List of conflicts by duration

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The following list ranks wars and times of war or conflict by their duration, including both historical and ongoing battles.

## List

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Key  * | Ongoing Wars

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War or conflict  | Key  | Start date  | End date  | Duration

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Reconquista |  | 718 | 1492 | 774 years
Anglo-French Wars |  | 1109 | 1815 | 706 years
Roman–Persian Wars |  | 54 BC | 628 | 681 years
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars |  | 680 | 1355 | 675 years
Roman-Germanic wars |  | 113 BC | 476 | 588 years[1]
Arab–Byzantine wars |  | 629 | 1180 | 551 years
Yaqui Wars |  | 1533 | 1929 | 396 years
Yemeni–Ottoman conflicts |  | 1538 | 1911 | 373 years
Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts |  | 1415 | 1769 | 354 years
Russo-Turkish wars |  | 1568 | 1918 | 350 years
Arauco War |  | 1536 | 1883 | 347 years
Dano-Swedish wars |  | 1470 | 1814 | 344 years
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War |  | 1651 | 1986 | 335 years, 2 weeks and 4 days
Spanish–Moro conflict |  | 1565 | 1898 | 333 years
Apache–Mexico Wars |  | 1600 | 1915 | 315 years
American Indian Wars |  | 1609 | 1924 | 315 years[citation needed]
Ottoman–Persian Wars |  | 1514 | 1823 | 309 years
Burmese-Siamese wars |  | 1547 | 1855 | 308 years
Han–Xiongnu War |  | 200 BC | 91 | 290 years
Navajo Wars |  | 1600 | 1866 | 266 years
Ottoman–Habsburg wars |  | 1526 | 1791 | 265 years
Byzantine–Seljuk wars |  | 1048 | 1308 | 260 years[citation needed]
Anglo-Scottish Wars |  | 1296 | 1547 | 251 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
Chechen–Russian conflict |  | 1785 | 2017 | 232 years
Warring States period |  | 453 BC | 223 BC | 230 years
Muslim conquests of Afghanistan |  | 642 | 870 | 228 years
Polish-Russian Wars |  | 1577 | 1794 | 217 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
Byzantine–Ottoman wars |  | 1265 | 1479 | 214 years[citation needed]
Polish–Teutonic War |  | 1308 | 1521 | 213 years
Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula |  | 218 BC | 19 BC | 199 years
Russian conquest of Siberia |  | 1580 | 1778 | 198 years
Crusades |  | 1096 | 1291 | 194 years, 9 months and 3 days
Cossack uprisings |  | 1591 | 1775 | 184 years
Byzantine–Lombard wars |  | 568 | 751 | 183 years
Russo-Persian Wars |  | 1651 | 1828 | 177 years
Spanish conquest of Guatemala |  | 1524 | 1697 | 173 years
Spanish conquest of Chiapas |  | 1523 | 1695 | 172 years
Genoese–Mongol Wars |  | 1307 | 1478 | 171 years
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars |  | 1368 | 1537 | 169 years
Mughal–Sikh wars |  | 1621 | 1788 | 167 years
Ottoman–Hungarian wars |  | 1366 | 1526 | 160 years
Polish–Swedish wars |  | 1563 | 1721 | 158 years
Anglo-Dutch Wars |  | 1652 | 1810 | 158 years
Sengoku period |  | 1467 | 1615 | 148 years
Australian frontier wars |  | 1788 | 1934 | 146 years
Hook and Cod wars |  | 1350 | 1490 | 140 years
Mongol invasions and conquests |  | 1206 | 1337 | 131 years
Chola-Chalakya Wars |  | 992 | 1120 | 128 years
Early Muslim conquests |  | 622 | 750 | 128 years
Second Hundred Years' War |  | 1689 | 1815 | 126 years
Punic Wars |  | 264 BC | 146 BC | 118 years
Hundred Years' War |  | 1337 | 1453 | 116 years[2]
Russo-Kazan Wars |  | 1437 | 1552 | 115 years
Norwegian civil wars |  | 1130 | 1240 | 110 years
Tuareg rebellions | * | 1916 | Ongoing | 109 years
Jin–Song Wars |  | 1125 | 1234 | 109 years
Seleucid–Parthian Wars |  | 238 BC | 129 BC | 109 years
Crisis of the Roman Republic |  | 135 BC | 27 BC | 108 years
Kurdish separatism in Iran | * | 1918 | Ongoing | 107 years
