List of conflicts in the southern Levant

This is a list of conflicts in the southern Levant arranged chronologically from ancient to modern times. This region has also been referred to historically as the Land of Canaan, the Land of Israel, the Holy Land, the Promised Land, and Palestine. This region has been ruled over by many nations, including the Canaanites, Israelites, Judeans, Romans, Rashidun Caliphates, Crusaders, Ottoman Empire, British Empire, and today, Israel and Palestine. In addition to wars and battles, there may also be periods of violent, civil unrest included in this list, such as: massacres, riots, rebellions, and revolutions.

1050 BCE–551 BCE

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
c. 1025 c. 1025 Battle of Michmas Kingdom of Israel Philistia
c. 1010 BCE c. 1010 BCE Siege of Jebus Kingdom of Israel Jebus
c. 900 c. 900 Battle of Zephath Kingdom of Judah Kingdom of Egypt

Kushite contingents

874 BCE 874 BCE Israelite–Aramean War Kingdom of Israel Kingdom of Aram-Damascus

Amorites of Bashan

736 BCE 732 BCE Syro-Ephraimite War Kingdom of Judah

Assyria

Kingdom of Israel

Aram

701 BCE 701 BCE Sennacherib's campaign in Judah Kingdom of Judah Neo-Assyrian Empire
701 BCE 701 BCE Siege of Azekah Neo-Assyrian Empire Kingdom of Judah
701 BCE 701 BCE Siege of Lachish Neo-Assyrian Empire Kingdom of Judah
701 BCE 701 BCE Assyrian siege of Jerusalem Kingdom of Judah Neo-Assyrian Empire
c. 655 BCE c. 655 BCE Fall of Ashdod

Part of the Wars of Neo-Assyria

Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt Neo-Assyrian Empire
609 BCE 609 BCE Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) Twenty-sixth Egyptian dynasty Kingdom of Judah
601 BCE 586 BCE Judah's revolts against Babylon Neo-Babylonian Empire

Supported by:

Kingdom of Judah

Supported by:

597 BCE 597 BCE Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE) Neo-Babylonian Empire Kingdom of Judah
587 BCE 587 BCE Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC) Neo-Babylonian Empire Kingdom of Judah

550 BCE–1 BCE

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
336 BCE 323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great Macedonian Empire Achaemenid Empire
332 BCE 332 BCE Siege of Gaza

Part of the Wars of Alexander the Great

Macedon Achaemenid Empire
322 BCE 281 BCE Wars of the Diadochi First War (321–319 BC):

Second War (318–316 BC):

Third War (315-311BC):

Fourth War (307–301 BC):

First War (321–319 BC):

Second War (318–316 BC):

Third War (315-311 BC):

Fourth War (307–301 BC):

312 BCE 312 BCE Battle of Gaza (312 BCE) Ptolemies

Seleucids

Antigonids
167 BCE 141 BCE Maccabean Revolt Maccabees Seleucid Empire
167 BCE 167 BCE Battle of the Ascent of Lebonah

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Judean rebels Seleucid Empire
166 BCE 166 BCE Battle of Beth Horon (166 BCE)

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Judean rebels Seleucid Empire
165 BCE 165 BCE Battle of Emmaus

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
164 BCE 164 BCE Battle of Beth Zur

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
163 BCE 163 BCE Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
163 BCE 163 BCE Battle of Dathema

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
162 BCE 162 BCE Battle of Beth Zechariah

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
161 BCE 161 BCE Battle of Adasa

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Maccabees Seleucid Empire
160 BCE 160 BCE Battle of Elasa

Part of the Maccabean Revolt

Seleucid Empire Maccabees
107 BCE 88 BCE Civil War of Ptolemy Lathyros Egypt (Ptolemy IX Soter)

Cyprus Phoenicia

Egypt (Cleopatra III)

Judea (103–93) Nabatea (103–93)

93 BCE 93 BCE Battle of Gadara Nabataean Kingdom Hasmonean dynasty
93 BCE 87 BCE Judean Civil War

Part of the Pharisee-Sadducee conflict

Sadducees Pharisees

Seleucid Empire (89-88 BCE)

67 BCE 63 BCE Hasmonean Civil War

Part of the Pharisee-Sadducee conflict Part of the Third Mithridatic War

Hyrcanus II
  Roman Republic
Aristobulus II
  Roman Republic
63 BCE 63 BCE Siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE)

Part of the Hasmonean Civil War

Roman Republic Hasmonean dynasty
37 BCE 37 BCE Siege of Jerusalem (37 BCE) Herodian dynasty

