List of wars involving the United States

(1775–1783)

Location: Eastern North America, Gibraltar, India, Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic

The Battle of Long Island, 27 August 1776

 

• Canadian Auxiliaries

Spain

Iroquois

• Oneida
• Tuscarora

Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

 Dutch Republic

 Mysore

 

Iroquois

• Onondaga
• Mohawk
• Cayuga
• Seneca

Cherokee

• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America

Part of the American Indian Wars

Location: Old Southwest

Abduction of Daniel Boone's daughter by the Cherokee

Part of the American Indian Wars

Location: Northwest Territory

The Battle of Fallen Timbers

• British North America

• Treaty of Greenville (1795)
• British withdrawal
• American occupation of the Northwest Territory

Location: Massachusetts

Shays' troops are repulsed from the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts in early 1787.

• Problems with the Articles of Confederation spur U.S. Constitutional Convention

Location: Western Pennsylvania

George Washington reviews troops before their march to suppress the rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

• Armed resistance eliminated
• Minor tax evasion

Location: Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

USS Constellation vs. L'Insurgente

 

Co-belligerent:
 Great Britain

• Guadeloupe

• Peaceful cessation of Franco-American alliance
• End of French privateer attacks on American shipping
• American neutrality and renunciation of claims by France

Location: Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tripoli.

Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon at Derna, April 1805

• Peace treaty

Location: Territory of Orleans

Supported by:
Haiti

• Suppression and later trials

Part of the American Indian Wars and the War of 1812

Location: Northwest River Ohio

The Battle of Tippecanoe

• Peace treaty

Location: Eastern and Central North America

General Andrew Jackson stands on the parapet of his makeshift defenses as his troops repulse attacking Highlanders, by painter Edward Percy Moran in 1910.

 

• British North America

Tecumseh's Confederacy

Treaty of Ghent; Status quo ante bellum with no boundary changes

• British assault on Sacket's Harbor repulsed
• American invasions of British North America repulsed
• British invasions of the United States repulsed
• Defeat of Tecumseh's Confederacy

Location: Southern United States

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 1814

• Creek forced to cede 23 million acres (93,000 km²) of their territory to the United States in the Treaty of Fort Jackson

Location: Mediterranean Sea and the Barbary states.

Decatur's squadron off Algiers

• Peace treaty

Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars

Location: Pensacola, Florida

Barracks and tents at Fort Brooke near Tampa Bay

Spanish Florida

• Spain cedes Spanish Florida to the United States in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819
• The United States forcibly relocates Seminole in northern Florida to a reservation in the centre of the peninsula in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823

Part of the American Indian Wars and the Mexican Indian Wars

Location: Texas

A Kiowa ledger drawing depicting a battle between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War

 

 Mexico

 Republic of Texas
 United States

• Extinction of many tribes in Texas, including the Karankawan, Akokisa and Bidui

Part of the American Indian Wars

Location: Missouri River

• The Arikara are eventually settled with the Mandan and Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota

Part of Piracy in the Mediterranean

Location: Off Greece, Aegean Sea

Greek pirate boats attacking HMS Comet

• Defeat of Greek pirates
• HMS Comet liberated by American forces
• Message of thanks issued to Louis Goldsborough from the British government

Part of the American Indian Wars

Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory

• Ho-Chunks cede lead mining region to the United States

Part of the Sumatran expeditions

Location: Aceh Sultanate

U.S. infantry assaulting the Acehnese forts at Kuala Batu in 1832

• Sumatran attacks on U.S. shipping halted for another six years, until another attack which resulted in the second Sumatran expedition in 1838

Part of the American Indian Wars

Location: Illinois and Michigan Territory

Native women and children fleeing the Battle of Bad Axe

• End of Native armed resistance to U.S. expansion in the Old Northwest
• Black Hawk Purchase (1832)
• The United States purchases Potawatomi land in the Treaty of Tippecanoe (1832)
• The United States purchases the rest of Potawatomi land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Chicago (1833)

Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars Location: Florida, United States

U.S. Marines search for Seminoles in the Everglades

• 3,800 Seminoles transported to the Indian Territory
• 300 remain in Everglades

Part of the Sumatran expeditions Location: Aceh Sultanate

• Malays cease attacks on American vessels

Location: Maine and New Brunswick

 

