How many countries has Trump bombed in 2025?

This week, United States President Donald Trump confirmed that the US had struck a docking installation successful Venezuela, marking the archetypal subject enactment connected the South American country’s onshore since it began targeting Venezuelan shipping successful the Caribbean and eastbound Pacific successful September 2025.

Speaking to reporters arsenic helium met successful Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said determination had been “an detonation successful Venezuela”, astatine a installation wherever boats the US believes to beryllium carrying drugs usually “load up”.

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“There was a large detonation successful the dock country wherever they load the boats up with drugs,” helium said. “They load the boats up with drugs, truthful we deed each the boats, and present we deed the area. It’s the implementation area. That’s wherever they implement. And that is nary longer around.”

Trump did not uncover much details astir the strikes.

Despite modelling himself arsenic the “president of peace” deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize, who – helium claims – has ended 8 wars astir the satellite this year, Trump’s Venezuela onslaught was conscionable the latest successful a drawstring of his administration’s subject attacks astir the globe since its inauguration successful January.

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data oregon ACLED, the nonpartisan struggle monitor, told Al Jazeera that the US had carried retired – oregon been a spouse to – 622 overseas bombings successful all, utilizing drones oregon aircraft, since January 20, 2025, erstwhile Trump took office.

The attacks opposition with his committedness to voters to extremity US engagement successful overseas conflicts.

Which countries has the US bombed this year?

The US carried retired subject attacks against a full of 7 countries successful 2025.

Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea

This week, the US confirmed 1 onslaught connected a docking installation connected Venezuelan territory, arsenic portion of the Trump administration’s escalating warfare connected boats it claims are smuggling drugs from the state to the US.

No details astir wherever the onslaught took spot person been released.

That followed the US Navy’s seizure of 2 lipid tankers disconnected the Venezuelan seashore earlier successful December, successful an evident onslaught to choke Maduro’s main economical lifeline. Washington claims the vessels are portion of a “shadow fleet” of tankers smuggling sanctioned oil.

Since August, the US has amassed the largest subject beingness successful the Caribbean Sea successful decades, causing alarm among governments there. The Trump medication claims this is warranted due to the fact that the trafficking of drugs to the US constitutes a nationalist emergency, but aggregate reports person shown that Venezuela is not a large root of drugs being transported crossed borders.

On September 2, the US began striking tiny boats successful the Caribbean that it alleges were trafficking drugs. It is thought it has struck much than 30 vessels since then. The Trump medication says the vessels are operated by Venezuelan “terrorist” organisations, including the Tren de Aragua radical and the Colombian National Liberation Army. However, it has provided nary grounds for this.

At slightest 95 radical person been killed successful the vessel strikes, Human Rights Watch revealed connected December 16, accusing Washington of “extrajudicial killings”.

In aboriginal December, US lawmakers from some Republican and Democratic sides urged the Pentagon to merchandise afloat footage of the archetypal onslaught connected September 2, which has proved adjacent much arguable pursuing revelations that the vas was taxable to a “double tap” onslaught – 2 survivors of the archetypal onslaught clinging to debris successful the h2o pursuing a archetypal onslaught were killed successful a follow-up strike.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the footage volition not beryllium released.

Caracas accuses the US of utilizing claims of cause trafficking arsenic a screen for seeking a authorities alteration successful Venezuela. Trump, meanwhile, has called Venezuela a “narco state” and said President Nicolas Maduro’s days “are numbered”.

Nigeria

On Christmas Day, the US launched the archetypal of what Trump said would beryllium “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups Washington claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) successful Northwest Nigeria’s Sokoto State.

It followed weeks of diplomatic unit connected the Nigerian government, which Trump and elder blimpish Republicans, including Ted Cruz, person accused of enabling a “Christian genocide” successful a state whose colonisation is simply a astir adjacent premix of Christians and Muslims.

Nigeria has been plagued by unit from equipped groups linked to al-Qaeda oregon ISIL, operating successful the predominantly Muslim northeast and northwest regions. Abuja denies allegations of genocide and says Muslim and Christian communities alike are affected by the violence.

Furthermore, alleged attacks connected Christian farmers successful Nigeria person taken spot successful a wholly antithetic portion of the country. US Senator Ted Cruz archetypal accused Nigeria’s authorities of enabling a “massacre” against Christians successful October 2025, citing a rising fig of attacks against the assemblage successful the country’s cardinal Middle Belt region, which is abstracted from the unit successful the north.

Even though these 2 issues are separate, Abuja, nether pressure, agreed to the US subject cognition successful the northbound of the state connected December 25.

Details of that onslaught are inactive emerging. The US Africa Command said successful a connection that “multiple ISIS terrorists were killed successful the ISIS camps”, and Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the onslaught was “successful”.

It appeared to people the recently emerged “Lakurawa” group, which struggle monitors accidental is made up of equipped fighters from Mali and Niger who whitethorn beryllium linked to ISIL oregon al-Qaeda.

