The situation in the Balkans on the eve of the Ottoman invasion Attack .

Sources attest that the independent ruler perished Death in the battle without leaving Departing asuccessor , and with little political will or leadership left Departing to counter the Ottoman invasion .

The defeat Conquering was a major loss Earnings_and_losses of face for Maximilian , and the Holy Roman Empire would not attempt another invasion Attack of Italy until 1516 .

The Iraq War Hostile_encounter was a protracted armed conflict Hostile_encounter that began Process_start in 2003 with the invasion Attack of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew Change_of_leadership the government of Saddam Hussein .

In the aftermath of the invasion Attack , Iraq held Hold multi-party elections Choosing in 2005 .

The invasion occurred Coming_to_be as part of a declared war against international terrorism and its sponsors under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush following the September 11 terrorist attacks .

The invasion led to Causation the collapse of the Ba'athist government ; Saddam was captured Conquering during Operation Red Dawn in December of that same year and executed by a military court three years later .

The Chilcot Report , a British inquiry Scrutiny into its decision to go to war , was published Publishing in 2016 and concluded Process_end military action may have been necessary but was not the last resort at the time and that the consequences of invasion were underestimated Judgment_communication .

Subsequently , the Iraqi Civil War , which was largely considered a domino effect of the invasion , propelled at least 29,000 civilian deaths in addition to the displacement of five million people within the country .

The invasion Attack of Anjouan ( code-named Operation `` Democracy in Comoros '' ) , on25 March 2008 , was an amphibious assault Attack led Causation by the Comoros , backed by African Union ( AU ) forces , including troops from Sudan , Tanzania , Senegal , along with logistical support Supporting from Libya and France .

The objective Aiming of the invasion Attack was to topple Change_of_leadership Colonel Mohamed Bacar 's leadership in Anjouan , an island in the Union of Comoros , when he refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to step down Change_of_leadership after a disputed 2007 election Change_of_leadership , in defiance Agree_or_refuse_to_act of the federal government and the AU .

The invasion Attack occurred Presence on the early morning of 25March 2008 .

The bombing Attack occurred in the first days of the German-led Axis invasion Attack of Yugoslavia during World War II .

The bombing Attack of Belgrade was preceded Process_start by the commencement of the ground invasion a few hours earlier , and coincided with air attacks Attack on VVKJ airfields and other strategic targets across Yugoslavia .

Kingdom of Hungary could n't recover Recovering from the devastation Destroying of Mongol invasion Attack of 1240 and 1241 , therefore it lost Earnings_and_losses much of its former political and military positions .

Historians estimate Statement that up to half of Hungary 's then population of 2,000,000 were victims Death of the Mongol invasion Ottokar 's troops consisted of Bohemian-Moravian , German , Polish , Carinthian , Carniolan and Styrian forces , while Bela 's huge army gathered Come_together Hungarian , Slovak , Cuman , Russian , Polish , Bulgarian , Wallachian , Ukrainian ( Galician ) , Slavonian , Croatian , Bosnian , Serbian , Pecheneg and Szekler contingents .

In 1979 , P. M. H. Bell wrote Writing that `` The times were desperate ; invasion Attack seemed imminent ; and the British government simply could not afford to risk Risk the Germans seizing Getting control Control of the French fleet ...

On 27 November 1942 , after Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of Morocco and French Algeria had begun Process_start , the French navy foiled Removing a German attempt to capture Conquering the rest of the French fleet ( Operation Military_operation Anton ) by scuttling Destroying their ships in Toulon Harbour .

The Swiss were his allies , and had come to Motion invade Attack France to free him from subjection ; but Henry III insisted that their invasion Attack was not in his favor , but against him , forcing Causation them to return Arriving home .

It was a three-way war fought Hostile_encounter between : The war was instigated Causation by Philip of Spain to keep his enemy , France , from interfering Hindering with the Spanish army in the Netherlands and his planned Arranging invasion Attack of England .

In the aftermath of the invasion Attack , a collective of underground resistance Defending organizations formed Coming_to_be the Polish Underground State within the territory of the former Polish state .

The invasion Attack of Poland ( September campaign , , 1939 defensive war , , Poland campaign , ) , marked Recording the beginning of World War II .

The German invasion began Process_start on 1 September 1939 , one week after the signing Sign_agreement of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union .

The success of the invasion marked Recording the end Process_end of the Second Polish Republic , though Poland never formally surrendered Surrendering .

In a stricter sense , the term refers to the Swedish invasion Attack and occupation Control of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War Hostile_encounter ( 1655–1660 ) only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called Name_conferral the Swedish Deluge ( , ) , or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge ( ) due to the Russian invasion Attack in 1654 .

