{"israeli-withdrawal-from-lebanon":{"extract":"The South Lebanon conflict was an armed conflict that took place in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 or 1985 until Israel's withdrawal in 2000. Hezbollah, along with other Shia Muslim and left-wing guerrillas, fought against Israel and its ally, the Catholic Christian-dominated South Lebanon Army (SLA). The SLA was supported militarily and logistically by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and operated under the jurisdiction of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon provisional administration, which succeeded the earlier Israeli-backed Free Lebanon State. Israel officially names the conflict the Security Zone in Lebanon Campaign and deems it to have begun on 30 September 1982, after the end of its \"Operation Peace for Galilee\". It can also be seen as an extension of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990).\n\nIsrael invaded Lebanon in 1978 and in 1982, to end the Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon and support Lebanese Maronite Christians in the Lebanese Civil War. The 1982 invasion resulted in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leaving Lebanon and marked the beginning of Israeli occupation. Militant groups began attacking Israeli forces in southern Lebanon in September 1982. Amid rising casualties from guerrilla attacks, the IDF retreated south of the Awali river on 3 September 1983. The IDF began a phased withdrawal from Lebanon in February 1985. It withdrew to a \"security zone\" along the border on 29 April, and most IDF troops withdrew from the \"security zone\" on 10 June. A small number of IDF soldiers remained in the zone to support the SLA. Throughout its existence, there were about 1,500 IDF and 2,500 SLA troops in the \"security zone\" at any given time.\n\nThe occupation led to the creation of the Shia Islamist paramilitary group Hezbollah. It began waging a guerrilla war against the IDF and the SLA, with support from Iran and Syria. The IDF and the SLA engaged in counterinsurgency, but Israel had no long-term strategy. With Hezbollah increasingly targeting the Galilee with rockets, the official purpose of the Security Zone—to protect Israel's northern communities—seemed contradictory. Hezbollah also excelled at psychological warfare, often recording their attacks on Israeli troops. Israel launched two major operations in southern Lebanon during the 1990s: Operation Accountability in 1993 and Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996. Following the 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, the Israeli public began to seriously question whether the occupation of southern Lebanon was worth maintaining. The Four Mothers movement rose to the forefront of the public discourse, and played a leading role in swaying the public in favour of a complete withdrawal.\n\nThe Israeli government hoped that a withdrawal from the security zone could be carried out in the context of a wider agreement with Syria and, by extension, Lebanon. Talks with Syria failed. By 2000, following up on his promise during the 1999 Israeli general election, the new Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew Israeli forces from southern Lebanon on 25 May 2000, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 of 1978. Israel's withdrawal resulted in the immediate and total collapse of the SLA, with many of its members escaping to Israel. The Lebanese government and Hezbollah consider the withdrawal incomplete until Israel withdraws from Shebaa Farms. In 2020, Israel recognized the conflict as an IDF military campaign.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1381019033,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-19T13:51:26Z","data_fixes":[{"ref":"F1","anchor":"f1---israeli-withdrawal-from-lebanon-showed-the-south-lebanon-conflict-article-israeli-withdrawal-from-lebanon-q2479435"}],"wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Lebanon_conflict_(1985%E2%80%932000)","wikidata_qid":"Q2479435","wikidata_classes":["war","low-intensity conflict","armed conflict"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"country-fallback:Lebanon","text_from_article":null,"hand_picked":true,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q3241199","label":"Israeli–Lebanese conflict","id":"israeli-lebanese-conflict"},{"qid":"Q86009289","label":"Hezbollah–Israel conflict"},{"qid":"Q8669","label":"Arab–Israeli conflict","id":"arab-israeli-conflict"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"israeli-occupation-of-southern-lebanon-1982-2000","title":"Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon (1982–2000)","date_start":"1985-02-16"},{"id":"1982-lebanon-war","title":"1982 Lebanon War","date_start":"1982-06-06"},{"id":"operation-opera","title":"Operation Opera","date_start":"1981-06-07"},{"id":"1991-iraqi-missile-attacks-against-israel","title":"1991 Iraqi missile attacks against Israel","date_start":"1991-01-17"},{"id":"1978-south-lebanon-conflict","title":"1978 South Lebanon conflict","date_start":"1978-01-01"}],"same_time":[{"id":"iran-israel-proxy-conflict","title":"Iran–Israel proxy conflict","date_start":"1985-02-16"},{"id":"operation-moses","title":"Operation Moses","date_start":"1984-11-21"},{"id":"1985-iranian-presidential-election","title":"1985 Iranian presidential election","date_start":"1985-08-16"}]}},"egyptian-crisis-2011-2014":{"extract":"The Egyptian Crisis (Egyptian Arabic: الأزمة المصرية, romanized: al-ʾazma al-Maṣriyya) was a period of political instability that began with the 2011 Egyptian revolution and ended with the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2014. It was a tumultuous three-year period of political and social unrest, characterized by mass protests, a series of popular elections, deadly clashes, and military reinforcement. The events have had a lasting effect on the country's current course, its political system and its society.