List of wars involving Angola

The following is a list of wars involving Angola.

List

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Battle of Kombi (29 October 1647) (Part of Dutch–Portuguese War)	Dutch Republic and Kingdom of Ndongo	Kingdom of Portugal	Dutch-Ndongo victory
Battle of Mbwila (29 October 1665) (part of Kongo Civil War)	Kingdom of Kongo		Portuguese victory
Battle of Mbidizi River (June 1670)	Soyo and Ngoyo		Soyo victory
Battle of Kitombo (18 October 1670)
Battle of São Salvador (15 February 1709) (part of Kongo Civil War)	Orthodox Catholics	Antonian Catholics	Decisive Orthodox victory
Battle of Quifangondo (10 November 1975) (part of Angolan Civil War)	National Liberation Army of Angola or ELNA (National Liberation Front of Angola or FNLA), Zaire and South Africa	People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola or FAPLA (MPLA) and Cuba	FAPLA victory
Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974)	MPLA FNLA UNITA FLEC	Portugal South Africa	Political victory Alvor Agreement, Angolan independence in 1975
Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)	MPLA SWAPO MK Cuba Soviet Union Brazil EO	UNITA FNLA South Africa Zaire	MPLA victory Withdrawal of all foreign forces from Angola UNITA and FNLA disarmed
Cabinda War (1975–)	Angola Cuba	FLEC	Ongoing Surrender of FLEC-Renovada in August 2006
Battle of Cassinga (4 May 1978) (part of South African Border War)	South Africa	Namibia (People's Liberation Army of Namibia or PLAN (SWAPO) Cuba	South African military victory
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (14 August 1987 - 23 March 1988) (part of Angolan Civil War and South African Border War)	FALA (UNITA) South Africa]]	Namibia (SWAPO) Cuba FAPLA (MPLA) Mkhonto we Sizwe (African National Congress)	Inconclusive
First Congo War (1996–1997)	AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola Eritrea	Zaire ALiR UNITA	Victory Zaire reorganized into the DR Congo
Congo-Brazzaville Civil War (1997–1999)	Nguesso Government Angola Chad	Lissouba Government DR Congo	Victory Return to power of Denis Sassou Nguesso
Second Congo War (1998–2003)	DR Congo Angola Chad Namibia Zimbabwe FDLR RDR ALiR Interahamwe Mai-Mai LRA UNRF II ADF FNI FROLINA CNDD-FDD	RCD RCD-Goma Banyamulenge MLC FFR UPC Uganda Rwanda Burundi UNITA	Stalemate Creation of a unified, multi-party government The Transitional Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is established, deployment of MONUC Continuation of the Ituri conflict until 2007 Start of the Kivu conflict
Kivu Conflict (2004–2009)	DR Congo Mai-Mai Zimbabwe Angola	CNDP	Victory CNDP integrated into the FARDC
Séléka Rebellion (2013–)	Central African Republic South Africa France DR Congo Angola Cameroon Chad Congo-Brazzaville Gabon	Séléka Anti-balaka	Ongoing President Michel Djotodia resigns and is replaced by Catherine Samba-Panza