List of wars involving El Salvador

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

1800s

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
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

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
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

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
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 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

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.