The radical is known to run successful forested corridors betwixt Sokoto and Kebbi states. At slightest 1 US missile, oregon debris, deed Jabo municipality successful Sokoto. The Nigerian military, speaking to section media, aboriginal confirmed strikes connected equipped radical hideouts successful Buani Forest, but did not uncover casualty numbers.

The US and Nigeria person a agelong past of information collaboration done grooming and quality sharing, but the Christmas strikes marked the archetypal known kinetic US subject enactment successful the West African nation.

It was timed, analysts say, to appease Trump’s Christian supporters arsenic Washington doubles down connected a communicative of “saving” Nigerian Christians, though Nigerian authorities importune the strikes are not astir immoderate 1 religion.

Trump said much strikes volition follow.

Police barricade the country of a US onslaught successful Jabo, Sokoto State, northwestern Nigeria, December 26, 2025 [Qosim Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Somalia

The US has agelong trained Somali forces and conducted aerial attacks successful the portion against equipped groups, including al-Shabab, a radical affiliated with al-Qaeda, which has launched respective attacks successful Somalia and successful neighbouring Kenya. They besides people an ISIL offshoot known arsenic ISIS-Somalia.

Al-Shabab, which has astir 7,000 fighters, holds ample swaths of onshore successful south-central Somalia, portion the smaller ISIS-Somalia, which has astir 1,500 fighters, is progressive successful the mountainous regions of autonomous Puntland, successful bluish Somalia. In the past year, 7,289 radical person been killed by equipped radical activity, according to the US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

In his archetypal word arsenic president, Trump withdrew astir US troops from the country, but the Biden medication redeployed them successful May 2022.

In Trump’s 2nd term, the US has remained progressive successful the country, astatine Somalia’s urging. Washington has dramatically intensified aerial attacks since February, according to the New America Foundation.

Overall, astatine slightest 111 strikes person been recorded this year, surpassing the fig carried retired nether the George Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden administrations combined, monitors say.

Civilians person been killed successful the Somalia attacks. Investigative tract Drop Site News revealed successful December that astatine slightest 11 civilians, 7 of them children, were killed successful a onslaught successful the Lower Juba region, successful Somalia’s southwest, conscionable past month.

The US does not uncover the fig of civilian deaths successful Somalia.

Syria

US strikes connected 70 ISIL-positions successful Syria connected December 19 were carried retired successful retaliation for a shooting successful Palmyra which killed 2 US soldiers and a civilian interpreter a week earlier.

Three different Americans and 2 members of the Syrian information forces were injured successful the shooting. No radical has claimed work for the attack, but Trump placed the blasted connected ISIL.

Syria’s Ministry of Interior Affairs aboriginal said an idiosyncratic who targeted the US troops had been a subordinate of the authorities information work slated for dismissal for hardline views.

The US retaliatory operation, dubbed “Hawkeye” successful notation to Iowa, the “Hawkeye State” wherever some killed soldiers were from, damaged respective ISIL weapons retention facilities successful locations crossed Syria, an authoritative told CNN.

“I americium hereby announcing that the United States is inflicting precise superior retaliation, conscionable arsenic I promised, connected the murderous terrorists responsible,” Trump posted connected Truth Social connected December 19.

“We are striking precise powerfully against ISIS strongholds successful Syria, a spot soaked successful humor which has galore problems, but 1 that has a agleam aboriginal if ISIS tin beryllium eradicated,” helium added, informing against further attacks connected US work members.

Hegseth said successful a station connected X connected the aforesaid time that the strikes represented a “declaration of vengeance” connected ISIL.

US troops person agelong been stationed successful Syria to people ISIL, which erstwhile controlled ample areas of onshore crossed Syria and Iraq successful the mid-2010s.

Under the Biden administration, astir 900 US troops were stationed successful the state until December 2024, erstwhile the Pentagon said numbers were temporarily doubled to combat ISIL, amid the illness of the Bashar al-Assad government. The US has carried retired much than 80 operations aimed astatine neutralising equipped operatives successful Syria, according to the US military’s Central Command.

At the time, Trump, arsenic the president-elect, warned against US interference. He posted connected Truth Social: “Syria is simply a mess, but is not our friend, & THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT.”

Fewer than 1,000 troops remained successful Syria by April, according to the Pentagon.

A outer representation shows trucks positioned adjacent the entranceway of the Fordow substance enrichment facility, adjacent Qom, Iran, June 19, 2025 [Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS]

Iran

Amid short-lived hostilities which broke retired betwixt Iran and Israel earlier this year, the US intervened and struck 3 cardinal atomic sites successful Iran connected June 22. Analysts said it was a highly blase ngo involving the US Air Force and Navy.

In a televised address, Trump justified the attacks connected Iran’s Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow atomic sites, saying they would curtail the “nuclear threat” posed by Tehran.

The 3 sites were progressive successful the accumulation oregon retention of enriched uranium, which the US claimed had go oregon was approaching “weapons grade”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi aboriginal confirmed that immoderate of the sites had sustained extended damage, and the Pentagon estimated the onslaught acceptable backmost Iran’s atomic programme by astir 2 years.

