Editing FN FAL (section)

== Conflicts ==
In the more than 70 years of use worldwide, the FAL has seen use in conflicts all over the world. During the [[Falklands War]], the FN FAL was used by both sides. The FAL was used by the Argentine armed forces and the L1A1 Self Loading Rifle (SLR), a semi-automatic only version of the FAL, was used by the armed forces of the UK and other Commonwealth nations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Ten Combat Rifles|url=http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/combat-countdown/top-10-combat-rifles.htm|publisher=Military Channel|access-date=12 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127212217/http://military.discovery.com/tv-shows/combat-countdown/top-10-combat-rifles.htm|archive-date=27 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== 1950s ===
* [[Mau Mau rebellion]] (1952–1960)<ref name="Encyclopedie">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Contre les Mau Mau|language=fr |encyclopedia=Encyclopédie des armes : Les forces armées du monde|publisher=Atlas|year=1986|pages=2764–2766|volume=XII|number=139. Armes d'infanterie d'après–guerre}}</ref> British FN-made prototypes{{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=15}}
* [[Cuban Revolution]] (1953–1959){{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=66}}
* [[Calderonista invasion of Costa Rica]] (1955)
* [[First Sudanese Civil War]] (1955–1972)
* [[Vietnam War]] (1955–1975)
* [[Basque conflict]] (1959–2011)

=== 1960s ===
* [[Congo Crisis]] (1960–1965){{sfn|Cashner|2013|pp=41-42}}
* [[Guatemalan Civil War]] (1960-1996)
* [[Portuguese Colonial War]] (1961–1974){{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=46}}
* [[Rhodesian Bush War]] (1964–1979)<ref name="mcnab2002">{{cite book |last=McNab |first=Chris |title=20th Century Military Uniforms |year=2002 |edition=2nd |publisher=Grange Books |location=Kent |isbn=1-84013-476-3|page=196}}</ref>{{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=43}}
* [[Eritrean War of Independence]] (1961–1991)
* [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]] (1961)<ref name="bishop1998" />
* [[Araguaia Guerrilla War]] (1966–1975)<ref>{{Cite web |title=A GUERRILHA DO ARAGUAIA: A LUTA ARMADA NO CAMPO E SUAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS HISTÓRICAS - Brasil Escola |url=https://monografias.brasilescola.uol.com.br/sociologia/a-guerrilha-araguaia-luta-armada-no-campo-suas-consequencias-historicas.htm |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=Monografias Brasil Escola |language=pt-br|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023140218/https://monografias.brasilescola.uol.com.br/sociologia/a-guerrilha-araguaia-luta-armada-no-campo-suas-consequencias-historicas.htm|archive-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref>
* [[South African Border War]] (1966–1990){{sfn|McNab|2002|p=204}}
* [[Six-Day War]] (1967){{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=47}}{{sfn|McNab|2002|p=140}}
* [[War of Attrition]] (1967–1970)
* [[Nigerian Civil War]] (1967–1970){{sfn|McNab|2002|p=185}}
* [[Moro conflict]] (1969–2019)<ref name="Philippines">{{cite book|chapter= Captured and Counted: Illicit Weapons in Mexico and the Philippines |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2013/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2013-Chapter-12-EN.pdf|title=Small Arms Survey 2013: Everyday Dangers|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2013.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824225557/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2013.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 24, 2013|date=2013|first=Matt|last= Schroeder|isbn=978-1-107-04196-7|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|page=303}}</ref>
* [[The Troubles]]<ref name=":12" /> (Late 1960s–1998)

=== 1970s ===
[[File:Sempreatentos...aoperigo!.jpg|thumb|FAL-armed Portuguese soldiers [[Portuguese Colonial War|in Angola]].]]

* [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] (1971)<ref>{{cite news|date=29 December 2017 |title=Arms for freedom|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/bangladesh-liberation-war-1971-muktijuddho-guerrilla-fighter-arms-freedom-1511812|access-date=2019-08-31|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201135249/http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/bangladesh-liberation-war-1971-muktijuddho-guerrilla-fighter-arms-freedom-1511812|archive-date=February 1, 2018}}</ref>
** [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
* [[Yom Kippur War]] (1973){{sfn|Cashner|2013|p=47}}
* [[Turkish Invasion of Cyprus|Cyprus Peace Operation (Invasion of Cyprus) (1974)]]
* [[Ethiopian Civil War]] (1974–1991)
*[[Operation Independence]] (1975–1977)
* [[Lebanese Civil War]] (1975–1990)<ref name=":13" /><ref>Jureidini, McLaurin, and Price, ''Military operations in selected Lebanese built-up areas'' (1979), Appendix A, table A-8.</ref><ref>Jenzen-Jones & Spleeters, ''Identifying & Tracing the FN Herstal FAL Rifle: Documenting signs of diversion in Syria and beyond'' (2015), pp. 20-21.</ref>
* [[Western Sahara War]] (1975–1991)<ref>{{cite thesis|language=es|first=M'Beirik Ahmed|last=Abdalahe|title=El Nacionalismo Saharaui, de Zemla a la Organización de la Unidad Africana|date=October 2015|type=PhD|editor-first=Juan Manuel|editor-last=Santana Pérez|publisher={{ill |Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria|es}}|url=https://acceda.ulpgc.es/bitstream/10553/21618/4/0733650_00000_0000.pdf|page=335|access-date=2018-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419000219/https://acceda.ulpgc.es/bitstream/10553/21618/4/0733650_00000_0000.pdf|archive-date=2018-04-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Angolan Civil War]] (1975–2002)<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Callan's Mercenaries Are Defeated in Northern Angola|title=Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts|first=Scott|last=Fitzsimmons|date=November 2012|isbn=978-1-107-02691-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZfGYsrEIBEC|page=155|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139208727.005}}</ref>
* [[Egyptian–Libyan War]] (1977)
* [[Shaba II]] (1978)<ref name="Congo">{{cite magazine|title=Les armes de Kolwezi|first=Jacques|last=Sicard|pages=25–30|magazine=[[La Gazette des armes]]|language=fr|url=http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero-111-novembre-1982/page-28-29-texte-integral|issue=111|date=November 1982|access-date=2018-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019075744/http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero-111-novembre-1982/page-28-29-texte-integral|archive-date=2018-10-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Uganda–Tanzania War]] (1978–1979)
* [[Nicaraguan Revolution]] (1978-1990)
* [[Salvadoran Civil War]] (1979–1992){{sfn|Cashner|2013|pp= 66-68}}

