List of wars involving Chad

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This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chad.

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
Chadian Civil War (1965–1979) FROLINAT

FLT

Volcan Army

FAP

FAN

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya

 Chad

 France

Government Overthrow
Chadian–Libyan conflict (1978–1987) Anti-Libyan Chadian factions
  • FAT (1978–1979)
  • FAN (1978–1983)
  • FANT (1983–1987)
  • GUNT (1986–1987)

 France

Inter-African Force

Libya

Pro-Libyan Chadian factions

 PLO (1987)[4][5]

Chadian/French victory
Toyota War(1986 – 1987)  Libya

Chad CDR

 PLO[6][5]

Chad FANT

Chad FAP

 France (Opération Épervier)

Decisive Chadian and French victory
  • Expulsion of Libyan forces from Chad
Central African Republic Bush War (2004 – 2007) Rebels:  Central African Republic

 Chad

MINURCAT

MICOPAX (CEEAC)

  • Violence persists despite an April 2007 peace agreement
  • Eventual outbreak of a second civil war in 2012
Chadian Civil War(2005 – 2010)
Supported by
Government victory
Boko Haram insurgency (2009 – present) Multinational Joint Task Force

 Turkey

Boko Haram (partially aligned with ISIL from 2015)[a]

Islamic State ISWAP (originally Barnawi faction of Boko Haram; from 2016)[18]

Ansaru[b]

Ongoing (Map of the current military situation)
Chadian intervention in northern Mali (2013 – present)

 Chad

 Mali

AQIM

MUJAO

Ongoing
Insurgency in Northern Chad (2016 – present)  Chad

 France

JEM

FACT

CCMSR

UFR

FNDJT

Ongoing

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Following Mohammed Yusuf's death, Boko Haram splintered into numerous factions which no longer operated under a unified leadership. Though Abubakar Shekau eventually became the preeminent commander of the movement, he never really controlled all Boko Haram groups. Instead the factions were loosely allied, but also occasionally clashed with each other.[11][12] This situation changed in 2015, when Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIL.[13][14] The leadership of ISIL eventually decided to replace Shekau as local commander with Abu Mus'ab al-Barnawi, whereupon the movement split completely. Shekau no longer recognized the authority of ISIL's central command, and his loyalists started to openly fight the followers of al-Barnawi.[13] Regardless, Shekau did never officially renounce his pledge of allegiance to ISIL as a whole; his forces are thus occasionally regarded as "second branch of ISWAP". Overall, the relation of Shekau with ISIL remains confused and ambiguous.[15]
  2. ^ The exact origin of Ansaru is unclear, but it had already existed as Boko Haram faction[19] before officially announcing its foundation as separate group on 1 January 2012.[19][20][21] The group has no known military presence in Nigeria since 2015, but several of its members appear to be still active.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cooper & Grandolini 2015, p. 33.
  2. ^ S. Nolutshungu, p. 164
  3. ^ Geoffrey Leslie Simons, Libya and the West: from independence to Lockerbie, Centre for Libyan Studies (Oxford, England). Pg. 57
  4. ^ "قصة من تاريخ النشاط العسكري الفلسطيني ... عندما حاربت منظمة التحرير مع القذافي ضد تشاد". Raseef22. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b Talhami, Ghada Hashem (30 November 2018). Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781590336496 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "قصة من تاريخ النشاط العسكري الفلسطيني... عندما حاربت منظمة التحرير مع القذافي ضد تشاد - رصيف22". 4 December 2018.
  7. ^ Faced with Boko Haram, Cameroon weighs death penalty for terrorism. Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine By Tansa Musa, Reuters. YAOUNDE Wed 3 December 2014 9:56am EST.
  8. ^ Chad armoured column heads for Cameroon to fight Boko Haram. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine AFP for Yahoo! News, 16 January 2015 4:54 PM.
  9. ^ West Africa leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine By John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau. 17 May 2014 2:19 PM.
  10. ^ African Troops Free Dozens of Boko Haram Victims, Voice of America, Apr 10, 2021. Accessed April 11, 2021.
  11. ^ a b TRADOC G-2 (2015), pp. 4, 19.
  12. ^ ICG 2014, pp. ii, 22, 26, 27.
  13. ^ a b Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi (5 August 2018). "The Islamic State West Africa Province vs. Abu Bakr Shekau: Full Text, Translation and Analysis". Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Boko Haram swears formal allegiance to ISIS". Fox News. Associated Press. March 8, 2015. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
  15. ^ Warner & Hulme (2018), p. 22.
  16. ^ "Behind Boko Haram's Split: A Leader Too Radical for Islamic State". The Wall Street Journal. 15 September 2016. Archived from the original on 1 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.(subscription required)
  17. ^ "Boko Haram Split Creates Two Deadly Forces". Voice of America. 2 August 2017. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  18. ^ "Shekau Resurfaces, Accuses New Boko Haram Leader al-Barnawi of Attempted Coup". 360nobs. 4 August 2016. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  19. ^ a b ICG 2014, p. 26.
  20. ^ Sudarsan Raghavan (31 May 2013). "Nigerian Islamist militants return from Mali with weapons, skills". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  21. ^ Steve White (13 March 2013). "Nigerian hostage deaths: British hostage executed in error". Daily Mirror. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  22. ^ Jacob Zenn (9 December 2017). "Electronic Jihad in Nigeria: How Boko Haram Is Using Social Media". Jamestown Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.

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