\n\nIn 2011, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets in an ideologically and socially diverse mass protest movement that ultimately ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak. A protracted political crisis ensued, with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces taking control of the country until the 2012 presidential election brought Mohamed Morsi, the former Muslim Brotherhood leader, into power as the first democratically elected president of Egypt. However, ongoing disputes between the Muslim Brotherhood and secularists led to anti-government protests and ultimately culminated in the 3 July 2013 coup d'état against Morsi, led by chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The military move deepened the political schism and led to a crackdown by security forces, resulting in the killing of over a thousand of Morsi's supporters. In 2014, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi eventually won the presidential election in a landslide victory, criticized by international observers as lacking democratic standards.\n\nDuring these years of political turmoil, the authority of the state had been threatened, but never collapsed. The demands of the protesters, including, but not limited to: bread, freedom, dignity, and democracy, have not been met. The military became further anchored in Egypt's politics and a maximal repression of revolutionary practices took place under Sisi's regime.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1374697190,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-09-13T15:54:36Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Crisis_(2011%E2%80%932014)","wikidata_qid":"Q577539","wikidata_classes":["crisis"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"country-fallback:Egypt","text_from_article":null,"hand_picked":true,"date_precision":null,"framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":true,"findings":[{"guideline":"NPOV","guideline_name":"Avoid stating opinions as facts","shortcut":"WP:YESPOV","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ANeutral_point_of_view&oldid=1370393267#Explanation","phrase":"the 3 July 2013 coup d'état against Morsi","note":"Calls Morsi's removal a \"coup d'état\" in Wikipedia's own voice; his opponents call it a revolution (the 2011 revolution summary uses \"revolution\")."}],"highlights":["the 3 July 2013 coup d'état against Morsi"]},"highlights":[{"text":"the 3 July 2013 coup d'état against Morsi","kind":"wording"}],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false}},"battle-of-aleppo-2012-2016":{"extract":"The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: مَعْرَكَةُ حَلَبَ, romanized: Maʿrakat Ḥalab) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria by urban area, between the Syrian opposition militias (such as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Levant Front and Al-Nusra Front) against the Ba'athist Syrian government and army, supported by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and other Shia militant groups backed by the IRGC, and other pro-government Syrian and Palestinian militias, and against the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG). The battle began on 19 July 2012 and was part of the Syrian civil war. A stalemate that had been in place for four years finally ended in July 2016, when Ba'athist government troops closed the rebels' last supply line into Aleppo with the support of Russian airstrikes. In response, rebel forces launched unsuccessful counteroffensives in September and October that failed to break the government's siege of the rebel-held eastern half of the city; in November, government forces, allied with Russia and bolstered by YPG forces, embarked on a decisive campaign that resulted in the recapture of all of Aleppo by December 2016. The Syrian government victory was widely seen as a turning point in the civil war.\n\nThe large-scale devastation of the battle and its importance led combatants to name it the \"mother of battles\" or \"Syria's Stalingrad\". The battle was marked by widespread violence against civilians, repeated targeting of hospitals and schools (mostly by pro-government air forces but also to a lesser extent by the rebels), as well as indiscriminate bombardment and shelling of civilian areas from all sides. It was also marked by the inability of the international community to resolve the conflict peacefully. The UN special envoy to Syria proposed to end the battle by giving rebel-held East Aleppo autonomy, but this was rejected by the Assad government. Hundreds of thousands of residents were displaced both internally and externally by the battle and efforts to provide aid to civilians or to facilitate evacuation were routinely disrupted by continued combat and mistrust between the opposing sides.\n\nAll parties to the battle have been widely condemned by the UN and human rights organizations for engaging in atrocities and violations of international humanitarian law. Pro-Assad forces and their allies engaged in indiscriminate aerial bombardment of residential neighborhoods, including systemically dropping barrel bombs and cluster munitions, as well as conducting \"double-tap\" airstrikes on civilians and rescue workers—a tactic mostly attributed to Russian aviation. Simultaneously, rebel factions indiscriminately targeted civilian areas with rocket and mortar attacks, including with improvised artillery that fired repurposed gas-canister mortars (or \"hell cannons\") conducted suicide car bombings, and were accused of using human shields by forcibly preventing civilians from leaving areas they controlled. Both government and opposition factions were accused of using chemical weapons executing forced displacement, engaging in torture and summary executions of civilians and POWs, and weaponizing starvation as a tactic of war by blockading food, medicine and other essentials from civilian populations at different points during the battle. Across front lines, government forces, opposition militias and the SDF were all implicated in sniper fire targeting civilians. Following the 2016 Ba'athist government offensive in Aleppo, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights described the bombardments and devastating siege of East Aleppo as \"crimes of historic proportions\".