List of invasions in the 21st century

This is the list of military invasions that occurred or are still ongoing in the 21st century. So far, there have been 11 military invasions during the 21st century.

Invasion	Invading forces	Defending forces
2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip Beit Hanoun Gaza City Jabalia Khan Yunis	Israel	Gaza Strip Hamas PIJ PFLP DFLP  PRC Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza)
Part of the Israel–Hamas war – After being invaded 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 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 large-scale, seven-axes 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 invasion of Ukraine Crimea Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast	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 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
Hold
2006 invasion of Somalia	Islamic Courts Union ONLF[9][10] Eritrea	Ethiopia Transitional Federal Government  United States[11]
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.