List of wars involving Mauritania

This is a list of wars involving Mauritania.

Conflict	Mauritania and allies	Opponents	Results	President of Mauritania
Western Sahara War (1975–1979)	Mauritania Morocco France	Polisario	Defeat Withdrawal from Tiris al-Gharbiyya.	Moktar Ould Daddah
Mauritania–Senegal Border War (1989–1991)	Mauritania	Senegal FLAM	Indecisive Peace agreement, end of skirmishes.	Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–)	Algeria^[1] Morocco^[1] Mauritania^[2] Mali^[2]^[1] Chad^[1] France^[1] Tunisia^[1] Libya^[1]	al-Qaeda	Ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara launched in 2007	Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb". Council on Foreign Relations. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Al Qaeda retreats from west Mali camps -military sources". Reuters. 5 August 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)