• British North America

• Modern border of Maine and New Brunswick agreed upon
• British (Canadian) withdrawal from territory claimed by the United States

Part of the African Slave Trade Patrol Location: Ivory Coast

Veterans of the expedition on board Saratoga in 1842

• Bereby people

• Little Bereby destroyed

Location: Texas, New Mexico, California and Mexico

2nd Dragoons charge the enemy at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, 1846

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican recognition of Texas and California (among other territories) as independent; end of conflict between Mexico and Texas

Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Oregon

• Cayuse reduced in numbers and forced to cede most of their lands

Part of the Texas–Indian wars Location: Southwestern United States

U.S. Cavalry dash for cover while fighting Apaches, by F. Remington

• Apaches moved to reservations

Part of the American Indian Wars Location: Washington

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde and Coast Reservations

Part of the Fiji Expeditions
(1855) Location: Fiji

Location: Rogue Valley

• Indians relocated to Siletz, Grand Ronde and Coast Reservations

Part of the Seminole Wars and the American Indian Wars
(1855–1858) Location: Pensacola, Florida

• By late 1850s, most Seminoles forced to leave their land; a few hundred remain deep in the Everglades on land unwanted by white settlers

Part of the American Indian Wars
(1855–1858) Location: Washington Territory

Seattleites evacuate to the town blockhouse as USS Decatur opens fire on advancing tribal forces.

• Peace treaty

Part of the Opium Wars
(1856–1859) Location: China

Palikao's bridge, on the evening of the battle, by Émile Bayard

• Treaties of Tientsin
• Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island ceded to the United Kingdom as part of British Hong Kong

Part of the Mormon wars
(1857–1858) Location: Utah Territory and Wyoming

• Resolution through negotiation
• Brigham Young replaced as governor of the territory
• Full amnesty for charges of sedition and treason issued to the citizens of Utah Territory by President James Buchanan on the condition that they accept American Federal authority

Part of the American Indian Wars
(1858–1866) Location: New Mexico

Fort Defiance

• Long Walk of the Navajo
• Navajos moved to reservations

Part of the Fiji Expeditions
(1859) Location: Fiji

Part of pre-Civil War conflicts
(1859) Location: West Virginia

Harper's Weekly illustration of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort" Teresa Baine

Location: Texas and Mexico

Confederate States

 Mexico

Part of the American Indian Wars
(1860) Location: Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Location: United States

The Battle of Antietam, by Kurz & Allison.

• Territorial integrity preserved
• Dissolution of the Confederacy
• Slavery abolished
• Lincoln assassinated
• Beginning of the Reconstruction Era

Location: Arizona

Location: Minnesota and Dakota

The Siege of New Ulm, Minnesota on August 19, 1862

Location: Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska

• Military and congressional hearings against John Chivington

Location: Kanmon Straits

Capture of a Choshu battery at Shimonoseki by British sailors and marines.

• Chōshū pays an indemnity of $3,000,000.

Locations: Oregon, Nevada, California, and Idaho

Location: Powder River State

Location: Powder River State

The Fetterman Massacre

• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to Native Americans
• Creation of the Great Sioux Reservation (including the Black Hills)

Location: Southern Formosa (Taiwan)

US Marines and Sailors attack Formosan pirates.

• American withdrawal after Marine commander killed, subsequent Formosan retreat^[1]
• No other casualties

Location: Western United States

Battle of Beecher Island. One soldier and three horses have fallen, while others continue to wage the battle.

Location: Ganghwado

American forces after capturing the Deokjin Fort during the Battle of Ganghwa in 1871.

• United States-Korea Treaty of 1882

Location: California and Oregon

Engraving of soldiers recovering the bodies of the slain May 3, 1873.

Location: Texas

• End to the Texas-Indian Wars

Location: Texas and Mexico

Texan soldiers.

• Cattle returned to Texas

Location: Montana, Dakota and Wyoming

Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn.

• Legal control of Powder River Country ceded to the United States

Location: Texas and Oklahoma

Location: Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana

Chief Joseph's band in the Battle of Bear Paw Mountain

Location: Idaho, Oregon, and Wyoming

Location: Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana

Aftermath of the Battle of "The Pit."

