List of wars involving Jordan

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This is a list of wars that Jordan has been involved in since independence in 1946.

Conflict Jordan
and allies
Opponents Result Monarch Jordanian
losses
First Arab-Israeli War
(1948–1949)
Flag of Egypt (1922–1958).svg Egypt
 Iraq
Jordan Jordan
Syria Syria
All-Palestine Government HWA
Arab League ALA
 Lebanon
 Israel Partial victory[1] (overall Arab defeat)
Abdullah I of Jordan
~1,000 dead
Six-Day War
(1967)
 Egypt
 Jordan
 Syria
Iraq Iraq
 Lebanon
 Israel Defeat
Hussein of Jordan
~700
Battle of Karameh
(1968)
 Jordan
Palestine Liberation Organization PLO
 Israel Both sides claim victory
  • Karameh camp destroyed, Israeli raid repelled.
40-84 dead
Black September
(1970–1971)
 Jordan Palestine Liberation Organization PLO
 Syria
Victory
  • PLO driven out to Lebanon, Syrian raid repelled.
82 dead
October War
(1973)
 Egypt
 Syria
Iraq Iraq
 Jordan
 Algeria
 Cuba
 Morocco
 Tunisia
 Israel Defeat[2] (limited involvement)
23 dead
Operation Scorched Earth
(2009–2010)
 Yemen
 Saudi Arabia
 Jordan
 Morocco
Houthis Logo.png Houthis Indecisive
  • Houthis consolidate control over Sa'dah, eventually dissolving the Yemeni government.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Unknown
Libyan Civil War
(2011)
Libya NTC
 NATO

 Jordan
 Qatar
 Sweden
 UAE

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya Victory
None
Intervention against ISIS
(2014–)
 Iraq
 Iraqi Kurdistan
Syria Free Syrian Army
Flag of Syrian Kurdistan.svg Syrian Kurdistan
Flag of the United States (Pantone).svg United States
 United Kingdom
 Jordan
 Turkey
 Morocco
 Australia
 Belgium
 Canada
 Denmark
 France
 Bahrain
 Qatar
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State
al-Qaeda
Ahrar ash-Sham
Ongoing
  • Unilateral US-Arab intervention against Syrian Islamists.
1 dead
Intervention in Yemen
(2015–)
Yemen Hadi government
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Southern Movement
 Saudi Arabia
 UAE
 Bahrain
 Kuwait
 Qatar
 Jordan
 Morocco
 Sudan
 Egypt
 Senegal
Yemen Houthi government Ongoing
  • Houthis dissolve Yemeni government.
  • Houthis take control of northern Yemen.
None

References

  1. Anita Shapira, L'imaginaire d'Israël : histoire d'une culture politique (2005), Latroun : la mémoire de la bataille, Chap. III. 1 l'événement p. 91–96
  2. References:
    • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
    • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Double Day 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.