- — Asia:
- — Africa:
British intervention and UNAMSIL
As the RUF again advanced on Freetown, Britain's Operation Palliser and a strengthened UN Mission (UNAMSIL) turned the war; Foday Sankoh was captured, breaking the rebellion's momentum.
Era: One-party rule, civil war, and recovery
Sources: British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War (Operation Palliser) · Wikipedia, Sierra Leone Civil War · Wikipedia
- — Oceania:
The Malaita Eagle Force coup
Militants take Prime Minister Ulufa'alu hostage and force his resignation; an Australian-brokered treaty that October begins a weapons handover that does not hold.
Era: Tensions, Recovery and Great-Power Attention
Sources: Solomon Islands profile - Timeline · BBC News
- — Asia:
US-led intervention topples the Taliban
After the 11 September attacks a US-led coalition and the Northern Alliance overthrow the Taliban; the Bonn Agreement of December 2001 installs Hamid Karzai's interim government.
Era: The Taliban, Intervention and Return
Sources: NATO and Afghanistan · North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mohammad Omar — Biography & Facts · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Africa:
Death of Savimbi ends the war
Jonas Savimbi was killed in an ambush by government forces; within weeks UNITA and the MPLA signed the Luena Memorandum, ending the twenty-seven-year civil war.
Era: The long civil war
Sources: Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) · BlackPast.org, Angolan Civil War · Wikipedia, The Angolan Civil War (1975–2002): A Brief History · South African History Online
- — Africa:
Civil war divides the country
An army mutiny grew into a rebellion that split Côte d'Ivoire between a government-held south and a rebel-held north under the Forces Nouvelles, drawing in French and UN peacekeepers.
Era: Ivoirité, civil war, and recovery
Sources: History of Ivory Coast · Wikipedia, Côte d'Ivoire Post-Gbagbo: Crisis Recovery · Congressional Research Service, 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
The civil war ends
With disarmament completed, the eleven-year civil war was declared over; estimates put the death toll above 120,000, with millions displaced and thousands maimed.
Era: One-party rule, civil war, and recovery
Sources: The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002) · BlackPast.org, Sierra Leone Civil War · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
CNDD-FDD joins the peace process
The main rebel movement, the CNDD-FDD, agrees to the peace process and ceasefires; the war winds down toward the 2005 transition.
Era: Democracy, Assassination and Civil War
Sources: History of Burundi · Wikipedia, Burundi: Why the Arusha Accords are Central · Africa Center for Strategic Studies
- — Asia:
US-led invasion topples Saddam Hussein
A United States-led coalition invades Iraq and overthrows Saddam Hussein's government within weeks; Saddam is captured in December 2003 and later executed in 2006.
Era: Iraq Since 2003 — Invasion, Insurgency and Recovery
Sources: Iraq War · Encyclopædia Britannica, Iraq — Iraq under Saddam Hussein · Encyclopædia Britannica
- — Africa:
Taylor resigns; Accra peace agreement
With rebels besieging Monrovia and an international indictment over Sierra Leone hanging over him, Charles Taylor resigned and went into exile; a comprehensive peace agreement in Accra ended the war and a UN mission, UNMIL, deployed.
Era: The civil wars and Charles Taylor
Sources: Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003) · BlackPast.org, Charles Taylor · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Second Liberian Civil War · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
War in Darfur begins
Rebel attacks meet a government-backed Janjaweed campaign; UN estimates put the toll at about 300,000 dead and some three million displaced.
Era: Darfur, Secession and the War of the Generals
Sources: War in Darfur · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Islamic Courts Union and the rise of Al-Shabaab
The Islamic Courts Union briefly controls much of the south before an Ethiopian intervention ousts it; from its militant wing emerges Al-Shabaab, which launches a prolonged jihadist insurgency.
Era: State Collapse, Civil War and the Federal Republic
Sources: Al Shabaab (CRS In Focus) · U.S. Library of Congress / Congressional Research Service, AMISOM – Background of Conflict · Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
- — Africa:
LRA driven from Uganda
After nearly two decades that displaced almost two million people and saw tens of thousands of children abducted, the Lord's Resistance Army is pushed out of northern Uganda.
Era: The Bush War, Museveni and the Northern Insurgency
Sources: Q&A on Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army · Human Rights Watch, Lord's Resistance Army insurgency · Wikipedia
- — Africa:
Second Tuareg rebellion
The Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) launched a new insurgency, attacking the army and the uranium-mining zone around Agadez and Arlit, before a settlement was reached in 2009.
Era: Democracy, Tuareg rebellions and the cycle of coups
Sources: Tuareg rebellion (2007–2009) · Wikipedia, Tuareg in Niger · Minority Rights Group
- — Asia:
Russia–Georgia war over South Ossetia
A five-day war around South Ossetia drew in the Russian military; estimates put the combined dead at about 850 with over 100,000 displaced. Russia then recognised Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a step most states rejected.
Era: Independent Georgia: Conflicts, the Rose Revolution and the Western Turn
Sources: Georgia: Independent Georgia · Encyclopaedia Britannica, South Ossetia · Encyclopaedia Britannica
War & Rupture in the 2000s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged war and rupture — wars, invasions, conquests, battles and armed conflict, narrowed to the 2000s — 15 of them, drawn from 14 nations, running from 2000 to 2008. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 15
- Nations
- 14
- Earliest
- 2000
- Latest
- 2008
- Africa
- 10
- Asia
- 4
- Oceania
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.