YEAR // Contemporary
2011
14 wars active · 22 battles
Wars active
14 catalogued
1982-2014 · Year 30 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…
2001–2021 major U.S. war period · Year 11 of 21
Afghanistan War
The longest U.S. war began after 9/11, displaced the Taliban government, evolved into counterinsurgency, and ended with Taliban return to power.
2001-2021 · Year 11 of 21
War on Terrorism
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global military campaign initiated by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. A…
2003–2011 major U.S. combat/occupation period · Closing year
Iraq War
An invasion to remove Saddam Hussein became a prolonged occupation and insurgency with major regional consequences.
2003-2017 · Year 9 of 15
Iraqi conflict
The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, followed by a series of…
2007-2015 · Year 5 of 9
Insurgency in Ingushetia
The Insurgency in Ingushetia began in 2007 as a spillover of then ongoing separatist conflict in Chechnya into neighbouring Ingushetia. The conflict has been described as a civil…
2010-2012 · Year 2 of 3
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was a series of pro-democracy anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in…
2010-2011 · Closing year
Second Ivorian Civil War
The Second Ivorian Civil War broke out in March 2011 when the crisis in Ivory Coast escalated into full-scale military conflict between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the…
2011 · Sole year
Libyan Civil War (2011)
The Libyan Civil War, also known as the First Libyan Civil War and Libyan Revolution, was an armed conflict fought in 2011 in the North African country of Libya between forces…
2011 · Sole year
Libyan crisis
The Libyan crisis is the current humanitarian crisis and political-military instability occurring in Libya, beginning with the Arab Spring protests of 2011, which led to two…
2011 · Sole year
spillover of the Syrian Civil War
Following the outbreak of the protests of Syrian revolution during the Arab Spring in 2011 and the escalation of the ensuing conflict into a full-scale civil war by mid-2012, the…
2011 · Sole year
Syrian Civil War
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad…
2011-2012 · Opening year
Syrian revolution
The Syrian revolution was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime – lasting from 2011 to…
2011 · Sole year
War in the Sahel
A war in the Sahel region of West Africa has been ongoing since the 2011 Arab Spring. In particular, the intensive conflict in the three countries of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso…
Battles
22 recorded
October 31, 2011
2011 military intervention in Libya
Libyan Civil War (2011)
July 5, 2011
Battle of Bassiknou
War in the Sahel
March 6, 2011
Battle of Bin Jawad
Libyan Civil War (2011)
October 20, 2011
Battle of Deynile
Somali Civil War (2009)
April 27, 2011
Battle of Gedo
Somali Civil War (1991)
February 23, 2011
Battle of Misrata
Libyan Civil War (2011)
March 4, 2011
Battle of Ra's Lanuf
Libyan Civil War (2011)
September 15, 2011
Battle of Sirte
Libyan Civil War (2011)
August 20, 2011
Battle of Tripoli
Libyan Civil War (2011)
February 15, 2011
First Battle of Benghazi
Libyan Civil War (2011)
March 2, 2011
First Battle of Brega
Libyan Civil War (2011)
March 10, 2011
First Battle of Zawiya
Libyan Civil War (2011)
June 4, 2011
June 2011 Jisr ash-Shughur operation
Syrian revolution
May 14, 2011
May 2011 Talkalakh Siege
Syrian Civil War
October 16, 2011
Operation Linda Nchi
Somali Civil War (2009)
March 19, 2011
Second Battle of Benghazi
Libyan Civil War (2011)
March 15, 2011
Second Battle of Brega
Libyan Civil War (2011)
April 25, 2011
Siege of Daraa
Syrian revolution
May 6, 2011
Siege of Homs
Syrian Civil War
July 7, 2011
Summer 2011 Jabal al-Zawiya operation
Syrian revolution
March 31, 2011
Third Battle of Brega
Libyan Civil War (2011)
January 1, 2011
Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
Syrian Civil War