Georgian–Seljuk wars |  | 1099 | 1203 | 104 years
Hephthalite–Sasanian Wars |  | 459 | 562 | 103 years
Kurdish rebellions in Turkey | * | 6 March 1921 | Ongoing | 104 years, 5 months and 6 days
Montenegro-Japan War[3][4][5][6] |  | 1904 | 2008 | 102 years, 4 months, 1 week and 1 day
Russo-Circassian War |  | 1763 | 1864 | 100 years, 10 months and 4 days
Xhosa Wars |  | 1779 | 1879 | 100 years
Zemene Mesafint |  | 1755 | 1855 | 100 years
Xinjiang conflict | * | 1931 | Ongoing | 94 years
Beaver Wars |  | 1609 | 1701 | 92 years
Afghan–Sikh Wars |  | 1751 | 1837 | 86 years
Iraqi–Kurdish conflict |  | 1918 | 2003 | 85 years
Dagohoy rebellion |  | 24 January 1744 | 31 August 1829 | 85 years, 7 months and 1 week
Anglo-Afghan War |  | 1839 | 1919 | 80 years
Eighty Years' War |  | 1568 | 1648 | 80 years[7]
Korean conflict | * | 15 August 1945 | Ongoing | 79 years, 11 months and 4 weeks
Spanish conquest of Petén |  | 1618 | 1697 | 79 years
Rohingya insurgency | * | 1947 | Ongoing | 78 years
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana |  | 673 | 751 | 78 years
Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts | * | 22 October 1947 | Ongoing | 77 years, 9 months and 3 weeks
Kashmir conflict | * | 22 October 1947 | Ongoing | 77 years, 9 months and 3 weeks
Internal conflict in Myanmar | * | 2 April 1948 | Ongoing | 77 years, 4 months, 1 week and 3 days
Arab–Israeli conflict | * | 15 May 1948 | Ongoing | 77 years, 2 months and 4 weeks
Anglo-Ashanti wars |  | 1823 | 1900 | 77 years
Umayyad conquest of Hispania |  | 711 | 788 | 77 years
Insurgency in Balochistan | * | July 1948 | Ongoing | 77 years, 1 month, 1 week and 4 days
Ethiopian-Somali wars | * | 23 September 1948 | Ongoing | 76 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
Karen conflict | * | 31 January 1949 | Ongoing | 76 years, 6 months, 1 week and 5 days[8]
Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes | * | March 1949 | Ongoing | 76 years, 5 months, 1 week and 4 days
Muslim conquest of Sicily |  | June 827 | August 902 | 75 years and 2 months
Apache Wars |  | 1849 | 1924 | 75 years
French conquest of Algeria |  | 1830 | 1903 | 73 years
Dzungar–Qing Wars |  | 1687 | 1758 | 71 years
Jewish–Roman wars |  | 66 | 136 | 70 years
Argentine Civil Wars |  | 1814 | 1880 | 66 years
Italian Wars |  | 1494 | 1559 | 65 years
South Thailand insurgency | * | 1960 | Ongoing | 65 years
Darfur Wars of Succession |  | 1722 | 1786 | 64 years
Papua conflict | * | 1 October 1962 | Ongoing | 62 years, 10 months, 1 week and 4 days
Cross border attacks in Sabah | * | 8 December 1962 | Ongoing | 62 years, 8 months and 4 days
Insurgency in Northeast India | * | 1963 | Ongoing | 62 years
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb |  | 647 | 709 | 62 years
Anglo-Burmese Wars |  | 5 March 1824 | 29 November 1885 | 61 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 3 days
Colombian conflict | * | 27 May 1964 | Ongoing | 61 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days
Insurgency in Manipur | * | 24 November 1964 | Ongoing | 60 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 5 days
Sixty Years' War |  | 1754 | 1814 | 60 years
Dutch–Portuguese War |  | 1601 | 1661 | 60 years
Lelantine War |  | 710 BC | 650 BC | 60 years
Israeli–Lebanese conflict |  | 14 May 1948 | 18 August 2006 | 58 years, 3 months and 4 days
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency | * | 18 May 1967 | Ongoing | 58 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 4 days
Texas–Indian wars |  | 1820 | 1875 | 55 years
Civil conflict in the Philippines | * | 29 March 1969 | Ongoing | 56 years, 4 months and 2 weeks
Western Sahara conflict | * | 17 June 1970 | Ongoing | 55 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 5 days
