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Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), also spelled Jamaah Islamiyyah, is an al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian militant Islamist group founded by Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, seeking a pan-Islamic regional state; it carried out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people.
Jeongmi Righteous Army
The Jeongmi Righteous Army (정미의병) was the wave of popular anti-Japanese armed resistance across the Korean Empire from 1907 to 1910, triggered by Emperor Gojong's forced abdication.
Jeremy Glick
Jeremy Logan Glick (1970-2001), American judo champion and Vividence sales manager, passenger on hijacked United Flight 93, told his wife passengers would rush the hijackers; distinct from the Peaceful Tomorrows namesake.
Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine
The Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine (1939–1948) was an armed campaign by the Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi against British rule, marked by the King David Hotel bombing and ending with Israel's founding.
Jewish–Roman wars
Jewish–Roman wars: conflicts between Rome and Jewish groups, 63 BCE–136 CE, chiefly the First Jewish War (66–70, Temple destroyed), the Kitos War (115–117), and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135).
Jianchuan Museum Cluster
Jianchuan Museum Cluster (建川博物馆聚落), China's largest private museum complex, founded by Fan Jianchuan in Anren, Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan; over 10 million artifacts, 33 open halls, National First-Class Museum, 5A scenic area.
Jihadi John
Jihadi John, real name Mohammed Emwazi, was a Kuwaiti-born British Islamic State executioner from West London who appeared masked in beheading videos of Western hostages from 2014 and was killed by a US drone strike near Raqqa in November 2015.
Jim Swire
Jim Swire (born 1936), English doctor whose daughter Flora died on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988; lifelong campaigner with UK Families Flight 103 who believed Megrahi innocent; subject of Lockerbie: A Search for Truth.
Jinan incident (济南惨案)
Jinan incident (济南惨案, Sainan Jiken), May 3–11, 1928: clash between Japan's Shandong Expeditionary Force and Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition troops at Jinan; resolved by March 1929 Yoshizawa–Wang agreement.
Jirisan guerrilla suppression campaign
The Jirisan guerrilla suppression campaign was a South Korean military and police operation against communist guerrillas in the Jirisan mountains, from December 1951 to March 1952.
JNIM–ISSP war
The JNIM–ISSP war is the Sahel rivalry between al-Qaeda's JNIM and the Islamic State Sahel Province (ISGS/ISSP), which turned from cooperation to open turf war in 2019, fought mainly in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
Joachim Peiper
Joachim Peiper, born in 1915, was a German Waffen-SS officer and adjutant to Himmler who commanded armored units of the 1st SS Division before being convicted of war crimes.
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly
Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559–1632), Brabant-born general of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War; victor of White Mountain and Lutter, stormer of Magdeburg, defeated at Breitenfeld, died of wounds at Rain.
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (1831–1879), Confederate lieutenant general and temporary full general, led the Texas Brigade, lost an arm at Gettysburg and a leg at Chickamauga, and commanded the Army of Tennessee in the failed Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville campaigns.
John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown (1800-1859), American abolitionist of Bleeding Kansas and the Pottawatomie Massacre, led the failed October 16, 1859 raid on the Harpers Ferry armory; convicted of treason and hanged, he became a Civil War catalyst.
John Brown's Body
John Brown's Body (original title "John Brown's Song") is a Union Civil War marching song, sung to William Steffe's "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us", originating as Fort Warren soldier humor and the source of Julia Ward Howe's 1861 "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an 1859 attempt by abolitionist John Brown to seize the federal arsenal and arm enslaved people for a rising against slavery.
John Buford
John Buford (1826-1863), Union cavalry general, commanded the 1st Cavalry Division whose dismounted delaying action at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 secured Union high ground; died of typhoid, promoted major general on his deathbed.
John C. Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), Kentucky statesman, 14th and youngest U.S. vice president under Buchanan, 1860 Southern Democratic presidential candidate, later Confederate major general and the Confederacy's last secretary of war.
John Clem
John Lincoln Clem (born Klem, 1851–1937), the 'Drummer Boy of Chickamauga' and 'Johnny Shiloh,' a Union Civil War drummer boy who shot a Confederate colonel at Chickamauga, became the Army's youngest NCO, and retired a major general in 1916.
John D. Lee
John Doyle Lee (1812-1877), Mormon leader and militia major, only person executed for the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre; founder of Lees Ferry, Arizona; excommunicated 1870, reinstated 1961.
John Demjanjuk (Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк)
John Demjanjuk (Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк), Ukrainian-born Ohio autoworker and Nazi Trawniki guard; death sentence in Israel as Treblinka's "Ivan the Terrible" overturned 1993; convicted in Munich 2011 as Sobibor accessory to murder; died 2012 with appeal pending.
John McCrae
John McCrae (1872-1918), Canadian physician, pathologist, soldier, and poet, author of "In Flanders Fields" (Punch, 8 December 1915), which made the poppy the flower of remembrance; he died of pneumonia at Boulogne in 1918.
John Monash
Sir John Monash (1865–1931), Australian civil engineer and citizen soldier, commanded the 4th Brigade at Gallipoli, the 3rd Division, and the Australian Corps from May 1918, planning Hamel and leading it through the victories of 1918 before heading Victoria's State Electricity Commission.
John Rabe
John Rabe (1882–1950), German Siemens businessman and Nazi Party member in Nanjing; as chairman of the International Safety Zone Committee in 1937–38 he sheltered 200,000–250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre, and his diary became a key primary source.
Johnson County War
The Johnson County War, also called the War on Powder River or Wyoming Range War, was an 1892 Wyoming range war: cattlemen and hired guns invaded Johnson County to kill small ranchers, besieged at the TA Ranch, and were never convicted.
Johor-Jambi War
The Johor-Jambi War was a series of conflicts between the sultanates of Johor and Jambi from 1667 to 1679 over control of trade through the Strait of Malacca.
Joint Security Area (공동경비구역)
Joint Security Area (공동경비구역, JSA), also called Panmunjom, is the DMZ zone bisected by the Military Demarcation Line where North and South Korean forces face each other; guarded by UNC Security Battalion since 1953, site of the 1976 axe incident and 2018 summit.
Jonglei clashes (2025–present)
Jonglei clashes (2025–present): ongoing SSPDF–SPLA-IO and White Army fighting in Jonglei State, South Sudan, escalating from late December 2025 after Machar's detention, with mass airstrikes, about 280,000 displaced, and over 450,000 children at malnutrition risk.
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank
Jordanian annexation of the West Bank: the 24 April 1950 union of the West Bank and East Jerusalem with Transjordan under King Abdullah, recognized only by the UK, ended by Israel's 1967 capture and formally renounced in Jordan's 31 July 1988 disengagement.