List of wars involving El Salvador

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of El Salvador.

1800s

Key: Salvadoran victory; Salvadoran defeat; Ceasefire or other result

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
1811 Independence Movement (1811)	Salvadoran rebels	Spanish Empire	Defeat
1814 Independence Movement (1814)	Salvadoran rebels	Spanish Empire	Defeat
Mexican annexation of El Salvador (1822–1823)	El Salvador	Mexico Guatemala	Initial defeat, subsequent victory
First Central American Civil War (1827–1829)	El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala	Victory
Salvadoran campaign of 1832 (1832)	El Salvador	FR Central America Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua	Defeat
Anastasio Aquino's rebellion (1833)	FR Central America El Salvador	Indigenous rebels	Victory
Second Central American Civil War (1838–1840)	FR Central America El Salvador	Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica	Defeat Dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America
Malespín's War (1844)	El Salvador Honduras Nicaraguan rebels	Nicaragua	Victory
Honduran–Salvadoran War (1845)	El Salvador	Honduras	Status quo ante bellum
Filibuster War (1856–1857)	Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras Guatemala El Salvador United States	Occupied Nicaragua Filibusters	Victory William Walker's army is defeated and arrested by the U.S. Navy
War of 1863 (1863)	El Salvador Honduras	Guatemala Salvadoran rebels	Defeat Overthrow of Gerardo Barrios Francisco Dueñas becomes President
Honduran–Salvadoran War (1871)	El Salvador Honduran rebels	Honduras Salvadoran rebels	Defeat Overthrow of Francisco Dueñas is overthrown Santiago González becomes President
First Honduran intervention (1872)	El Salvador Guatemala Honduran rebels	Honduras	Victory
Second Honduran intervention (1873)	El Salvador Guatemala Honduran rebels	Honduras	Victory
Barrios' War of Reunification (1885)	El Salvador Mexico Costa Rica Nicaragua	Guatemala Honduras	Victory Death of Justo Rufino Barrios
First Totoposte War (1890)	El Salvador	Guatemala Salvadoran rebels	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Revolution of the 44 (1894)	El Salvador	Salvadoran rebels Guatemala Honduras	Rebel victory Carlos Ezeta overthrown Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez becomes President

1900s

Key: Salvadoran victory; Salvadoran defeat; Ceasefire or other result

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
Second Totoposte War (1903)	El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan rebels	Guatemala	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
Third Totoposte War (1906)	El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan rebels	Guatemala	Stalemate Status quo ante bellum
War of 1907 (1907)	El Salvador	Nicaragua Honduras Salvadoran rebels American filibusters	Victory Status quo ante bellum
La Matanza 1932	El Salvador	Communist Party Indigenous rebels	Victory 10,000–40,000 peasants killed
World War II (1941–1945)	United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Philippines Yugoslavia Greece Iran Egypt Ethiopia Liberia Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Turkey Saudi Arabia Brazil Mexico Chile Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Haiti Cuba Argentina Colombia Bolivia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of Nazi Germany Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Dominican Civil War (1965–1966)	Loyalists United States Brazil Paraguay Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica El Salvador	Constitutionalists	Victory Juan Bosch excluded from the presidency Election of Joaquín Balaguer
Football War (1969)	El Salvador	Honduras	Ceasefire Status quo ante bellum Ceasefire by OAS intervention
Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)	El Salvador	FMLN	Ceasefire Chapultepec Peace Accords Restructuring of Salvadoran Armed Forces National Police, Treasury Police, and National Guard are dissolved FMLN becomes a political party, its combatants are exonerated

2000s-present

Salvadoran victory

Salvadoran defeat

Ceasefire or other result

Ongoing conflict

Conflict	Allies	Opponents	Results
Iraq War (2003–2009)	Iraq United States United Kingdom South Korea Italy Poland Australia New Zealand Georgia Ukraine Netherlands Romania Japan Denmark Spain El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic MNF–I United States United Kingdom Australia Romania El Salvador Estonia Bulgaria Moldova Albania Ukraine Denmark Czech Republic South Korea Azerbaijan Singapore Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic of Macedonia Latvia Poland Kazakhstan Mongolia Georgia Tonga Armenia Slovakia Lithuania Italy Norway Japan Hungary Netherlands Portugal New Zealand Thailand Philippines Honduras Dominican Republic Spain Nicaragua Iceland	Ba'athist Iraq Ba'ath Party loyalists ISI al-Qaeda in Iraq Mahdi Army Special Groups IAI Ansar al-Sunnah	Victory Invasion and occupation of Iraq Defeat of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq
Afghanistan War (2011–2014)	Afghanistan United States United Kingdom Canada Australia New Zealand Germany Italy France Denmark Georgia Poland Romania Turkey Bulgaria Romania Spain El Salvador ISAF Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark El Salvador Estonia Finland Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Jordan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mongolia Montenegro Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Macedonia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Tonga Ukraine United Arab Emirates Northern Alliance	Taliban al-Qaeda Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hezb-e Islami Khalis Haqqani network Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed East Turkestan Islamic Movement Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Islamic Emirate of Waziristan Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Islamic Jihad Union	Defeat American victory in the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan leading to the destruction of al-Qaeda and Taliban militant training camps and fall of the Taliban government (2001) Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Start of Taliban insurgency Osama bin Laden killed by DEVGRU operators in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011 "Afghanization" of Afghan conflict. Withdrawal of most US troops after 2014 End of Operation Enduring Freedom; start of 2015 phase of war, and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. End of US and ISAF led combat mission; beginning of NATO-led training and assistance mission. Doha Agreement and progressive withdrawal of remaining US troops after 2020^[1] Renewed Taliban offensive in 2021 Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021, and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban On 30 August 2021 the last American military plane departed Afghanistan.^[2]^[3] Billions of dollars of foreign-origin military hardware that was formerly in custody of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan seized by Taliban^[4]
Salvadoran gang crackdown (2022–present)	El Salvador	MS-13 18th Street gang Other gangs in El Salvador	Ongoing 84,200+ alleged gang members arrested as of 4 March 2025^[update]^[5]

References

^ "U.S. Troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon". Reuters. January 15, 2021.
^ "Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". The White House. 16 August 2021.
^ Gibbons-Neff, Thomas; Katzenberg, Lauren (2021-08-30). "The U.S. military finishes its evacuation, and an era ends in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
^ Lou, Mary (2022-01-01). "Taliban a 'major U.S. arms dealer' after weaponry left behind in Afghanistan, watchdog warns". Just The News.
^ "Extienden por 30 Días Más el Régimen de Excepción en El Salvador, que Pronto Cumplirá 3 Años" [They Extend the State of Exception in El Salvador, Which Will Soon Complete 3 Years, for 30 More Days]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). 4 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025.

[1] "U.S. Troops in Afghanistan now down to 2,500, lowest since 2001: Pentagon". Reuters. January 15, 2021.

[:4-2] "Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan". The White House. 16 August 2021.

[NYT300821-3] Gibbons-Neff, Thomas; Katzenberg, Lauren (2021-08-30). "The U.S. military finishes its evacuation, and an era ends in Afghanistan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

[Equipment-4] Lou, Mary (2022-01-01). "Taliban a 'major U.S. arms dealer' after weaponry left behind in Afghanistan, watchdog warns". Just The News.

[5] "Extienden por 30 Días Más el Régimen de Excepción en El Salvador, que Pronto Cumplirá 3 Años" [They Extend the State of Exception in El Salvador, Which Will Soon Complete 3 Years, for 30 More Days]. La Prensa Gráfica (in Spanish). 4 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025.

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