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Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин)
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин): November 2022 sledgehammer execution of a Wagner-recruited Russian convict who surrendered to Ukraine, shown in a Grey Zone Telegram video; Prigozhin denied involvement.
Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland
December 2018 ISIS-inspired murders of Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and Norwegian Maren Ueland, 28, near Imlil on Mount Toubkal, Morocco; three killers sentenced to death in 2019.
Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin
The murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin were the killings of two Turkish soldiers by the Islamic State, shown burned alive in a video released in December 2016.
Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars (Russian: Русско-литовские войны) were a series of wars between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy from the late 1480s to 1537, in which Muscovy took Smolensk and Chernigov.
Musha Incident
Musha Incident (霧社事件, Wushe Incident), 1930 Seediq indigenous uprising against Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan; six tribes led by Mona Rudao killed 134 at a school sports meet, and Japan's poison-gas suppression nearly destroyed the tribe.
Musin Rebellion
The Musin Rebellion (무신란), also called Yi Injwa's Rebellion, was the biggest eighteenth-century uprising in Choson Korea, rising in March 1728 to depose King Yeongjo before its suppression within weeks.
Muslim conquest of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, fought mainly between 633 and 651, overthrew the Sasanian Empire and brought Iraq and the Iranian plateau under Muslim rule.
Muslim conquest of the Levant (فتح الشام)
The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Futūḥ al-Shām) was the mid-seventh-century Rashidun campaign that took Byzantine Syria and Palestine, ending Byzantine rule over most of the Levant.
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb was a series of Arab military campaigns between 647 and 705 that brought Byzantine-ruled North Africa west of Egypt under Islamic authority.
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana was the century-long process, from the 650s to the mid-8th century, by which Arab caliphates ruled the lands beyond the Oxus, taking Bukhara and Samarkand.
Mutiny
Mutiny: collective insubordination by soldiers or sailors against lawful authority for goals other than political power, distinct from a coup. 474 mutinies matched 474 coup attempts globally, 1946–2018; most are rank-and-file, often over pay and grievances.
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (渡邊睦裕)
Mutsuhiro Watanabe (渡邊睦裕), "The Bird", Japanese Army sergeant who brutally abused POW Louis Zamperini at Ōmori and Naoetsu camps, was No. 23 on MacArthur's war criminal list, evaded prosecution, and died in 2003.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff
MV Wilhelm Gustloff, German KdF cruise ship launched 1937, later hospital ship and armed transport; sunk 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic during Operation Hannibal, killing about 9,343, history's deadliest single-ship sinking.
Mwanga's Rebellion
Mwanga's Rebellion was the 1897 rising of Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda against British rule in the Uganda Protectorate, ending with his capture and exile in 1899.
My Lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was the March 16, 1968 killing of 347 to 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by US Charlie Company soldiers in Son My village, Quang Ngai province, followed by a cover-up; only Lieutenant William Calley was convicted.
Myall Creek massacre
The Myall Creek massacre was the killing of at least 28 Aboriginal people by 12 Europeans at Myall Creek Station, New South Wales, on 10 June 1838.
Myanmar civil war (2021–present)
Myanmar civil war (2021–present), also called the post-coup conflict, began after the Tatmadaw's 1 February 2021 coup; the NUG, PDFs, and ethnic armed organizations fight the junta, marked by Operation 1027 and the junta's contested 2025–2026 elections.
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the disproven claim that Germany's World War II armed forces took no part in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes.
Nader Shah's Caucasus campaigns
Nader Shah's Caucasus campaigns were the expeditions by which Nader Shah of Iran reasserted Persian control over the Caucasus from 1734, driving out the Ottomans and taking Darband, Baku, and Erevan.
Nader Shah's invasion of India
Nader Shah's invasion of India (1738–1739), also called the Karnal campaign or sack of Delhi: Persian Afsharid conquest defeating Muhammad Shah at Karnal (Feb 24, 1739), massacring ~20,000 in Delhi, and carrying off over 700 million rupees, the Peacock Throne, and the Koh-i-Noor.
Nadiya Savchenko (Надія Вікторівна Савченко)
Nadiya Savchenko (born 1981) is a Ukrainian military officer and former lawmaker, held in Russia from 2014 until a 2016 prisoner exchange; she later returned to military service.
NAFO (group)
NAFO (North Atlantic Fella Organization) is a decentralized internet movement founded May 2022 by Kamil Dyszewski, whose Shiba Inu-avatar "fellas" mock Russian propaganda and fundraise for Ukraine.
Nafusa Berber revolt against the Aghlabids
The Nafusa Berber revolt against the Aghlabids was the resistance of the Nafusa Berbers of northwestern Libya, crushed by the Aghlabids at the battle of Manu in 896–897.
Nafusa Mountains campaign
The Nafusa Mountains campaign (February to August 2011) was the western front of Libya's uprising, where Amazigh rebel towns broke a siege and helped take Tripoli.
Nagasaki Incident
The Nagasaki Incident (長崎事件), also called the Qing Sailors' Violence Incident, was a violent 1886 clash between sailors of China's Beiyang Fleet and Japanese police in Nagasaki.
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, also called the Karabakh conflict, is an ethnic and territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan that produced wars in 1991–1994 and 2020.
Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack
The Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack (January 15–16, 2019) was an al-Shabaab assault on the DusitD2 hotel and offices at 14 Riverside Drive, Nairobi, killing 21 people; the first such operation led by non-Somali Kenyans.
Nakam (נקם)
Nakam (נקם, "vengeance"), also called the Avengers (Nokmim) or Dam Yehudi Nakam, was a group of about fifty Holocaust survivors led by Abba Kovner who after 1945 plotted to kill six million Germans by poisoning city water and POW bread; only the 1946 Nuremberg bread attack occurred, sickening thousands with no deaths.
Nakba (النكبة)
The Nakba (النكبة), Arabic for "catastrophe," is the displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, with about 530 villages destroyed.
Nalyvaiko Uprising
The Nalyvaiko Uprising (1594–1596) was a Cossack and peasant rebellion across Right-Bank Ukraine, Podillia, and southern Belarus, led by Severyn Nalyvaiko and crushed by Stanisław Żółkiewski at Solonytsia in 1596.