Basque conflict |  | 31 July 1959 | 20 October 2011 | 52 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 6 days
Bulgarian–Ottoman wars |  | 1344 | 1396 | 52 years
Galicia–Volhynia Wars |  | 1340 | 1392 | 52 years
Communist insurgency in Burma |  | 1939 | 1989 | 50 years
Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria |  | 968 | 1018 | 50 years
Greco-Persian Wars |  | 499 BC | 449 BC | 50 years[9]
Moro conflict |  | 29 March 1969 | 22 February 2019 | 49 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 3 days
Cabinda War | * | 8 November 1975 | Ongoing | 49 years, 9 months and 4 days
Comanche–Mexico Wars |  | 1821 | 1870 | 49 years
Whisky War (Liquor War) |  | 17 December 1973 | 14 June 2022 | 48 years, 5 months and 4 weeks
Afghanistan conflict | * | 27 April 1978 | Ongoing | 47 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days[citation needed]
Wars of the Diadochi |  | 322 BC | 275 BC | 47 years[10]
Caucasian War |  | 1817 | 1864 | 47 years
Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–2025) |  | 27 November 1978 | 12 May 2025 | 46 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
Assam separatist movements | * | 7 April 1979 | Ongoing | 46 years, 4 months and 5 days
Cold War (Indirect War) (outline) |  | 16 April 1946 | 26 December 1991 | 45 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days
Internal conflict in Peru | * | 17 May 1980 | Ongoing | 45 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 5 days
Maoist insurgency in Turkey | * | 12 September 1980 | Ongoing | 44 years and 11 months
Chadian Civil Wars |  | 1 November 1965 | 15 January 2010 | 44 years, 2 months and 2 weeks
Kongo Civil War |  | 29 October 1665 | 4 October 1709 | 43 years, 11 months and 5 days
Sino-Dutch conflicts |  | 1620 | 1662 | 42 years
Thirty-Eight Years' War |  | 770 | 811 | 41 years[citation needed]
Umayyad invasion of Gaul |  | 719 | 759 | 40 years
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire |  | 1532 | 1572 | 40 years
Chichimeca War |  | 1550 | 1590 | 40 years
Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts |  | 1918 | 1958 | 40 years
Comanche Wars |  | 1836 | 1875 | 39 years
Bab al-Tabbaneh–Jabal Mohsen conflict |  | 1976 | 2015 | 39 years
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency | * | January 1987 | Ongoing | 38 years, 7 months, 1 week and 4 days
Sectarianism in Pakistan | * | 1987 | Ongoing | 38 years
Abkhaz–Georgian conflict | * | 18 March 1989 | Ongoing | 36 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 4 days
Guatemalan Civil War |  | 13 November 1960 | 29 December 1996 | 36 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 2 days[11]
French Wars of Religion |  | 1562 | 1598 | 36 years
Banana Wars |  | 1898 | 1934 | 36 years
Anglo-Powhatan Wars |  | 1610 | 1646 | 36 years
Internal conflict in Bangladesh | * | 1989 | Ongoing | 36 years
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir | * | 13 July 1989 | Ongoing | 36 years, 4 weeks and 2 days
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict |  | 20 February 1988 | 1 January 2024 | 35 years, 10 months, 1 week and 5 days
Georgian–Ossetian conflict | * | 10 November 1989 | Ongoing | 35 years, 9 months and 2 days
DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey | * | 1 April 1990 | Ongoing | 35 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
Holy Man's Rebellion |  | 1901 | 1936 | 35 years
Somali Civil War | * | May 1991[nb 1] | Ongoing | 34 years, 3 months, 1 week and 4 days
Oromo conflict | * | 1992 | Ongoing | 33 years
Ayutthaya-Lan Na War |  | 1441 | 1474 | 33 years
Wars of the Roses |  | 1455 | 1487 | 32 years[19]
First War of Scottish Independence |  | 1296 | 1328 | 32 years[20]