Roman Republic

Hasmonean dynasty

1–999

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
66 66 Jerusalem riots of 66

First Jewish–Roman War Part of Jewish–Roman wars

  Roman Empire Jews of Judaea
66 74 First Jewish–Roman War

Part of Jewish–Roman wars

  Roman Empire Judaea

Peasantry faction

Edomites (69–70)

Supported by:


Radical factions:
70 70 Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)

Part of the First Jewish–Roman War Part of Jewish–Roman wars

  Roman Empire Remnants of the Judean provisional government

Peasantry faction

Edomites


Zealots
115 117 Kitos War

Part of Trajan's Parthian Campaign Part of Jewish–Roman wars

  Roman Empire Jews of Judaea, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Aegyptus, and Mesopotamia
132 136 Bar Kokhba revolt

Part of Jewish–Roman wars

  Roman Empire Jews of Judaea under Simon Bar Kokhba
351 352 Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus   Byzantine Empire Jews of Syria Palaestina
484 573 Samaritan revolts   Byzantine Empire
  • Dux Palaestinae troops
  • Arcadiani

Ghassanid Arabs

Samaritan rebels

Jewish rebels (556, 572 and 573/578 revolts)

602 628 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 Byzantine Empire

Western Turkic Khaganate Ghassanids

Sasanian Empire

Avars (and Slavic allies) Sasanian Iberia Jewish and Samaritan rebels (c. 614) Lakhmids

614 614 Siege of Caesarea Maritima (614)

Part of the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

  Byzantine Empire   Sasanian Empire
614 617/625 Jewish revolt against Heraclius

Part of the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

  Byzantine Empire   Sasanian Empire
614 614 Sasanian conquest of Jerusalem

Part of the Jewish revolt against Heraclius Part of the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628

  Byzantine Empire   Sasanian Empire
634 638 Muslim conquest of the Levant

Part of the Arab–Byzantine wars

Rashidun Caliphate   Byzantine Empire

Ghassanids Tanukhids

1000–1499

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1096 1099 First Crusade

Part of the Crusades

Crusaders

Kingdom of France

  Holy Roman Empire

County of Sicily

County of Apulia and Calabria

Eastern Christian Allies

Byzantine Empire

  Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Muslim forces

Fatimid Caliphate

 Seljuk Empire

1099 1099 Siege of Jerusalem (1099) Crusaders Fatimid Caliphate
1101 1101 Battle of Ramla (1101)

Part of the Crusades

  Kingdom of Jerusalem Fatimid Caliphate
1102 1102 Battle of Ramla (1102)

Part of the Crusades

Fatimids of Egypt   Kingdom of Jerusalem
1104 1104 Siege of Acre (1104)   Kingdom of Jerusalem

  Republic of Genoa

Fatimid Caliphate
1122 1124 Venetian Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Republic of Venice

  Kingdom of Jerusalem   County of Tripoli

  Fatimid Caliphate

Seljuqs

1145 1149 Second Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Sultanate of Rûm

  Almoravid Dynasty Zengid Dynasty

  Abbasid Caliphate

  Fatimid Caliphate

  Kingdom of Jerusalem

  Kingdom of France

  Holy Roman Empire

  Kingdom of Portugal

  Kingdom of Castile

  County of Barcelona

  Kingdom of León

Byzantine Empire

  Kingdom of Sicily

  Kingdom of England

1177 1177 Battle of Montgisard

Part of the Crusades

  Kingdom of Jerusalem   Ayyubid Dynasty
1179 1179 Battle of Marj Ayyun

Part of the Crusades

  Ayyubid Dynasty   Kingdom of Jerusalem

  Knights Templar

1179 1179 Battle of Jacob's Ford

Part of the Crusades

  Ayyubid Dynasty   Kingdom of Jerusalem
1182 1182 Battle of Belvoir Castle

Part of the Crusades

  Kingdom of Jerusalem   Ayyubid Dynasty
1183 1183 Battle of Al-Fule

Part of the Crusades

  Kingdom of Jerusalem   Ayyubid Dynasty
1187 1187 Battle of Cresson

Part of the Crusades

  Ayyubid Dynasty   Kingdom of Jerusalem
1187 1187 Battle of Hattin

Part of the Crusades

  Ayyubid Dynasty   Kingdom of Jerusalem

  County of Tripoli

  Principality of Antioch

1187 1187 1187 Siege of Jerusalem   Ayyubid Dynasty   Kingdom of Jerusalem
1189 1192 Third Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Kingdom of Jerusalem

