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List of wars involving Azerbaijan

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Azerbaijan and its predecessor states, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

List[change]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920)
Caucasus Campaign of World War I
(1914–1918)
File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Ottoman Empire

File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (1918).svg Azerbaijan (1918)
File:Flag of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus.svg Mountain Republic (1918)
File:Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire (1914–17)


File:Flag of Georgia (1918-1921).svg Georgia (1918)

File:Flag of Russia (1914-1917).svg Russian Empire (1914–17)

Armenia Armenia (1918)
File:Flag of the United Kingdom (1-2).svg United Kingdom (1918)
File:Flag of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship.svg Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918)


File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918)

Inconclusive
Russian Civil War
(1918–1920)
File:Flag of Russia.svg White movement

File:Flag of the German Empire.svg German Empire (1917–1918)
File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Ottoman Empire (1917–1918)
File:Flag of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (1918).svg Azerbaijan (1918)
File:Flag of Finland.svg Finland (1918–1919)
File:Flag of Georgia (1918-1921).svg Georgia (1918)
File:Flag of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918).svg Austria-Hungary (1917–1918)
File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukrainian State (1918)

File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

File:Red flag.svg Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
File:Flag of the Commune of the Working People of Estonia.svg Commune of Estonia
File:Flag of the Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR.svg Lithuanian SSR
File:Flag of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (1918–1920).svg Latvian SSR

Withdrawal
Mughan clashes
(1918–1919)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Russian Empire White Movement

File:Red flag.svg Mughan Soviet Republic

Victory
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (until April 1920)
File:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Ottoman Empire (1918)

File:Flag of the Republic of Aras.svg Republic of Aras (1918–1919)


File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since April 1920)

Armenia Armenia

File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of the Centrocaspian Dictatorship.svg Centrocaspian Dictatorship

Inconclusive
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
(1920)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Defeat
Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (1920–1991)
Anti-Soviet rebellions: File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic File:Flag of Azerbaijan 1918.svg Rebels Defeat
  • Defeat of the Azerbaijani anti-Soviet rebels
Red Army invasion of Georgia
(1921)
File:Flag RSFSR 1918.svg Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Georgia (country) Georgia Victory
World War II
(1939–1945)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union Germany Germany Victory
  • 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom were killed.
  • 70,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht.
Soviet–Afghan War
(1979–1989)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union File:Flag of Jihad.svg Peshawar Seven Withdrawal
  • 10,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 200 of whom were killed.[1]
Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–)
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
(1988–1994)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan File:Flag of Artsakh.svg Nagorno-Karabakh

File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia (1992–1994)

Defeat
Ganja Uprising
(1993)
Azerbaijan Huseynov's forces Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Coup d'état failed
OPON coup d'état attempt
(1995)
Azerbaijan OPON Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Victory
Gobustan Uprising
(1999)
Azerbaijan Musayev's forces Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Victory
Operation Eagle
(2008)
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan File:Flag of Caucasian Emirate.svg Caucasus Emirate Victory
Four-Day War
(2016)
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan File:Flag of Artsakh.svg Nagorno-Karabakh
File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia
Inconclusive
  • Small Azerbaijani land gains
Operation Gyunnut
(2018)
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia Inconclusive
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war
(2020)
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan File:Flag of Artsakh.svg Artsakh

File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia

Victory[2]
Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
(2021–2023)
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan File:Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia Ongoing
  • Azerbaijan occupies parts of Armenian territory

Peacekeeping missions[change]

Mission Start-date End-date Location Troops (peak)
NATO KFOR 1999 2008 File:Flag of Kosovo.svg Kosovo 34
Multi-National Force Iraq MNF-I 2003 2008 File:Flag of Iraq (1991–2004).svg Iraq 250
ISAF ISAF 2008 2021 File:Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan 94

References[change]

  1. "Əfqanıstan müharibəsində 200-dən çox azərbaycanlı həlak olub". Azadliq Radiosu (in azərbaycanca). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 15 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. "Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia sign Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal". BBC. 10 November 2020. The BBC's Orla Guerin in Baku says that, overall, the deal should be read as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia.