List of wars involving Morocco

This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Morocco and its predecessor states.

Kingdom of Morocco (1956–present)

Conflict	Morocco and allies	Opponents	Results	Head of State	Moroccan losses
					Military	Civilians
Sand War (1963)	Morocco	Algeria Support: United Arab Republic	Stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig	Hassan II	39	Unknown
October War (1973)	Federation of Arab Republics Arab Republic of Egypt Arab Republic of Syria Iraq  Jordan  Algeria Morocco  Saudi Arabia  Cuba  North Korea[1][2]	Israel	Defeat[3] (Strategic Political Gains)[4] Syrian invasion repelled, Egyptian Third Army surrounded; UN ceasefire Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty[5]		6	None
Western Sahara War (1975–1991)	Morocco Mauritania (1975–1979) France (1977–1978) Support: Saudi Arabia United States	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Polisario Front Algeria (Amgala Battle[6], From 1976) Support: Libya (Until 1984) North Korea (From 1978)	Stalemate Spanish withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976) Mauritanian retreat and withdrawal of territorial claims Military Stalemate Ceasefire agreed on between the Polisario Front and Morocco (1991) Morocco controls 75% of the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front controls 25%		2,155– 2,300	Unknown
Shaba I (1977)	Zaire  Morocco Egypt	FNLC	Victory FNCL expelled from Katanga		8	None
Gulf War (1990–1991)	Kuwait United States  United Kingdom  Saudi Arabia  France  Canada  Egypt  Syria  Morocco  Oman  Qatar  Australia	Iraq	Victory Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait; Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah restored Heavy casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure		Unknown	None
Intervention In Yemen (2015–)	Hadi Government  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates  Senegal  Sudan  Qatar  Bahrain  Kuwait  Jordan  Morocco  Egypt  France	Revolutionary Council Houthis Saleh loyalists	Ongoing Houthis dissolve Yemeni government. Houthis take control of northern Yemen.	Mohammed VI	10	None

References

1. Smith, Terence (1973-10-18). "Hundreds of Tanks Clash in a Struggle for Suez Area". The New York Times. "North Korea has decided to give military assistance to Egypt and Syria, its press agency [...] said today."
2. Smith, Hedrick (1973-10-19). "Flow of Soviet Jews Is Undimished". The New York Times. "[...] Premier Kim Il Sung of North Korea had met with the Egyptian and Syrian ambassadors in Pyonyang to inform them of his Government's decision 'to give material assistance including military aid to Syria and Egypt.' [...] [This] lends credence to the [US] Defence Department's report that North Korean pilots were flying missions for Cairo."
3. References:
   • Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
   • Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974, page 450
   • Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
   • Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. Page 498
   • Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pages 1–2 ISBN 0-313-31302-4
   • Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. Page 177
   • Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. Page 411.
4. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
5. Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
6. "Argelia acusa la derrota de Angola". ABC (in Spanish): 41. 1976-02-07. Retrieved 2012-07-24.