List of wars involving Egypt

This is a list of wars involving the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Sultan	Egyptian losses
Seventh Crusade (1248–1254)	Ayyubid Mamluk Sultanate	Kingdom of France Knights Templar	Victory Fall of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt.	Aybak	?
Mongol invasions of the Levant (1260–1323)	Mamluk Sultanate Ayyubids Golden Horde	Ilkhanate Armenian Cicilia Kingdom of Georgia Sultanate of Rum Principality of Antioch County of Tripoli Golden Horde Kingdom of England Knights Templar	Victory Treaty of Aleppo	Qutuz	?
Ninth Crusade (1271–1272)	Mamluk Sultanate	Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Cicilian Armenia Kingdom of Cyprus Kingdom of Jerusalem County of Tripoli Ilkhanate	Victory Ten-year truce between warring sides.	Baibars	?
Alexandrian Crusade (1365)	Mamluk Sultanate	Kingdom of Cyprus Knights Hospitaller Republic of Venice	Defeat Alexandria sacked.	Al-Ashraf Sha'ban	?
Ottoman–Mamluk War (1485–1491)	Mamluk Sultanate	Ottoman Empire	Stalemate Ottoman incursions into Cilicia halted.	Qaitbay	?
Mamluk-Portuguese War (1505–1517)	Mamluk Sultanate	Portugal	Defeat Ended with the fall of the Mamluk Sultanate.	Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri	?
Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)	Mamluk Sultanate	Ottoman Empire	Defeat Fall of the Mamluk Sultanate.		?

Ottoman Eyalet of Egypt and Khedivate of Egypt (1803–1914)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Head of State	Egyptian losses
Fraser Expedition (1807)	Ottoman Empire Egypt Eyalet	United Kingdom	Victory Defeat of the British forces.	Muhammad Ali of Egypt	?
Egyptian–Wahhabi War (1811–1818)	Ottoman Empire Egypt Eyalet	Diriyah	Victory Execution of Abdullah bin Saud.		~2,000[1]
Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)	Ottoman Empire Egypt Eyalet	Greece	Defeat Establishment of the Kingdom of Greece.		?'
Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1820-1824) (1820–1824)	Egypt Eyalet	Sudan	Victory invasion of Egypt into sudan adding it to Egypt Eyalet.		?
Saudi Revolt (1821–1824)	Egypt Eyalet	Nejd	Defeat Beginning of the Second Saudi State.		?
First Turco-Egyptian War (1831–1833)	Egypt Eyalet	Ottoman Empire	Victory Egypt gained the Aleppo Vilayet and Syria.		"Minimal"[2]
Egyptian invasion of Nejd (1838–1843)	Egypt Eyalet	Nejd	Defeat Egyptian retreat, Khalid ibn Saud toppled		?
Second Turco-Egyptian War (1839–1841)	Egypt Eyalet	Ottoman Empire  United Kingdom  Austria	Defeat Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.	?
Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876)	Egypt	Ethiopia	Defeat Invasion of Ethiopia repelled.	Isma'il Pasha	2,000+[3]
‘Urabi Revolt (1879–1882)	Tewfik Pasha  United Kingdom	Ahmed ‘Urabi	Defeat of ‘Urabi Exile of ‘Urabi, British occupation of Egypt.	Tewfik of Egypt	?
Mahdist War (1881–1899)	Egypt  United Kingdom  Italy  Belgium Ethiopia	Mahdist Sudan	Victory Formation of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.		?

