List of wars involving Ethiopia

This is a list of wars involving the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and its predecessor states.

Ethiopian Empire (1137–1975)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Abyssinia–Ifat kingdom (1376–1403)	Ethiopia	Sultanate of Ifat	Victory Ifat sultanete defeated
Abyssinian–Adal War (1529–1543)	Ethiopia Portugal	Adal Sultanate Mogadishu Sultanate Ottoman Empire	Victory Adal Sultanate weakened
Zemene Mesafint (1769–1855)	Various factions	Various factions	Reunification of Ethiopia Tewodros II became Emperor.
British Expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868)	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	Defeat Tewodros II committed suicide
Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876)	Ethiopia	Egypt	Victory Egyptian defeated.
Mahdist War (1885–1889)	Ethiopia	Mahdist Sudan	Victory Sudanese defeated
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889	Ethiopia	Italy	Compromise Treaty of Wuchale,establishment of Italian Eritrea
First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896)	Ethiopian Empire	Italy	Victory Ensured Ethiopia's independence Italian defeated.
Anglo-Somali War (1900–1920)	Ethiopia	Dervish State	Victory Collapse of the Dervish State.
Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)	Ethiopia	Italy	Defeat Italian conquest of Ethiopia, establishment of Italian East Africa
East African Campaign	United Kingdom  Ethiopia  Belgian Congo  Free French	Italy	Victory Fall of Italian East Africa
Korean War (1950–1953)	South Korea UNC  United States  United Kingdom  Canada  Turkey  Australia Ethiopia  Philippines  New Zealand  Thailand Greece  France  Colombia  Belgium  South Africa  Netherlands  Luxembourg	North Korea  China  Soviet Union	Stalemate The Korean Armistice Agreement
Congo Crisis (1960–1964)	Congo-Léopoldville ONUC  Ireland  Sweden  Norway  India  Nigeria  Ethiopia	Katanga  South Kasai	Victory Debellation of Congolese separatist states.
Bale Revolt (1963–1970)	Ethiopia	Oromo and Somali rebels	Victory Revolt crushed, peace agreement
1964 Ethiopian–Somali War (1964)[1]	Ethiopia	Somalia	Victory The military of Somalia offensive repulsed.

Derg + People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1975–1991)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia  Cuba  South Yemen	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali retreat from Ogaden with assistance by Cuban personnel
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982)	Ethiopia SSDF	Somalia	Victory Ethiopian-SSDF withdrawal from Somalia, after USA military intervention.
Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)	Ethiopia	EPLF ELF	Defeat Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. Ethiopia became a landlocked country.
Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)	Ethiopia	EPRP EPLF TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP OLF ONLF WSLF ALF	Defeat Fall of government, installation of new TPLF-led government

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (from 1995)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Insurgency in Ogaden (1995–2008)	Ethiopia	ONLF	Victory Military defeat of ONLF forces.
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)	Ethiopia	Eritrea	Military victory/ Diplomatic defeat Ethiopia ceded the disputed territories including badme.
War in Somalia (2006–2009)	Ethiopia TFG AMISOM  Uganda  Burundi  Kenya  Djibouti  Sierra Leone	ICU OLF al-Shabaab	Status quo antem bellum Islamists withdrawal from Somalia.
Tigray conflict (Nov-2020–Dec-2020)	Ethiopia	TPLF	Victory The Ethiopian army had released thousands of soldiers taken by the TPLF.

Footnotes

1. A part of the Shifta War; Somalia issued to win from Ethiopia badly.