21st century

====2006====
* [[July 12]] – [[Hezbollah]] crosses the border of [[Lebanon]] and captures two Israeli soldiers. Israel [[2006 Lebanon War|responds]] by sending troops across the border and bombing Hezbollah strongholds, while Hezbollah fires missiles on towns in northern Israel, approximately 6 each day. At the end of the war 1,200 Lebanese civilians, 500 Hezbollah fighters, 44 Israeli civilians and 121 Israeli soldiers die. A ceasefire is signed on [[August 14]], after which Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon.
* [[October 9]] – [[North Korea]] conducts its [[2006 North Korean nuclear test|first nuclear test]].<ref>{{cite news |title=US confirms nuclear claim |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 October 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/world/asia/17koreacnd.html |first1=John |last1=O'Neil |first2=Norimitsu |last2=Onishi |access-date=21 February 2017 |archive-date=21 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121110555/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/world/asia/17koreacnd.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This was preceded by years of political wrangling with the U.S. over the status of [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|their nuclear program]].