Conflicts in 1979

1979–1989 war between the Soviet Union and Afghan insurgents

war between the People's Republic of China and Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1979

The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Jafari, and Mohammad Bagheri. The hostage crisis contributed to a dramatic decline in Iran–United States relations. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980.

1978–1979 armed conflict in East Africa

islamists' terrorist action, 1979

13 year 1979-1992 civil war in El Salvador

1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin

conflict, contestations and revolution movements, mainly linked to Muslim brotherhood

series of border and naval clashes between China and Vietnam

armed conflict in Malaysia from 1968 to 1989

1979 December 12 coup d'état in South Korea ending its Fourth Republic that brought Chun Doo-hwan to power, beginning of the Fifth Republic

communist insurgency in Malaysia

Military overthrow of President Francisco Macías Nguema

mass agitation against illegal foreigners in Assam, India, from 1979 to 1985

short military conflict between North and South Yemen

rebellion in Afghanistan

guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 27 August 1979

1979 battle

1979 military operation in French Central Africa

Period of civil unrest

1979 insurrection attempt in Kabul, Afghanistan

overthrow of Somali communism and Somali socialism in Somalia

1975-1979 insurgency in Iraq

Coup d'état in El Salvador

political rebellion in Iraq

1979 insurrection in Old Kabul

1979 Thai-Cambodian border incident

Massacres in Bolivia

1979 military coup in Mauritania

1979 South Korean protests against the Park Chung Hee administration

Yemeni uprising lasting from 1978 to 1982.