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Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (احمد عمر سعید شیخ), British-born militant born 1973, convicted and sentenced to death for the 2002 abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl; acquitted by Pakistan's Sindh High Court in 2020 and released after a 2021 Supreme Court ruling.
Aimoré War
The Aimoré War (Guerra dos Aimorés) was a series of conflicts between Indigenous Aimoré peoples and Portuguese colonizers in colonial Brazil, lasting from 1555 to 1673.
Air campaign in Iranian Kurdistan
Air campaign in Iranian Kurdistan: the IRGC's cross-border missile, drone and artillery campaign against exiled Iranian Kurdish parties (KDPI, Komala, PAK) in Iraq's Kurdistan Region since 2017–2018, peaking after the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests, plus strikes on Iranian Kurdistan itself in the Iran–Israel conflict.
Air India Flight 855
Air India Flight 855 (AI855), Boeing 747-237B VT-EBD Emperor Ashoka, crashed into the Arabian Sea 101 seconds after takeoff from Bombay on 1 January 1978, killing all 213 aboard; cause was spatial disorientation after the captain's attitude indicator failed.
Air raids on Japan
Air raids on Japan: the 1944–1945 US B-29 bombing campaign from the Marianas, including the March 1945 Tokyo firebombing (Operation Meetinghouse, ~100,000 dead) and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Air Rhodesia Flight 825
Air Rhodesia Flight 825 was a domestic flight shot down by ZIPRA guerrillas with a missile near Kariba, Rhodesia, on 3 September 1978, killing 48.
Air traffic control during the September 11 attacks
Air traffic control during the September 11 attacks involved FAA controllers tracking four hijacked flights and executing the first nationwide ground stop in U.S. aviation history.
Ait Atta resistance
The Ait Atta resistance was the armed opposition of the Ait Atta, a large Amazigh tribal confederation of southeastern Morocco, to French conquest, ending in 1933.
Ajmal Kasab (محمد اجمل امیر قصاب)
Ajmal Kasab (محمد اجمل امیر قصاب), alias Abu Mujahid, Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba gunman and sole survivor of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks; convicted of waging war and murder, sentenced to death, hanged 21 November 2012.
Akassa raid
The Akassa raid was a January 1895 attack by King Koko and some 1,500 Nembe warriors on the Royal Niger Company's headquarters depot at Akassa, in present-day Nigeria.
Akazu
The akazu, meaning "little house" in Kinyarwanda, was the inner circle around Agathe Kanziga, wife of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, that held power until 1994.
Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mansour, also known as Mullah Mansour, was the second leader of the Afghan Taliban. He was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in 2016.
Akshardham Temple attack
2002 fidayeen attack on the Swaminarayan Akshardham temple, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, by two Lashkar-e-Toiba gunmen; 33 killed, 85 injured; six convicted men were acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2014.
Aktion T4
Aktion T4 was the Nazi code name for the centralized murder of disabled institutionalized patients, run from Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin; six gas centers killed 70,273 people by August 1941, with about 250,000 total deaths.
Akwapim Wars
The Akwapim (Akuapem) Wars were conflicts of 1729 to 1730 in which the people of the Akuapem Ridge, allied with Akyem, Ga, and Fante forces, overthrew Akwamu rule northeast of Accra.
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion: October 17, 2023 blast in the Gaza City hospital courtyard killing an estimated 100-471. US, UK and HRW analyses point to a misfired Palestinian rocket; Forensic Architecture disputes this; attribution remains unconfirmed.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى), Fatah-affiliated Palestinian armed network formed in 2000 during the Second Intifada; US FTO since March 27, 2002; Iran-funded via Hezbollah; joined October 7, 2023 attack.
Al-Nusra Front
Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra), al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate founded in 2011 by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, rebranded as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in 2016 and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in 2017, ruling Idlib until its US terror designations were revoked in 2025–2026.
Al-Qaeda (القاعدة)
Al-Qaeda (القاعدة, "the Base") is the Sunni jihadist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988, responsible for the 1998 embassy bombings and 9/11, now a decentralized network of affiliates including JNIM, AQAP, and al-Shabaab.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI, القاعدة في العراق), also al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate founded in October 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; it drove Iraq's sectarian war, became the Islamic State of Iraq, and spawned ISIS.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is the Yemen-based Sunni jihadist group formed in January 2009 by merging al-Qaeda's Yemeni and Saudi branches; known for the 2009 Christmas Day airliner plot, Inspire magazine, and leaders Wuhayshi, Raimi, and Batarfi.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي)
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM, تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي), formerly the GSPC, is an al-Qaeda affiliate founded in Algeria in 1998, renamed in 2007, active in the Sahara-Sahel and parent of JNIM.
Al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict
Rivalry between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS/Daesh) over leadership of the global jihadist movement, beginning with the 2014 schism in the Levant and continuing in the Sahel between JNIM and IS Sahel Province.
Al-Roj refugee camp
Al-Roj camp (Camp Roj) in Al-Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria, is a detention camp for foreign women and children linked to ISIS, established 2016, expanded 2020, administered by the Kurdish-led AANES/SDF, smaller than al-Hol, still SDF-held in 2026.
Al-Shabaab (حركة الشباب المجاهدين) (militant group)
Al-Shabaab (حركة الشباب المجاهدين), Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, is a Somalia-based Islamist insurgent group and al-Qaeda affiliate that fights the Somali government and carries out attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Al-Tabaeen school attack
Al-Tabaeen school attack (مجزرة مدرسة التابعين): Israeli strike of 10 August 2024 on the Saad al-Ghafari Mosque in the Al-Taba'een school complex, Daraj, Gaza City, during dawn prayers, killing at least 93 displaced people sheltering there.
Alamo Scouts
The Alamo Scouts, formally the U.S. Sixth Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, was a World War II unit created by General Walter Krueger that ran over 100 missions behind Japanese lines without a casualty.
Albanian Civil War (1943–1944)
Albanian Civil War (1943–1944), also called the fratricidal war after the Mukja agreement collapse: armed conflict between the communist-led National Liberation Army and anti-communist Balli Kombëtar and Legaliteti, fought alongside resistance to the German occupation, ending in communist victory in November 1944.
Albanian revolt of 1432–1436
The Albanian revolt of 1432–1436 (Kryengritja Arbërore) was an Albanian uprising against early Ottoman rule, led principally by Gjergj Arianiti and sparked by new taxes and land registration.
Albanian revolt of 1911
The Albanian revolt of 1911, also called the Malësori uprising, was an anti-Ottoman revolt in the Malësia highlands of the Shkodra vilayet that ran from March to August 1911.