This is a list of civil wars.

Past civil wars

• Roman Republican civil wars, List of Roman Republic and Empire Civil Wars
• The Brothers' Civil War , 1067-1670? (The war between King Alfonso of Leon and King Sancho of Castille)
• The Anarchy, 1135-1153 (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
• English Wars of the Roses, c. 1455-1485
• French Wars of Religion, 1562-1598
• English Civil War, 1642-1649
• Zulu Civil War, 1817-1819
• American Civil War, 1861-1865
• Russian Civil War, 1917-1921
• Finnish Civil War, 1918
• Irish Civil War, 1922-1923
• Chinese Civil War, 1928-1937, 1945-1949
• Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
• Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
• Paraguayan Civil War, 1947
• Korean Civil War, 1950-1953
• Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
• Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1991
• Romania had a brief civil war in 1989, after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, between Communists and those against the former regime.

Contemporary civil wars

The following civil wars are ongoing or ended in the past decade, as of 2005. Some of them may be classified as insurrections, etc., rather than full civil wars, as they fade into the past.

• Afghanistan, 1992-2002
• Angola, 1974-1989, 1995-1997, 1998-2002
• Burundi, 1988-1991, 1993-2001
• Cambodia, 1978-1993, 1997-1998
• First Chechen War (1994-1996), Second Chechen War (1999-present), Chechnya, Russia
• Colombia, 1964-present
• First Congo War, Zaire, 1996-1997
• Second Congo War, DRC, 1998-present
• Republic of the Congo, 1997, 1998
• Côte d'Ivoire, 1999-2000, 2002-present
• East Timor/Indonesia, 1975-1999
• Georgian Civil War, Abkhazia, South Ossetia in Georgia
• Guatemala, 1960-1996
• Kurdistan, Iraq, Kurdish Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 1961-1970, 1988-2003
• Israel, 1967-present, see Palestinian territories etc
• Liberia, 1989-1996, 1999-present
• Chiapas, Mexico, 1994-present; see Zapatista Army of National Liberation
• Nepalese People's War, Nepal, 1996-present
• Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, The Troubles (late 1960s — mid-1990s), Northern Ireland peace process
• Philippines, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 1972-1996, 2001-Present
• Rwanda, 1990-1997
• Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, 1983-2001
• Sierra Leone, 1991-2002
• Somalian Civil War, 1991-present
• Sudanese Civil War, Sudan, 1955-1972, 1983-present
• Uganda, 1987-present
• Yemen, 1979-1989, 1994, 2000s
• Yugoslav wars, Yugoslavia, 1991-1995, 1996-1999, 2001

See also

• List of fictional wars#Civil Wars