List of wars involving Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire (1137–1975)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Abyssinian–Adal War (1529–1543)	Ethiopia Portugal	Adal Sultanate Mogadishu Sultanate Ottoman Empire	Victory Adal Sultanate weakened.
Zemene Mesafint (1769–1855)	Various factions	Various factions	Reunification of Ethiopia Tewodros II became Emperor.
British Expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868)	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	Defeat Tewodros II committed suicide.
Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876)	Ethiopia	Egypt	Victory Egyptian invasion repelled.
Mahdist War (1885–1889)	United Kingdom India Egypt Ethiopia	Mahdist Sudan	Victory Sudanese invasion of Ethiopia repelled.
Battle of Dogali (1887)	Ethiopia	Italy	Victory Italian garrison in Dogali destroyed.
First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–1896)	Ethiopia	Italy	Victory Italian invasion repelled.
Somaliland Campaign (1900–1920)	United Kingdom Italy Ethiopia	Dervish State	Victory Collapse of the Dervish State.
Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)	Ethiopia	Italy	Defeat Occupation of Ethiopia by Italy.
East African Campaign (1940–1943)	United Kingdom Ethiopia South Africa Belgium Free France	Italy	Victory Fall of Italian East Africa, Ethiopia regained its independence.
Korean War (1950–1953)	South Korea UN Command United States United Kingdom Canada Turkey Australia Ethiopia Philippines New Zealand Thailand Greece France Colombia Belgium South Africa Netherlands Luxembourg	North Korea China	Stalemate The Korean Armistice Agreement
Congo Crisis (1960–1964)	Congo-Léopoldville ONUC Ireland Sweden Norway India Nigeria Ethiopia	Katanga South Kasai	Victory Debellation of Congolese separatist states.
Bale Revolt (1963–1970)	Ethiopia	Oromo and Somali rebels	Victory Revolt crushed, peace agreement
1964 Ethiopian–Somali War (1964)^[1]	Ethiopia	Somalia	Victory Somali troops and shiftas repelled.

Communist Ethiopia (1975–1991)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Ogaden War (1977–1978)	Derg Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali retreat from Ogaden.
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982)	Derg SSDF	Somalia	Victory Ethiopian-SSDF withdrawal from Somalia.
Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)	Derg PDRE Cuba Soviet Union South Yemen	EPLF ELF Sudan Tunisia Iraq Somalia Syria Libya China America Saudi Arabia	Defeat Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. Ethiopia became a landlocked country.
Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)	Derg PDRE Cuba	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP OLF ONLF WSLF ALF	Regime change Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government, to become EPRDF government.

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (from 1995)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Insurgency in Ogaden (1995–2008)	Ethiopia	ONLF	Victory Military defeat of ONLF forces.
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)	Ethiopia	Eritrea	Victory Ethiopia held all of the disputed territories.
War in Somalia (2006–2009)	Ethiopia TFG AMISOM Uganda Burundi Kenya Djibouti Sierra Leone	ICU OLF al-Shabaab	Indecisive Islamists re-take Mogadishu. Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia.
Operation Linda Nchi (2011–2012)	Kenya Ethiopia TFG	Al-Shabaab	Victory Coordinated forces capture numerous towns.

Footnotes

↑ A part of the Shifta War; Somalia issued a medal for this Ethiopian-Somalian conflict.

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[1] A part of the Shifta War; Somalia issued a medal for this Ethiopian-Somalian conflict.

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