Location: Idaho

Location: Mexico

Location: Colorado

Location: South Dakota

Mass grave for the dead Lakota after the conflict at Wounded Knee Creek.

Location: Texas and Mexico

3rd Cavalry Troopers searching a suspected Revolutionist, 1892

Location: Arizona and Mexico

10th Cavalry soldiers holding Yaqui prisoners at their camp in Bear Valley, January 9, 1918.

Location: Samoa

Samoan warriors and American servicemen during the Siege of Apia in March 1899.

• Allies and Rebels compromise for peace Tripartite Convention
• United States acquires American Samoa
• United Kingdom withdraws claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands
• Germany acquires German Samoa
• Mata'afa Iosefo becomes paramount chief of Samoa

Location: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines and Guam

Teddy Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" charge Spanish positions during the Battle of San Juan Hill.

• Cuba
• Guam
• Philippines
• Puerto Rico

• Treaty of Paris
• Protectorate over Cuba
• Collapse of the Spanish Empire
• Generation of '98 among Spanish intellectuals

Location: Philippines

Kurz & Allison print of the Battle of Quingua.

 

• Military Government

1902-1906
 United States

• Civil Government

 

• Negros Republic
• Zamboanga Republic

Limited Foreign Support:
 Empire of Japan

• Shishi

1902-1906
Tagalog Republic

• Irrenconcilables

• Occupation of the Philippines
• Establishment of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands
• General Emilio Aguinaldo captured and exiled
• Dissolution of the First Philippine Republic

Philippines

The 8th Infantry Regiment defeat the Moros in the four-day battle of Bagsak Mountain on Jolo Island in the Philippines.

Location: China

Corporal Titus, of the 14th Infantry Regiment, scaling the walls of Peking.

• Rebellion suppressed
• Signing of the Boxer Protocol
• Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing

Location: Oklahoma

Creek prisoners of war.

Location: Mexico–United States border

American troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment rest for the night on 27 May 1916

• Seditionist insurgency suppressed
• Permanent border wall established
• Pancho Villa's troops no longer an effective fighting force^[2]
• Mexican Constitutionalist faction leader Venustiano Carranza recognised as the sole leaders of the Mexican government by the U.S.

Location: Cuba

USS Mississippi in Cuba

• Rebellion suppressed
• Dissolution of the PIC

Location: Nicaragua

US Marines holding a captured Sandinista flag.

• Nicaragua occupied until 1933.
• Great Depression marked US withdrawal in 1933.
• Instauration of a US-backed Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.

Location: Utah and Colorado

Prisoners of the Bluff War in Thompson, Utah, waiting to board a train for their trial in Salt Lake City.

Location: Mexico

American ships at Veracruz

• Veracruz occupied

Location: Haiti

2nd Marine Regiment in Haiti

• Haiti occupied

Location: Dominican Republic

US Marines in the Occupation of the Dominican Republic.

• Dominican Republic occupied

Location: Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and coast of North and South America

Two US troops pass by dead German soldiers on a battlefield.

 

British Empire

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Newfoundland
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India
•  South Africa

 Russia
 United States
China
 Italy
 Japan
 Serbia
 Montenegro
 Romania
 Belgium
 Greece
 Portugal
 Brazil

• End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers
• Establishment of the League of Nations

Location: Russia, Mongolia, and Iran

US troops march through Russia before the Battle of Romanovka.

•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Australia
•  India

 Japan
 Czechoslovakia
 Greece
 Poland
 United States
France
 Romania
 Serbia
 Italy
China

• Allied withdrawal from Russia
• Bolshevik victory over White Army
• Some Supplies captured at Vladivostok
• Humanitarian effort

Location: Utah

Ute and Paiute prisoners of war.

Location: Europe, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, North and South America

U.S. Army Soldiers advancing at dawn in the cover of a M4 Sherman tank, during the Battle of Bougainville, 1944.

• Collapse of the Third Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

Location: Korea

American soldiers in the Korean war with the Browning M1919A6 LMG.

