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Kabyle smile
The Kabyle smile (French sourire kabyle) is Algerian War slang coined by French soldiers for a FLN throat-cutting method; attested in dictionaries and fiction, it resurfaced in a February 2026 French political controversy.
Kachak movement
The Kachak movement (Albanian: Lëvizja Kaçake) was an Albanian armed resistance against Serbian and Yugoslav rule in Kosovo and Metohija, active from World War I until 1927.
Kakheti uprising of 1812
The Kakheti uprising of 1812 (კახეთის აჯანყება) was a rebellion against Russian rule in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, begun in January 1812 and claiming over 5,000 lives.
Kakitsu Uprising
The Kakitsu Uprising was a 1441 Japanese peasant uprising, following shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori's assassination, that besieged Kyoto and forced the Muromachi shogunate to post its first debt-cancellation edict.
Kakori conspiracy
Kakori conspiracy, also Kakori Train Action or Kakori Train Robbery: 9 August 1925 HRA robbery of government treasury from the Number 8 Down train near Lucknow; four leaders, including Bismil and Ashfaqullah Khan, hanged in December 1927; led to the HSRA in 1928.
Kalinago massacre of 1626
The Kalinago massacre of 1626 was a joint attack by English and French settlers on St Kitts's Indigenous Kalinago at Bloody Point, killing hundreds or more.
Kalinga War (କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଯୁଦ୍ଧ)
The Kalinga War (କଳିଙ୍ଗ ଯୁଦ୍ଧ), or Battle of Kalinga, was the Mauryan emperor Ashoka's conquest of Kalinga in present-day Odisha around 261 BCE, traditionally seen as turning him toward Buddhism.
Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
The Kamenets-Podolsky pocket, or Hube's pocket, was the encirclement of some 200,000 troops of the German 1st Panzer Army in western Ukraine in March and April 1944.
Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre
The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, also called Kamenets-Podolsk, was a mass shooting of 23,600 Jews near Kamianets-Podilskyi in occupied Ukraine on August 26–28, 1941, the first large-scale killing of the Final Solution.
Kamuina Nsapu rebellion
The Kamwina Nsapu rebellion was a 2016–2019 militia uprising in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed several thousand and displaced about 1.4 million.
Kandahar massacre
The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre: the 11 March 2012 killing of 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, by US Staff Sgt. Robert Bales near Camp Belambai, Panjwayi District, Kandahar; he pleaded guilty in 2013 and is serving life without parole.
Kangura
Kangura (Kinyarwanda for "wake others up") was a Rwandan propaganda magazine founded and edited by Hassan Ngeze from 1990 to 1994, the most influential hate publication of the period before the Rwandan genocide.
Kano riot of 1953
The Kano riot of 1953 was four days of communal violence between Northern and Southern residents of Kano, Nigeria, in May 1953, leaving dozens dead and pushing Nigeria toward federalism.
Kano–Katsina wars
The Kano–Katsina wars were intermittent conflicts between the Hausa city-states of Kano and Katsina in what is now northern Nigeria, fought from the late fifteenth century into the seventeenth.
Kapo
Kapo: a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps assigned by the SS to supervise forced labor; best-known of the prisoner functionaries (Funktionshäftlinge), alongside block elders and clerks; system began at Dachau in the 1930s.
Kapp Putsch
Kapp Putsch (Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch), failed right-wing coup of 13–17 March 1920 against the Weimar Republic by Wolfgang Kapp and General Walther von Lüttwitz with the Ehrhardt Freikorps brigade; defeated by a 12-million-worker general strike and civil-service resistance.
Karađorđe (Карађорђе)
Karađorđe (Карађорђе), born Đorđe Petrović (c. 1766–1817), led the First Serbian Uprising 1804–1813 against the Ottomans, ruled as Supreme Vožd from Topola, founded the Karađorđević dynasty, and was killed in 1817.
Karamoja disarmament programme
The Karamoja disarmament programme is a series of Ugandan government campaigns to collect illegal small arms from Karamoja's pastoral communities, with a sustained effort beginning in December 2001.
Karamojong conflict
The Karamojong conflict is the protracted armed conflict of Karamoja in north-eastern Uganda, centered on cattle raiding between Karamojong pastoralists and neighboring groups, and on disarmament violence.
Karel Čurda
Karel Čurda (1911–1947), Czechoslovak paratrooper of the Out Distance group, betrayed the Heydrich assassins to the Gestapo in June 1942, received 5 million crowns, worked as a Gestapo agent as Karl Jerhot, and was hanged at Pankrác in 1947.
Karen conflict
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict between the Karen National Union and its armed wing and Myanmar's central government, running since 1949 and known as Burma's longest war.
Kargil Vijay Diwas (कारगिल विजय दिवस)
Kargil Vijay Diwas (कारगिल विजय दिवस), India's Kargil Victory Day, observed every 26 July since 2000 to mark the 1999 recapture of Kargil heights in Operation Vijay, with ceremonies at the Dras war memorial.
Kargil War
The Kargil War (1999) was a limited India-Pakistan conflict after Operation Badr occupied Indian posts across the LoC; India's Operation Vijay, first IAF combat since 1971, and US pressure forced Pakistani withdrawal by 26 July 1999.
Karl Brandt
Karl Franz Friedrich Brandt (1904–1948), German physician, SS-Gruppenführer, and Hitler's escort physician from 1934; as Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health he directed the Nazi euthanasia program and forced experiments, and was executed after the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial.
Karl Hermann Frank
Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946), Sudeten German Nazi official, State Secretary then German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia and Higher SS and Police Leader; responsible for Lidice, executed in Prague in 1946.
Karl-Otto Koch
Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), SS-Standartenführer, commanded Sachsenburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Majdanek; convicted by an SS court of murdering three prisoners and embezzlement, he was the only camp commandant executed by the SS, shot at Buchenwald on 5 April 1945.
Karma massacre
The Karma massacre was the killing of roughly 150 civilians, mostly Mossi villagers, in Karma village in northern Burkina Faso on April 20, 2023, during the jihadist insurgency.
Karolkiewicz family murders
Karolkiewicz family murders: July 24, 2026 familicide in Grand Haven Township, Michigan, in which Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife Amanda and six children, set the house on fire, and killed himself.
Károly Vécsey
Károly Vécsey was a Hungarian honvéd general of the 1848–49 revolution who took Arad fortress and was hanged last of the thirteen martyrs of Arad.
Kasese clashes
The Kasese clashes were two days of violence in Kasese, western Uganda, in November 2016, when security forces killed over 100 people and stormed the Rwenzururu kingdom's palace.