This is a list of wars involving the State of Eritrea.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | President of Eritrea |
Eritrean losses |
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Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991) |
ELF EPLF | Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen |
Victory
|
None | 150,000 |
First Eritrean Civil War (1972–1974) |
ELF | EPLF | Truce | 3,000 | |
Second Eritrean Civil War (1980–1981) |
ELF | EPLF TPLF |
EPLF victory
|
? | |
Hanish Islands Crisis (1995) |
Eritrea | Yemen | Victory
|
Isaias Afwerki | 12 |
Second Sudanese Civil War (1996–1998) |
SPLA Ethiopia Eritrea Uganda |
Sudan Janjaweed |
Stalemate
|
? | |
First Congo War (1996–1997) |
AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola Eritrea |
Zaire ALiR Interahamwe UNITA |
Victory
|
? | |
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000) |
Eritrea | Ethiopia | Defeat | 20,000 to 150,000 | |
Djiboutian–Eritrean conflict (2008) |
Eritrea | Djibouti | Indecisive
|
100 | |
Tigray War (2020–2022) |
Ethiopia Eritrea |
Tigray |
Victory | ? |
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