List of wars involving Eritrea

This is a list of wars that Eritrea has been involved in.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President of Eritrea
Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)	ELF EPLF	Ethiopia  Cuba  Soviet Union  South Yemen	Victory Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. Contributed to the fall of Mengistu in Ethiopia.	None[1]
Hanish Islands Crisis (1995)	Eritrea	Yemen	Victory Eritrean occupation of Greater Hanish.	Isaias Afwerki
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Defeat Ethiopia held all of the disputed territory.
Djiboutian–Eritrean conflict (2008)	Eritrea	Djibouti	Indecisive Fighting subsided after 3 days.
Battle of Tsorona (2016)	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Both sides claimed victory No territorial changes

See also

• Eritrean Civil Wars, part of the Eritrean War of Independence.
• Insurgency in Eritrea
• 2013 Eritrean Army mutiny

References

1. Isaias Afwerki led the EPLF from 1978, later to assume the position of presidency in 1993.

External links

• Country profile: Eritrea BBC 4 November 2005
• Ethiopia Eritrea Independence War 1961–1993
• Eritrean War for Independence
• Comparative Study Between Yemeni-Eritrean Ways of Documentation in Arbitration Over Red Sea South Islands 52 - Yemen Times December 27 through January 2, 2000, Vol IX
• Connell, Dan Eritrea-Ethiopia War Looms, Foreign Policy in Focus 21 January 2004
• Gilkes, Patrick and Plaut, Martin. The War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Foreign Policy in Focus Volume 5, Number 25 August 2000