Casamance conflict |  | 1982 | 2014 | 32 years
Anglo-Mysore Wars |  | 1767 | 1799 | 32 years
Libyan resistance movement |  | 1911 | 1943 | 32 years
Second Viking invasion of the British Isles |  | 980 | 1012 | 32 years
Insurgency in Laos |  | 3 December 1975 | 2008 | 32 years
Aceh War |  | 1873 | 1904 | 31 years[21]
Āfāqī Khoja Holy War |  | 1826 | 1857 | 31 years
The Troubles |  | 1968 | 1998 | 30 years
Thirty Years' War |  | 1618 | 1648 | 30 years[22]
Chiapas conflict |  | 1994 | 2014 | 31 years
Eritrean War of Independence |  | 1 September 1961 | 29 May 1991 | 29 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Norman Conquest of Sicily |  | May 1061 | February 1091 | 29 years and 9 months
Murid War |  | 1830 | 1859 | 29 years
Insurgency in Meghalaya | * | 1996 | Ongoing | 29 years
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency | * | 1996 | Ongoing | 29 years
Insurgency in Aceh |  | 4 December 1976 | 15 August 2005 | 28 years, 8 months, 1 week and 4 days
Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine |  | 1 March 1920 | 15 May 1948 | 28 years, 2 months and 2 weeks
Portuguese Restoration War |  | 1640 | 1668 | 28 years[23]
Nicaraguan Revolution |  | 1962 | 1990 | 28 years
FULRO insurgency |  | 20 September 1964 | October 1992 | 28 years
Communist insurgency in Sarawak |  | December 1962 | 3 November 1990 | 27 years, 11 months and 2 days
Peloponnesian War |  | 431 BC | 404 BC | 27 years[24]
New Zealand Wars |  | 1845 | 1872 | 27 years
Angolan Civil War |  | 1975 | 2002 | 27 years[25]
Communal conflicts in Nigeria | * | 1998 | Ongoing | 27 years
Russo-Finnish wars |  | 27 January 1918 | 19 September 1944 | 26 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen | * | 30 December 1998 | Ongoing | 26 years, 7 months, 1 week and 6 days
Sri Lankan Civil War |  | 23 July 1983 | 18 May 2009 | 25 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 4 days
Mughal–Maratha Wars |  | September 1681 | May 1707 | 25 years and 8 months
Livonian War |  | 1558 | 1583 | 25 years[26]
Spanish American wars of independence |  | 1808 | 1833 | 25 years
Insurgency in Ogaden |  | 22 February 1994 | 12 August 2018 | 24 years, 5 months and 3 weeks
South African Border War |  | 26 August 1966 | 21 March 1990 | 24 years
Indonesian occupation of East Timor |  | 7 December 1975 | 31 October 1999 | 23 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 3 days
War on terror | * | 14 September 2001 | Ongoing[27] | 23 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day
Great French War |  | 20 April 1792 | 20 November 1815 | 23 years and 7 months[28]
Insurgency in the Maghreb | * | 11 April 2002 | Ongoing | 23 years, 4 months and 1 day
First Punic War |  | 264 BC | 241 BC | 23 years
Second Afar insurgency |  | 1995 | 18 July 2018 | 23 years
Silesian Wars |  | 1740 | 1763 | 23 years
Conflict in the Niger Delta | * | 12 March 2003 | Ongoing | 22 years and 5 months
War in Darfur | * | 26 February 2003 | Ongoing | 22 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
Laotian Civil War |  | 9 November 1953 | 2 December 1975 | 22 years, 3 weeks and 2 days
Second Sudanese Civil War |  | 1983 | 2005 | 22 years
Italian Unification Wars |  | 1848 | 1870 | 22 years
Occupation of Araucanía |  | 1861 | 1883 | 22 years
Norman conquest of England |  | 1066 | 1088 | 22 years
Kandyan Wars |  | 1796 | 1818 | 22 years
Little War in Hungary |  | 1530 | 1552 | 22 years
Chinese Civil War |  | 1 August 1927 | 7 December 1949 | 22 years
Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989) |  | 17 June 1968 | 2 December 1989 | 21 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | * | 16 March 2004 | Ongoing | 21 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
