senegal
 Sudan
 Qatar
 Bahrain
 Kuwait
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Egypt
 France
Yemen Revolutionary Council 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. JSTOR 718057.
  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. Smith, Terence (1973-10-18). "Hundreds of Tanks Clash in a Struggle for Suez Area". The New York Times. "North Korea has decided to give military assistance to Egypt and Syria, its press agency [...] said today."
  8. Smith, Hedrick (1973-10-19). "Flow of Soviet Jews Is Undimished". The New York Times. "[...] Premier Kim Il Sung of North Korea had met with the Egyptian and Syrian ambassadors in Pyonyang to inform them of his Government's decision 'to give material assistance including military aid to Syria and Egypt.' [...] [This] lends credence to the [US] Defence Department's report that North Korean pilots were flying missions for Cairo."
  9. 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
    • Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2 ISBN 0-313-31302-4
    • 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.
  10. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  11. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
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