This is a list of wars involving Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakh and the predecessor states of Kazakhstan to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Kazakhstan by the Kazakh military.
Legends of results:
Kazakh Khanate was established by Janibek Khan and Kerei Khan in 1465. Both khans came from Turco-Mongol clan of Tore which traces its lineage to Genghis Khan through dynasty of Jochids. The Tore clan continued to rule the khanate until its fall to the Russian Empire.
From 16th to 17th century, the Kazakh Khanate ruled and expanded its territories to eastern Cumania (modern-day West Kazakhstan), to most of Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan and the Syr Darya river with military confrontation as far as Astrakhan and Khorasan Province, which are now in Russia and Iran, respectively. The Khanate was later weakened by a series of Oirat and Dzungar invasions. These resulted in a decline and further disintegration into three Juzes, which gradually lost their sovereignty and were incorporated to the expanding Russian Empire in the 19th century.
| Date | Conflict | Combatant I | Combatant II | Result for Kazakhstan | Khan/Leader | |
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| 1825-1836 | Uprising of Sarzhan Qasymov | Kazakh rebels Kokand Khanate (1834-1835) | Russian Empire Kokand Khanate (1832, 1836) | Defeat
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| 1836-1837 | Uprising of Isatay Taimanov | Kazakh rebels | Russian Empire Bukey Horde | Defeat
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| 1837-1847 | Kenesary's Rebellion
| Kazakh Khanate supported by: | Russian Empire supported by:
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| 1840-1846 | Kokand campaigns of Kenesary Qasymov | Kazakh Khanate Emirate of Bukhara | Khanate of Kokand | Victory
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| 1843-1851 | Zhankozha Nurmukhamedov's struggle against Khiva and Kokand
| Russian Empire Kazakh Khanate (until 1847) Syr Darya Kazakhs | Khanate of Khiva Khanate of Kokand | Victory
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| Date | Conflict | Combatant I | Combatant II | Result for Kazakhstan | Khan/Leader |
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| 1856-1860 | Zhankozha Nurmukhamedov's Uprising | Kazakh Rebels | Russian Empire | Defeat
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| 1850-1868 | Russian conquest of Kokand Khanate | Russian Empire | Khanate of Kokand Kyrgyz Khanate | Victory
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| 1868-1869 | Uprising in Ural and Turgay oblasts | Kazakh rebels | Russian Empire | Defeat
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| 1870 | Adai rebellion | Aday tribe rebels supported by | Russian Empire | Defeat
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| 1916-1917 | Central Asian revolt of 1916
| Turkic tribes
supported by:
| Russian Empire supported by: | Victory
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Kazakhs, tired of almost a century of Russian colonization, started to rise up. In the 1870s–80s, schools in Kazakhstan massively started to open, which developed elite, future Kazakh members of the Alash party. In 1916, after conscription of Muslims into the military for service in the Eastern Front during World War I, Kazakhs and Kyrgyzs rose up against the Russian government, with uprisings until February 1917.
The state was proclaimed during the Second All-Kazakh Congress held at Orenburg from 5–13 December 1917 OS (18–26 NS), with a provisional government being established under the oversight of Alikhan Bukeikhanov. However, the nation's purported territory was still under the de facto control of the region's Russian-appointed governor, Vassily Balabanov, until 1919. In 1920, he fled the Russian Red Army for self-imposed exile in China, where he was recognised by the Chinese as Kazakhstan's legitimate ruler.
Following its proclamation in December 1917, Alash leaders established the Alash Orda, a Kazakh government which was aligned with the White Army and fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In 1919, when the White forces were losing, the Alash Autonomous government began negotiations with the Bolsheviks. By 1920, the Bolsheviks had defeated the White Russian forces in the region and occupied Kazakhstan. On 17 August 1920, the Soviet government established the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, which in 1925 changed its name to Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, and finally to Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936.
During most of the XXth century Kazakhstan was a soviet republic within USSR, participating in the wars USSR took a part in.
See main article: List of wars involving the Soviet Union.
Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991.
| Date | Conflict | Combatant I | Combatant II | Result for Kazakhstan | President of Kazakhstan | |
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| 1992–1997 | Tajikistani Civil War | CSTO | United Tajik Opposition Jamiat-e Islami (until 1996)  Afghanistan (until 1996)Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (until 1996) Taliban factions | Military stalemale
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| 1996–2001 | Afghan Civil War | Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan East Turkistan Islamic Party Tanzeem-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi  Pakistan | Military stalemale
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| 2002–present | Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa | NATO | Insurgents
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| 2003–2011 | Iraq War | MNF–I | (2003) | Victory
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