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Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
Jihadist insurgency in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, begun October 2017 by Ansar al-Sunna (al-Shabaab), affiliated with Islamic State as IS-M; displaced over one million, halted TotalEnergies' $20 billion LNG project, and drew Rwandan and SADC interventions.
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, or Kashmiri insurgency, is an armed separatist conflict begun in 1989 that has killed tens of thousands and repeatedly brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: armed campaign by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban, TTP) against the Pakistani state since 2007, intensified after the 2021 Afghan Taliban takeover, centered on former FATA and the Afghan border.
Insurgency in Northeast India
Insurgency in Northeast India is the ongoing armed separatist and ethnic conflict across India's northeastern states since 1947, from Nagaland to Assam, Manipur, and Mizoram.
Insurgency in Paraguay
Insurgency in Paraguay: the 1947 civil war, guerrilla movements (M-14, FULNA, Columna Mariscal López) against the Stroessner dictatorship, and the ongoing Marxist-Leninist EPP insurgency in northern departments since 2008.
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present): Salafi-jihadist campaign by AQIM, JNIM, and Islamic State offshoots against North African and Sahel states, rooted in Algeria's civil war, spreading from Algeria to Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
Insurgency in the North Caucasus
Insurgency in the North Caucasus: low-level Islamist and formerly nationalist rebellion against Russia after the two Chechen wars, centered on the Caucasus Emirate (2007–2015), weakened by Syria departures, with sporadic IS-linked violence persisting, including the June 2024 Dagestan church and synagogue attacks.
Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
The Insurgency in the Preševo Valley was an armed conflict in southern Serbia from 2000 to 2001, in which the ethnic Albanian UÇPMB fought Serbian and Yugoslav security forces.
Insurrection of the South
The Insurrection of the South (French: Insurrection du sud) was an armed uprising in September 1870 by the rural population of southern Martinique against white planters, followed by mass arrests and executions.
Integralist coup attempt
The Integralist coup attempt, known as the Intentona Integralista, was a failed 1938 armed uprising by the Ação Integralista Brasileira against Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo dictatorship in Rio de Janeiro.
Internal conflict in Myanmar
The internal conflict in Myanmar is an armed conflict between the military and ethnic armed organizations and anti-coup militias, running almost continuously since independence from Britain in 1948.
Internal conflict in Peru
Internal conflict in Peru (conflicto armado interno), 1980–2000: war between the Peruvian state and the Maoist Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and MRTA; about 69,280 dead, 54 percent attributed to Shining Path, per the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Вътрешна македонска революционна организация)
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO/IMRO), secret revolutionary society founded 1893 in Ottoman Thessaloniki for autonomy of Macedonia and Adrianople; organized the 1903 Ilinden Uprising, split into left and right wings, refounded 1919, banned 1934; distinct from modern successor parties VMRO-DPMNE and VMRO-BNM.
International Criminal Court investigations and cases by conflict
The International Criminal Court investigations and cases by conflict cover ICC probes from Uganda's 2004 LRA referral to the 2023 arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over Ukraine.
International Fleet Review 2026
The International Fleet Review 2026 was a ceremonial naval review off Visakhapatnam, India, at which President Droupadi Murmu reviewed 85 ships from 74 countries, India's third such review.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as International Holocaust Memorial Day, is a United Nations day of commemoration held on 27 January, the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (極東国際軍事裁判)
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (極東国際軍事裁判), the Tokyo Trial: 1946–1948 Allied tribunal trying 28 Japanese leaders for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; seven hanged, Pal dissenting.
International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Russia recognized the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics on 21 February 2022 by presidential decree, ending the Minsk agreements; the UN General Assembly demanded reversal (141-5), and Russia annexed the territories in September 2022.
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War, also called sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis, are economic measures against Russia after the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion.
International Security Assistance Force
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), also FIAS, the UN-mandated NATO-led force in Afghanistan 2001-2014, authorized by UNSCR 1386, commanded by NATO from August 2003, peaking above 130,000 troops from 51 nations, succeeded by Resolute Support. Distinct from the fictional Ace Combat ISAF.
Internment
Internment: executive-ordered confinement without criminal charges, as a non-punitive security measure in armed conflict. Covers POW and civilian internment under Geneva Convention IV and World War II programs in the US, UK, and Australia.
Intra-Bosnian Muslim War
The Intra-Bosnian Muslim War was a 1992–1994 conflict between Bosnia's ARBiH and Fikret Abdić's forces in western Bosnia, ending with the March 1994 Washington Agreement.
Invasion of Algiers (1830)
The invasion of Algiers in 1830 was a French expedition ordered by Charles X that captured the city on 5 July and ended the Regency of Algiers.
Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)
The Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) was a British amphibious operation in which forces under General Beckwith captured Guadeloupe from France in February 1810, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Invasion of Martinique (1794)
The invasion of Martinique in 1794 was a British amphibious operation commanded by Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis, capturing the island from France and beginning an occupation that lasted until 1802.
Invasion of Parihaka
The Invasion of Parihaka (Te Pāhuatanga o Parihaka) saw about 1,600 colonial troops enter the pacifist Māori settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand, on 5 November 1881.
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of Poland (September 1939, Polish Defensive War): German attack of September 1 and Soviet attack of September 17 that partitioned Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ending with Poland's defeat on October 6 and triggering World War II in Europe.
Invasion of Portugal (1807)
Invasion of Portugal (1807), first French invasion under General Junot per the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau; 25,000 troops entered 17-19 November, Lisbon fell 30 November after the royal family fled to Brazil; occupation ended at Vimeiro in 1808.
Invasion of Shikoku
The Invasion of Shikoku (Shikoku heitei), or Shikoku campaign, was a 1585 expedition by Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi that forced Chōsokabe Motochika to submit and kept him only in Tosa province.
Invasion of the Chatham Islands
The invasion of the Chatham Islands in 1835 was the seizure of the islands by the Māori tribes Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama, who killed several hundred Moriori and enslaved the rest.