\n\nAfter four years of fighting, the battle was one of the bloodiest battles of the Syrian Civil War, leaving over 31,000 people dead in the city and the rest of the province, almost a tenth of the estimated overall war casualties at that time. The siege also resulted in the severe destruction of the Old City of Aleppo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. An estimated 33,500 buildings have been either damaged or destroyed. It is considered one of the worst urban battles fought in the 21st century, due to its length and destruction.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1378726305,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-05T22:17:03Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aleppo_(2012%E2%80%932016)","wikidata_qid":"Q1842866","wikidata_classes":["battle","military operation","armed conflict"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"hand_picked":true,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q178810","label":"Syrian Civil War","id":"syrian-civil-war"}],"includes":[{"id":"aleppo-offensive-november-december-2016","title":"Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)","date_start":"2016-11-15"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"rojava-revolution","title":"Rojava Revolution","date_start":"2012-07-19"},{"id":"houla-massacre","title":"Houla massacre","date_start":"2012-05-25"},{"id":"battle-of-ras-al-ayn-2012-13","title":"Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)","date_start":"2012-12-17"},{"id":"battle-of-raqqa-2013","title":"Battle of Raqqa (2013)","date_start":"2013-03-02"},{"id":"ghouta-chemical-attack","title":"Ghouta chemical attack","date_start":"2013-08-21"}],"nearby":[{"id":"battle-of-aleppo-2024","title":"Battle of Aleppo (2024)","date_start":"2024-01-01","km":0,"bearing":219},{"id":"2017-aleppo-suicide-car-bombing","title":"2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing","date_start":"2017-04-15","km":11.2,"bearing":242},{"id":"battle-of-al-bab","title":"Battle of al-Bab","date_start":"2016-11-06","km":35.9,"bearing":61},{"id":"operation-olive-branch","title":"Operation Olive Branch","date_start":"2018-01-20","km":42.3,"bearing":321}],"same_time":[{"id":"battle-of-damascus-2012","title":"Battle of Damascus (2012)","date_start":"2012-07-15"},{"id":"2012-egyptian-presidential-election","title":"2012 Egyptian presidential election","date_start":"2012-06-16"},{"id":"2012-syrian-parliamentary-election","title":"2012 Syrian parliamentary election","date_start":"2012-05-07"},{"id":"2012-homs-offensive","title":"2012 Homs offensive","date_start":"2012-04-14"},{"id":"2012-gaza-war","title":"2012 Gaza War","date_start":"2012-11-14"}]}},"battle-of-basra-2003":{"extract":"The Battle of Basra lasted from 21 March to 6 April 2003 and was one of the first battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The British 7 Armoured Brigade fought their way into Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, on 6 April coming under constant attack by the Iraqi Army 51st Division and Fedayeen Saddam, while elements of the British Parachute Regiment cleared the 'old quarter' of the city that was inaccessible to vehicles. Entering Basra had only been achieved after two weeks of conflict, which included the biggest tank battle of the war by British forces when the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards destroyed 14 abandoned Iraqi tanks on the 27 March.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1370433532,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-21T02:54:08Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Basra_(2003)","wikidata_qid":"Q2585300","wikidata_classes":["battle"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q107802","label":"2003 invasion of Iraq","id":"invasion-of-iraq"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"battle-of-umm-qasr","title":"Battle of Umm Qasr","date_start":"2003-03-21"},{"id":"battle-of-al-faw-2003","title":"Battle of Al Faw (2003)","date_start":"2003-03-20"},{"id":"battle-of-karbala-2003","title":"Battle of Karbala (2003)","date_start":"2003-03-23"},{"id":"battle-of-nasiriyah","title":"Battle of Nasiriyah","date_start":"2003-03-23"},{"id":"battle-of-najaf-2003","title":"Battle of Najaf (2003)","date_start":"2003-03-24"}],"same_time":[{"id":"anbar-campaign-2003-2011","title":"Anbar campaign (2003–2011)","date_start":"2003-03-20"},{"id":"iraq-war","title":"Iraq War","date_start":"2003-03-20"},{"id":"iraqi-conflict","title":"Iraqi conflict","date_start":"2003-03-20"},{"id":"2003-israeli-legislative-election","title":"2003 Israeli legislative election","date_start":"2003-01-28"},{"id":"2002-turkish-general-election","title":"2002 Turkish general election","date_start":"2002-11-03"}]}},"assassination-of-rafic-hariri":{"extract":"On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Explosives equivalent to around 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel. Among the dead were several of Hariri's bodyguards and former Minister of Economy and Trade Bassel Fleihan.\n\nHariri had been part of the anti-Assad opposition in Lebanon. His assassination triggered the Cedar Revolution, a popular movement which forced Syria to withdraw all its troops in Lebanon by April 2005. The United Nations set up the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to investigate the killing, which along with an independent investigation carried out by Lebanese Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan, found compelling evidence that Hezbollah carried out the assassination. One of the investigators, Wissam Eid, was assassinated in 2008.\n\nIn August 2020, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon found Salim Ayyash, a mid-level operative in Hezbollah, guilty in absentia of five charges including the premeditated murder of Hariri using explosive materials. Three other defendants were acquitted. The panel of judges concluded there was \"no evidence that the Hezbollah leadership had any involvement in Hariri's murder and there is no direct evidence of Syrian involvement.\" Hezbollah denied involvement and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, refused to allow the arrest of Ayyash.