In a stricter sense , the term refers to the Swedish invasion Attack and occupation Control of the Commonwealth as a theatre of the Second Northern War Hostile_encounter ( 1655–1660 ) only ; In Poland and Lithuania this period is called Name_conferral the Swedish Deluge ( , ) , or less commonly the Russo–Swedish Deluge ( ) due to the Russian invasion Attack in 1654 .

The Suez Crisis , or the Second Arab–Israeli war , also called Name_conferral the tripartite aggression ( ) in the Arab world and Sinai War in Israel , was an invasion Attack of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel , followed Self_motion by the United Kingdom and France .

It later became Becoming clear that the Israeli invasion Attack and the subsequent Anglo-French attack Attack had been planned Arranging beforehand by the three countries .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Remagen during the Allied invasion Attack of Germany resulted in Causation the unexpected capture Conquering of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine and shortened Change_event_time World War II in Europe .

The United Nations Security Council authorized Ratification the formation of the United Nations Command Request and the dispatch Sending of forces to Korea to repel Defending what was recognized Know as a North Korean invasion Attack .

The invasion Attack force fared poorly militarily , and most of its offensives were defeated Conquering .

Árbenz briefly and unsuccessfully attempted to arm civilians to resist Defending the invasion Attack , before resigning GiveUp on 27 June .

However , psychological warfare and the fear of a U.S. invasion intimidated the Guatemalan army , which eventually refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act to fight .

The IDF launched Military_operation a ground invasion Attack of Southern Lebanon .

Bird 's invasion Attack of Kentucky during the American Revolutionary War Military_operation was one phase of an extensive planned Arranging series of operations Military_operation planned Arranging by the British in 1780 , whereby the entire West , from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico , was to be swept Body_movement clear of both Spanish and colonial resistance .

Low level conflict Hostile_encounter continued up until the invasion Attack of Iraq in 2003 , although the number of response Response incidents declined Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale dramatically after 1999 .

Crimes against the Polish nation committed Commitment by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion Attack of Poland , along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation Control of Poland in World War II , consisted of the murder Killing of millions of ethnic Poles and the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles .

On 22 August 1939 , just before the invasion Attack of Poland , Hitler gave Giving explicit permission to his commanders to kill Killing `` without pity or mercy , all men , women , and children of Polish descent or language . ''

The 2003 invasion Attack of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War Military_operation .

In preparation GetReady for the invasion Attack , 100,000 U.S. troops assembled Come_together in Kuwait by 18 February .

The invasion Attack of Iraq was strongly opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act by some long-standing U.S. allies , including the governments of France , Canada , Germany , and New Zealand .

And while hundreds of chemical weapons were found Know in Iraq after the invasion Attack , they determined Deciding to be produced Manufacturing before the 1991 Gulf War , from years earlier in Saddam Hussein 's rule Control and were unusable .

On 15 February 2003 , a month before the invasion Attack , there were worldwide protests Judgment_communication against the Iraq War , including a rally Social_event of three million people in Rome , which the Guinness Book of Records listed Recording as the largest ever anti-war rally Social_event .

The invasion Attack was preceded Process_start by an airstrike Attack on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on 20 March 2003 .

The invasion phase began Process_start on 19 March 2003 and lasted just over one month , including 21 days of major combat operations Military_operation , in which a combined force of troops from the United States , the United Kingdom , Australia and Poland invaded Attack Iraq .

The U.S.-led coalition sent Sending 177,194 troops into Iraq during the initial invasion phase , which lasted from 19 March to 1 May 2003 .

About 5,000 chemical warheads , shells or aviation bombs were discovered Know during the Iraq War Military_operation , but as these had been built Building and abandoned GiveUp before 1991 , the discoveries Know of these chemical weapons also did not support Supporting the government 's invasion rationale .

While special forces launched Process_start an amphibious assault Attack from the Persian Gulf to secure Getting Basra and the surrounding Surrounding petroleum fields , the main invasion army moved Motion into southern Iraq , occupying Control the region and engaging Participation in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Nasiriyah on 23 March .

On 1 May President George W. Bush declared Expressing_publicly an end Process_end to major combat operations Military_operation : this ended Process_end the invasion period and began Process_start the period of military occupation .

As documented Recording by the National Security Archive , `` the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) played Self_motion a significant role in asserting Statement U.S. influence in Afghanistan by funding military operations designed Create_artwork to frustrate Hindering the Soviet invasion Attack of that country .