Recently concluded or suspended wars and conflicts in the world—Wars and conflicts which, as of this page’s latest update, are concluded due to a cease-fire, peace treaty or some other apparently permanent cessation of hostilities. Many of these conflicts can easily re-erupt into violence. Generally, conflicts remain in this category until ten years have passed without a resumption of war. Alphabetical listing.
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q Angolan Civil War—(1975-April 4, 2002): After jointly fighting for independence against Portugal, the MPLA and UNITA, two rebel groups, fell into civil war over control of Angola. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the MPLA accepted aid from Cuba and the Soviet Union, while UNITA took aid from South Africa and the United States. UNITA used bases in neighboring Congo, which led the MPLA-led Angolan government to intervene in the Congolese Wars. After UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi’s death in early 2002, negotiations led to the April cease-fire.
q Cambodian Civil War--
q Chiapas Uprising in Mexico (“Zapatista Uprising”)—(Jan. 1, 1994- Present): Zapatista rebels, most of whom are Mexican Indians, launched a rebellion in the Southern state of Chiapas. Though no outright fighting has taken place since a cease-fire in late January 1994, tensions remain as negotiations take place.
q Congo-Brazzaville Civil War—(1997-2000):
q East Timor War—(1975-1999)
q Egyptian Muslim Rebellion—(1992-2000): Fundamentalist Muslim rebels seek to topple the secular Egyptian government. At least 1,200 people have perished since the beginning of the rebellion. The conflict was primarily waged as an urban guerrilla/terrorist war. The opposition Muslim Brotherhood took part in elections in 2000, indicating that they felt armed force would not work.
q Second Eritrea-Ethiopia War—(1998-2000): Border war between two heavily armed east African neighbors with a long and violent history between them. Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 following a 30-year guerilla war.
q Fiji Civil War--
q Georgian Military Revolt--
q Guinea-Bissau Civil War and Intervention—(1998-1999): An army rebellion against the Guinea-Bissau government plunged this West African nation into a violent civil war. Neighboring Senegal and Guinea-Conakry sent troops to aid the government. Despite this aid, the war ended with the rebel leader in control of the nation. Senegal intervened partially due to the rebellion in its own Casamance region, which borders on Guinea-Bissau.
q Haiti Coup Attempt –( Dec. 17, 2001):
q Israeli Occupation of Southern Lebanon –(1982-2000): Following the 1982-1984 Israeli Invasion and Occupation of Southern Lebanon, a border war has began in which Islamic and Palestinian guerrillas seek to drive Israeli troops from a strip of southern Lebanon which they occupied with the aid of the anti-government South Lebanon Army. Israel occasionally bombed and shelled areas throughout Lebanon. Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon in mid-2000.
q Intervention in Lesotho by South Africa and Botswana—Following election-related violence in Lesotho, neighboring South Africa and Botswana intervened to preserve the current government.
q Kosovo War—(1998-1999): The latest round of the Yugoslav Civil War (or Third Balkan War) began as another ethnic rebellion against Serbian authority. NATO intervened to halt what it called the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, turning this backwater war into a relatively significant air campaign leading to the liberation of the province from Serbian Yugoslav authority.
q Madagascar Civil War—( June, 2002-July 7, 2002): Didier Ratsiraka and Marc Ravalomanana ran against each other in Madagascar’s presidential election of December 16, 2001. They disagreed on who should take charge of the government following Ravalomanana’s apparent victory, and violence between their supporters broke out in June, 2002. Ratsiraka fled the country in July after Ravalomanana gained the diplomatic support of the United States and France. BBC News Link
q Peruvian Civil War—(1980-2000): The Peruvian government defeated the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).
q Saharan War—(1975-Present): A truce has been in place since 1991, but a permanent peace deal has not yet been reached. The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony. When the Spanish left their Saharan colony, Morocco and Mauritania seized the area and the native Saharawi began a struggle for independence. Mauritania gave up its portion of the Western Sahara in 1979 and ended participation in the war.
q Saudi-Yemen Border Conflict—(1998): Border conflict between two neighbors who have never gotten along. The border is ill defined and has been a source of conflict for decades.
q Senegal Civil War (“Casamance War”)--
q Sierra Leone Civil War—(March, 1991-2002):
q Tajikistan Civil War—(1992-1997):
q Yemeni Tribal Uprising—(1998): Rebellion by rural tribesmen protesting the poor economy. The Yemeni government alleges that Saudi Arabia coaxed the rebels into violence. Conflict between the government and the interior tribes occurs often.
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Major Acts of Terrorism—This section is not yet complete, but will show major acts of terrorism from around the world. These attacks will be categorized by either the country they take place in, and/or the organization that conducted them. Terrorist acts which are an integral part of a major conflict (such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), generally will not appear here. Some attacks will appear twice, in the category showing where they took place and in the category showing who implemented the attack.
q United States, Attacks in/or against— Attacks taking place in the United States or against American targets around the world.
o Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—( September 11, 2001): Terrorists belonging to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida organization, hijacked four United States commercial passenger planes and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. This event triggered the Coalition invasion/liberation of Afghanistan and the continuing worldwide War on Terrorism.
q q q al-Qaida, Attacks by—The radical fundamentalist Islamic organization dedicated to eliminating American influence in the Middle East (particularly in Saudi Arabia) and to the destruction of Israel.
o o o Attack on Israeli tourists in Kenya (Nov. 28, 2002): Israeli tourists in Kenya were targeted in two coordinated, nearly simultaneous attacks. Al-Qaida is a leading suspect in these attacks. Three men drove a SUV into an Israeli-owned Mombassa hotel, killing themselves and 13 others (10 Kenyans and 3 Israelis), destroying the hotel building. Then, as an Israeli passenger plane was taking off enroute back to Israel, two surface-to-air missiles were launched. One missile clipped the plane, but failed to explode. The other missile missed its target.
o o o Attack on the French oil tanker Limburg (Oct. 6, 2002): An explosion caused by suicide terrorists, similar to the attack on the USS Cole two years earlier, killed one crewman of the Limburg and caused the spillage of over 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden.
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o o o Bali Bombing—(Oct. 12, 2002): Al-Qaida is suspected in the bombing of a nightclub frequented by foreign tourists in Bali, Indonesia. Among the 200 dead are at least 70 Australians, 21 Britons and 7 Americans.
o Tunisian Synagogue Bombing—(April 11, 2002): A natural gas filled truck crashed into a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. The blast killed 17 people, most of whom were German tourists. This was believed to be al-Qaida’s first attack outside Afghanistan since Sept. 11.
o Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—( September 11, 2001): Terrorists belonging to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida organization, hijacked four United States commercial passenger planes and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. This event triggered the Coalition invasion/liberation of Afghanistan and the continuing worldwide War on Terrorism.
o Attack on the USS Cole—(October 12, 2000):
o U.S. Embassy Bombings –(August 8, 1998): |