• North Korean invasions of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese-North Korean-Soviet invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Armistice Agreement. Although this ended the actual fighting in the Korean Peninsula, the war is not (technically) over because a peace treaty was never signed

• Successful overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh

Pathet Lao
 North Vietnam
Supported by:
 Soviet Union
China

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Location: Lebanon

US Marine sits in a foxhole and points his machine gun toward Beirut.

• INM
• LCP
• PSP

• US-Lebanese occupation of the port and international airport of Beirut
• Withdrawal of US forces

Location: Cuba

• Invasion of Cuba suppressed

Location: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos

1st Cavalry Division, Battle of Ia Drang, 1965.

 North Vietnam

 

 

 Soviet Union

• Withdrawal of American forces from Indochina
• North Vietnamese victory over South Vietnam
• Dissolution of the Republic of Vietnam
• Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
• South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam

Location: Thailand

Ta Ko Bi Cave, a former hideout used by communist rebels.

Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)^[3][4]
Supported by:
 North Vietnam (until 1976)
 Vietnam (from 1976)
 People Republic of China (1971–1978)
Malayan Communist Party
 North Korea^[4]

• Amnesty declared on 23 April 1980 by the Thai government.
• Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda.
• Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1983.

Location: Korean Demilitarized Zone

ROK and US troop stationed at the DMZ, 1967.

• North Korean failure to launch an insurgency in South Korea

Location: Dominican Republic

US soldiers push a child underneath a Jeep to protect him during a firefight in Santo Domingo on May 5, 1965.

 

 

•  Brazil
•  Paraguay
•  Nicaragua
•  Costa Rica
•  El Salvador
•  Honduras

• Fall of the Bosch regime
• Joaquín Balaguer elected as the new president

Location: Bolivia

 

 

• CIA

• CIA supported Bolivian armed groups oppress Che Guevara's guerrilla forces
• Che Guevara captured and executed

 

 

Other Supports

•  Australia
•  Canada
•  France
•  India
•  Thailand

Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rumdo
Khmer Việt Minh
 North Vietnam
Việt Cộng

Other Supports

•  China
•  Czechoslovakia
•  Soviet Union

• Fall of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Creation but eventual collapse of the Khmer Republic
• Creation of the Democratic Kampuchea
• Beginning of the Cambodian genocide

Location: Zaire

Angola
 Cuba
 Soviet Union

• FNLC forces repelled
• Thousands of civilians evacuated from Kolwezi

Location: Gulf of Sidra

• Deterioration of US-Libyan relations

Location: Lebanon

US Marines on patrol in Beirut, April 1983

•  United States
•  France
•  Italy

 

 

• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Hezbollah

Islamic Unification Movement

 

•  Saudi Arabia
•  Sudan
•  UAE
•  Libya
•  South Yemen

• Multinational forces fail to prevent collapse of Lebanese Army into sectarian militias.^[5][6]
• Taif Agreement
• Multinational forces evacuated after the US embassy and US Marine barracks are bombed by the Islamic Jihad Organization.
• Multinational forces oversee withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization.
• PLO expelled from Lebanon
• Southern Lebanon goes into crisis
• Civil war continues until 1990
• President Hafez al-Assad continues his occupation Lebanon until his son and later president Bashar al-Assad orders a withdrawal from the country

Location: Grenada

American soldiers in mortar positions in Grenada.

• Military dictatorship of Hudson Austin deposed
• Defeat of Cuban military presence
• Restoration of Constitutional Government

• Libyan naval forces damaged or destroyed
• Libyan air defenses damaged

Location: Libya

USAF F-111 taking off for Libya

• Ground targets destroyed.
• Failed Libyan Scud missile response.
• Muammar Gaddafi survives.

Location: Persian Gulf

Iranian frigate Sahand after being attacked by U.S. aircraft.

• Successful operations against Iran during the Iran–Iraq War
• U.S. Navy vessel USS Vincennes shoots down civilian Iran Air Flight 655 killing all 290 passengers, among them 66 children.
• Iran-Iraq war ends in August of 1988 following UN-brokered ceasefire.

Location: Mediterranean Sea

Gun camera depicting the last remaining MiG-23 fighters exploding after being shot down.