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1365200807,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-07-20T22:53:14Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Rafic_Hariri","wikidata_qid":"Q757965","wikidata_classes":["truck bombing","political murder","assassination","terrorist attack"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"nearby":[{"id":"1983-us-embassy-bombing-in-beirut","title":"1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut","date_start":"1983-04-18","km":0.9,"bearing":266},{"id":"siege-of-beirut","title":"Siege of Beirut","date_start":"1982-06-14","km":1.5,"bearing":158},{"id":"2020-beirut-explosion","title":"2020 Beirut explosion","date_start":"2020-08-04","km":2.3,"bearing":92},{"id":"battle-of-beirut-1912","title":"Battle of Beirut (1912)","date_start":"1912-02-24","km":2.4,"bearing":134},{"id":"1973-israeli-raid-in-lebanon","title":"1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon","date_start":"1973-01-01","km":3.3,"bearing":94}],"same_time":[{"id":"cedar-revolution","title":"Cedar Revolution","date_start":"2005-02-14"},{"id":"january-2005-iraqi-parliamentary-election","title":"January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election","date_start":"2005-01-30"},{"id":"2005-palestinian-presidential-election","title":"2005 Palestinian presidential election","date_start":"2005-01-09"},{"id":"second-battle-of-fallujah","title":"Second Battle of Fallujah","date_start":"2004-12-23"},{"id":"2005-iranian-presidential-election","title":"2005 Iranian presidential election","date_start":"2005-06-17"}]}},"siege-of-kobani":{"extract":"The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State (IS) on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî (also known as Kobanê or Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, in the de facto autonomous region of Rojava.\n\nBy 2 October 2014, IS succeeded in capturing 350 Kurdish villages and towns in the vicinity of Kobanê, generating a wave of some 300,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled across the border into Turkey's Şanlıurfa Province. By January 2015, the number had risen to 400,000. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and some Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions (under the Euphrates Volcano joint operations room), Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and American and US-allied Arab militaries' airstrikes began to recapture Kobane.\n\nOn 26 January 2015, the YPG and its allies, backed by the continued US-led airstrikes, began to retake the city, driving IS into a steady retreat. The city of Kobanê was fully recaptured on 27 January; however, most of the remaining villages in the Kobanê Canton remained under IS control. The YPG and its allies then made rapid advances in rural Kobanî, with IS withdrawing 25 km from the city of Kobanî by 2 February. By late April 2015, IS had been driven out of almost all of the villages it had captured in the Canton, but maintained control of a few dozen villages it seized in the northwestern part of the Raqqa Governorate. In late June 2015, IS launched a new offensive against the city, killing at least 233 civilians, but were quickly driven back.\n\nThe battle for Kobanî was considered a turning point in the war against Islamic State. The siege was referred by some to be the \"Kurdish Stalingrad\".","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1381716237,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-24T09:11:42Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Koban%C3%AE","wikidata_qid":"Q18071930","wikidata_classes":["battle","siege"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q178810","label":"Syrian Civil War","id":"syrian-civil-war"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"operation-chammal","title":"Opération Chammal","date_start":"2014-09-19"},{"id":"siege-of-deir-ez-zor-2014-2017","title":"Siege of Deir ez-Zor (2014–2017)","date_start":"2014-07-14"},{"id":"war-against-the-islamic-state","title":"War against the Islamic State","date_start":"2014-06-13"},{"id":"2015-2016-latakia-offensive","title":"2015–2016 Latakia offensive","date_start":"2015-01-01"},{"id":"battle-of-idlib-2015","title":"Battle of Idlib (2015)","date_start":"2015-03-28"}],"nearby":[{"id":"suruc-bombing","title":"Suruç bombing","date_start":"2015-07-20","km":11.9,"bearing":32},{"id":"operation-euphrates-shield","title":"Operation Euphrates Shield","date_start":"2016-08-24","km":31.7,"bearing":256},{"id":"urfa-resistance","title":"Urfa resistance","date_start":"1915-09-29","km":48.9,"bearing":52}],"same_time":[{"id":"yemeni-civil-war-2014-present","title":"Yemeni civil war (2014–present)","date_start":"2014-09-16"},{"id":"united-states-intervention-in-syria","title":"United States intervention in Syria","date_start":"2014-09-22"},{"id":"2014-turkish-presidential-election","title":"2014 Turkish presidential election","date_start":"2014-08-10"},{"id":"battle-of-zumar","title":"Battle of Zumar","date_start":"2014-08-01"},{"id":"2014-jerusalem-synagogue-attack","title":"2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack","date_start":"2014-11-18"}]}},"battle-of-al-bab":{"extract":"The Battle of al-Bab was a battle for the city of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate that included a military offensive launched by Syrian rebel groups (including groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army) and the Turkish Armed Forces north of al-Bab, a separate Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) offensive east and west of the city, and another Syrian Army offensive from the south of the city. The northern Turkish-led forces intended to capture al-Bab from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as part of the Turkish military intervention in Syria. By the end of the battle, the Turkish-led forces had captured al-Bab, Qabasin, and Bizaah, while the Syrian Army captured Tadef and other areas further south, with the SDF making gains further to the east and the west.