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On February 12, 2010, U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a nighttime raid in Khataba village, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The operation targeted a compound ...
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Asia Bibi, also known as Aasiya Noreen, is a Pakistani Christian woman whose prosecution under Pakistan's blasphemy laws became an internationally recognized legal and...
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An Israeli airstrike on July 30, 2006, struck a residential building in the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of multiple civilians. The str...
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Darfur Genocide On February 26, 2003, rebel groups in Darfur, Sudan, including the Sudan Liberation Army and Justice and Equality Movement, launched attacks against g...
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An Israeli artillery strike on a United Nations compound in the village of Qana in southern Lebanon on April 18, 1996, resulted in the deaths of more than 100 civilian...
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Srebrenica Genocide On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, a United Nations-declared “safe area.” The town was predo...
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Bosnian Genocide On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia during the Bosnian War. The town had been declared a United N...
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Anfal Genocide On February 23, 1988, the Iraqi government launched the Anfal campaign against Kurdish populations in northern Iraq during the final phase of the Iran–...
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Two Israeli soldiers were arrested after allegedly ordering a bulldozer to bury four Palestinian youths in piles of dirt following a protest in the West Bank, accordin...
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Soraya Manutchehri was a 35-year-old Iranian woman who, according to accounts published by French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, was stoned to death in the vil...
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Guatemalan Maya Genocide On March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala through a military coup during the Guatemalan Civil War. His governmen...
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El Mozote massacre On December 11, 1981, Salvadoran Army units carried out a massacre in the village of El Mozote in Morazán Department, El Salvador. Soldiers of the ...
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East Timor Genocide On December 7, 1975, Indonesia launched a military invasion of East Timor following its declaration of independence from Portugal. The Indonesian ...
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Bangladesh Genocide On March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in Dhaka and other major cities of East Pakistan, targeting Bengali nationalis...
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Background and Long‑Term Pattern Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has been tracked since at least 2006, with thous...
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1948 Tantura Killings The events at the Palestinian village of Tantura occurred during the **1948 Palestine war**, when forces of the Haganah, specifically ...
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Operation Cast Thy Bread: Poisoning of Palestinian Wells In April 1948, during the Arab–Israeli War following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, personnel ...
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The Nakba refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians that occurred between 1947 and 1949 during the collapse of the British Mandate for Palestin...
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David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote a letter to his son Amos following the Peel Commission’s proposal to parti...
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The Arab Revolt in Palestine was a nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs against British colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration under the British Mandate, which...
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Simele Massacre On August 7, 1933, units of the Iraqi Army entered the town of Simele in northern Iraq during a military campaign targeting Assyrian communities. Tens...
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Pontic Greek Genocide On May 19, 1919, military operations intensified against Greek communities in the Pontus region along the Black Sea coast of the Ottoman Empire....
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Greek Genocide On May 19, 1919, Greek communities in the Pontus region of the Ottoman Empire faced intensified military operations during the final phase of systemati...
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Assyrian Genocide On January 1, 1915, systematic attacks against Assyrian communities began in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Assyria...
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c. 6500–5500 BCE — Farming, livestock keeping and permanent villages become established in parts of the territory of modern Albania. Communities increasingly depend on...
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Farming villages existed in the Aegean world thousands of years before Greek-speaking states emerged.
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1 July 1944 — As German armies retreat through Belarus and Poland, infrastructure, villages and transport networks are frequently destroyed. Nazi occupation has alread...
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