• Two Libyan MiG-23 fighters shot down

Location: Panama

U.S. troops prepare to take a neighborhood in Panama City, December 1989.

• Dictator Manuel Noriega deposed

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Israel

M1 Abrams tanks of the 3rd Armored Division advance on Medina Ridge.

• Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber III restored
• Sanctions against Iraq

Location: Iraq

A Tomahawk cruise missile is fired from an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during Operation Desert Fox in December 1998.

• Various bombings of Iraqi forces both arial and naval
• Mass numbers of Iraqi targets killed or destroyed
• Reduction in Iraqi air defense
• Beginning of the Iraq War

Location: Somalia

US Marines on patrol in Somalia.

• Pyrrhic tactical U.S./U.N. victory
• Failure to capture SNA leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid; specific Aidid lieutenants captured
• Withdrawal of U.S. forces 5 months after the Battle of Mogadishu
• The UN mandate saved close to 100,000 lives, before and after U.S. withdrawal
• Civil war is ongoing

Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Russian and American troops on a joint patrol around the Bosnian town of Zvornik on the afternoon of 29 February 1996.

Herzeg-Bosnia
 Croatia

 United States
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Germany
 Italy
 Luxembourg
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Portugal
 Spain
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

• Dayton Accords
• Internal partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Over 101,000 dead, 65,000 Bosniaks, 28,000 Serbs, 8,000 Croats
• Deployment of NATO-led IFOR to uphold the peace agreement
• High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina established to implement the peace agreement.

Location: Haiti

US troops arrive in Haiti.

• Reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as president of Haiti

Location: Serbia

Bombing of Novi Sad.

• Yugoslav forces pull out of Kosovo
• De facto separation of Kosovo from FR Yugoslavia under UN administration
• Ceasefire reached through Kumanovo Agreement of june 1999.

Location: Sudan and Afghanistan

al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan.

• Strikes hit targets but failed objectives
• al-Qaeda suffers damage and casulties however its senior leaders survive the strikes
• Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant destroyed
• Al-Qaeda propaganda victory leads to Osama bin Laden's image be praised in the Muslim world as a symbol of resistance

Location: Afghanistan

American and British soldiers take a tactical pause during a combat patrol in the Sangin District area of Helmand Province.

• Islamic Jihad Union
• Haqqani network

Allied groups
HIG
al-Qaeda
IJU^[11]

• IMU

Taliban splinter groups

• Fidai Mahaz

IS-Affiliates:

• Wilayat Khorasan (ISIL-K)

2001 Invasion:
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

• Talibani Army
• Salafist extremists
• 055 Brigade

• American-led coalition invasion and occupation of Afghanistan
• Destruction of al-Qaeda training camps
• Fall of the Taliban government
• Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan under the Karzai administration
• Start of Taliban insurgency
• Osama bin Laden killed by US Navy SEALs inside his compound in a raid in Pakistan
• NATO implements a support mission
• Escape of Ayman al-Zawahiri
• Withdrawal halted and prolonged presence in region set in place

Location: Iraq

Soldiers from 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment conduct security before a cordon and search operation in Biaj, Iraq with their M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MNF–I

Islamic State of Iraq
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
IAI
Ansar al-Sunnah

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Sectarian Violence and another civil war^[12][13]
• Subsequent reduction in violence and depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq^[14][15]
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new democratic government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011
• Stronger Iranian influence in Iraq^[16][17][18]
• Escalation of sectarian insurgency after U.S. withdrawal leading to the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq^[13][19]
• Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017)
• Return of US forces to Iraq in 2014 to combat ISIL

Location: Pakistan

MQ-1 Predator drones are typically used in covert bombing operations in the Federally administered tribal regions of Pakistan

 

 Pakistan

Daesh

• On going insurgency in the Northern tribal regions of Pakistan as well as in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Ongoing drone attacks by the United States

Location: Somalia and Northeastern Kenya

MQ-9 Reaper commonly used in covert drone strikes in Somalia.

