List of civil wars
This is a list of civil wars .
Past civil wars
Roman Republican civil wars , List of Roman Republic and Empire Civil Wars
The Brothers' Civil War , 1067 -1670 ? (The war between King Alfonso of Leon and King Sancho of Castille)
The Anarchy , 1135 -1153 (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
English Wars of the Roses , c. 1455 -1485
French Wars of Religion , 1562 -1598
English Civil War , 1642 -1649
Zulu Civil War , 1817 -1819
American Civil War , 1861 -1865
Russian Civil War , 1917 -1921
Finnish Civil War , 1918
Irish Civil War , 1922 -1923
Chinese Civil War , 1928 -1937 , 1945 -1949
Spanish Civil War , 1936 -1939
Greek Civil War , 1946 -1949
Paraguayan Civil War , 1947
Korean Civil War , 1950 -1953
Nigerian Civil War , 1967 -1970
Lebanese Civil War , 1975 -1991
Romania had a brief civil war in 1989 , after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu , between Communists and those against the former regime.
Contemporary civil wars
The following civil wars are ongoing or ended in the past decade, as of 2005 . Some of them may be classified as insurrections , etc., rather than full civil wars, as they fade into the past.
Afghanistan , 1992 -2002
Angola , 1974 -1989 , 1995 -1997 , 1998 -2002
Burundi , 1988 -1991 , 1993 -2001
Cambodia , 1978 -1993 , 1997 -1998
First Chechen War (1994 -1996 ), Second Chechen War (1999 -present), Chechnya , Russia
Colombia , 1964 -present
First Congo War , Zaire , 1996 -1997
Second Congo War , DRC , 1998 -present
Republic of the Congo , 1997 , 1998
Côte d'Ivoire , 1999 -2000 , 2002 -present
East Timor /Indonesia , 1975 -1999
Georgian Civil War , Abkhazia , South Ossetia in Georgia
Guatemala , 1960 -1996
Kurdistan , Iraq , Kurdish Democratic Party , Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , 1961 -1970 , 1988 -2003
Israel , 1967 -present, see Palestinian territories etc
Liberia , 1989 -1996 , 1999 -present
Chiapas , Mexico , 1994 -present; see Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Nepalese People's War , Nepal , 1996 -present
Northern Ireland , United Kingdom , The Troubles (late 1960s — mid-1990s ), Northern Ireland peace process
Philippines , Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao , 1972 -1996 , 2001 -Present
Rwanda , 1990 -1997
Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka , 1983 -2001
Sierra Leone , 1991 -2002
Somalian Civil War , 1991 -present
Sudanese Civil War , Sudan , 1955 -1972 , 1983 -present
Uganda , 1987 -present
Yemen , 1979 -1989 , 1994 , 2000s
Yugoslav wars , Yugoslavia , 1991 -1995 , 1996 -1999 , 2001
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