List of wars involving Azerbaijan

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Azerbaijan and its predecessor states.

List[]

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918–1920)
Caucasus Campaign of World War I
(1914–1918)
 Ottoman Empire

Azerbaijan (1918)
Mountain Republic (1918)
 German Empire (1914–17)


Georgia (1918)

 Russian Empire (1914–17)
  • Administration of Western Armenia

Armenia Armenia (1918)
 United Kingdom (1918)
Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918)


 Russian SFSR (1918)

Victory
Russian Civil War
(1918–1920)
White movement

 German Empire (1917–1918)
 Ottoman Empire (1917–1918)
Azerbaijan (1918)
Finland (1918–1919)
Georgia
 Austria-Hungary (1917–1918)
Ukrainian State (1918)

 Russian SFSR

Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
Commune of Estonia
Lithuanian SSR
Latvian SSR

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

Mughan Soviet Republic

Victory
Armenian–Azerbaijani War
(1918–1920)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (until April 1920)
 Ottoman Empire (1918)

Republic of Aras (1918–1919)


 Russian SFSR (since April 1920)

  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan (since April 1920)
Armenia Armenia

 United Kingdom
Centrocaspian Dictatorship

Soviet victory
  • Karabakh dispute settled in Azerbaijani favor
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
(1920)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan  Russian SFSR
  • Azerbaijani Bolsheviks
Soviet victory
  • Sovietization of Azerbaijan
Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (1920–1991)
Anti-Soviet revolts:  Russian SFSR
  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Rebels Soviet victory
  • Defeat of the rebels
Red Army invasion of Armenia
(1920)
 Russian SFSR
  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Armenia Armenia Victory
  • Sovietization of Armenia
Red Army invasion of Georgia
(1921)
 Russian SFSR
  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Georgia (country) Georgia Victory
  • Sovietization of Georgia
February Uprising
(1921)
Soviet Union Revolutionary committee (Revkom) of Armenia

 Russian SFSR
Soviet Azerbaijan

Armenian Revolutionary Federation Victory
  • Uprising quelled
Battle of Mountainous Armenia
(1921)
Soviet Armenia

 Russian SFSR
Soviet Azerbaijan

Mountainous Armenia Victory
World War II
(1939–1945)
 Soviet Union
  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Germany Germany Victory
  • 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom perished.
  • 70,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht.
Soviet–Afghan War
(1979–1989)
 Soviet Union
  • Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan
Peshawar Seven Withdrawal
  • 10,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 200 of whom perished.[1]
Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–)
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
(1988–1994)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan  Nagorno-Karabakh

 Armenia (1992–1994)

Defeat
Ganja Uprising
(1993)
Azerbaijan Huseynov's forces Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Change of government
OPON coup d'état attempt
(1995)
Azerbaijan OPON Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Victory
  • Coup d'état failed

(1999)
Azerbaijan Musayev's forces Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government Victory
  • Uprising suppressed
Operation Eagle
(2008)
 Azerbaijan Caucasus Emirate Victory
Four-Day War
(2016)
 Azerbaijan  Nagorno-Karabakh
 Armenia
Inconclusive
  • Minor Azerbaijani land gains
Operation Gyunnut
(2018)
 Azerbaijan  Armenia Victory
  • Azerbaijan regains control of Gyunnut
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war
(2020)
 Azerbaijan  Artsakh

 Armenia

Victory[2]
Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
(2021)
 Azerbaijan  Armenia Ongoing
  • Azerbaijan occupies parts of Armenian territory

Peacekeeping missions[]

Mission Start-date End-date Location Troops (peak)
NATO KFOR 1999 2008  Kosovo 34
Multi-National Force Iraq MNF-I 2003 2008  Iraq 250
ISAF ISAF 2008 2021  Afghanistan 94

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Əfqanıstan müharibəsində 200-dən çox azərbaycanlı həlak olub". Azadliq Radiosu (in Azerbaijani). 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.
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