Iran–PJAK conflict | * | 1 April 2004 | Ongoing | 21 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
Kivu conflict | * | 2004 | Ongoing | 21 years
Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency | * | 2004 | Ongoing | 21 years
United States occupation of Nicaragua |  | 1912 | 1933 | 21 years
Lazic War |  | 541 | 562 | 21 years
Great Northern War |  | 1700 | 1721 | 21 years[29]
Ottoman conquest of Habesh |  | 1557 | 1578 | 21 years
Muslim conquest of Persia |  | 633 | 654 | 21 years
Eumeralla Wars |  | 1840 | 1860 | 20 years
War of the Sicilian Vespers |  | 1282 | 1302 | 20 years
Somaliland campaign |  | 1900 | 1920 | 20 years
Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict |  | 1977 | 2 December 1997 | 20 years
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |  | 7 October 2001 | 15 August 2021 | 19 years, 10 months, 1 week and 1 day
Insurgency in Paraguay | * | 27 August 2005 | Ongoing | 19 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 2 days
Vietnam War (outline) |  | 1 November 1955 | 30 April 1975 | 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day[30]
Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 |  | 572 | 591 | 19 years
Miao Rebellion (1854–1873) |  | 1854 | 1873 | 19 years
Gothic War |  | 535 | 554 | 19 years[citation needed]
Jeroboam's Revolt | 931 BC | 913 BC | 18 years
Mexican drug war | * | 11 December 2006 | Ongoing | 18 years, 8 months and 1 day
Communist insurgency in Thailand |  | 1965 | 1983 | 18 years
Basmachi movement |  | 1916 | 1934 | 18 years
Mahdist War |  | 1881 | 1899 | 18 years
Second Punic War |  | 218 BC | 201 BC | 17 years
Ethiopian Civil War |  | 12 September 1974 | 4 June 1991 | 16 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
First Sudanese Civil War |  | 18 August 1955 | 27 March 1972 | 16 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days
Bolivian War of Independence |  | 1809 | 1825 | 16 years
Chilean War of Independence |  | 1810 | 1826 | 16 years
Western Sahara War |  | 30 October 1975 | 6 September 1991 | 15 years, 10 months and 1 week
Great Turkish War |  | 14 July 1683 | 26 January 1699 | 15 years, 6 months, 1 week and 5 days
Lebanese Civil War |  | 13 April 1975 | 13 October 1990 | 15 years and 6 months
Rhodesian Bush War |  | 4 July 1964 | 12 December 1979 | 15 years, 5 months, 1 week and 1 day
Morean War |  | 1684 | 1699 | 15 years
Jewish–Babylonian War |  | 601 BC | 586 BC | 15 years
Cambodian–Vietnamese War |  | 30 April 1977 | 23 October 1991 | 14 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Syrian Civil War | * | 15 March 2011 | Ongoing[nb 2] | 14 years, 4 months and 4 weeks
Third Indochina War |  | 1978 | 1992 | 14 years
Dhofar Rebellion |  | 1962 | 1976 | 14 years
Years of Lead (Italy) |  | 1968 | 1982 | 14 years
Taiping Rebellion |  | 1850 | 1864 | 14 years
Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) |  | 1686 | 1700 | 14 years
Abyssinian–Adal war |  | 1529 | 1543 | 14 years
Marcomannic Wars |  | 166 | 180 | 14 years
Second Sino-Japanese War |  | 18 September 1931 | 9 September 1945 | 13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 1 day
Portuguese Colonial War |  | 4 February 1961 | 25 April 1974 | 13 years, 2 months and 3 weeks
Darul Islam rebellion |  | August 1949 | September 1962 | 13 years, 3 weeks and 5 days
War of the Spanish Succession |  | 9 July 1702 | 11 July 1715 | 13 years and 2 days
Peruvian War of Independence |  | 1811 | 1824 | 13 years
Venezuelan War of Independence |  | 1810 | 1823 | 13 years
Wars of Alexander the Great |  | 336 BC | 323 BC | 13 years
Napoleonic Wars |  | 18 May 1803 | 20 November 1815 | 12 years, 6 months and 2 days[28]
Burundian Civil War |  | 21 October 1993 | 15 April 2006 | 12 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 4 days