\n\nThe battle was concurrent with the other anti-ISIL operations, including the Raqqa campaign launched by the SDF, the Battle of Mosul launched by the Iraqi forces, and the Palmyra offensive, which was successfully conducted by ISIL against Syrian government forces. It was also claimed by Kurds to be the result of an \"Aleppo for al-Bab\" agreement between the Syrian government and Turkey, with Turkey withdrawing its support to rebels in Aleppo in exchange to laisser-faire up to al-Bab, thus cutting short the possibility of an East-West Kurdish corridor.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1370597251,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-22T01:22:05Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_al-Bab","wikidata_qid":"Q27915277","wikidata_classes":["battle"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q178810","label":"Syrian Civil War","id":"syrian-civil-war"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"raqqa-campaign-2016-2017","title":"Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)","date_start":"2016-11-06"},{"id":"palmyra-offensive-december-2016","title":"Palmyra offensive (December 2016)","date_start":"2016-12-08"},{"id":"manbij-offensive-2016","title":"Manbij offensive (2016)","date_start":"2016-08-27"},{"id":"operation-euphrates-shield","title":"Operation Euphrates Shield","date_start":"2016-08-24"},{"id":"palmyra-offensive-2017","title":"Palmyra offensive (2017)","date_start":"2017-03-02"}],"nearby":[{"id":"battle-of-aleppo-2012-2016","title":"Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)","date_start":"2012-07-19","km":35.9,"bearing":241},{"id":"battle-of-aleppo-2024","title":"Battle of Aleppo (2024)","date_start":"2024-01-01","km":35.9,"bearing":241},{"id":"2017-aleppo-suicide-car-bombing","title":"2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing","date_start":"2017-04-15","km":47.1,"bearing":241}],"same_time":[{"id":"aleppo-offensive-november-december-2016","title":"Aleppo offensive (November–December 2016)","date_start":"2016-11-15"},{"id":"battle-of-mosul-2016-2017","title":"Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)","date_start":"2016-10-16"},{"id":"2016-besiktas-bombings","title":"2016 Beşiktaş bombings","date_start":"2016-12-10"},{"id":"botroseya-church-bombing","title":"Botroseya Church bombing","date_start":"2016-12-11"},{"id":"assassination-of-andrei-karlov","title":"Assassination of Andrei Karlov","date_start":"2016-12-19"}]}},"turkish-aerospace-industries-headquarters-attack":{"extract":"On 23 October 2024, seven people were killed and twenty-two people were injured in an armed attack on the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in Kahramankazan, Ankara, Turkey. The two attackers were later killed. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack was widely condemned and has been considered an act of terrorism by Turkish officials. In retaliation, the Turkish military conducted airstrikes on positions in Iraq and Syria, which killed at least 12 civilians and wounded 25 more according to the Syrian Democratic Forces.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1351639403,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-04-29T05:52:21Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Aerospace_Industries_headquarters_attack","wikidata_qid":"Q130621611","wikidata_classes":["terrorist attack"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q39086957","label":"terrorism in Turkey"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"2022-istanbul-bombing","title":"2022 Istanbul bombing","date_start":"2022-11-13"}],"nearby":[{"id":"2015-ankara-bombings","title":"2015 Ankara bombings","date_start":"2015-10-10","km":27.4,"bearing":126},{"id":"february-2016-ankara-bombing","title":"February 2016 Ankara bombing","date_start":"2016-02-17","km":28.7,"bearing":130},{"id":"march-2016-ankara-bombing","title":"March 2016 Ankara bombing","date_start":"2016-03-13","km":29.2,"bearing":128},{"id":"assassination-of-andrei-karlov","title":"Assassination of Andrei Karlov","date_start":"2016-12-19","km":30.3,"bearing":130},{"id":"ankara-esenboga-airport-attack","title":"Ankara Esenboğa Airport attack","date_start":"1982-08-07","km":35.3,"bearing":82}],"same_time":[{"id":"october-2024-israeli-strikes-on-iran","title":"October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran","date_start":"2024-10-26"},{"id":"killing-of-yahya-sinwar","title":"Killing of Yahya Sinwar","date_start":"2024-10-16"},{"id":"october-2024-iranian-strikes-on-israel","title":"October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel","date_start":"2024-10-01"},{"id":"2024-hezbollah-headquarters-strike","title":"2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike","date_start":"2024-09-27"},{"id":"september-2024-israeli-attacks-against-lebanon","title":"September 2024 Israeli attacks against Lebanon","date_start":"2024-09-23"}]}},"greco-turkish-war-1919-1922":{"extract":"The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and 14 October 1922. This conflict was a part of the Turkish War of Independence.\n\nThe causes and aims of the war have been debated and interpreted differently in the historiography. One major stated justification for the Greek military campaign was the protection of Greek populations amid continuing violence against Ottoman Greeks. By contrast, the Turkish National Movement presented the conflict as a defensive struggle to preserve Turkish homelands against foreign occupation.\n\nThe armed conflict started when the Greek forces landed in Smyrna (now İzmir), on 15 May 1919. In the Greek Summer Offensive of 1920, they advanced inland and took control of the western and northwestern part of Anatolia, including the cities of Manisa, Balıkesir, Aydın, Bursa and Uşak, among others. In 1921, after another Greek victory in the Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir, the Greek forces almost reached Ankara, but their advance was finally checked by Turkish forces at the Battle of the Sakarya. The Greek front eventually collapsed with the Turkish counter-attack in August 1922, and the war effectively ended with the recapture of Smyrna by Turkish forces and the great fire of Smyrna.