Under unit to respond successful a mode that appeared proportionate, Iran struck a US airbase successful Qatar the time aft the US strikes, successful what was likely a symbolic action arsenic nary injuries oregon deaths were reported.

On June 22, Trump declared a ceasefire betwixt Iran and Israel, bringing the 12-day warfare to an end. More than 1,100 Iranians and 28 Israelis were killed during the unfastened hostilities.

But during his gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, Trump threatened to deed Iran again.

“Now I perceive that Iran is trying to physique up again, and if they are, we’re going to person to sound them down,” helium said, referring to the atomic programme. “We’ll sound the hellhole retired of them.”

Iran is forbidden from processing atomic weapons arsenic a signatory to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In 2015, it besides signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Western powers, including the US, agreeing to bounds uranium enrichment levels successful speech for sanctions relief.

However, Trump withdrew the US from that pact successful 2018 – during his archetypal word arsenic US president – claiming it had been severely negotiated nether the Obama administration.

Yemen

Since January 12, 2024, the US has targeted Yemen’s Houthis, an Iran-aligned radical that controls overmuch of Yemen’s populous northwest, successful a series of aerial and naval attacks.

The US says strikes were carried retired successful retaliation for Houthi attacks connected Israeli-linked vessels passing done the Red Sea, successful solidarity with Gaza.

The strikes escalated to regular attacks successful March 2025 nether the caller Trump administration, nether a ngo codenamed Operation Rough Rider.

Dozens of radical were killed, and the attacks extensively destroyed infrastructure, including ports, airports, radar systems, aerial defences, ballistic motorboat sites, and adjacent migrant holding centres successful Sanaa and Hodeidah.

The US strikes yet came to an extremity connected May 6, pursuing a truce brokered by Oman.

Casualty counts from some sides differ: The US claims to person killed astir 500 Houthis, portion Yemen’s Houthi-run Ministry of Health said 123 people, astir of them civilians, had been killed by April, pursuing the US escalation.

As galore arsenic 247 people, including galore women and children, were injured, the ministry said.

Iraq

The US launched aerial strikes connected Iraq’s al-Anbar state connected March 13, sidesplitting a high-profile ISIL member, according to the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM).

The group’s second-in-command, Abdallah “Abu Khadijah” Malli Muslih al-Rifai, and different unnamed operative were reported to person been killed successful the strikes.

CENTCOM claimed some men were wearing unexploded “suicide vests” and were holding weapons astatine the clip of the strikes. The US besides said the strikes were carried retired jointly with Iraqi intelligence, and that some sides confirmed the deaths done DNA tests.

In a celebratory station connected Truth Social the time after, Trump praised US troops for the action.

“Today, the fugitive person of ISIS successful Iraq was killed,” Trump wrote.

“He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable beingness was terminated, on with different subordinate of ISIS, successful coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”

Iraq’s premier minister, successful a connection connected X, besides connected March 14, said “Adu Khadija” was known arsenic ISIL’s “deputy caliph” overseeing operations successful Iraq and Syria, and that helium was “one of the astir unsafe terrorists successful Iraq and the world”.

The Obama medication antecedently authorised strikes connected ISIL locations successful Iraq backmost successful 2014.

US President Donald Trump takes questions from journalists aft announcing the US Navy’s caller Golden Fleet inaugural astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida, connected December 22, 2025. On December 22, helium announced a caller people of heavy equipped warships that volition beryllium named aft himself – an honour usually reserved for US leaders who person near bureau [Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP]

What has Trump said astir US subject enactment overseas successful the past?

Trump earned wide enactment from galore Americans bushed of the country’s costly engagement successful the Middle East erstwhile helium pledged during the run for his archetypal word arsenic president to enactment “America First” and halt US engagement successful overseas conflicts.

In 1 statesmanlike debate, Trump accused the erstwhile Bush medication of failing successful its handling of the fallout of the 9/11 violent attacks connected New York successful September 2001, and said “the warfare successful Iraq is simply a large abdominous mistake … We spent 2 trillion dollars, thousands of lives (lost).”

At the commencement of his 2nd word successful January 2025, Trump pledged to reconstruct bid by bringing an extremity to ongoing planetary conflicts. His success, helium said during his inaugural address, would beryllium judged, “by the battles we win, but besides by the wars that we extremity – and possibly astir importantly, the wars we ne'er get into”.

While Trump has undoubtedly played a relation successful pausing immoderate conflicts astir the satellite this year, said Sarang Shidore, caput of Global South astatine the US-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, his efforts “lack the delicate, sustained, behind-the-scenes diplomacy usually required successful planetary conflicts”.

Furthermore, successful South America successful particular, Trump appears to beryllium reverting to the aged days of the 20th century, erstwhile US involution toppled aggregate governments from Brazil to Bolivia.

“Washington’s escalated violative successful Latin America and strikes successful Nigeria and Somalia are partially performative acts rooted successful home drivers of overseas policy,” Shidore said.