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Conflict			Results
Algerian War (1954–1962)	FLN MNA PCA	France OAS FAF	Diplomatic victory Military stalemate Évian Accords, Algerian independence
FFS Rebellion (1963–1964)	Algeria	FFS	Government victory Rebellion quelled.
Sand War (1963)	Algeria  Cuba Supported by:  Egypt	Morocco	Stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig.
October War (1973)	Egypt  Syria Iraq  Jordan  Algeria Morocco  Saudi Arabia  Cuba	Israel	Defeat Algeria sent a squadron each of MiG-21s and Su-7s to Egypt, which arrived at the front between October 9 and October 11. It also sent an armored brigade of 150 tanks, the advance elements of which began to arrive on October 17, but reached the front only on October 24, too late to participate in the fighting
Western Sahara War (1976)	Polisario Front  Algeria	Morocco  Mauritania  France (1977–78, Operation Lamantin, aid from 1978)	Ceasefire Mauritania withdrawal of territorial claims
Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)	Algeria	AIS GIA	Government victory Islamic insurgency quelled.
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–)	Algeria  Morocco  Mauritania  Mali  Chad  France	al-Qaeda	Ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara launched in 2007.

See also

• Algeria
• Foreign relations of Algeria
• History of Algeria
• Politics of Algeria
• Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)

References

1. Matthew James Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-cold War Era, Oxford University Press, 2002
2. References:
   • The Algerian War 1954-62, By Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell, page 11
   • Introduction to Comparative Politics, By Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, William Joseph, page 108
   • Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations, By Alexander Cooley, Hendrik Spruyt, page 63
   • Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Jan 1967, page 48
   • Christian A. Herter: The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy By George Bernard Noble, page 155
3. Michael U. Mbanaso & Chima J. Korieh, Minorities and the State in Africa, p.89, Cambria Press, 2010 (ISBN 9781621968740)
4. Gleijeses 2002, p. 44. sfn error: no target: CITEREFGleijeses2002 (help)
5. Algeria sent a squadron each of MiG-21s and Su-7s to Egypt, which arrived at the front between October 9 and October 11. It also sent an armored brigade of 150 tanks, the advance elements of which began to arrive on October 17, but reached the front only on October 24, too late to participate in the fighting.
6. 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
   • 0-313-31302-4&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2
   • 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.
7. Toby Shelley (6 November 2004). Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa's Last Colony?. Zed Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-84277-341-3. Algeria has not intervened directly in the fighting in the Western Sahara since early 1976 when there were two skirmishes between Algerian and Moroccan forces around the waterhole of Amgala. But at the diplomatic level Algeria has, to date, fought with persistence and skill
8. Oded Haklai; Neophytos Loizides (14 October 2015). Settlers in Contested Lands: Territorial Disputes and Ethnic Conflicts. Stanford University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8047-9650-7.
9. Yahia H. Zoubir; Haizam Amirah-Fernández (15 January 2008). North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-08740-2.

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