  Kingdom of England

  Kingdom of France

  Holy Roman Empire

  Knights Templar

  Kingdom of Sicily

  Ayyubid Dynasty

Zengid Dynasty

Byzantine Empire

1197 1198 Crusade of 1197

Part of the Crusades

  Holy Roman Empire   Ayyubid Dynasty
1202 1204 Fourth Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Holy Roman Empire

  Republic of Venice   Monferrat

Byzantine Empire
1228 1229 Sixth Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Holy Roman Empire

  Teutonic Knights

  Kingdom of Cyprus

  House of Ibelin   Ayyubid Dynasty

1228 1243 War of the Lombards   Kingdom of Cyprus

  Anti-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem   Republic of Genoa

  Knights Templar   Papacy

  Holy Roman Empire

  Pro-Imperial faction in the Kingdom of Jerusalem   Principality of Antioch and County of Tripoli

  Republic of Pisa   Knights Hospitaller

  Teutonic Knights

1244 1244 Siege of Jerusalem (1244)   Ayyubid Dynasty

Khwarazmians

  Kingdom of Jerusalem
1248 1254 Seventh Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Ayyubid Dynasty

  Bahris

  Kingdom of France

  Knights Templar

1256 1270 War of Saint Sabas   Republic of Venice

Count of Jaffa Knights Templar

  Republic of Genoa

Philip of Monfort John of Arsuf   Knights Hospitaller

1271 1272 Ninth Crusade

Part of the Crusades

  Bahris   Anjou

  Kingdom of Cyprus

  Principality of Antioch

  Kingdom of England

  Ilkhanate

1291 1291 Siege of Acre (1291) Mamluk Sultanate [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|  Kingdom of Jerusalem]] (in union with Cyprus)

Knights Templar

Knights Hospitaller

Teutonic Order

Order of St. Thomas

Order of St. Lazarus

1500–1899

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1516 1517 Second Ottoman–Mamluk War

Part of the Ottoman–Mamluk wars

  Ottoman Empire   Mamluk Sultanate
1658 1667 Druze power struggle (1658–1667)   Ottoman Empire Ma'ani Druze Rebels
1798 1801 French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Part of the War of the Second Coalition

  Ottoman Empire

  Great Britain (1798–1800)

  United Kingdom (1801)

  Regency of Algiers Bedouin Tribesman (1801)

  French Republic
1799 1799 1799 Siege of Jaffa

Part of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Part of the War of the Second Coalition

  French Republic   Ottoman Empire
1799 1799 1799 Siege of Acre

Part of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria

Part of the War of the Second Coalition

  Ottoman Empire

  Great Britain

  French Republic
1799 1799 1799 Battle of Mount Tabor   French Republic   Ottoman Empire
1831 1833 First Egyptian–Ottoman War   Egypt   Ottoman Empire

  Russian Empire (from 1833)

1834 1835 Syrian Peasant Revolt   Ottoman Egypt Alawite clans

Urban notables of:

1838 1838 1838 Druze revolt   Egypt Eyalet

Chehab's forces supported by:

  • Anaza tribe
  • Wuld Ali tribe
  • Sulut tribe of Laja (since March 1838)
Druze clans

supported by:

  • Sulut tribe of Laja (until March 1838)
  • Maydan quarter of Damascus
1839 1841 Second Egyptian–Ottoman War   Ottoman Empire

  British Empire

  Austrian Empire

  Russian Empire

  Kingdom of Prussia

  Egypt

  France

  Spain

1860 1860 1860 Syrian Civil War Rural Druze clans
  • Abu Nakad clan
  • Imad clan
  • Abu Harmouch clan
  • Talhuq clan
  • Jumblatt clan

Supported by

Maronites and allies

1900–1999

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
1915 1918 Sinai and Palestine campaign

Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Part of World War I

  British Empire

  Kingdom of Hejaz

 France

 Kingdom of Italy

  Ottoman Empire  Germany  Austria-Hungary
1916 1918 Arab Revolt

Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

Part of World War I

  Hashemite Arabs

  United Kingdom

  Ottoman Empire
1918 1918 Battle of Megiddo (1918)   British Empire

  Kingdom of Hejaz

 France

  Ottoman Empire
1920 1948 Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine   Jewish National Council (Yishuv)

  Arab Higher Committee

Central Committee of National Jihad in Palestine (1937-39) Jihadist groups:


  United Kingdom

  British Army

Palestine Police Force Jewish Settlement Police Jewish Supernumerary Police Special Night Squads