\n\nAs a result, the Greek government accepted the demands of the Turkish National Movement and returned to its pre-war borders, thus leaving Eastern Thrace and Western Anatolia to Turkey. The Allies abandoned the Treaty of Sèvres to negotiate a new treaty at Lausanne with the Turkish National Movement. The Treaty of Lausanne recognized the independence of the Republic of Turkey and its sovereignty over Anatolia, Istanbul, and Eastern Thrace. The Greek and Turkish governments agreed to engage in a population exchange.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1381563563,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-23T10:13:10Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)","wikidata_qid":"Q87138","wikidata_classes":["war"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q234738","label":"Turkish War of Independence","id":"turkish-war-of-independence"}],"includes":[{"id":"greek-landing-at-smyrna","title":"Greek landing at Smyrna","date_start":"1919-05-15"},{"id":"yalova-peninsula-massacres","title":"Yalova Peninsula massacres","date_start":"1920-01-01"},{"id":"second-battle-of-inonu","title":"Second Battle of İnönü","date_start":"1921-04-01"},{"id":"battle-of-the-sakarya","title":"Battle of the Sakarya","date_start":"1921-08-23"},{"id":"turkish-capture-of-smyrna","title":"Turkish capture of Smyrna","date_start":"1922-09-09"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"franco-turkish-war","title":"Franco-Turkish War","date_start":"1918-12-01"},{"id":"chanak-crisis","title":"Chanak crisis","date_start":"1922-09-01"}],"same_time":[{"id":"occupation-of-constantinople","title":"Occupation of Constantinople","date_start":"1918-11-13"}]}},"ararat-rebellion":{"extract":"The Ararat rebellion, also known as the Ağrı rebellion (Turkish: Ağrı ayaklanmaları or Ağrı isyanı), was a 1930 uprising by the Kurds of Ağrı Province, in eastern Turkey, against the Turkish government. The leader of the guerrilla forces during the rebellion was Ihsan Nuri of the Jibran branch of the Jalali tribe.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1372781103,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-09-02T06:29:37Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ararat_rebellion","wikidata_qid":"Q626264","wikidata_classes":["rebellion"],"date_flags":["date_start_year_not_in_lead: start year 1927 (1927-10-01) is not within 1 year of any year in the Wikipedia lead [1930]"],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"month","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q6445763","label":"Kurdish–Turkish conflict","id":"kurdish-turkish-conflict"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"sheikh-said-rebellion","title":"Sheikh Said rebellion","date_start":"1925-02-13"},{"id":"dersim-massacre","title":"Dersim massacre","date_start":"1937-05-01"},{"id":"kurdistan-workers-party-insurgency","title":"Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency","date_start":"1978-11-01"},{"id":"2008-turkish-incursion-into-northern-iraq","title":"2008 Turkish incursion into northern Iraq","date_start":"2008-02-21"}]}},"gaza-war-hostage-crisis":{"extract":"In the wake of the October 7 attacks that sparked the Gaza war, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups abducted 251 people from Israel to the Gaza Strip, including children, women, and elderly people. Almost half of the hostages were foreign nationals or had multiple citizenships, and some hostages were Negev Bedouins. The hostages were held in different locations in the Gaza Strip.\n\n168 hostages were returned alive to Israel, with 105 released in the 2023 Gaza war ceasefire, five released by Hamas outside the framework of any ceasefire agreement, eight rescued by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 30 released during the January 2025 Gaza war ceasefire. The 20 remaining living hostages were released as part of the Gaza peace plan on 13 October 2025.\n\nThe bodies of 85 hostages were repatriated to Israel, who were killed on 7 October 2023 or in Hamas captivity. Three had escaped captivity, and were killed in a friendly fire incident by IDF troops. An additional 48 hostages were recovered in military operations, 8 were returned in the January 2025 ceasefire deal, and 27 during the Gaza peace plan. The body of the last hostage, Ran Gvili, was recovered by Israeli forces from a cemetery in northern Gaza on 26 January 2026.\n\nThe return of the hostages was a goal of the Israeli operation in Gaza. Its status as the main goal has been debated by Israeli politicians.\n\nHamas offered to release all hostages in exchange for Israel releasing all 5,200 Palestinian prisoners at the start of the war. Several countries have been involved in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, with Qatar taking the lead.\n\nIsrael and Hamas agreed on 22 November 2023 to a four-day ceasefire and the release of 50 women and children held hostage in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. By the last day of the ceasefire on 30 November 2023, 105 civilian hostages had been released, including 81 people from Israel, 23 Thais and one Filipino. Two Argentinian-Israeli civilians were rescued in Operation Golden Hand on 12 February 2024, during which 94–100+ Palestinians were killed. Hamas insinuated on 2 September 2024 that it would kill any hostage that the IDF attempted to rescue with military force, so that Israel could only receive the hostages back by negotiating an exchange of Palestinian prisoners. It was announced on 15 January 2025 that Hamas would release 33 out of 98 hostages in a first phase that included infants, children, women, elderly men, and younger men with injuries or health issues. Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons in exchange.