Haitian Revolution |  | 21 August 1791 | 1 January 1804 | 12 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days
Malayan Emergency |  | 16 June 1948 | 12 July 1960 | 12 years, 3 weeks and 5 days
Salvadoran Civil War |  | 15 October 1979 | 16 January 1992 | 12 years, 3 months and 1 day
Iraqi no-fly zones conflict |  | 1991 | 2003 | 12 years
Wars of the Three Kingdoms |  | 1639 | 1651 | 12 years
Cimbrian War |  | 113 BC | 101 BC | 12 years
Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) |  | 1979 | 1991 | 12 years
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence |  | 23 January 1963 | 10 September 1974 | 11 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 4 days
Queen Anne's War |  | 8 March 1702 | 13 July 1713 | 11 years, 4 months and 5 days
Russo-Ukrainian War | * | 20 February 2014 | Ongoing | 11 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Mexican War of Independence |  | 16 September 1810 | 27 September 1821 | 11 years, 1 week and 4 days
Dano-Swedish War |  | 1501 | 1512 | 11 years
Pool Department insurgency |  | 1997 | 2008 | 11 years
Insurgency in Punjab |  | 1984 | 1995 | 11 years
Sierra Leone Civil War |  | 23 March 1991 | 18 January 2002 | 10 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 5 days
Nepalese Civil War |  | 13 February 1996 | 21 November 2006 | 10 years, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day
Yemeni Civil War | * | 16 September 2014 | Ongoing | 10 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 6 days
Houthi insurgency in Yemen |  | 18 June 2004 | 6 February 2015 | 10 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 5 days
Yugoslav Wars |  | 31 March 1991 | 12 November 2001 | 10 years, 7 months, 1 week and 5 days
Algerian Civil War |  | 26 December 1991 | 8 February 2002 | 10 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days
Somaliland War of Independence |  | 6 April 1981 | 18 May 1991 | 10 years, 1 month, 1 week and 5 days
Soviet–Afghan War |  | 24 December 1979 | 15 February 1989 | 9 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day
Iraq War |  | 20 March 2003 | 15 December 2011 | 8 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days
American Revolutionary War |  | 19 April 1775 | 3 September 1783 | 8 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
Aksumite-Persian wars |  | 570 | 578 | 8 years
Iran–Iraq War |  | 22 September 1980 | 20 August 1988 | 7 years, 10 months, 4 weeks and 1 day
War of the Austrian Succession |  | 16 December 1740 | 18 October 1748 | 7 years, 10 months and 2 days
World War II |  | 1 September 1939 | 2 September 1945 | 6 years and 1 day
Jebel Akhdar War |  | 30 January 1954 | 10 October 1959 | 5 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days
Paraguayan War |  | 1864 | 1870 | 5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days
Second Congo War (African World War) |  | 2 August 1998 | 18 June 2003 | 4 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days
Russian Civil War |  | 7 November 1917 | 16 June 1923 | 4 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days
World War I (outline) |  | 28 July 1914 | 11 November 1918 | 4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks
American Civil War (outline)  |  | 12 April 1861 | 9 April 1865 | 3 years, 11 months and 4 weeks
Philippine-American War |  | 4 February 1899 | 2 July 1902 | 3 years, 3 months, 4 weeks and 1 day
War of Attrition |  | 1 July 1967 | 7 August 1970 | 3 years, 1 month and 6 days
Korean War |  | 25 June 1950 | 27 July 1953 | 3 years, 1 month and 2 days
Spanish Civil War |  | 17 July 1936 | 1 April 1939 | 2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 1 day
War of 1812 |  | 18 June 1812 | 17 February 1815 | 2 years, 8 months, 4 weeks and 2 days
