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Battle of Kham Duc
The Battle of Kham Duc was a May 1968 Vietnam War engagement in which two North Vietnamese regiments attacked a remote US Special Forces camp near the Laotian border.
Battle of Khanwa
Battle of Khanwa (Khanua), 16 March 1527: Babur's gunpowder and cart-fort army defeated Rana Sanga's Rajput confederacy near Agra, breaking the last major indigenous challenge and securing the Mughal Empire.
Battle of Kharkiv (2022)
Battle of Kharkiv (2022): fight for Ukraine's second city, attacked 24 February 2022; Ukrainian defense and a spring counteroffensive pushed Russians out by 14 May; ended with the September de-occupation.
Battle of Khartoum (2023)
Battle of Khartoum (2023): urban fighting from 15 April 2023 between Sudan's SAF under al-Burhan and the RSF under Hemedti, starting at Khartoum Sport City; RSF held most of the capital until the SAF retook it in 2025.
Battle of Khasham
The Battle of Khasham, also called the Battle of Conoco Fields, was a 2018 clash in eastern Syria where US airpower destroyed a pro-government force including Russian Wagner mercenaries.
Battle of Khaybar
Battle of Khaybar (غزوة خيبر), Muhammad's 628 CE (7 AH) siege of the fortified Jewish oasis of Khaybar in northwest Arabia; ended with surrender terms letting cultivators stay for half the harvest, spoliation accounts, and Umar's later expulsion of the Jews.
Battle of Khazir
The Battle of Khazir (الخازر) was fought in 686 near Mosul between Mukhtar al-Thaqafi's Kufan army and a larger Umayyad force under Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, who was killed.
Battle of Khe Sanh
Battle of Khe Sanh: Vietnam War battle at the U.S. Marine base in Quảng Trị Province, January 21 to July 9, 1968; a 77-day siege of 6,000 Marines relieved by Operation Pegasus, defended by air campaign Operation Niagara.
Battle of Khénifra
The Battle of Khénifra was a 1914 French victory in Morocco, where General Henrys' colonial troops captured the Zaïan stronghold of Khénifra in the Middle Atlas.
Battle of Kherlen
The Battle of Kherlen was fought in 1409 between the Eastern Mongols and the Ming dynasty on the Kherlen River, ending in the death of commander Qiu Fu.
Battle of Kherson
Battle of Kherson (August–November 2022): Ukrainian counteroffensive that liberated the city of Kherson and right-bank Kherson Oblast, retaken 11 November 2022 after a logistics-cutting campaign of HIMARS strikes on Dnipro crossings; Russia withdrew to the left bank on 9 November.
Battle of Khiam (معركة الخيام) (2026)
Battle of Khiam (معركة الخيام) 2026: fight between the IDF and Hezbollah for the strategic hilltop town of Khiam in the 2026 Lebanon war, beginning March 2-4, with Israel seizing the town after intense ground fighting.
Battle of Khiva (1920)
The Battle of Khiva (1920) was the capture of Khiva by Bolshevik Red Army and Turkmen forces on 1 February 1920, ending the Khanate of Khiva.
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980)
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980), First Battle of Khorramshahr, Iran–Iraq War urban battle, 22 September to late October 1980, where roughly 3,000 Iranian militia held off over an Iraqi division for about a month, earning the city the name City of Blood.
Battle of Khotyn (1621)
The Battle of Khotyn (Bitwa pod Chocimiem) was a 1621 siege in Moldavia where a Polish-Lithuanian and Cossack army checked Sultan Osman II's Ottoman invasion.
Battle of Khotyn (1673)
The Battle of Khotyn (1673), or Bitwa pod Chocimiem, was a Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Ottoman Empire at Khotyn on the Dniester in November 1673.
Battle of Khovd
The Battle of Khovd was a 1912 siege in which Mongol forces stormed the town of Khovd, expelling the last Qing garrison from western Mongolia.
Battle of Khresili
The Battle of Khresili (Georgian: ხრესილის ბრძოლა) was a decisive 1757 victory of King Solomon I of Imereti over an invading Ottoman army in western Georgia.
Battle of Kiev (1941)
The Battle of Kiev, also called the First Battle of Kiev, was a September 1941 German encirclement east of Kyiv that took about 665,000 Soviet prisoners.
Battle of Kigali
The Battle of Kigali was the Rwandan Patriotic Front's campaign, fought from April to July 1994, to capture Rwanda's capital, Kigali, from government forces during the genocide.
Battle of Kilkis–Lahanas
The Battle of Kilkis–Lahanas (Μάχη Κιλκίς–Λαχανά) was a Greek victory over Bulgaria fought from 19 to 21 June 1913, the first battle of the Second Balkan War.
Battle of Killdeer Mountain
The Battle of Killdeer Mountain, also called the Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain, was a July 1864 U.S. Army attack on a large Lakota and Dakota encampment in Dakota Territory.
Battle of Kimuhu
The Battle of Kimuhu was a two-stage Babylonian-Egyptian engagement on the Euphrates in 607–606 BC: Nabopolassar captured the fortified town, and Egypt retook it, slaying his garrison.
Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780: about 900 Overmountain Men patriot militiamen surrounded and defeated Major Patrick Ferguson's Loyalist force on a South Carolina ridge, the first major patriot victory after Charleston, with 28 patriot and 157 Loyalist dead.
Battle of Kinmen
The Battle of Kinmen (金门战役), also called the Battle of Guningtou, was a 1949 battle on Kinmen island off Fujian in which the PLA landing force was destroyed.
Battle of Kircholm
Battle of Kircholm (Salaspils), 27 September 1605: Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's ~3,600 Commonwealth troops, mostly hussars, destroyed Charles IX's three-times-larger Swedish army near Riga, killing about 74 percent of it, during the Polish-Swedish War over Livonia.
Battle of Kirina
The Battle of Kirina, fought around 1235, was the victory of Sundiata Keita over the Sosso king Sumanguru Kanté that opened the way for the Mali Empire.
Battle of Kirk Kilisse
The Battle of Kirk Kilisse, won by Bulgaria over the Ottoman Empire on 24 October 1912, was the First Balkan War's first battle and cut Edirne off from Constantinople.
Battle of Kish (703 BC)
The Battle of Kish was fought in 703 BC on the plain of Kish near Babylon, where Sennacherib of Assyria decisively defeated a Babylonian coalition led by Marduk-apla-iddina (Merodach-Baladan) with Elamite support.
Battle of Kismayo (2012)
The Battle of Kismayo was an offensive launched on 28 September 2012 by Kenyan, Somali, and Raskamboni forces that captured the Somali port city from Al-Shabaab.