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Past civil wars

• The Anarchy, 1135-1153 (refers to the disorder during the reign of King Stephen of England)
• Wars of the Roses, ~1455-1485
• 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
• Hellenic 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 1990, 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 2004:

• 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 etc, 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
• 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 fictitious civil wars