=== 1980s ===
[[File:Eastern Caribbean FAL.JPEG|thumb|Members of the [[Caribbean Peace Force|Eastern Caribbean Defense Force]] in [[United States invasion of Grenada|Operation Urgent Fury]] are armed with FN FAL rifles.]]

* [[Iran–Iraq War|Iran-Iraq War]] (1980–1988)
* [[Ugandan Bush War]] (1980–1986)
* [[Falklands War]] (1982)<ref name="bishop1998" />
* [[Second Sudanese Civil War]] (1983–2005)
* [[Bougainville conflict]] (1988–1998)<ref name="a">{{cite AV media |people=Dom Rotheroe (Director)|title=[[The Coconut Revolution]] |date=2001|type=Documentary|publisher=Stampede|time=16:47}}</ref>
* [[1989 attack on La Tablada barracks]]

=== 1990s ===
* [[Gulf War]] (1990–1991)<ref name="gulf">{{cite book|title=Armies of the Gulf War|series=Elite 45 |first=Gordon L.|last=Rottman|date=1993|isbn=978-1-85532-277-6|publisher=Osprey Publishing|page=58}}</ref>
* [[Rwandan Civil War]] (1990–1994)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/rwandan-government-soldier-checks-the-identity-papers-of-a-news-photo/1153136345 | title=A Rwandan government soldier checks the identity papers of a passer | date=July 2019 }}</ref>
* [[Croatian War of Independence]] (1991–1995)<ref name=":14" />
* [[Burundian Civil War]] (1993–2005)<ref name='SAS 2007 6'>{{cite book|url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/full/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-06-EN.pdf|chapter=Armed Violence in Burundi: Conflict and Post-Conflict Bujumbura|title=The Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2007|author=Small Arms Survey|page=204|isbn=978-0-521-88039-8|access-date=2018-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827001033/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html|archive-date=2018-08-27|url-status=live|author-link=Small Arms Survey}}</ref>
*[[Cenepa War]] (1995)
* [[First Congo War]] (1996–1997){{sfn|Small Arms Survey 2005|p=318}}

=== 2000s ===
* [[War on Terror]] (2001–present)
* [[Kivu conflict]] (2004–present){{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[Insurgency in Paraguay]] (2005 – present)
* [[Mexican drug war|Mexican Drug War (2006–present)]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/mexican-drug-war-fighters/|title=Mexican Drug War Fighters|last=admin|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306171814/http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/mexican-drug-war-fighters/|archive-date=March 6, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Boko Haram insurgency]] (2009–present)<ref name="Tessières" />

=== 2010s ===
* [[2010 Rio de Janeiro security crisis|Rio de Janeiro security crisis (2010)]]<ref name="a" />
* [[Militias-Comando Vermelho conflict|Militias-Comando Vermelho conflict (2010-Present)]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-04 |title=Recent images of Rio's drug war - |url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/10/04/recent-images-rios-drug-war/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=The Firearm Blog |language=en-US|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213084249/https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/10/04/recent-images-rios-drug-war/|archive-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>
* [[First Libyan Civil War]] (2011)<ref name="worldcrunch">{{cite web|work=World Crunch.com.com |url=http://www.worldcrunch.com/close-mustafa-abud-al-jeleil-leader-libyan-rebels |title=Up Close With Mustafa Abud Al-Jeleil, Leader Of Libyan Rebels |access-date=2011-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110403053606/http://www.worldcrunch.com/close-mustafa-abud-al-jeleil-leader-libyan-rebels |archive-date=2011-04-03 }}</ref><ref name="aljazeera">{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/2011755223504921.html|title=Gaddafi forces 'intercept arms from Qatar'|date=2011-07-05|access-date=2011-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104444/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/2011755223504921.html|archive-date=2011-08-18|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Syrian civil war|Syrian Civil War]] (2011–present){{sfn|Jenzen-Jones|Spleeters|2015|p=7}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-30 |title=Syrian Rebel with Israeli FAL Rifle - |url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/05/30/syrian-rebel-with-israeli-fal-rifle/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=The Firearm Blog |language=en-US|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022232046/https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/05/30/syrian-rebel-with-israeli-fal-rifle/|archive-date=October 22, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)]]<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Aryn |last=Baker |title=A Nightmare Returns |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=20 January 2014|pages=31}}</ref>
* [[South Sudanese Civil War]] (2013–2020){{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)]]{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
* [[Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen]] (2015–present){{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

=== 2020s ===
* [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022-present)]]<ref name="ukrfal"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukrainian military received FN FAL PARA rifles |url=https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-military-received-fn-fal-para-rifles/ |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Militarnyi |language=en-US|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130054926/https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-military-received-fn-fal-para-rifles/|archive-date=January 30, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Gaza war|Gaza war (2023-present)]]
* [[Sudanese civil war (2023–present)]]