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Maoist insurgency in Turkey
Maoist insurgency in Turkey: armed communist struggle since 1972 led by TKP-ML, founded by İbrahim Kaypakkaya, with its TİKKO guerrilla army based in Dersim/Tunceli, later fragmented into factions including the MKP and overshadowed by the PKK conflict.
Mapuche uprising of 1598
The Mapuche uprising of 1598 was a general Mapuche rebellion in southern Chile, triggered by the battle of Curalaba, that destroyed Spanish settlements south of the Biobío River by 1602.
Mapuche uprising of 1766
The Mapuche uprising of 1766 was an armed revolt of the Mapuche of south-central Chile against a Spanish plan, agreed in 1764, to concentrate them in newly founded towns.
Maqbool Bhat (مقبول بھٹ)
Maqbool Bhat (مقبول بھٹ), 1938–1984, Kashmiri separatist, co-founder of the National Liberation Front and forerunner of the JKLF; hanged in Tihar Jail on 11 February 1984 after the Ravindra Mhatre kidnapping, buried in prison, later commemorated as Shaheed-e-Azam.
Maquis (World War II)
Maquis: rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance in WWII, named after scrubland hideouts. Formed largely by STO draft evaders from February 1943, absorbed into the FFI in 1944; Glières, Vercors and Mont Mouchet were crushed by German assaults.
Mar Elias Church attack
Mar Elias Church attack: 22 June 2025 suicide bombing, after gunfire, at the Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church in Dweila, Damascus; 25 killed, 63 wounded. Blamed by Syria on Islamic State, claimed by Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah; deadliest attack on Syria's Christians since 1860.
Maratha–Sikh clashes
Maratha–Sikh clashes: military and political encounters between the Maratha confederacy and the Sikh misls, 1758–1806, from the joint 1758 Punjab invasion and Sirhind plunder through Panipat 1761 to rivalry and settlement under Mahadji Scindia.
Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine (Gamil Gharbi, 1964–1989), Canadian mass murderer who killed 14 women at Montreal's École Polytechnique on 6 December 1989 with a Ruger Mini-14, saying he was fighting feminism; his attack drove Canada's Bill C-17 and 1995 Firearms Act.
March 2024 western Russia incursion
March 2024 western Russia incursion: cross-border raids into Belgorod and Kursk oblasts from 12 March 2024 by the Russian Volunteer Corps, Freedom of Russia Legion, and Siberian Battalion, timed before Russia's presidential election; Russia claimed 234 fighters killed.
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip: resumption of the Israel-Hamas war on 18 March 2025 (Operation Strength and Sword), ending the 19 January ceasefire, with over 400 killed in the first strikes, an aid blockade from 2 March, and mass displacement.
March 2025 Western Syria clashes
March 2025 Western Syria clashes: 6-10 March 2025 fighting between Syrian transitional security forces and pro-Assad armed groups such as the Coastal Shield Brigade in Latakia and Tartous, escalating into massacres of Alawite civilians; death tolls range from 803 to over 1,426.
March 23 Movement
March 23 Movement (M23, Mouvement du 23 Mars), Rwandan-backed armed group in eastern DRC founded 2012 from CNDP defectors; seized Goma 2012 and 2025, Bukavu and Uvira 2025, under UN sanctions since 2012.
March deportation
The March deportation (Estonian: märtsiküüditamine) was a mass deportation by the Soviet Union on 25–29 March 1949, removing about 90,000 civilians from the Baltic states to remote regions of the USSR.
March Incident
The March Incident (三月事件, Sangatsu Jiken) was an abortive coup d'état attempt planned for March 1931 by the Sakurakai, a secret society of officers in the Imperial Japanese Army.
March–May 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
Operation Rough Rider: the March 15 to May 6, 2025 U.S. air and naval campaign against Yemen's Houthis, ordered by Trump, ending in an Oman-brokered ceasefire; over 800 to 1,000 targets struck.
Marcy Borders
Marcy Borders (1973–2015), the "Dust Lady", a Bank of America legal assistant photographed by Stan Honda covered in ash inside a 9/11 lobby after fleeing the 81st floor; she died of stomach cancer in 2015.
Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова)
Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова), born 1984 in Penza, is Russia's Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights since 2021; the ICC issued an arrest warrant for her in March 2023 over deportation of Ukrainian children, and she rejects the charges.
Maria Mandl
Maria Mandl, also spelled Mandel, was an Austrian SS camp guard who headed the women's camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 1942 and was hanged in Kraków in 1948.
Marian Price
Marian Price (Marian McGlinchey), Belfast republican and 1973 Old Bailey bomber, hunger striker force-fed over 200 days in Brixton, freed 1980, licence revoked 2011, suspended sentence 2014.
Mariana and Palau Islands campaign
The Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, known to the United States as Operation Forager, was a Pacific War offensive in which American forces captured Saipan, Guam, and Tinian from Japan in 1944.
Marias Massacre
The Marias Massacre, also called the Baker Massacre, was an 1870 surprise attack by US Army troops on a peaceful Piegan Blackfeet camp in Montana.
Marie Colvin
Marie Colvin (1956-2012) was an American war correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, known for her black eye patch from a 2001 Sri Lanka injury, East Timor and Chechnya reporting, and her killing in Homs, Syria, in 2012.
Marikana massacre
The Marikana massacre was the killing of 34 striking mineworkers by South African police at the Lonmin platinum mine on 16 August 2012, during a wage strike.
Marinid conquest of Ceuta
The Marinid conquest of Ceuta was the seizure of the North African port of Ceuta by the Marinid dynasty of Morocco under Sultan Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb.
Marinid–Zayyanid wars
The Marinid–Zayyanid wars were recurring conflicts between the Marinid dynasty of Morocco and the Zayyanid dynasty of Tlemcen from the 13th to the 15th century.
Maritz rebellion
The Maritz rebellion, also known as the Boer Revolt, was a 1914 armed uprising by Afrikaner nationalists in South Africa against entering the First World War on the British side.
Markale massacres
Markale massacres: two mortar attacks on Sarajevo's Markale market during the 1992-1995 siege, on 5 February 1994 (68 dead) and 28 August 1995 (43 dead), fired from Bosnian Serb SRK positions per ICTY findings.
Marocchinate
Marocchinate, Italian for "Moroccans' deeds", names the mass rapes, killings, and plunder by Moroccan goumiers of the French Expeditionary Corps against Italian civilians, chiefly in Ciociaria, after Monte Cassino in 1944; victim counts range from about 5,500 to 60,000.
Marshall Islands campaign
The Marshall Islands campaign was a United States amphibious offensive in World War II, fought from January to February 1944, capturing Kwajalein, Majuro, and Eniwetok atolls from Japanese garrisons.
Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer who killed 35 people and wounded 23 at Port Arthur, Tasmania on 28 April 1996; sentenced to 35 life sentences without parole, prompting Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement and gun buyback.