List of wars involving Azerbaijan

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Azerbaijan and its predecessor states, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

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 (1918) United Kingdom (1918) Central Caspian Dictatorship (1918) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918) Baku Commune (1918)	Inconclusive Azerbaijan declares independence
Russian Civil War (1918–1920)	White movement German Empire (1917–1918) Ottoman Empire (1917–1918) Azerbaijan (1918) Finland (1918–1919) Georgia (1918) Austria-Hungary (1917–1918) Ukrainian State (1918)	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic Commune of Estonia Lithuanian SSR Latvian SSR	Withdrawal
Mughan clashes (1918–1919)	Azerbaijan	White Movement Mughan Soviet Republic	Victory Azerbaijan regains control of Mugan plain
Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920)	Azerbaijan (until April 1920) Ottoman Empire (1918) Republic of Aras (1918–1919) Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (since April 1920) Soviet Azerbaijan (since April 1920)	Armenia United Kingdom Centrocaspian Dictatorship	Inconclusive
Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan (1920)	Azerbaijan	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Azerbaijani Bolsheviks	Defeat Azerbaijan is invaded and becomes part of the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Azerbaijan)
Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan (1920–1991)
Anti-Soviet rebellions: Ganja Uprising (1920) Tartar Uprising (1920) Lankaran Uprisings (1920–22)	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan	Rebels	Defeat Defeat of the Azerbaijani anti-Soviet rebels
Red Army invasion of Georgia (1921)	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Azerbaijan	Georgia	Victory Georgia is invaded and becomes part of the Soviet Union as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Soviet Georgia)
World War II (1939–1945)	Soviet Union Soviet Azerbaijan	Germany Azerbaijani Legion	Victory 800,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 400,000 of whom were killed. 70,000 Azerbaijanis, mainly former POW volunteers, fought in the Wehrmacht.
Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)	Soviet Union Soviet Azerbaijan	Peshawar Seven	Withdrawal 10,000 Azerbaijanis fought in Soviet Army, 200 of whom were killed.
Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–)
First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)	Azerbaijan	Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia (1992–1994)	Defeat Bishkek Protocol, Nagorno-Karabakh is de facto independent from Azerbaijan.
Ganja Uprising (1993)	Huseynov's forces	Azerbaijani government	Coup d'état failed Change of Azerbaijani government
OPON coup d'état attempt (1995)	OPON	Azerbaijani government	Victory Coup d'état failed, Azerbaijani government stays in power
Gobustan Uprising (1999)	Musayev's forces	Azerbaijani government	Victory Rebellion suppressed
Operation Eagle (2008)	Azerbaijan	Caucasus Emirate Forest Brothers	Victory Jihadists defeated
Four-Day War (2016)	Azerbaijan	Nagorno-Karabakh Armenia	Inconclusive Small Azerbaijani land gains
Operation Gyunnut (2018)	Azerbaijan	Armenia	Inconclusive
Second Nagorno-Karabakh war (2020)	Azerbaijan	Artsakh Armenia	Victory 2020 ceasefire agreement
Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis (2021–2023)	Azerbaijan	Armenia	Ongoing Azerbaijan occupies parts of Armenian territory

Peacekeeping missions

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

See also

• Military history of Azerbaijan