Commodore Robert Stockton had invaded California and had raised the American flag over the territory.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

They had invaded Maryland and Pennsylvania, and had threatened Washington, from there.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

In nineteen fifty, North Korean troops invaded South Korea.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Those tensions go all the way back to the Crusades - when Christian armies invaded the Holy Land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Following the September 2001 attack, the United States invaded to oust the Taliban from power in Kabul.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In 2003,he renounced weapons of mass destruction, a shrewd move in the year the United States invaded Iraq in pursuit of such arms.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

And tens of thousands of elderly Koreans have not seen family members they left behind since the North invaded the South in 1950.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Mr.Medvedev was asked whether he had given Mr.Obama advice on Afghanistan, which the former Soviet Union had invaded in 1979 with disastrous results.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Noriega was arrested in 1990, after the United States invaded Panama and removed him from power.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Taylor refuted claims that he met with Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front rebel group, the day before Sierra Leone was invaded.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island in response to a coup in Nicosia by supporters of a union with Greece.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, unleashing three years of war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

A member of the European Union since 2004, Cyprus has no diplomatic relations with Turkey which invaded the island's northern third after a brief Greek inspired coup in 1974.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

President Richard Nixon invaded Cambodia in 1970 to strike the sanctuaries.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

It is the result of a bloody division of Cyprus in 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, in response to a military coup that was backed by the Greek government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Cyprus was split into a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a short-lived coup by supporters of union with Greece.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

U.S.officials have long said they believe al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his top commanders shifted their base of operation from Afghanistan to Pakistan's largely autonomous tribal regions after coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30