List of wars involving Italy

This is a list of wars fought by independent Italy from 1861:

Kingdom of Italy

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Combatant 1	Combatant 2
1866	1866	Third Italian War of Independence	Kingdom of Italy	Austrian Empire	Armistice of Cormons and Treaty of Vienna: Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia and Friuli.
1870	1870	Capture of Rome	Kingdom of Italy	Papal States	Italian victory, Debellation of the Papal States.
1885	1895	Eritrean War
1895	1896	First Italo-Ethiopian War	Kingdom of Italy	Ethiopian Empire	Ethiopian victory, Treaty of Addis Ababa: Ethiopia recognised as independent country by Italy. Italy abrogates the Treaty of Wuchale.
1899	1901	Boxer Rebellion	United Kingdom Empire of Japan Russian Empire France United States German Empire Kingdom of Italy Austria-Hungary	Righteous Harmony Society Manchu-China	Allied victory, Boxer Protocol: Anti-foreign societies banned in China.
1911	1912	Italo-Turkish War	Kingdom of Italy	Ottoman Empire	Italian victory, Italy gains Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Fezzan and the Dodecanese Islands.
1914	1918	World War I	Kingdom of Italy United Kingdom Indian Empire Dominion of Canada Australia New Zealand Union of South Africa Newfoundland Belgium France Russian Empire Japan United States Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Greece Other Allies	Austria-Hungary German Empire German Empire Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Bulgaria	Treaty of Versailles: German demobilisation Russia pulls out in 1917 Russian Civil War Creation of the Soviet Union Josef V. Stalin Rises to power Creation of League of Nations
1918	1920	Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War	British Empire Italy France United States Empire of Japan Kingdom of Greece	Soviet Russia Far Eastern Republic	Allied withdrawal from Russia Bolshevik victory over White Army Soviet Union new Russian Power.
1918	1923	Occupation of Adalia	Italy	Ottoman Empire	Italian occupation of Antalya until becoming part of the Republic of Turkey.
1920	1920	Vlora War	Italy	Principality of Albania	Albanian victory, Italy withdraws from Albania.

Fascist Italy (1922-1943)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Combatant 1	Combatant 2
1923	1923	Corfu incident	Kingdom of Italy	Kingdom of Greece	Agreement between Italy and Greece under the auspices of the League of Nations.
		Insurgency in Libya
1935	1936	Second Italo-Abyssinian War	Kingdom of Italy Italian Eritrea Italian Somaliland	Ethiopian Empire	Italian victory: Debellation of Ethiopia, foundation of Italian East Africa.
1936	1939	Spanish Civil War	Nationalist Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy Nazi Germany Portugal Foreign volunteers	Republican Foreign volunteers Soviet Union (1936–1938) Mexico	Nationalist victory: Defeat of the Second Spanish Republic Beginning of Franco's dictatorship
1939	1939	Invasion of Albania	Italy	Albania	Italian victory, Italian occupation of Albania.
1939	1945	World War II	Axis Powers Nazi Germany Kingdom of Italy Hungary Empire of Japan Bulgaria Kingdom of Romania Manchukuo Mengjiang Finland Thailand	The Allies British Empire France Poland Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Norway Kingdom of Greece Yugoslavia Soviet Union United States Canada Australia New Zealand Indian Empire Nepal Union of South Africa Brazil China	Allied victory

Italian Republic

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents		Outcome
			Combatant 1	Combatant 2
1982	1984	Multinational Force in Lebanon	Italy United States France United Kingdom	Islamic Jihad Organization	Multinational forces supervise withdrawal of Palestine Liberation Organization.
1991	1991	Gulf War	Kuwait United States Saudi Arabia France Egypt Syria United Kingdom Other Allies	Iraq	Kuwait regains its independence
1992	1996	Bosnian intervention	NATO	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Dayton Accords: Siege of Sarajevo lifted. Bosnian Serbs return to negotiations.
1992	1995	Somali Civil War	United Nations	Various Somali factions	UN withdrawal.
1997	1997	Operation Alba	Government of Sali Berisha Italian Armed Forces Greece	Rebels	New Parliamentary Elections.
1998	1999	Kosovo War	United States France Canada Denmark Germany Italy Error creating thumbnail: Kosovo Liberation Army	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Kosovo occupied by Nato forces Kosovo administered by UNMIK
2001		War in Afghanistan	Afghanistan ISAF	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Fall of Taliban régime Osama bin Laden killed Ongoing Taliban insurgency
2003	2006	Iraq War	Multi-National Force – Iraq Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein Iraqi Kurdistan	Iraq under Saddam Hussein Various insurgents	Fall of Ba'athist rule in Iraq Deployment in Dhi Qar Province Italian withdrawal in 2006, conflict ended in 2011
2011	2011	Libyan intervention	Many NATO members acting under UN mandate and Anti-Gaddafi forces several Arab League states Sweden	Pro-Gaddafi forces	Fall of Gaddafi regime Muammar Gaddafi killed National Transitional Council take control

See also

• History of Italy
• Military history of Italy