List of conflicts in Mali
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- c. 970 — c. 1240 Decline of the Ghana Empire - c. 1,075 Almoravid conquest of the Ghana Empire
- c. 1100 — c. 1235 Aftermath and Sosso Occupation
 
- c. 1217 — c. 1230 Pre-imperial expansion of the Mali Empire - c. 1217 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Sundiata Keita - c. 1235 Battle of Kirina
 
- c. 1217 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Fakoli and Fran
 
- c. 1217 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Sundiata Keita 
- 1235 — 1230 Pre-imperial expansion - c. 1235 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Sundiata Keita - c. 1235 Battle of Kirina
 
- c. 1235 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Fakoli and Fran
 
- c. 1235 — c. 1255 Campaigns of Sundiata Keita 
- 1235 — 1250 Early imperial expansion of the Mali Empire - 1235 — 1255 Tiramakhan's western campaign
- 1255 — 1270 Expansion under Mansa Ouali I
- Civil war and rebellion
- 1285 — 1300 Re-conquest and expansion under Mansa Sakura
 
- 1300 — 1337 The empire at its zenith
- 1337 — 1440 The fragmenting empire

- 1440 — 1490 The empire on the defensive
- 1500 — 1600 Collapse of the Mali empire

- 1440 — 1490 The Mali Empire on the Defensive
- 1500 — 1600 Collapse of the Mali Empire
- 1578 — 1603  Campaigns of Ahmad al-Mansur of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco - October 16, 1590 — March 13, 1591 Songhai campaign - March 13, 1591 Battle of Tondibi
 
 
- October 16, 1590 — March 13, 1591 Songhai campaign 
- April 26, 1599 Battle of Jenné


- c. 1776 — April 20, 1845 Campaigns of Seku Amadu - 1810 — 1818 Jihad of Seku Amadu
 
- c. 1797 — 1864 Campaigns of El Hadj Umar Tall - 1848 — 1864  Initial conquests - 1659 — 1958 French colonisation in Africa - April 1857 Siege of Medina Fort
 
 
- 1659 — 1958 French colonisation in Africa 
- March 10, 1861 — March 16, 1862 Conquest of the Bamana Empire - March 10, 1861 Battle of Segou
 
 
- 1848 — 1864  Initial conquests 

- 1883 — 1886 Mandingo Wars
- 1916 — 2012 Tuareg rebellions - 1962 — 1964 First Tuareg rebellion
 
- 1985 Agacher Strip War
- 1990 — 1995 Azawad insurgency and Malian civil war
- October 7, 2001 — ongoing War on Terror - 2002 — ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb - February 6, 2007 — ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara
- February 2007 — May 2009 Second Tuareg rebellion
- December 8, 2010 — ongoing Arab Spring - 2012 — ongoing Northern Mali conflict - 2012 — Third Tuareg Rebellion - January 18, 2012 — March 11, 2012 Battle of Tessalit
- January 17, 2012 — January 25, 2012 Battle of Aguelhok
- February 7, 2012 — February 8, 2012 Battle of Tinzaouaten
 
- March 21, 2012 — April 8, 2012 Malian coup d'état
- June 27, 2012 — ongoing Internal conflict in Azawad - June 26, 2012 — June 27, 2012 Battle of Gao
- November 16, 2012 — November 20, 2012 Battle of Menaka
- February 22, 2013 — February 23, 2013 Battle of Khalil
- March 29, 2013 — March 30, 2013 Battle of In Arab
 
- January 11, 2013 — ongoing Operation Serval
 
- 2012 — Third Tuareg Rebellion 
 
- 2012 — ongoing Northern Mali conflict 
 
 
- 2002 — ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb