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This is a list of wars involving the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and its predecessor states.
Algerian defeat Algerian victory Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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Zayyanid–Almohad wars (1236–1248) Location: Algeria and eastern Morocco |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Almohads | Zayyanid victory
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Battle of Oujda (1248) Location:Oujda |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Almohads | Zayyanid victory
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Zayyanid Capture of Sijilmasa (1264) (1264) Location:Sijilmasa |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Marinid Sultanate | Zayyanid victory |
Siege of Tlemcen (1299–1307) (1299–1307) Location: Tlemcen, Algeria |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Marinid Sultanate | Zayyanid victory
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Capture of Tunis (1329) (1329) Location:Tunis |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Hafsid kingdom | Zayyanid victory
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Siege of Tlemcen (1335–1337) Location: Tlemcen, Algeria |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Marinid Sultanate | Marinid victory
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Battle of Kairouan (1348) Location: Kairouan, Tunisia |
Zayyanid Sultanate Hafsid Kingdom |
Marinid Sultanate | Victory of the Zayyanids and Hafsids |
Barbary Crusade (July 1 – October 1, 1390) Part of the Later Crusades (1291-1578) Location: Mahdia, Hafsid Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) The French army disembarking in Africa, led by the duke of Bourbon, holding a shield bearing the royal arms of France (15th century miniature) |
Hafsid Kingdom Zayyanid Sultanate |
Kingdom of France Republic of Genoa |
Crusader withdrawal The Crusaders leaving Mahdia |
Sack of Torreblanca (1397) LocationTorreblanca, Spain |
Zayyanid Sultanate | County of Aragon | Zayyanid victory |
Zayyanid conquest of Fez Location: Fez, Morocco |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Marinid Sultanate | Zayyanid victory
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Battle of Mers-el-Kébir Location:Mers-el-Kébir |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Portuguese Empire | Zayyanid victory |
Spanish conquest of Oran (1509) Location: Oran Cardinal Cisneros dismbarking at Oran after the successful capture of the city. |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Spanish Empire | Spanish victory
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Spanish Expedition to Tlemcen Location:Tlemcen |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Spanish Empire | Zayyanid victory |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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Algiers Expedition (1516) (1516) Location:Algiers |
Barbarossa Kingdom of Kuku |
Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Algiers Expedition (1519) (1516) Location:Algiers |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Fall of Tlemcen (1519) Location:Tlemcen, Algeria |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Spanish victory |
Capture of Peñón of Algiers (1529) (1529) Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars, and the establishment of the Regency of Algiers Location:Algiers |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Beylerbeylikal victory
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Campaign of Cherchell (1531) (1531) Location:Cherchell |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Empire of Charles V: | Algerian victory |
Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) Part of the Ottoman–Venetian wars Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Mediterranean Sea |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers |
Holy League: Republic of Venice Spanish Empire |
Ottoman victory
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Algiers expedition (1541) Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Algiers Siege of Algiers in 1541. Engraving of 1555. |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Holy Roman Empire
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Algerine victory
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Italian War of 1542–1546 (1542–1546) Part of the Anglo-French Wars & Italian Wars Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Western Europe The siege of Nice by a Franco-Ottoman fleet in 1543 (drawing by Toselli, after an engraving by Aeneas Vico) |
Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire |
Holy Roman Empire | Inconclusive |
Expedition to Mostaganem (1543) (1543) Location:Mostaganem |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Expedition to Mostaganem (1547) (1547) Location:Mostaganem |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
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Campaign of Tlemcen (1551) (1551) Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Tlemcen The troops of the regency of Algiers allied to the kingdom of Beni Abbes marching towards Oranie (19th century engraving) |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas |
Spanish Empire Saadi sultanate |
Algerian victory
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Campaign of Tlemcen (1552) (1552) Location: Tlemcen |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory The Moulouya river imposed as the border |
Capture of Fez (1554) (1554) Location: Fez, Morocco |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of Kuku |
Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory |
Campaign of Tlemcen (1557) (1557) Location: Tlemcen |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory |
Expedition to Mostaganem (1558) (1558) Location:Mostaganem |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory |
Campaign of Tlemcen (1560) (1560) Location: Tlemcen |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory |
Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571) Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Spain Principal centres of the Morisco Revolt |
Muslims of Granada Beylerbeylik of Algiers |
Spanish Empire | Spanish victory
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Franco-Algerian war (1609–1628) | Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Kingdom of France |
Algerian victory |
Tunisian–Algerian War of 1627 (1627) Part of the Tunisian–Algerian Wars Location: Algeria, Tunisia |
Pashalik of Algiers | Beylik of Tunis | Algerian victory
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Djidjelli expedition (1664) Location: Jijel Combat between French and Algerian ships |
Pashalik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas Kingdom of Kuku |
Kingdom of France Knights Hospitaller |
Algerian victory
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Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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French conquest of Algeria (1830–1903) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria La prise de Constantine by Horace Vernet |
Regency of Algiers
Emirate of Mascara |
Kingdom of France (1830–1848) French Second Republic (1848–1852) Second French Empire (1852–1870) French Third Republic (1870 onward) Support: |
French victory Chronological map of French Algeria's evolution |
Algerian War (1954–1962) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria Collage of the French war in Algeria |
FLN | France | Algerian independence
~1,500,000 total deaths (FLN estimate) |
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result for Algeria and its Allies |
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Sand War (1963–1964) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: Algeria Border Algeria and Morocco |
Algeria Egypt Cuba |
Morocco Support: France |
Inconclusive
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Yom Kippur War
(1973) |
Egypt & Syria (United Arab Republic)Expeditionary forces:
Supported by: |
Israel
Supported by: |
Israeli military victory
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Western Sahara War (1975–1976) Location: Western Sahara Map of the Western Sahara; the red line is the military berm built by Morocco |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Algeria |
Morocco Mauritania |
Inconclusive
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Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) Location: Algeria Military deployed in the streets of Algiers, after the military coup against the Islamists, who took up arms later |
Algeria
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FIS loyalists
Supported by: GIA (from 1993) Supported by: |
Government victory
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Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) (2002–present) Location: Maghreb, Sahara, Sahel Map showing GSPC area of operations (pink), member states of the Pan Sahel Initiative (dark blue), and members of the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative (dark and light blue) |
Algeria Mauritania Tunisia Libya Mali Niger Chad France Morocco |
GSPC (until 2007) AQIM (from 2007) Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (from 2017) MOJWA (2011–13) Al-Mourabitoun (2013–17) Ansar Dine (2012–17) Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) (from 2011) Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade (from 2012) Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) (2012–17) Salafia Jihadia Boko Haram (from 2006, partially aligned with ISIL since 2015) |
Ongoing
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ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (2015–2022) Location: Tunisia |
Tunisia Algeria |
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
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Government victory |
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