YEAR // Post-Cold War
1992
28 wars active · 10 battles
Wars active
28 catalogued
1954-2000 · Year 39 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…
1965-1996 · Year 28 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…
1975-2002 · Year 18 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…
1977-1992 · Closing year
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 · Closing year
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…
1982-2014 · Year 11 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 10 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 10 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…
1985-2000 · Year 8 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 · Closing year
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 5 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 5 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 · Closing year
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 4 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…
1990-1993 · Year 3 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 · Closing year
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 · Closing 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 · Closing 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 · Year 2 of 5
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 · Year 2 of 4
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 · Year 2 of 3
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 · Year 2 of 12
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…
1991-2001 · Year 2 of 11
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…
1992-1996 · Opening year
Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)
The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992 — the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the…
1992-2002 · Opening year
Algerian Civil War
The Algerian Civil War, known in Algeria as the Black Decade, was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 to 8…
1992-1994 · Opening year
Croat–Bosniak War
The Croat–Bosniak War or Croat–Muslim War was a conflict between the Bosniak-dominated Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, supported by…
1992-1997 · Opening year
Tajikistani Civil War
The Tajikistani Civil War was an armed conflict in Tajikistan that began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of…
1992-1993 · Opening year
War in Abkhazia
The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government and paramilitary forces, and a coalition of Abkhaz separatist forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and…
Battles
10 recorded
June 19, 1992
Battle of Bender
Transnistria War
October 1, 1992
Battle of Gagra
War in Abkhazia
April 30, 1992
Battle of Kabul
Afghan Civil War (1992-1996)
October 19, 1992
Battle of Lachin
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
January 1, 1992
Battle of Shusha
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
August 14, 1992
Battle of Sokhumi
War in Abkhazia
May 1, 1992
Capture of Lachin
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
June 21, 1992
Miljevci plateau incident
Croatian War of Independence
June 12, 1992
Siege of Bihać
Croatian War of Independence
January 1, 1992
Unified Task Force
Somali Civil War (1991)