# List of invasions in the 21st century

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

## List

* 2024
* 2023
* 2022
* 2021
* 2019
* 2018
* 2017
* 2016
* 2014
* 2011
* 2008
* 2006
* 2005
* 2004
* 2003
* 2002
* 2001
| Invasion | Invading forces | Defending forces |
| 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria | Israel | Syria |
| Part of the Syrian Civil War – On 8 December, Israel launched an invasion of Syria after the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic |||
| 2024 invasion of Lebanon | Israel | Hezbollah |
| Part of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) – On 1 October, Israel launched a military invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah |||
| August 2024 Ukrainian invasion of Kursk Oblast | Ukraine | Russia |
| Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War – On 6 August, Ukraine launched a military invasion of Kursk Oblast. The largest settlement captured by Ukraine was Sudzha. |||
| 2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun Gaza City Jabalia Khan Yunis Rafah | Israel | Gaza Strip 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 |||
| 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. The invasion was the largest attack by al-Shabaab in Ethiopian territory to date. |||
| 2022 invasion of Ukraine Eastern Avdiivka Kharkiv Mariupol Northern Kyiv Chernihiv Sumy Snake Island Southern Kherson Mykolaiv Enerhodar | Russia Donetsk PR Luhansk PR | Ukraine Support and supplies from:  European Union 45 sovereign countries |
| 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. 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 Shuja'iyya | Israel | Gaza Strip Hamas Islamic Jihad PFLP DFLP |
| 2014 invasion of Ukraine Crimea Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast | Russia | Ukraine |
| Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War – |||
| 2011 Invasion of Libya | NATO | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya |
| Part of the Arab Spring and the First Libyan Civil War – |||
| 2011 invasion of Somalia | Kenya | Somalia |
| Part of the Somali civil war – |||
| 2009 invasion of Gaza | Israel | Gaza Strip Hamas Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine Fatah Popular Resistance Committees |
| 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 Lebanon | Israel | Hezbollah |
| On July 22, Israel launched a military invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah. |||
| 2006 invasion of Somalia | Ethiopia Transitional Federal Government United States | Islamic Courts Union ONLF 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 Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad |
| 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. |||