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1377734872,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-09-30T21:39:35Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_hostage_crisis","wikidata_qid":"Q123005094","wikidata_classes":["kidnapping","war crime","capture"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"month","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q122976243","label":"October 7 attacks","id":"october-7-attacks"}],"includes":[{"id":"nuseirat-rescue-and-massacre","title":"Nuseirat rescue and massacre","date_start":"2024-06-08"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"alumim-massacre","title":"Alumim massacre","date_start":"2023-10-07"},{"id":"be-eri-massacre","title":"Be'eri massacre","date_start":"2023-10-07"},{"id":"ein-hashlosha-massacre","title":"Ein HaShlosha massacre","date_start":"2023-10-07"},{"id":"holit-attack","title":"Holit attack","date_start":"2023-10-07"},{"id":"kfar-aza-massacre","title":"Kfar Aza massacre","date_start":"2023-10-07"}]}},"2011-12-egyptian-parliamentary-election":{"extract":"Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt from 28 November 2011 to 11 January 2012, following the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, after which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolved Parliament. However the dissolution was ruled unconstitutional and Parliament was reinstated. Originally, the elections had been scheduled to be held in September 2011, but were postponed amid concerns that established parties would gain undue advantage.\n\nThe elections were proclaimed the first honest national elections of any sort held in Egypt since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952. However, there were also complaints of irregularities and fraud. The main focus of the newly elected Parliament was to be the selection of the members of a Constituent Assembly.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1379343986,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-09T11:04:23Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_Egyptian_parliamentary_election","wikidata_qid":"Q1382040","wikidata_classes":["Egyptian parliamentary election","public election"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"2011-british-embassy-in-iran-attack","title":"2011 British Embassy in Iran attack","date_start":"2011-11-29"},{"id":"port-said-stadium-riot","title":"Port Said Stadium riot","date_start":"2012-02-01"},{"id":"2012-syrian-constitutional-referendum","title":"2012 Syrian constitutional referendum","date_start":"2012-02-26"},{"id":"2011-southern-israel-cross-border-attacks","title":"2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks","date_start":"2011-08-18"},{"id":"2012-homs-offensive","title":"2012 Homs offensive","date_start":"2012-04-14"}]}},"2013-israeli-legislative-election":{"extract":"Early legislative elections were held in Israel on 22 January 2013 to elect the 120 members of the nineteenth Knesset. Public debate over the Tal Law had nearly led to early elections in 2012, but they were aborted at the last moment after Kadima briefly joined the government. The elections were later called in early October 2012 after failure to agree on the budget for the 2013 fiscal year.\n\nThe elections saw the Likud Yisrael Beiteinu alliance emerge as the largest faction in the Knesset, winning 31 of the 120 seats. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu formed the country's thirty-third government after establishing a coalition with Yesh Atid, the Jewish Home, and Hatnua, which between them held 68 seats.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1379939516,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-12T20:34:35Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Israeli_legislative_election","wikidata_qid":"Q2334537","wikidata_classes":["Israeli legislative election","public election"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"battle-of-ras-al-ayn-2012-13","title":"Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13)","date_start":"2012-12-17"},{"id":"battle-of-raqqa-2013","title":"Battle of Raqqa (2013)","date_start":"2013-03-02"},{"id":"2012-egyptian-constitutional-referendum","title":"2012 Egyptian constitutional referendum","date_start":"2012-12-15"},{"id":"2012-2013-egyptian-protests","title":"2012–2013 Egyptian protests","date_start":"2012-11-22"},{"id":"2012-gaza-war","title":"2012 Gaza War","date_start":"2012-11-14"}]}},"2017-dutch-turkish-diplomatic-incident":{"extract":"In March 2017, the Netherlands and Turkey were involved in a diplomatic incident, triggered by Turkish efforts to hold political rallies on Dutch territory and subsequent travel restrictions placed by Dutch authorities on Turkish officials seeking to promote the campaign for a 'yes' vote in the upcoming Turkish constitutional referendum to Turkish citizens living in the Netherlands. Such foreign campaigning is illegal under Turkish law.\n\nThe Netherlands barred the aircraft of Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu from landing and expelled Turkish Minister of Family and Social Policies Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya from the country, when both tried to speak at rallies. In response, Turkey expelled the Dutch Ambassador from the country and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the Dutch \"fascists\" and \"remnants of Nazism\" and accused the Netherlands of \"massacring\" Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War in 1995. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called Erdoğan's remarks \"unacceptable\" and a \"vile falsification of history\" and demanded an apology. Rutte also called for talks to resolve the impasse, adding that Turkey had crossed a diplomatic line.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1375254545,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-09-16T18:38:21Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Dutch%E2%80%93Turkish_diplomatic_incident","wikidata_qid":"Q28936523","wikidata_classes":["international incident","political crisis","international crisis"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"month","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false}},"khan-shaykhun-chemical-attack":{"extract":"The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017 on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate of Syria. The town was reported to have been struck by an airstrike by government forces followed by massive civilian chemical poisoning. The release of a toxic gas, which included sarin, or a similar substance, killed at least 89 people and injured more than 541, according to the opposition Idlib Health Directorate. The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war since the Ghouta chemical attack in 2013.