List of wars involving El Salvador

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of El Salvador.

## 1800s

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Conflict | Allies | Opponents | Results

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Salvadoran-Mexican War |

* El Salvador

* Mexico
* Guatemala

| Defeat[1]

* El Salvador is annexed to Mexico

First Central American Civil War

(1827–1829)

* El Salvador
* Honduras
* Costa Rica
* Nicaragua

* Guatemala

| Victory
War of 1832

(1832)

|  El Salvador |  Honduras

Nicaragua

| Defeat
Malespín's War

(1844)

|  El Salvador
Honduras |  Nicaragua | Victory
Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1845 |  El Salvador |  Honduras | Status Quo Ante Bellum
Filibuster War
(1856-1857)  |  Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Mosquitia
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
United States
United Kingdom (naval support)  |  Filibusters | Victory

* William Walker's army is defeated and he is arrested by the American Navy

War of 1863
(1863)  |  El Salvador
Honduras |  Guatemala
Salvadoran Deserters  | Defeat

* Overthrow of Gerardo Barrios
* Francisco Dueñas becomes President

Honduran-Salvadoran War of 1871

(1871)

|  El Salvador |  Honduras | Defeat

•Francisco Dueñas is overthrown •Santiago González becomes president

First Guatemalan–Salvadoran intervention in Honduras
(1872)  |  El Salvador

Guatemala

|  Honduras | Victory
Second Guatemalan–Salvadoran intervention in Honduras
(1873)  |  El Salvador

Guatemala

|  Honduras | Victory
Barrios' War of Reunification
(1885)  |  El Salvador
Mexico
Costa Rica
Nicaragua |  Guatemala
Honduras | Victory

* Death of Justo Rufino Barrios

First Totoposte War
(1890)  |  El Salvador |  Guatemala
Salvadoran Exiles  | Stalemate

* Status quo ante bellum

Revolution of the 44
(1894)  |  Salvadoran government  |  Anti-government rebels

* Supported by:
* Guatemala
* Honduras

| Rebel victory

* Carlos Ezeta deposed
* Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez becomes president

## 1900s

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Conflict | Allies | Opponents | Results

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Second Totoposte War
(1903)  |  El Salvador
Mexico
Guatemalan Exiles  |  Guatemala | Stalemate

* Status quo ante bellum

Third Totoposte War
(1906)  |  El Salvador
Mexico
Guatemalan Exiles  |  Guatemala | Stalemate
War of 1907
(1907)  |  El Salvador |  Nicaragua
Salvadoran Exiles
American Filibusters
Honduras | Victory

* Status quo ante bellum

World War II
(1941-1945)  |  United States
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
China
France
Poland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
India
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Greece
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Mexico
Chile
Panama
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic
Cuba |  Germany
Japan
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Slovakia
Finland
Thailand
Manchukuo
Mengjiang | Victory

* Collapse of the Third Reich
* Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
* Creation of the United Nations
* Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
* Beginning of the Cold War

Dominican Civil War
(1965-1966)  |  Dominican Loyalists
United States
Brazil
Paraguay
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
El Salvador |  Dominican Constitutionalists | Victory

* Juan Bosch excluded from Presidency
* Election of Joaquín Balaguer

Football War
(1969)  |  El Salvador |  Honduras | Ceasefire

* Status quo ante bellum
* Ceasefire by OAS intervention

Salvadoran Civil War
(1979-1992)  |  El Salvador |  FMLN | Ceasefire

* Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992
* Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces
* National and Treasury Police are dissolved (new civilian-overseen police created)
* FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

## 2000s-present

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Conflict | Allies | Opponents | Results

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Iraq War
(2003-2009)  |  Iraq
United States
United Kingdom
South Korea
Italy
Poland
Australia
New Zealand
Georgia
Ukraine
Netherlands
Romania
Japan
Denmark
Spain
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Dominican Republic

MNF–I

* United States
* United Kingdom
* Australia
* Romania
* El Salvador
* Estonia
* Bulgaria
* Moldova
* Albania
* Ukraine
* Denmark
* Czech Republic
* South Korea
* Azerbaijan
* Singapore
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Republic of Macedonia
* Latvia
* Poland
* Kazakhstan
* Mongolia
* Georgia
* Tonga
* Armenia
* Slovakia
* Lithuania
* Italy
* Norway
* Japan
* Hungary
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* New Zealand
* Thailand
* Philippines
* Honduras
* Dominican Republic
* Spain
* Nicaragua
* Iceland

|  Baath Loyalists
ISI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Mahdi Army
Special Groups
IAI
Ansar al-Sunnah

* * *

Ba'athist Iraq

| Victory

* Invasion and occupation of Iraq
* Defeat of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein
* Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war
* Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security
* Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government
* U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
* Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq

Afghanistan War
(2011-2014)  |  Afghanistan
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Italy
France
Denmark
Georgia
Poland
Romania
Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
Spain
El Salvador

ISAF

* Albania
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahrain
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* El Salvador
* Estonia
* Finland
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Jordan
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Portugal
* Republic of Macedonia
* Singapore
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Tonga
* Ukraine
* United Arab Emirates

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Northern Alliance

|  Taliban
al-Qaeda
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
HI-Gulbuddin
Hezb-e Islami Khalis
Haqqani network
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Jaish-e-Mohammed
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
Islamic Emirate of Waziristan
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Islamic Jihad Union

* * *

| Defeat

* American victory in the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan leading to the destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps and fall of the Taliban government (2001)
* Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
* Start of Taliban insurgency
* Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011
* "Afghanization" of Afghan conflict. Withdrawal of most US troops after 2014
* End of Operation Enduring Freedom; start of 2015 phase of war, and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. End of US and ISAF led combat mission; beginning of NATO-led training and assistance mission.
* Doha Agreement and progressive withdrawal of remaining US troops after 2020[2]
* Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021
* Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021, and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
* Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
* Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban
* On 30 August 2021 the last American military plane departed Afghanistan.[3][4]
* Billions of dollars of foreign-origin military hardware that was formerly in custody of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan seized by Taliban[5]

## References

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1. ^ Montúfar, Manuel (1832). Memorias para la historia de la revolución de Centro-América (in Spanish). Impreso por Aburto y Blanco, en la oficina del gobierno.
2. ^ "U.S. Troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon". Reuters. January 15, 2021.
3. ^ "Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". The White House. 16 August 2021.
4. ^ Gibbons-Neff, Thomas; Katzenberg, Lauren (2021-08-30). "The U.S. military finishes its evacuation, and an era ends in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
5. ^ Lou, Mary (2022-01-01). "Taliban a 'major U.S. arms dealer' after weaponry left behind in Afghanistan, watchdog warns". Just The News.

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