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Killing of Nick Berg
Killing of Nick Berg: 2004 kidnapping and videotaped beheading of American contractor Nicholas Evan Berg, 26, in Iraq, attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad; first Iraq War hostage beheading.
Killing of Osama bin Laden
Killing of Osama bin Laden: the May 1–2, 2011 US Navy SEAL raid on his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, found via a courier after years of CIA intelligence work; authorized by Obama April 29, bin Laden was killed in 9 minutes, buried at sea from USS Carl Vinson.
Killing of Paul Johnson
Killing of Paul Johnson: June 2004 kidnapping and beheading in Riyadh of American Lockheed Martin engineer Paul Marshall Johnson Jr. by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, days after a 72-hour hostage ultimatum; leader al-Muqrin was killed in the response.
Killing of Renée Good
Renée Nicole Good (Renée Macklin Good), 37, was a Minneapolis US citizen and mother of three shot dead by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Portland Avenue, January 7, 2026, during Operation Metro Surge; video analyses contradicted the federal self-defense account, prompting state investigations and family lawsuits.
Killing of Sadio Camara
Killing of Sadio Camara: Mali's defence minister and junta number two, born 1979 in Kati, died 25 April 2026 in a JNIM-FLA suicide car bomb attack on his Kati residence during coordinated nationwide assaults.
Killing of Tamima Nibras Juhar
The killing of Tamima Nibras Juhar (Kampen-drapet): the 24 August 2025 racist murder of a 34-year-old Norwegian-Ethiopian Muslim child welfare worker at a Gemt AS facility in Kampen, Oslo, by resident Djordje Wilms, 18, radicalized online and via SIAN, sentenced to 19 years forvaring.
Killing of Tamir Rice
Killing of Tamir Rice: November 22, 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland officer Timothy Loehmann at Cudell Recreation Center while Rice held a toy gun; grand jury declined charges, $6 million settlement.
Killing of Yahya Sinwar
Killing of Yahya Sinwar: Israeli forces shot dead the Hamas leader, architect of the October 7, 2023 attack, on October 16, 2024, in a chance encounter in Rafah's Philadelphi Corridor; DNA and drone footage confirmed his death.
Killing of Yasser Abu Shabab
Yasser Abu Shabab (ياسر أبو شباب), leader of the Israel-backed Popular Forces militia in eastern Rafah, Gaza, was killed December 4, 2025, in a disputed internal clash; accounts blame the Abu Sneima family, his own men, or Hamas.
Kim Heon-chang's Rebellion
Kim Heon-chang's Rebellion was an 822 revolt against the Korean kingdom of Silla, led by the governor Kim Heon-chang and crushed by the central army within a month.
Kim Sa-mi
Kim Sa-mi (died 1194) was a peasant rebel leader of the Goryeo dynasty who raised an uprising in 1193 based at Unmun in Cheongdo, Korea.
King David Hotel bombing
King David Hotel bombing (Hebrew: פיצוץ מלון המלך דוד), 22 July 1946: Irgun attack on the British Mandate's civilian administration headquarters in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, killing 91; warnings and commemoration remain disputed.
King Koko's rebellion
King Koko's rebellion was the January 1895 attack by the Nembe kingdom on the Royal Niger Company's Akassa headquarters, followed by a British punitive expedition.
Kingdom of Laos
Kingdom of Laos: monarchy under the 1947 constitution, also called Royal Lao Government state; Cold War battleground among royalists, neutralists, and Pathet Lao; neutralized at Geneva 1962; monarchy abolished 2 December 1975.
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie, Regency Kingdom): puppet monarchy created by Germany and Austria-Hungary by the Act of 5 November 1916 on occupied Congress Poland, governed by a Regency Council from 1917, declared independence 7 October 1918, dissolved 14 November 1918 under Piłsudski.
Kishū campaign
The Kishū campaign, or Kii suppression (紀州征伐), was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1585 punitive war against the Negoro-shū warrior monks and Saika-shū league of Kii Province, which ended with Negoro-ji burned and Kii given to his brother Hidenaga.
Kivu conflict
Kivu conflict: armed conflict in eastern DRC's North and South Kivu provinces since the mid-1990s, rooted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, spanning the two Congo Wars and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion, with roughly six million deaths and millions displaced.
Kiwanja massacre
The Kiwanja massacre was the killing of civilians by CNDP fighters under Laurent Nkunda in Kiwanja, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, on 5 November 2008.
Klaipėda Revolt
The Klaipėda Revolt (Klaipėdos krašto sukilimas) was the January 1923 action by which Lithuania seized the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) from French administration, with the Conference of Ambassadors assigning it to Lithuania that February.
Known unto God
Known unto God is the epitaph devised by Rudyard Kipling in 1917 for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones of unidentified soldiers, appearing on about 212,000 graves, with national variants for Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand unknowns.
Koča's rebellion
Kočina krajina (Кочина крајина) was the territory held by Serbian volunteers fighting on the Austrian side in the Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791, named after Koča Anđelković.
Kohima War Cemetery
Kohima War Cemetery, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on Garrison Hill in Kohima, Nagaland, commemorates the 1944 Battle of Kohima with 1,420 Commonwealth graves, the Kohima Epitaph, and a cremation memorial to 917 Hindu and Sikh soldiers.
Koje-do prisoner-of-war camp riots
The Koje-do prisoner-of-war camp riots were uprisings by communist and anti-communist prisoners at the UN camp on Geoje Island, South Korea, peaking between February and June 1952.
Kokand uprising of 1875
The Kokand uprising of 1875 was a rebellion in the Khanate of Kokand, a Russian protectorate in Central Asia, against Khudayar Khan that ended with the khanate's abolition and annexation by the Russian Empire in 1876.
Kokoda Track campaign
Kokoda Track campaign (also Kokoda Trail): July–November 1942 World War II battles in Papua, where Australian forces halted and repelled the Japanese overland advance toward Port Moresby across the Owen Stanley Range.
Koliivshchyna
Koliivshchyna (Коліївщина) was a haidamak uprising of 1768–1769 in Right-Bank Ukraine against Polish-Lithuanian rule, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Gonta and suppressed by joint Russian and Polish forces.
Komenda Wars
The Komenda Wars were conflicts fought from 1694 to 1700 on the Gold Coast of West Africa between the kingdom of Eguafo and the Dutch West India Company.
Kongo–Portuguese War (1665–1670)
The Kongo–Portuguese War of 1665–1670 began with Portugal's victory at Mbwila, killing King António I, and ended with Soyo crushing a Portuguese invasion at Kitombo.
Koranna Wars
The Koranna Wars were nineteenth-century conflicts between Korana (Kora) bands of the middle Orange River and the Cape Colony, culminating in the Northern Border Wars of 1868-9 and 1878-9.
Kordofan campaign (2023–present)
Kordofan campaign (2023–present): SAF-RSF fighting in North, South, and West Kordofan states of Sudan, a corridor between army-held center and RSF-held Darfur, marked by the el-Obeid and Kadugli sieges and heavy drone warfare.