González Insular Civil war
Part of the González Isle Conflict
Date March 29, 2016 - Present (1 Year, 1 Month, 6 Days) Location González Isle, Torisakia Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Loyalists Cuerpo de Leal UCR/CUG Legión de Arteaga PLP UTU Supported by Torisakia Narsora (Training & Equipment)	Nationalists FEMOINGOLS Nunezists AIB/DCIA
Units involved
Unknown Police Service of González Isle Torisakian Armed Forces Torisakian Army Torisakian Navy Torisakian Air Force Narsoran National Military (Advisors Only) Narsoran National Army Narsoran National Marine Corps
Strength
Unknown 2,500 Police Constables Torisakian Armed Forces: 50,000 - 200,000 Troops Narsoran National Military: 25 Advisors (10 Army, 10 Marines, 3 Navy & 2 Air Force)	1,000 - 10,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Torisakian Armed Forces: 45 Killed 260+ Wounded 5 Missing Narsoran National Military: 1 Marine Wounded	430+ Killed 600+ Wounded 40 Captured
600+ Civilians Killed, Wounded or Missing

The González Insular Civil War is a conflict being fought in the torisakian controlled territory of González Isle. The conflict is part of the wider González Archipelago Dispute, once a three-sided conflict mainly between the nations of Torisakia and Narsora which has now largely devolved into a conflict between various separatist groups and the Torisakian and Narsoran governments and various loyalist type groups.

Background

The conflict began as the larger González Archipelago Dispute in 1969 when the torisakian government claimed that the González Archipelago, an island chain then controlled by the nation of Narsora was it's territory as it geographically lay within their maritime border. The narsoran government rebuffed claimed, stating that owned the territory as it was granted control in 1960 upon independence. The conflict boiled over in 1973 when torisakian military forces stormed and annexed the islands into their territory. Several armed and even large scale clashes have taken place, most notably in 2009 & 2014 . In 2013, a separatist group known as the Federation for the Movement of Independence of Gonzalez Isle or FEMOINGOLS began advocating independence of the islands from the central government in Torisakia. When their demands were met with deaf ears, the group began a violent militaristic terrorism campaign in order to force the government to grant independence. In 2015, after the Carlitos Attack and the Aṭavī Siege (the latter being the group's first attack on foreign territory) which killed a combined 103 people, the Narsoran and Torisakian governments agreed to cooperatively tackle the group.

Conflict

The conflict is officially deemed to have started in March 2016 after the death of senior leader León Ureña whom was killed by torisakian special forces in November 2015. The group, according to torisakian intelligence had been in disarray in the months since Ureña's death and by May 2016 had split into multiple factions as a result of the Battle of Santillian Atoll in which a decisive torisakian military victory forced the group out of their stronghold of the Sántillian Atoll, a small atoll of uninhabited islands off the southeastern coast of González Isle and fears that the central government was gaining victory over them. The nature of the conflict from June 2016 to the present has been characterized by small scale attacks on torisakian military posts and patrol units. The conflict has also divided the populace of the islands as some remain loyalist factions the central Torisakian and local González Islean governments and those who pledge loyalty to the Nationalist factions.

International Involvement

In August 2016, the Narsoran government after firmly stating that they would play no part in the conflict militarily, agreed to a request by both the local González Islean government and the government of Torisakia to send support in the form of twenty troops as part of an advisory team. The narsoran government promised these troops would not be armed, as not to inflame tensions between either side or draw the ire of the local populace. As of 2017, the extent of Narsoran involvement is providing training and equipment to the various loyalist factions and to the torisakian armed forces. In a poll of narsoran citizens conducted by an independent organization in early-2017 showed roughly only 43% of the total number of people questioned supported the decision of the government to get involved. With 57% stating that the entire conflict should be left to the Torisakian government to handle. This dropped to 39% after news surfaced of an incident in which a Narsoran Marine was injured after FEMOINGOLS militants opened fire on around two dozen Torisakian, Narsoran and Cuerpo de Leal troops during a training exercise in March 2017.