1936 1939 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine

Part of the Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

  United Kingdom

  British Army Palestine Police Force Jewish Settlement Police Jewish Supernumerary Police Special Night Squads Peace Bands


Haganah

Irgun

  Arab Higher Committee
1940 1941 Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II

Part of the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

Part of World War II

  Fascist Italy   United Kingdom
1944 1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine

Part of the Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

  Jewish Resistance Movement   British Army

  Royal Navy

  Royal Air Force

  Palestine Police Force

1947 1948 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine

Part of the 1948 Palestine war

  Jews of Palestine   Arabs of Palestine
1948 1949 1948 Arab–Israeli War

Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Israel   Egypt  Iraq  Transjordan  Syria  HWA

  Arab Liberation Army  Lebanon  Saudi Arabia   Yemen

Foreign volunteers:   Muslim Brotherhood

  Pakistan  Sudan

1949 1956 Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel   Palestinian Fedayeen
Supported by:
  Egypt
  Jordan
  Syria
1951 1966 Reprisal operations (Israel)

Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Israel   Palestinian Fedayeen
  Jordan
  Egypt
  Syria
1967 1967 Six-Day War

Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Israel   Egypt

  Syria   Jordan Arab Expeditionary Forces:   Iraq

  Saudi Arabia   Morocco   Algeria   Libya   Kuwait   Tunisia   Sudan   PLO

1967 1970 War of Attrition

Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Israel   Egypt

  Soviet Union   Cuba   PLO   Jordan   Syria

1973 1973 Yom Kippur War

Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict

  Israel   Egypt

  Syria Combat support:

1978 1978 1978 South Lebanon conflict

Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

  Israel

  SLA

  PLO
1982 1985 1982 Lebanon War

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel  SLA  Lebanese Front   PLO

  Syria   Hezbollah

  Jammoul   Amal

  Al-Mourabitoun   Islamic Amal

  ASALA   Al-Tawhid

  PKK

1985 Ongoing Iran–Israel proxy conflict   Iran   Israel
1985 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)

Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

  Hezbollah

  Jammoul   Amal

  Israel  SLA  Lebanese Front
1987 1993 First Intifada

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel   Unified National Leadership of the Uprising

  Hamas

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

2000–2024

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Started Ended Name of conflict Belligerents
Victorious party (if applicable) Defeated party (if applicable)
2000 2005 Second Intifada

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel   Palestinian Authority

Supported by:   Iraq (until 2003)

2000 2006 2000–2006 Shebaa Farms conflict

Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

  Israel   Hezbollah

Supported by:

  Syria[5]

  Iran[5]

2006 Ongoing Fatah–Hamas conflict   Hamas Fatah

Supported by:

  United States (allegedly)

  United Kingdom (covert)

2006 2006 2006 Lebanon War

Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

  Israel

Supported by:

  United States

  Hezbollah

  Amal

  LCP

  PFLP-GC

Supported by:

  Iran

  Syria

  Lebanon

2007 2007 Hamas' takeover of Gaza

Part of the Fatah–Hamas conflict

  Hamas Fatah
2008 2009 Gaza War

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Israel   Gaza Strip
2014 2014 2014 Gaza War

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Israel   Gaza Strip
2018 2018 November 2018 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza-Israel conflict

  Israel   Gaza Strip
2019 2019 May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Israel   Gaza Strip

Supported by:

  Iran

2019 2019 November 2019 Gaza-Israel clashes

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Israel Palestinian Islamic Jihad
2021 2021 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis   Israel   Hamas

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

2022 2022 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel Palestinian Islamic Jihad
2023 2023 May 2023 Gaza–Israel clashes

Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

  Israel Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

2023 2023 October 7 attack

Part of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Ottoman Empire  Germany

  Austria-Hungary   Hamas

Palestinian Islamic Jihad   Popular Resistance Committees

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine   Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Palestinian Freedom Movement Palestinian Mujahideen Movement

  Israel
2023 Ongoing 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict

  Israel   Gaza

  West Bank

  Lebanon

  Yemen

  Iraq

Supported by:

2023 Ongoing 2023 Israel–Lebanon border clashes

Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

Part of the spillover of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

  Israel   Hezbollah

  Hamas

PIJ

PFLP

Lebanese Resistance Brigades

2023 Ongoing Red Sea crisis

Part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict Part of the Iran–United States proxy conflict Part of the Yemeni crisis Part of the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war

  Houthi movement
Axis of Resistance
  Israel
2024 2024 2024 Iran–Israel conflict

Part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict

Part of the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war

  Iran   IsraelSupported by:  United States  United Kingdom

  France

  Jordan

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