| Invasion | Invading forces | Defending forces |
|---|
| 2026 invasion of Venezuela |  United States |  Venezuela |
| Part of theVenezuelan crisis – On 3 January 2026, theUnited States launched amilitary strike onVenezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan presidentNicolás Maduro and his wife,Cilia Flores.[1][2] |
| 2024 invasion of Syria |  Israel
|  Syria[3]
Syrian protesters[4][5]
 Assad loyalists
|
| Part of theSyrian Civil War – On 8 December, Israel launched an invasion ofSyria after the fall of theSyrian Arab Republic[6][7][8] |
| 2024 invasion of Lebanon | Israel |  Hezbollah |
| Part of theIsrael–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) – On 1 October, Israel launched a military invasion ofLebanon againstHezbollah |
| 2024 invasion of Kursk |  Ukraine |  Russia
 North Korea |
| Part of theRusso-Ukrainian War – On 6 August,Ukraine launched a military invasion ofKursk Oblast. The largest settlement captured by Ukraine wasSudzha. North Korea sent forces to assist Russia starting in November 2024. |
| 2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip | Israel
 Popular Forces
 Hilles clan
Khanidak clan | Gaza Strip
 Hamas
Islamic Jihad
PFLP
 DFLP
 PRC
Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza) |
| Part of theGaza war – Afterbeing attacked by Hamas earlier in 2023, Israel launched a large-scale invasion of theGaza Strip to removeHamas from political and military power, laying siege toGaza City andKhan Yunis[9][10][11] |
| 2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia |  Al-Shabaab |  Ethiopia |
| Part of theEthiopian–Somali conflict andSomali civil war – On 20 July, theAl-Shabaab militant group launched an invasion ofEthiopia’sSomali Region fromSomalia.[12] The invasion was the largest attack by al-Shabaab in Ethiopian territory to date.[13] |
| 2022 invasion of Ukraine | Russia
 Donetsk PR
 Luhansk PR | Ukraine |
| Part of theRusso-Ukrainian War – On 24 February, Russia launched a full-scale military invasion ofUkraine. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country sinceWorld War II.[14][15][16] It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands ofUkrainian civilian casualties andhundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troopsoccupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory and establishedmilitary or military-civilian administrations in several regions and cities. |
| 2017 invasion of the Gambia |  Senegal
 Nigeria
 Ghana
 Mali
 Togo |  Gambia |
| 2014 Islamic State invasion of Iraq |  Islamic State |  Iraq |
| 2014 invasion of Gaza | Israel | Gaza Strip
Hamas
Islamic Jihad
PFLP
DFLP |
| 2014 invasion of Ukraine | Russia | Ukraine |
| Part of theRusso-Ukrainian War – |
| 2011 invasion of Somalia |  Kenya |  Somalia |
| Part of theSomali civil war – |
| 2009 invasion of Gaza | Israel | Gaza Strip |
| Part of theGaza–Israel conflict – |
| 2008 invasion of Georgia | Russia |  Georgia |
| Part of theAbkhazia conflict,Georgian–Ossetian conflict, andPost-Soviet conflicts – |
| 2008 invasion of Anjouan |  Comoros
Senegal
 Sudan
 Tanzania
 France
 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
United States |  State of Anjouan |
| 2006 invasion of Lebanon | Israel | Hezbollah |
| On July 22, Israel launched a military invasion ofLebanon againstHezbollah. |
| 2006 invasion of Somalia | Ethiopia
Transitional Federal Government
United States[17] |  Islamic Courts Union
 ONLF[18][19]
 Eritrea |
| Part of theEthiopian–Somali conflict – |
| 2004 invasion of Gaza | Israel | Hamas
 Islamic Jihad
PRC |
| Part of theSecond Intifada – |
| 2003 invasion of Iraq |  United States
 United Kingdom
 Australia
 Poland |  Iraq |
| Part of thewar on terror and theIraq War |
| 2001 invasion of Afghanistan | United States
United Kingdom
 Northern Alliance
 Canada
 Italy
 Germany
Australia
 New Zealand |  Taliban
 Al-Qaeda
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan[20]
 Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi[21][22]
 Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad[23][24] |
| Part of theWar in Afghanistan – Following theSeptember 11 attacks, the United States declared the beginning of thewar on terror. This subsequently led a multinational invasion ofTaliban-ruled Afghanistan, which started on 7 October 2001. The goal of the invasion was to dismantleal-Qaeda, which had executed the attacks under the leadership ofOsama bin Laden, and to denyIslamist militants a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by toppling the Taliban government. The capital city of Afghanistan,Kabul, wascaptured by the coalition on 13 November and the Taliban government collapsed on 17 December. |