Post-independence

Conflict	Egypt and allies	Opponents	Results	Head of State	Minister of Defense	Egyptian losses
						Military	Civilians
Egyptian Revolution of 1919 (1919)	Wafd Party	United Kingdom  Australia	Defeat Revolts suppressed	None		800
First Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949)	Egypt  Iraq Transjordan Syria  Lebanon Saudi Arabia HWA ALA	Israel	Defeat 1949 Armistice Agreements; Israel kept the area allotted to it by the Partition Plan and captured 50% of area allotted to Arab state	Farouk of Egypt	Ismail Chirine	1,200- 2,000	Unknown
Suez Crisis (1956)	Egypt	Israel  United Kingdom  France	Defeat[4] (political victory)[5] UNEF demilitarized zone established	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Abdel Hakim Amer	1,650– 3,000	~1,000
North Yemen Civil War (1962–1967)	Yemen Arab Republic  Egypt	Kingdom of Yemen  Saudi Arabia	Stalemate Khartoum Resolution, Egyptian withdrawal		Abdel Wahab el-Beshry	~26,000	None
Sand War (1963)	Algeria  Egypt	Morocco	Stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig			Unknown	None
Six-Day War (1967)	Egypt  Syria  Jordan Iraq  Lebanon	Israel	Defeat Israel captured the Gaza Strip, Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights		Shams Badran	14,338- 19,338	Unknown
War of Attrition (1967–1970)	Egypt Soviet Union PLO  Jordan	Israel	Both sides claimed victory Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai		Mohamed Fawzi	2,882- 10,000
Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)	Nigeria  Egypt	Biafra	Victory (limited involvement) Reincorporation of Biafra into Nigeria			Unknown	None
October War (1973)	Egypt  Syria Iraq  Jordan  Algeria Morocco  Saudi Arabia  Cuba  North Korea[6][7]	Israel	Defeat[8] (strategic political gains)[9] Syrian invasion repelled, Egyptian Third Army surrounded; UN ceasefire Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty[10]	Anwar Sadat	Ahmad Ismail Ali	13,372- 23,372	Unknown
Shaba I (1977)	Zaire  Morocco  Egypt	FNLC	Victory FNCL expelled from Katanga		Mohamed el-Gamasy	None	None
Libyan–Egyptian War (1977)	Egypt	Libya	Ceasefire Libyan invasion of Egypt repelled			~100	Unknown
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait United States  United Kingdom  Saudi Arabia  France  Canada  Egypt  Syria  Morocco  Oman  Qatar  Australia	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure	Hosni Mubarak	Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb	11	None
Sinai Insurgency (2011–)	Egypt  Israel  United Arab Emirates	Islamic State	Ongoing Ongoing conflict	None (SCAF)	Mohamed Tantawi	1,030–2,030+	235
Second Libyan Civil War (2015–)	Libya  Egypt  United Arab Emirates	GNC Shura Council Islamic State	Ongoing (limited involvement) Egyptian military intervention	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	Sedki Sobhi	None	21
Intervention in Yemen (2015–)	Hadi government  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates  Senegal  Sudan  Qatar  Bahrain  Kuwait  Jordan  Morocco  Egypt  France	Revolutionary Council Houthis Saleh loyalists	Ongoing Houthis dissolve Yemeni government. Houthis take control of northern Yemen.			None	None

Notes

1. Ottoman and Egyptian losses combined. However, most of the forces deployed were Egyptian.
2. Egypt suffered much fewer casualties than the Ottomans.
3. Jesman, Czeslaw (January 1959). "Egyptian Invasion of Ethiopia". African Affairs. Oxford University Press. 58 (230): 75–81. JSTOR 718057.
4. Mart, Michelle. Eye on Israel: How America Came to View the Jewish State as an Ally. p. 159. ISBN 0791466876.
5. Tal (2001) p 203
6. Smith, Terence (1973-10-18). "Hundreds of Tanks Clash in a Struggle for Suez Area". The New York Times. "North Korea has decided to give military assistance to Egypt and Syria, its press agency [...] said today."
7. Smith, Hedrick (1973-10-19). "Flow of Soviet Jews Is Undimished". The New York Times. "[...] Premier Kim Il Sung of North Korea had met with the Egyptian and Syrian ambassadors in Pyonyang to inform them of his Government's decision 'to give material assistance including military aid to Syria and Egypt.' [...] [This] lends credence to the [US] Defence Department's report that North Korean pilots were flying missions for Cairo."
8. References:
   • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
   • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
   • Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
   • Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
   • Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2 ISBN 0-313-31302-4
   • Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
   • Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
9. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
10. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.