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2026 Minab school attack
2026 Minab school attack: February 28, 2026 Tomahawk missile strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, first day of the US-Israeli war, killing 156 including 120 children; UN found reasonable grounds of US war crime.
2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign: Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli attack on Iran, the US naval blockade, the June 17 MOU, toll regimes, mining, and efforts to reopen the waterway through October 2026.
2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis: Iran's closure of the strait after the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran, the June MOU and July collapse, the US blockade, and October 2026 tanker attacks.
2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East
The 2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East was a December 2025 to February 2026 surge of two carrier strike groups and over 120 aircraft near Iran, the largest U.S. regional deployment since 2003, which preceded the February 28, 2026 strikes opening Operation Epic Fury.
2026 United States-led conflict with pro-Iranian Iraqi militias
2026 United States-led conflict with pro-Iranian Iraqi militias: attacks and counterstrikes between US, Israeli, and Saudi forces and Iran-aligned Iraqi Shia groups (Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq) within Operation Epic Fury, begun February 28, 2026.
Air campaign in Iranian Kurdistan
Air campaign in Iranian Kurdistan: the IRGC's cross-border missile, drone and artillery campaign against exiled Iranian Kurdish parties (KDPI, Komala, PAK) in Iraq's Kurdistan Region since 2017–2018, peaking after the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests, plus strikes on Iranian Kurdistan itself in the Iran–Israel conflict.
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion: October 17, 2023 blast in the Gaza City hospital courtyard killing an estimated 100-471. US, UK and HRW analyses point to a misfired Palestinian rocket; Forensic Architecture disputes this; attribution remains unconfirmed.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى), Fatah-affiliated Palestinian armed network formed in 2000 during the Second Intifada; US FTO since March 27, 2002; Iran-funded via Hezbollah; joined October 7, 2023 attack.
Alleged military use of al-Shifa hospital
Alleged military use of al-Shifa hospital: Israeli and US claims that Hamas used Gaza's largest hospital as a command center; Hamas denied; raids in November 2023 and March 2024; evidence disputed.
Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip
Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip: armed activity by Israel-backed Palestinian militias, including the Popular Forces, fighting Hamas security forces since the October 2025 ceasefire; more than 40 violent events and nearly 80 fatalities recorded by ACLED.
April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel
Operation True Promise: Iran's April 13-14, 2024 direct drone and missile attack on Israel, its first from Iranian soil, launched in retaliation for the April 1 Damascus consulate strike; over 99% intercepted.
Arab Winter
Arab Winter: term for the authoritarian resurgence, civil wars, and Islamist extremism that followed the 2010-11 Arab Spring uprisings; counterrevolution in Egypt and Bahrain, civil war in Libya, Syria, and Yemen, transition mainly in Tunisia.
Arab–Israeli conflict
Arab–Israeli conflict: the dispute between Israel and Arab states, rooted in the Jewish-Arab contest over Palestine, marked by the 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 wars, the Egypt and Jordan peace treaties, the Oslo process, and the 2023–2025 Gaza war.
Assadist–Saddamist conflict
Assadist–Saddamist conflict: the rivalry between Ba'athist Syria under Hafez al-Assad and Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein, from the 1966 party split through the Iran-Iraq War, the 1982 rupture, and the 2006 rapprochement.
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war
Attacks on health facilities during the Gaza war: documented strikes, sieges, and obstructions against Gaza hospitals, clinics, and ambulances since 7 October 2023, with WHO, OHCHR, and Commission of Inquiry counts, legal framework, and health-system collapse.
Attacks on religious sites during the Gaza war
Documented attacks on mosques, churches and cemeteries in Gaza since 7 October 2023, including UNESCO counts of damaged religious sites and UN war-crimes findings.
Bahrain in the 2026 Iran war
Bahrain in the 2026 Iran war: the Gulf island kingdom, host of the US Fifth Fleet, as a front-line state after Iran's February 28, 2026 strikes on Naval Support Activity Bahrain, covering attacks, economic damage, crackdowns, and diplomacy.
Battle of Ajdabiya
The Battle of Ajdabiya was a March and April 2011 battle of the Libyan Civil War fought for the strategic crossroads town of Ajdabiya in eastern Libya.
Battle of Bani Walid
The Battle of Bani Walid (معركة بني وليد) was a 2011 fight for control of the Libyan town of Bani Walid between National Transitional Council forces and Gaddafi loyalists.
Battle of Benghazi (2011)
The Battle of Benghazi was the February 2011 struggle for control of Libya's second-largest city, in which protesters and mutinying soldiers drove out Muammar Gaddafi's loyalist forces.
Battle of Gaza (2007)
Battle of Gaza (2007): June 7–14, 2007 Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip from Fatah-led Palestinian Authority forces after collapse of the Mecca Agreement unity government; 161 killed, split of Gaza and West Bank, Israeli blockade.
Battle of Misrata
The Battle of Misrata (معركة مصراتة) was a three-month siege of Misrata, Libya, in the 2011 civil war, where rebels held out against Qadhafi forces.
Battle of Sirte (2016)
The Battle of Sirte (2016) was a military campaign in which Libyan GNA forces, mainly Misratan militias, drove ISIS from the city of Sirte between May and December 2016.
Battle of Tawergha
The Battle of Tawergha (تاورغاء) was the August 2011 capture of the Libyan town of Tawergha by Misrata fighters, after which its entire population was displaced.
Battle of Tripoli (2011)
The Battle of Tripoli (2011) pitted the revolutionary forces of the National Transitional Council against Muammar Gaddafi's regime for control of the Libyan capital in August 2011.
Battle of Zintan
The Battle of Zintan (معركة الزنتان) was a series of 2011 Libyan Civil War engagements in which rebels in the Nafusa Mountains town of Zintan broke a siege by Gaddafi's forces in June 2011.
Black September (أيلول الأسود)
Black September (أيلول الأسود), the 1970–71 Jordanian civil war: King Hussein's army crushed the PLO-fedayeen state-within-a-state after PFLP hijackings and a Syrian invasion; the PLO fled to Lebanon, spawning the Black September Organization and the 1972 Munich attack.
Canada and the 2026 Iran war
Canada and the 2026 Iran war: after US-Israeli strikes on Iran began February 28, 2026, killing Ayatollah Khamenei, Canada declined military participation, ran consular departures for thousands of Canadians, sanctioned Iranian officials, and backed the June ceasefire diplomacy.
Capture of Saddam Hussein
The capture of Saddam Hussein was his bloodless seizure by US forces at a farm near Tikrit, Iraq, on December 13, 2003, in Operation Red Dawn.
Casualties of the 2026 Iran war
Casualties of the 2026 Iran war, also called the US-Israel war on Iran or Operation Epic Fury, killed roughly 7,900 people by August 2026 across Iran, Lebanon, Israel, Gulf states, and US forces, with counts disputed between officials and independent monitors.