YEAR // Post-Cold War

1991

33 wars active · 26 battles

Wars active

33 catalogued

1945-1991 · Closing year
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western…
1954-2000 · Year 38 of 47
Dirty War
The Mexican Dirty War was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled…
1961-1991 · Closing year
Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was an armed conflict and insurgency aimed at achieving self-determination and independence for Eritrea from Ethiopian rule. Starting in 1961,…
1965-1996 · Year 27 of 32
Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide…
1974-1991 · Closing year
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government…
1975-2002 · Year 17 of 28
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from…
1975-1991 · Closing year
Third Indochina War
The Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected military conflicts among the various communist factions over strategic influence in mainland Southeast Asia after communist…
1975-1991 · Closing year
Western Sahara War
The Western Sahara War was an armed conflict between the Sahrawi Indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara…
1977-1991 · Closing year
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict from 1978 to 1989 between the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam, and their respective allies. It began in December 1978, with a…
1977-1992 · Year 15 of 16
Mozambican Civil War
The Mozambican Civil War was a civil war fought in Mozambique from 1977 to 1992 due to a combination of local strife and the polarizing effects of Cold War politics. The fighting…
1979-1992 · Year 13 of 14
Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí…
1981-1991 · Closing year
Somaliland War of Independence
The Somaliland War of Independence also known as the Great Isaaq Uprising or the Isaaq Rebellion was a rebellion waged by the Somali National Movement (SNM) against the ruling…
1982-2014 · Year 10 of 33
Casamance conflict
The Casamance conflict is an ongoing low-level conflict that has been waged between the Government of Senegal and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) since…
1983-2005 · Year 9 of 23
Second Sudanese Civil War
The Second Sudanese Civil War was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army. It was largely a continuation of…
1983-2009 · Year 9 of 27
Sri Lankan civil war
The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers…
1985-1991 · Closing year
Cold War (1985–1991)
The time period of around 1985–1991 marked the final period of the Cold War. It was characterized by systemic reform within the Soviet Union, the easing of geopolitical tensions…
1985-2000 · Year 7 of 16
South Lebanon conflict
The South Lebanon conflict was an armed conflict that took place in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 or 1985 until Israel's withdrawal in 2000. Hezbollah, along with…
1986-1992 · Year 6 of 7
Surinamese Interior War
The Surinamese Civil War, also known as Surinamese Interior War, was a civil war fought in eastern Suriname between 1986 and 1992. The conflict primarily involved the Jungle…
1988-1998 · Year 4 of 11
Bougainville conflict
The Bougainville conflict, also known as the Bougainvillean Civil War, the Solomon Civil War or the Civil War of the North Solomons was a multi-layered armed conflict fought from…
1988-1994 · Year 4 of 7
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994 in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan…
1989-1992 · Year 3 of 4
Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)
The Afghan Civil War of 1989–1992, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on 15 February 1989 which ended the…
1989-1997 · Year 3 of 9
First Liberian Civil War
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe's regime of…
1990–1991 · Closing year
Gulf War
A U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait through air power, maneuver, and broad diplomatic alignment.
1990-1993 · Year 2 of 4
Rwandan Civil War
The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan…
1990-1992 · Year 2 of 3
Transnistria War
The Transnistrian War was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari between pro-separatist forces, including the Transnistrian Republican Guard, militia and…
1991-1992 · Opening year
1991-92 Georgian coup d'état
The 1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état, also known as the Tbilisi War, or the Putsch of 1991–1992, was an internal military conflict that took place in the newly independent Republic…
1991-1992 · Opening year
1991–1992 South Ossetia War
The 1991–1992 South Ossetia War was fought between Georgian government forces and ethnic Georgian militias on one side and the forces of South Ossetian separatists and Russia on…
1991-1995 · Opening year
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence…
1991-1994 · Opening year
Djiboutian Civil War
The Djiboutian Civil War was a conflict in Djibouti, lasting from 1991 to 1994 and resulting in thousands of fatalities. The uneven power sharing between the Issas and the Afars…
1991-1993 · Opening year
Georgian Civil War
The Georgian civil war of 1991–1993 lasted from 1991 to 1993 in the South Caucasian country Georgia. It began in December 1991 with the coup against the first…
1991-2002 · Opening year
Sierra Leone Civil War
The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special…
1991 · Sole year
Somali Civil War (1991)
The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia. It grew out of resistance to the military junta which was led by Siad Barre during the 1980s. From…
1991-2001 · Opening year
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist…

Battles

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Cold War

Dirty War

Eritrean War of Independence

Guatemalan Civil War

Ethiopian Civil War

Angolan Civil War

Third Indochina War

Western Sahara War

Cambodian–Vietnamese War

Mozambican Civil War

Salvadoran Civil War

Somaliland War of Independence

Casamance conflict

Second Sudanese Civil War

Sri Lankan civil war

Cold War (1985–1991)

South Lebanon conflict

Surinamese Interior War

Bougainville conflict

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)

First Liberian Civil War

Gulf War

Rwandan Civil War

Transnistria War

1991-92 Georgian coup d'état

1991–1992 South Ossetia War

Croatian War of Independence

Djiboutian Civil War

Georgian Civil War

Sierra Leone Civil War

Somali Civil War (1991)

Yugoslav Wars