Nigerian Civil War |  | 6 July 1967 | 15 January 1970 | 2 years, 7 months, 1 week and 2 days
Crimean War |  | 16 October 1853 | 30 March 1856 | 2 years, 5 months and 2 weeks
Tigray War |  | 3 November 2020 | 3 November 2022 | 2 years
War of the Polish Succession |  | 10 October 1733 | 3 October 1735 | 1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Mexican–American War |  | 25 April 1846 | 2 February 1848 | 1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day
Toyota War |  | 16 December 1986 | 11 September 1987 | 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days
Gulf War |  | 2 August 1990 | 28 February 1991 | 6 months, 3 weeks and 5 days
Spanish–American War |  | 21 April 1898 | 13 August 1898 | 3 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising |  | 2 August 1903 | November 1903 | 2 or 3 months
Falklands War |  | 2 April 1982 | 14 June 1982 | 2 months, 1 week and 5 days
Austro-Prussian War |  | 14 June 1866 | 22 July 1866 | 1 month, 1 week and 1 day
Turkish-Cypriot War of 1974 |  | 20 July 1974 | 18 August 1974 | 4 weeks and 1 day
Serbo-Bulgarian War |  | 14 November 1885 | 28 November 1885 | 2 weeks
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |  | 3 December 1971 | 16 December 1971 | 1 week and 6 days
Iran–Israel War |  | 13 June 2025 | 24 June 2025 | 1 week and 5 days
Russo-Georgian War |  | 1 August 2008 | 12 August 2008 | 1 week and 4 days
Six Day War |  | 5 June 1967 | 10 June 1967 | 6 days
Rwandan-Ugandan War |  | 5 June 2000 | 10 June 2000 | 5 days
Football War |  | 14 July 1969 | 18 July 1969 | 4 days
Wagner Group rebellion |  | 23 June 2023 | 24 June 2023 | 1 day
2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes |  | 19 September 2023 (13:17) | 20 September 2023 (13:00) | 23 hours 43 minutes
2008 Invasion of Anjoun |  | 25 March 2008 (05:00) | 25 March 2008 (12:00) | 7 hours
Anglo-Zanzibar war |  | 27 August 1896 (09:00) | 27 August 1896 (09:37) | 38 minutes

## See also

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* List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity

## Notes

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1. ^ Various start dates have been offered for when the civil war in Somalia began. The Central Bank of Somalia,[12] the United Nations,[13][14] the US Office of the Secretary of Defense,[15] and Necrometrics all assert that the conflict started in 1991, after the ouster of the Siad Barre administration.[16] Political scientist James Fearon argues that the start of the conflict could be dated to 1981, when armed Isaaq clan militias began to launch small-scale attacks against the Barre regime and its Isaaq members, to the razing of the Isaaq majority town of Hargeisa in 1988 by state forces, or to 1991, following the collapse of the Barre administration and the commencement of interclan warfare. For analytical purposes, he settles on 1991 for the start date of a new civil war, on the grounds that the fighting had begun previously, but that a major party to the conflict was defeated.[17] Robinson writes that the "civil war had effectively begun by 1987", referring to Compagnon.[18]
2. ^ With the Ba'athist regime prevailing, the hostilities were mostly put on hold between 6 March 2020 and 27 November 2024, when the Syrian opposition launched a campaign of quick successful military offensives in Northwestern Syria, toppling the Assad regime on 8 December. Further fate of the ongoing conflict remains uncertain.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]

## References

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4. ^ "Japan in Montenegro". Telegrafi. 8 August 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
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