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Wars involving Iran
- Gaza warOn the morning of the 7th of October 2023, Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Within a span of 20 minutes, it fired between 3,000 and 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. The date fell on Shabbat, during the…
- Iranian–Kurdish conflictThe Iranian-Kurdish conflict is a dispute that has run continuously since 1918, outlasting empires, revolutions, and shifts in the world order. In more than a century of fighting, the Kurdish opposition in Western Iran has faced down…
- Anglo-Soviet invasion of IranIn 1941, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded neutral Iran. The Shah was gone within a month.
- Russo-Persian WarsThe Russo-Persian Wars grew from silk trade and ended with Persia paying Russia twenty million rubles in silver.
- Iran–Iraq WarThe Iran-Iraq War killed around 500,000 people, and that toll does not even count the dead of the related Anfal campaign. No other conventional war between the regular armies of developing countries has been deadlier. It dragged on for…
- Syrian civil warSyria's civil war ended when the government simply vanished overnight. Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow in December 2024.
- World War IIHistorians still disagree about the day World War II began. Most choose 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.
- Iran–Israel proxy conflictThe Iran-Israel proxy conflict reached a strange moment in June 2025. The two states fought a 12-day war that drew in the United States. News outlets noticed something odd about it. The militias Iran had armed and funded for years stayed…
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.
- Lebanese Civil WarThe Lebanese Civil War was many wars layered on top of each other. Christians fought Christians, and Shia fought Shia.