# List of wars involving Belgium

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Belgium and its colonial empire.
| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Belgium) | Belligerents (excluding Belgium) | Outcome |
| Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Allies | Enemies | Outcome |
| 1789 | 1790 | Brabant Revolution | United Belgian States | Habsburg Austria | Austrian victory Revolution suppressed |
| 1830 | 1839 | Belgian Revolution Ten Days' Campaign | Belgian rebels France | United Kingdom of the Netherlands | Treaty of London: Recognition by the European powers of the independence and neutrality of Belgium |
| 1832 | 1834 | Liberal Wars | Portugal  United Kingdom France Spain | Miguelites | Liberal victory, Constitutional monarchy is restored |
| 1861 | 1867 | French intervention in Mexico | Mexican Empire France  Austrian Empire Spain United Kingdom Egypt Eyalet Polish Revolutionaries | United Mexican States United States of America (entered in 1865) | French withdrawal, Republican victory |
| 1881 | 1899 | Mahdist War | British Empire Kingdom of Italy Congo Free State Ethiopian Empire | Mahdist Sudanese | Anglo-Egyptian victory |
| 1891 | 1892 | Stairs Expedition to Katanga | Congo Free State supported by: Belgium | Yeke state of Msiri | Congo Free State victory Msiri killed, Mukanda-Bantu becomes vassal prince Belgium acquires the colony of Katanga |
| 1892 | 1894 | Belgo-Arab War | Congo Free State | Zanzibari slave traders | Congo Free State victory |
| 1895 | 1895 | Luba rebellion | Congo Free State supported by: Belgium | Luba rebels | Congo Free State victory Many Luba men had to perform forced labour in the Katanga mines |
| 1895 | 1908 | Batetela Rebellions | Congo Free State | Batetela people | Congo Free State victory |
| 1905 | 1917 | Kasongo Nyembo rebellion | Congo Free State (until 1908) Belgium  Belgian Congo (from 1908) | Luba rebels led by Kasongo Nyembo | Belgian victory Kasongo Nyembo banished |
| 1914 | 1918 | World War I | Allies: France  British Empire  Russian Empire (1914–17)  United States (1917–18) and others | Central Powers  German Empire  Austria-Hungary  Ottoman Empire  Kingdom of Bulgaria (1915–18) | Allied victory Belgium acquires Eupen-Malmedy from Germany |
| 1914 | 1918 | East African campaign (part of World War I) | Allies:  United Kingdom  South Africa  India Rhodesia British East Africa Nyasaland Uganda  Belgium  Belgian Congo  Portugal Portuguese Mozambique | Central Powers  German Empire German East Africa | Allied victory Allied conquest and partition of German East Africa Belgium acquires Ruanda-Urundi from German East Africa |
| 10 May 1940 | 28 May 1940 | Battle of Belgium (part of World War II) | Belgium France  British Empire  Netherlands  Luxembourg | Nazi Germany | Belgian surrender and German occupation of Belgium |
| 1940 | 1945 | World War II | Allies | Axis powers | Allied victory |
| 1950 | 1953 | Korean War | United Nations (UN Resolution 84) | North Korea  China  Soviet Union | Ceasefire |
| 1959 | 1962 | Rwandan Revolution | | | Independence of the Republic of Rwanda Independence of the Kingdom of Burundi |
| 1960 | 1966 | Congo Crisis | Katanga  South Kasai | Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)  United Nations (United Nations Operation in the Congo) | Withdrawal of Belgian Armed Forces Debellation of the State of South Kasai in 1961 Debellation of the State of Katanga in 1963 New Belgian intervention Operation Dragon Rouge and Operation Dragon Noire in 1964 |
| 1978 | 1978 | Shaba II | Zaire  France  United States | Front for the National Liberation of the Congo | Franco-Belgian victory |
| 1990 | 1991 | Gulf War | Coalition forces | Ba'athist Iraq | Coalition victory |
| 1991 | 2003 | Iraqi no-fly zones | United States United Kingdom France (1991–1998) Australia Netherlands Saudi Arabia Turkey Italy | Ba'athist Iraq | Coalition victory |
| 1992 | 1995 | Somali Civil War | United States United Kingdom Spain Saudi Arabia Malaysia Pakistan Italy India Greece Germany France Canada Botswana Australia | United Somali Congress | Victory UN humanitarian mandate fulfilled. About 100,000 lives were saved by outside resistance. Civil war is ongoing. |
| 1998 | 1999 | Kosovo War | Kosovo Liberation Army  Albania NATO force | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | NATO victory United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo |
| 2001 | 2021 | War in Afghanistan | Afghanistan  United States ISAF | Taliban | Taliban victory |
| 2011 | | 2011 military intervention in Libya | National Transitional Council  NATO forces | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | Fall of Gaddafi régime |
| 2014 | ongoing | 2014 military intervention against ISIS | | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | Ongoing |