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The Ninvite War (Gharbaic: حرب نينوى, Harb Nynwa; Tamashek: ⴰⵎⵢⴻⵔ ⵏⵉⵏⵠⴰ, Amyer Ninva) was a protracted civil conflict between the Charnean Army and the armed wing of the Hatherian independence movement known as the Hatha. The conflict formally began with the Hatha's 19 December 1975 declaration of war for Hatherian independence and was concluded 10 years 9 months and 5 days later with the 24 September 1986 armistice agreement under the Treaty of New Tyria. However, the actual duration of the conflict is highly disputed, with many pointing to the initial outbreak of violent inter-ethnic struggle across east Charnea in the wake of the 1965 al-Kira basin drought as the true start of the conflict, while the peace negotiations of 1986 that formally disbanded the Hatha created multiple splinter groups that continued to fight the Charnean Army well into the 1990s. The war encompassed most of the eastern Ninva desert and parts of wider East Scipia and would directly involve neighboring Alanahr, Fahran, Kembesa and the Amayana states of Makgato and Lower Karana. The Ninvite War would come to be defined as a brutal guerilla war fought in and around the populated areas of the eastern Ninva, punctuated by major set-piece battles waged for the region's largest urban centers. The war would see the rapid evolution of insurgent and counter-insurgent tactics that would go on to influence militaries and future armed conflicts around the world.

The devastation of the Ninvite War would leave an indelible mark on the East Scipian region. Between 900,000 and 2 million were killed in the war including both military and civilian dead, with between 3 and 5 million being permanently displaced. The region of Hatheria in eastern Charnea, which saw most of the direct clashes of the Ninvite War, has been affected by a lasting depopulation and still remains beneath the threshold of the pre-war figure of 2.2 million inhabitants from the 1964 census to the present day. In many cases, local residents fled to escape the fighting and never returned, re-settling in other countries or in other parts of Charnea. Although Charnea would eventually reverse its post-war economic depression, Hatheria never economically recovered from the war. The political fallout of the war also contributed to the collapse of ideologically pan-Gharbaic regime of Sabir Afzal Rahmani in Fahran and indirectly contributed to the Azwi, a period of upheaval that would culminate in the overthrow of the Charnean regime. The Ninvite War is remembered around the world as one of the bloodiest and most protracted wars of the later 20th century.