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This is the list of military invasions that occurred or are still ongoing in the 21st century.

  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2014
  • 2011
  • 2008
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • Invasion Invading forces Defending forces
    2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip  Israel State of Palestine Gaza Strip
    Hamas Hamas
    Islamic Jihad
    PFLP
    DFLP
     PRC
    Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza)
    Part of the Israel–Hamas war – After being attacked by Hamas earlier in 2023, Israel launched a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip to remove Hamas from political and military power, laying siege to Gaza City and Khan Yunis[1][2][3]
    2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia Al-Shabaab  Ethiopia
    Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict and Somali civil war – On 20 July, the Al-Shabaab militant group launched an invasion of Ethiopia’s Somali Region from Somalia.[4] The invasion was the largest attack by al-Shabaab in Ethiopian territory to date.[5]
    2022 invasion of Ukraine  Russia
    Donetsk PR
    Luhansk PR     		 Ukraine
    Support and supplies from:
    Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War – On 24 February, Russia launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II.[6][7][8] It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troops occupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory and established military or military-civilian administrations in several regions and cities.
    2017 invasion of the Gambia  Senegal
     Nigeria
     Ghana
     Mali
     Togo     		 Gambia
    2014 Israeli invasion of Gaza  Israel State of Palestine Gaza Strip
    Hamas Hamas
    Islamic Jihad
    PFLP
    DFLP
    2014 invasion of Ukraine  Russia  Ukraine
    Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War –
    2011 invasion of Somalia  Kenya  Somalia
    Part of the Somali civil war –
    2009 invasion of Gaza  Israel Gaza Strip
    Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict –
    2008 invasion of Georgia  Russia  Georgia
    Part of the Abkhazia conflict, Georgian–Ossetian conflict, and Post-Soviet conflicts –
    2008 invasion of Anjouan  Comoros
     Senegal
     Sudan
     Tanzania
     France
     Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
     United States     		 Anjouan
    2006 invasion of Somalia  Ethiopia

    Somalia Transitional Federal Government
     United States[9]

    		Islamic Courts Union
    ONLF[10][11]
    Eritrea
    Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict –
    2004 invasion of Gaza  Israel Hamas
    Islamic Jihad
    PRC
    Part of the Second Intifada –
    2003 invasion of Iraq  United States
     United Kingdom
     Australia
     Poland     		Iraq
    Part of the war on terror and the Iraq War
    2001 invasion of Afghanistan  United States
     United Kingdom
    Northern Alliance
     Canada
     Italy
     Germany
     Australia
     New Zealand
     Iran     		 Taliban
    Al-Qaeda
    Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan[12]
    Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi[13][14]
    Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad[15][16]
    Part of the War in Afghanistan – Following the September 11 attacks, the United States declared the beginning of the war on terror. This subsequently led a multinational invasion of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, which started on 7 October 2001. The goal of the invasion was to dismantle al-Qaeda, which had executed the attacks under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, and to deny Islamist militants a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by toppling the Taliban government. The capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul, was captured by the coalition on 13 November and the Taliban government collapsed on 17 December.

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    1. ^ "Has Israel invaded Gaza? The military has been vague, even if its objectives are clear". Associated Press. 31 October 2023. Archived from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  • ^ Boxerman, Aaron (1 November 2023). "Israel Confirms Deaths of 15 Soldiers in Ground Invasion of Gaza". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  • ^ Turak, Natasha (12 December 2023). "Can Hamas actually be eliminated? This is what military and security analysts think". CNBC. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  • ^ Caleb Weiss; Ryan O'Farrell (25 July 2022). "Analysis: Shabaab's multi-day incursion into Ethiopia". Long War Journal. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  • ^ Harun Maruf (26 July 2022). "Why Did Al-Shabab Attack Inside Ethiopia?". VOA. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  • ^ Plokhy, Serhii (16 May 2023). The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-80206-179-6. ... If the collapse of the USSR was sudden and largely bloodless, growing strains between its two largest successors would develop into limited fighting in the Donbas in 2014 and then into all-out warfare in 2022, causing death, destruction, and a refugee crisis on a scale not seen in Europe since the Second World War.
  • ^ Ramani, Samuel (13 April 2023). Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia's Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution. Hurst Publishers. ISBN 978-1-80526-003-5. ... However, the scale of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is unprecedented in modern history and, in terms of human costs, is Moscow's largest military intervention in the post-1945 period. ...
  • ^ D'Anieri, Paul (23 March 2023). Ukraine and Russia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-31550-0. ... . Russia had done the unthinkable, deliberately starting the biggest war in Europe since World War II. ...
  • ^ Axe, David (2 December 2010). "WikiLeaked Cable Confirms U.S.' Secret Somalia Op". Wired. The Washington Post's Pauline Jelinek, citing anonymous sources, described U.S. Special Forces accompanying Ethiopian troops. CBS news revealed that U.S. Air Force gunships were active over southern Somalia during the Ethiopian blitz. Through all the reporting, U.S. officials remained vague or silent on the subject of Washington's involvement. All the same, evidence was mounting that the U.S. had played a leading role in the Ethiopian invasion.
  • ^ "Ogaden rebels destroy Ethiopian military convoy en route to Somalia". Sudan Tribune. Ogaden National Liberation Front. 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  • ^ "Ogaden rebels to resist Ethiopian army if it attacks Somali-statement". Sudan Tribune. Ogaden National Liberation Front. 28 November 2006. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  • ^ "Uzbek Militancy in Pakistan's Tribal Region" (PDF). Institute for the Study of War. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  • ^ "Inside rebel Pakistan cleric's domain - USATODAY.com". USA Today. 2009-05-01. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. Retrieved 2023-11-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  • ^ "Top Pakistani militant released". BBC News. 2008-04-21. Archived from the original on 2009-05-22. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  • ^ Whitlock, Craig (June 8, 2006). "Al-Zarqawi's Biography". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  • ^ Bergen, Peter. " The Osama bin Laden I Know, 2006

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