List of wars involving Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire (1137–1975)
Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Abyssinian–Adal War (1529–1543)	Ethiopia	Adal Sultanate Ottoman Empire	Victory Adal Sultanate weakened.
Zemene Mesafint (1769–1855)	Various factions	Various factions	Reunification of Ethiopia Tewodros II became Emperor.
British Expedition to Abyssinia (1867–1868)	Ethiopia	United Kingdom	Defeat Tewodros II committed suicide.
Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1874–1876)	Ethiopia	Egypt	Victory Egyptian invasion repelled.
Mahdist War (1885–1889)	United Kingdom  India  Egypt Ethiopia	Mahdist Sudan	Victory Sudanese invasion of Ethiopia repelled.
Battle of Dogali (1887)	Ethiopia	Italy	Victory Italian garrison in Dogali destroyed.
First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–1896)	Ethiopia	Italy	Victory Italian invasion repelled.
Somaliland Campaign (1900–1920)	United Kingdom  Italy  Ethiopia	Dervish State	Victory Collapse of the Dervish State.
Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1936)	Ethiopia	Italy	Defeat Occupation of Ethiopia by Italy.
East African Campaign (1940–1943)	United Kingdom  South Africa Gideon Force  Belgium  Free France	Italy	Victory Fall of Italian East Africa, Ethiopia regained its independence. Continued Italian resistance.
Korean War (1950–1953)	South Korea  United Nations  United States  United Kingdom	North Korea  China	Ceasefire The Korean Armistice Agreement Little territorial change at the 38th parallel border.
Congo Crisis (1960–1964)	Congo UNOC	Katanga  South Kasai	Victory Katanga and South Kasai dissolved.
1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1964)	Ethiopia	Somalia	Victory A part of the Shifta War. Ethiopia repelled somalian troops and shiftas. Somalia issued a medal for this Ethiopian-Somalian conflict, though they lost it.
Communist Ethiopia (1975–1991)
Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Derg  Cuba  South Yemen  Soviet Union	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali withdrawal from Ogaden. Somalia broke ties with the Soviet Union and the Second World.
1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War (1982)	Derg SSDF	Somalia	Victory Ethiopian-SSDF withdrawal from Somalia.
Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)	Derg PDRE  Cuba  Soviet Union  South Yemen	EPLF ELF	Defeat Independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. Ethiopia became a landlocked country.
Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)	Derg PDRE  Cuba	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP OLF ONLF WSLF ALF	Regime change Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government, to become EPRDF government.
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (from 1995)
Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Insurgency in Ogaden (1995–2008)	Ethiopia	ONLF	Victory Military defeat of ONLF forces.
Eritrean–Ethiopian War (1998–2000)	Ethiopia	Eritrea	Victory Ethiopia held all of the disputed territories.
Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia (2006–2009)	Ethiopia TFG  Puntland	ICU OLF al-Shabaab	Victory Ethiopian troops withdraw from the country. Islamists re-take Mogadishu.
Kenyan Intervention in Somalia (2011–2012)	Kenya TFG  Ethiopia	Al-Shabaab	Victory Coordinated forces capture numerous towns.