The following is a list of wars involving Angola.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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Battle of Kombi (29 October 1647) (Part of the Dutch–Portuguese War) | Ndongo-Matamba/Dutch allied victory | ||
Battle of Mbwila (29 October 1665 [1] ) (part of the Portuguese colonisation of Africa) | Portuguese victory | ||
Battle of Mbidizi River (June 1670) (Part of the Kongo Civil War) | Soyo and Ngoyo | ![]() | Portuguese victory |
Battle of Kitombo (18 October 1670) (Part of the Kongo Civil War) | Kongo states of Soyo and Ngoyo | ![]() | Soyo Victory |
Battle of São Salvador (15 February 1709) (part of the Kongo Civil War) | Orthodox Catholics of Kingdom of Kongo | Antonian Catholics of Kingdom of Kongo | Orthodox victory |
Battle of Quifangondo (10 November 1975) (part of the Angolan Civil War) | | FAPLA victory | |
Angolan War of Independence (1961–1974) (part of the Portuguese Colonial War, the Decolonization of Africa and the Cold War) | Material support: Material support: ![]() RDL | Angolan victory [27] [28]
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Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) (part of the aftermath of the Angolan War of Independence, and the Cold War (until 1991) | ![]()
ContentsMilitary advisers and pilots:
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| MPLA victory
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Cabinda War (1975–) (part of the Angolan Civil War (until 2002) | ![]()
Military advisers and pilots:
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| Ongoing
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Battle of Cassinga (4 May 1978) (part of the South African Border War) | South African victory | ||
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (14 August 1987 [46] – 23 March 1988 [47] ) (part of the Angolan Civil War and the South African Border War) |
Military advisors: | Inconclusive
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First Congo War (1996–1997) (part of the Congolese Civil Wars, aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, spillovers of the Burundian Civil War, the Second Sudanese Civil War and the Angolan Civil War) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Supported by: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]()
| AFDL victory
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Congo-Brazzaville Civil War (1997–1999) (part of the aftermaths of the First Congo War and Rwandan genocide) | ![]() Cobra Militia ![]() ![]() ![]() | ![]() Cocoye Militia Ninja Militia Nsiloulou Militia Supported by: ![]() ![]() Supported by: ![]() | Nguesso loyalist victory
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Second Congo War (1998–2003) (part of the Congolese Civil Wars and the aftermath of the First Congo War and the Angolan Civil War) | Military stalemate
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Kivu Conflict (2004-) (part of the aftermath of the Second Congo War, War against the Islamic State) | Pro-government: Supported by:
| Rwandan-aligned militias:
Anti-Ugandan forces:Anti-Rwandan militias:Anti-Burundi militias: Mai-Mai militias:
| Ongoing
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Central African Republic Civil War (2013–) | Formerly: ![]() MISCA (2013–2014) MICOPAX (2008–2013) ![]() | ![]() ![]() ![]() Defunct groups: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Ongoing
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The Soviets provided direction, heavy lift and training staffs, the East Germans technical specialists ranging from helicopter pilots to medical personnel, and the Cubans a mass of soldiery...The next pattern was one of mixed Angolan and Cuban ground units, supported by East German-manned helicopters...[conditions dictated] the withdrawal of Cuban units to garrison roles, the actual ground fighting being left to Angolan units (now equipped with some very recent Soviet weaponry), very closely supported by East German and Russian training logistic cadres.
Besides arms and aircraft, large numbers of Russians, East Germans, and Cubans were brought into the country to bolster the Angolan armed forces...Although a number of locals were beginning to undertake combat sorties, most of the sorties were flown either by Cuban or East German pilots and crew.
Kabila's forces – which are indeed backed by Rwanda, Angola, Uganda and Burundi, diplomats say – are slowly advancing toward the capital from the eastern half of the country, where they have captured all the regions that produce Zaire's diamonds, gold, copper and cobalt.
In that first struggle in the Congo, Rwanda, allied with Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Burundi, had brought Laurent Désiré Kabila to power in Kinshasa
In 1996, President Mobutu of Zaire requested that mercenaries be sent from Chad to help defend his government from rebel forces led by Lauren Desiré Kabila. ... When a number of the troops were ambushed by Kabila and killed in defense of Mobutu's government, Mobutu paid Déby a fee in honor of their service.
Guerrillas of Angola's former rebel movement UNITA, long supported by Mobutu in an unsuccessful war against Angola's government, also fought for Mobutu against Kabila's forces.
Angola came to his aid with 2,500 troops in August 1997. Sassou also received help from Chad, Gabon, France, and Elf-Congo ... as well as Serbian mercenaries, the former Rwandan government forces, Rwandan Interahamwe militia and elements of Mobutu's Zairian army
On the other side of the Congo River, the end of the civil war and the repossession of power by Sassou-Nguesso forced the FDC to dismantle its bases in Congo-Brazzaville, which meant losing the support of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS)'s militias of Pascal Lissouba. The FLEC-R, who had previously engaged with UNITA alongside the UPADS troops, was also summoned to leave the country.