Curated category
1980s conflicts
- The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
- Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.
- Lebanese Civil WarOn the morning of the 13th of April 1975, unidentified gunmen in a speeding car fired on a church in the Christian East Beirut suburb of Ain el-Rummaneh.