Daesh
Alleged support:
 Eritrea

• Drone strikes in Somalia
• Raids against al-Shabaab militants conducted by U.S. Special Forces
• Multiple al-Shabaab senior members killed
• U.S. backed Ethiopian invasion in 2006
• Kenyan intervention
• Newly formed federal government established in 2012
• Power struggle within Al-Shabaab
• Continued insurgency
• Expanded American military operations

Location: Indian Ocean

A tall plume of black smoke rises from a destroyed pirate vessel that was struck by USS Farragut in March 2010.

• Number of pirate attacks have decreased dramatically since the start of such operations, however attacks still occur near the coast waters of Oman, Yemen, Kenya, and Somalia
• The US Office of Naval Intelligence have officially reported that in 2013, only 9 incidents of piracy were reported and that none of them were successfully hijacked
• Piracy drops 90% ^[20]

Location: Libya

US vessels launch missiles in support of the Libyan Civil War.

 NATO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anti-Gaddafi rebels

• Overthrow of Gaddafi government and Death of Muammar Gaddafi
• Assumption of interim control by National Transitional Council (NTC)
• Diplomatic recognition of NTC as sole governing authority for Libya by 105 countries, UN, EU, AL and AU
• Post-civil war violence in Libya, leading to the ongoing civil war in 2014^[21]

(2011-2017) Location: Uganda

U.S. Marine Sgt. Joseph Bergeron, a task force combat engineer, explains combat marksmanship tactics to a group of Ugandan soldiers.

 United States

Uganda

DR Congo

Central African Republic

South Sudan

• LRA shrinks to about 100 members.
• Having reduced the LRA's operational capacity to non-threat status the United States withdraws from the conflict, which remains ongoing.^[22]

Location: Iraq

General Stephen J. Townsend observes a HIMARS strike that destroyed a building near Haditha, September 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iran
Hezbollah

• Over 10,000 American airstrikes conducted in Iraq since 2014
• Heavy damaged caused to ISIS forces resulting in losses of about 40% of its held territory by 2016, and by December 2017, its remaining strongholds were destroyed leaving small pockets of fleers.
• Multinational humanitarian support to civilians and arming of local ground troops and militias
• Advising and training of Iraqi forces
• Massive numbers of war crimes committed by ISIS including ethnic cleansing, murder, rape, and enslavement. Additionally there are reports of organ trafficking

Location: Syria

USS Ross fires Tomahawk missiles towards Shayrat Military Base, during the 2017 retaliatory strike against the Syrian government.

• Syrian Democratic Forces

Democratic Federation of Northern Syria

• IFB
• People's Protection Units
• Women's Protection Units

CJTF-OIR Members:
 United Kingdom
 France
 Australia
 Canada
 Jordan
 Denmark
 Netherlands
 Belgium
 Lebanon
 Morocco
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
 Qatar
 Bahrain

Turkey

• Turkish-backed rebels

 Israel (limited involvement; against Hezbollah and government forces only)

Formerly:
Free Syrian Army (2011-2017)

al-Qaeda linked groups:

• al-Nusra Front
• Khorasan group
• Tahrir al-Sham
• Jaysh al-Sunna
• Jund al-Aqsa
• Ahrar al-Sham

Partial Support:
 Qatar
 UAE
 Saudi Arabia

 

Supported by:
 Russia
 Iran
Hezbollah
 China

• Over 11,200 American and allied airstrikes hit ISIS and other extremist groups within Syria
• Thousands of ISIS targets destroyed/militants killed
• Chemical attack in Ghouta
• American support for anti-government rebels
• Deployment of U.S. Marines and Special Forces
• Syrian government forces capture and liberate Aleppo
• Massive amounts of war human rights violations and war crimes
• Chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun results in a retaliatory naval strike on the Syrian government-controlled Shayrat Airbase
• Russian-Turkish crisis
• Various confrontations and airstrikes, including a downing of a Syrian SU-17 between the United States and Syrian government
• Multiple incidents between Israel and Syria, including several Syrian S-200 missiles launched toward Israeli fighter jets during an Israeli Air Force mission inside Syrian territory, and an Israeli F-16 shot down by Syrian Air Defense forces after retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets near Damascus after a Syrian drone crossed into Israeli airspace
• Turkish invasion of Afrin

Location: Yemen

U.S. Naval vessel patrolling along the coastline of Yemen enforcing the American-Saudi blockade against Iran.