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Ninvite War
Part of Fahrani-Charnean conflict
Date 17 April 1985 – 10 December 1987 (2 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Fahran, Charnea, Happara, Ninva desert Result Stalemate; both sides claim victory Fahrani failure to capture Charnean territories and bolster Gharib separatism in Hatheria. Charnean failure to destroy Fahrani military power. Fahrani dictator Sabir Afzal Rahmani steps down. Treaty of Kahrash establishes armistice. Territorial changes No territorial changes
Belligerents
Fahran Supported by: Vardana Alanahr Latium	Charnea Supported by: Mutul Itayana
Commanders and leaders
Sabir Afzal Rahmani (Prime Minister of Fahran)	Baseel Madoun (Premier of Charnea)
Units involved
see order of battle	see order of battle
Strength
Start of war: 210,000–250,000 soldiers More: 700–900 tanks, 1,000 armoured vehicles, 300 artillery pieces, 485 fighter-bombers, 750 helicopters In 1986: 450,000 soldiers, 700 tanks, 2,700 armored vehicles, 400 artillery pieces, 350 aircraft, 1,000 helicopters In 1987: 600,000 soldiers, 1,500+ tanks, 3,500–4,000 armored vehicles 600 heavy artillery pieces, 500 fighter-bombers, 1,200 helicopters	Start of war: 300,000 soldiers More: 1,000 tanks, 4,000 armored vehicles, 1,400 artillery pieces, 380 fighter-bombers, 350 helicopters In 1986: 575,000 soldiers, 1,200 tanks, 2,300 armoured vehicles, 1,700 artillery pieces, 450 aircraft, 580 helicopters In 1987: 700,000 soldiers, 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles 4,000 artillery pieces, 900 fighter-bombers, 1,000 helicopters
Casualties and losses
Military dead: 400,000–600,000 More: 323,220–360,000 KIA, 60,711 MIA (Fahrani claim) 800,000 killed or captured (Charnean claim) 320,000–500,000 WIA 60,000–62,875 POW 11,000–26,000 civilian dead Economic loss: $627 billion	Military dead: 405,000–500,000 More: 500,000 WIA 70,000 POW Economic loss: $561 billion
Civilian dead: 100,000+

The Ninvite War (Gharbaic: حرب نينوى, Tamashek: ⴰⵎⵢⴻⵔ ⵏⵉⵏⵠⴰ) was an armed conflict between Fahran and Charnea that began on April 17, 1985 with the Charnean declaration of war. The outbreak of hostilities was preceded by the escalating guerilla conflict in the eastern Charnean region of Hatheria occurring from 1982 to the outbreak of the Ninvite War and continuing until 1986. The Charnean rationale for declaring open war with Fahran was the cited need to prevent the Gharib pan-nationalist regime of Fahrani prime minister Sabir Afzal Rahmani from supporting the predominantly Gharbaic rebel groups active in the east of Charnea and preventing the formation of a Fahrani-backed separatist state in Hatheria. Fahran cited numerous Charnean military incursions across the two nations' shared border as its casus belli, characterizing the Charnean activities and later declaration of war as an unprovoked aggression towards neutral Fahran whilst denying Charnean allegations of Fahrani military support for Hatherian rebels. The conflict would earn its name two weeks into the start of open hostilities, through the remarks of Charnean Premier Baseel Madoun stating that "Fahran [had] provoked a war that would light the Ninva on fire".

As part of the age-old Fahrani-Charnean conflict, the outbreak of the Ninvite War inflamed regional tensions that had long simmered below the surface as a result of centuries old grievances. The scale of the war quickly drew the attention of many nations in the east Scipian region and the Association of Ozeros Nations of which Fahran was a member. Charnea drew military and economic support initially from local allies such as those in Itayana but would later be forced to look further afield, petitioning for aid from distant Mutul. Fahran was aided by neighboring Vardana with which the nation had coordial relations, and would begin to purchase arms from Alanahr and Latium as the war escalated.

The conflict would be one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century, rivalled only by the Third and Fourth West Scipian Wars for the title of the largest war on the Scipian continent in that period. More than 1 million lives would be claimed by the fighting, with at least one in ten of those killed being civilian inhabitants of the conflict zone. The loss of life would be compounded by the economic loss of over $1 trillion as a result of war-related economic stress and direct disruption of economic activity by the war. The regions of eastern Charnea, western Fahran and the territory of Happara later involved in the war are significantly impacted by the effects of the war even in the present day.