This is a list of wars involving the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and its predecessor states.
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
|
Battle of Oujda (1248) Location:Oujda |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Almohads | Zayyanid victory
|
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
|
Capture of Tunis (1329) (1329) Location:Tunis |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Hafsid kingdom | Zayyanid victory
|
Siege of Tlemcen (1335–1337) Location: Tlemcen, Algeria |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Marinid Sultanate | Marinid victory
|
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) |
Hafsid Kingdom Zayyanid Sultanate |
Kingdom of France Republic of Genoa |
Crusader withdrawal |
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
|
Battle of Mers-el-Kébir Location:Mers-el-Kébir |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Portuguese Empire | Zayyanid victory |
Spanish conquest of Oran (1509) Location: Oran |
Zayyanid Sultanate | Spanish Empire | Spanish victory
|
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
|
Algiers Expedition (1519) (1516) Location:Algiers |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
|
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
|
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
|
Algiers expedition (1541) Part of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Algiers |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Holy Roman Empire
|
Algerine victory
|
Italian War of 1542–1546 (1542–1546) Part of the Anglo-French Wars & Italian Wars Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Western Europe |
Kingdom of France Ottoman Empire |
Holy Roman Empire | Inconclusive |
Expedition to Mostaganem (1543) (1543) Location:Mostaganem |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
|
Expedition to Mostaganem (1547) (1547) Location:Mostaganem |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Spanish Empire | Algerian victory
|
Campaign of Tlemcen (1551) (1551) Part of the Algero-Spanish Wars Location: Tlemcen |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas |
Spanish Empire Saadi sultanate |
Algerian victory
|
Campaign of Tlemcen (1552) (1552) Location: Tlemcen |
Beylerbeylik of Algiers | Saadi sultanate | Algerian victory The Moulouya river imposed as the border[3] |
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[4][5] |
Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1568–1571) Part of the Algero-Spanish War Location: Spain |
Muslims of Granada Beylerbeylik of Algiers |
Spanish Empire | Spanish victory
|
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
|
Djidjelli expedition (1664) Location: Jijel |
Pashalik of Algiers Kingdom of Ait Abbas Kingdom of Kuku |
Kingdom of France Knights Hospitaller |
Algerian victory
|
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 |
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 |
Algerian War (1954–1962) Part of the Algeria-European War Location: 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 |
Algeria Egypt[26] Cuba[27] |
Morocco Support: France[28] |
Inconclusive
|
Yom Kippur War
(1973) |
Egypt & Syria (United Arab Republic)Expeditionary forces:
Supported by: |
Israel
Supported by: |
Israeli military victory
|
Western Sahara War (1975–1976) Location: Western Sahara |
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Algeria |
Morocco Mauritania |
Inconclusive
|
Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) Location: Algeria |
Algeria
|
FIS loyalists
Supported by: GIA (from 1993) Supported by: |
Government victory
|
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) (2002–present) Location: Maghreb, Sahara, Sahel |
Algeria Mauritania Tunisia Libya Mali Niger[51] Chad[52] France[52][53][54] Morocco[55] |
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)[56] Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade (from 2012)[57] Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) (2012–17) Salafia Jihadia[55] Boko Haram (from 2006, partially aligned with ISIL since 2015)[58][59] |
Ongoing
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ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (2015–2022) Location: Tunisia |
Tunisia Algeria |
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
|
Government victory
|
the French lost their Algerian empire in military and political defeat by the FLN, just as they lost their empire in China in defeat by Giap and Ho Chi Minh.
For the [French] nation as a whole, commemoration of the Franco-Algerian War is complicated since it ended in defeat (politically, if not strictly militarily) rather than victory.
The death knell of the French empire was sounded by the bitterly fought Algerian war of independence, which ended in 1962.
The Algerian War came to an end in 1962, and with it closed some 130 years of French colonial presence in Algeria (and North Africa). With this outcome, the French Empire, celebrated in pomp in Paris in the Exposition coloniale of 1931 ... received its decisive death blow.
The independence of Algeria in 1962, after a long and bitter war, marked the end of the French Empire.
The difficult relationship which France has with the period of history dominated by the Algerian war has been well documented. The reluctance, which ended only in 1999, to acknowledge 'les évenements' as a war, the shame over the fate of the harki detachments, the amnesty covering many of the deeds committed during the war and the humiliation of a colonial defeat which marked the end of the French empire are just some of the reasons why France has preferred to look towards a Eurocentric future, rather than confront the painful aspects of its colonial past.
In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; ; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king.
L'armée française était en 1963 présente en Algérie et au Maroc. Le gouvernement français, officiellement neutre, comme le rappelle le Conseil des ministres du 25 octobre 1963, n'a pas pu empêcher que la coopération très étroite entre l'armée française et l'armée marocaine n'ait eu quelques répercussions sur le terrain. == The French Army was in 1963 present in Algeria and Morocco. The French government, officially neutral, as recalled by the Council of Ministers on October 25, 1963, could not prevent the very close cooperation between the French army and the Moroccan army from having some repercussions on the ground.