\n\nThe OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism attributed the responsibility of the attack to the Syrian government. The OPCW-UN JIM described chemicals that it said linked the sarin used to the Syrian government: \"The samples from Khan Shaykhun contain the three types of marker chemicals described above: PF6 [HFP], isopropyl phosphates and isopropyl phosphorofluoridates. Their presence is a strong indicator that the sarin disseminated in Khan Shaykhun was produced from DF from the Syrian Arab Republic stockpile.\"\n\nThe governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, and Israel as well as Human Rights Watch attributed the attack to the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian government said the attack was a \"fabrication\" while the Russian government said that the incident was staged.\n\nOn 7 April, the United States launched 59 cruise missiles at Shayrat Air Base, which U.S. intelligence cited as the source of the attack.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1368284625,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-08T04:23:47Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack","wikidata_qid":"Q29154471","wikidata_classes":["airstrike","armed conflict","bombardment"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikidata","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"nearby":[{"id":"battle-of-idlib-2015","title":"Battle of Idlib (2015)","date_start":"2015-03-28","km":22.5,"bearing":11},{"id":"siege-of-hama-2011","title":"Siege of Hama (2011)","date_start":"2011-07-01","km":35.8,"bearing":166},{"id":"1982-hama-massacre","title":"1982 Hama massacre","date_start":"1982-01-01","km":36.2,"bearing":166},{"id":"june-2011-jisr-ash-shughur-clashes","title":"June 2011 Jisr ash-Shughur clashes","date_start":"2011-06-04","km":49.7,"bearing":323}],"same_time":[{"id":"2017-shayrat-missile-strike","title":"2017 Shayrat missile strike","date_start":"2017-04-07"},{"id":"palm-sunday-church-bombings","title":"Palm Sunday church bombings","date_start":"2017-04-09"},{"id":"2017-aleppo-suicide-car-bombing","title":"2017 Aleppo suicide car bombing","date_start":"2017-04-15"},{"id":"2017-turkish-constitutional-referendum","title":"2017 Turkish constitutional referendum","date_start":"2017-04-16"},{"id":"palmyra-offensive-2017","title":"Palmyra offensive (2017)","date_start":"2017-03-02"}]}},"april-2024-israeli-strikes-on-iran":{"extract":"On 19 April 2024 at 5:23 a.m. IRST, the Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes targeting an air defense facility within Iran. The limited airstrikes targeted an air defense radar site at an airbase near Isfahan, in central Iran. Israeli missiles appear to have hit their target directly. Satellite images suggest that a surface-to-air missile battery was damaged or destroyed. There was no extensive damage to the base itself. The attack was launched in response to the Iranian drone and missile strikes in Israel, which itself was an Iranian retaliation for the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.\n\nIranian media and social media reported minor explosions near Isfahan, where Iran has nuclear facilities, a drone manufacturing facility, and a major airbase. Iranian state media said that Israeli drones flying over the region were shot down by the Iranian Air Defense Force. Three Iranian officials confirmed to The New York Times that Israel was involved. US officials confirmed that at least three missiles from Israeli aircraft had struck Iran. No strikes were reported on Iran's nuclear sites.\n\nAccording to a senior US official speaking to ABC News, Israeli aircraft, operating beyond Iran's borders, launched three missiles targeting an air defense radar site guarding the Natanz Nuclear Facility. The official further stated that the assessment indicated the successful destruction of the targeted site. He also said that the objective of the strike was to communicate Israel's capabilities to Iran without escalating tensions further. An Iranian official told Reuters that the explosions were from Israeli drones being shot down, and claimed that there had been no missile attack on Iran.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1368282041,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-08T03:57:18Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2024_Israeli_strikes_on_Iran","wikidata_qid":"Q125521954","wikidata_classes":["offensive","armed conflict"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":true,"findings":[{"guideline":"SAID","guideline_name":"Synonyms for \"said\"","shortcut":"MOS:SAID","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AManual_of_Style%2FWords_to_watch&oldid=1376702503#Synonyms_for_said","phrase":"claimed that there had been no missile attack on Iran","note":"The Iranian official \"claimed\" there was no missile attack, while the US official \"stated\" and \"said\" the opposite."}],"highlights":["claimed that there had been no missile attack on Iran"]},"highlights":[{"text":"claimed that there had been no missile attack on Iran","kind":"wording"}],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q125465957","label":"2024 Iran–Israel conflict"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"april-2024-iranian-strikes-on-israel","title":"April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel","date_start":"2024-04-13"},{"id":"israeli-airstrike-on-the-iranian-consulate-in-damascus","title":"Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus","date_start":"2024-04-01"},{"id":"october-2024-iranian-strikes-on-israel","title":"October 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel","date_start":"2024-10-01"},{"id":"october-2024-israeli-strikes-on-iran","title":"October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran","date_start":"2024-10-26"}],"same_time":[{"id":"world-central-kitchen-aid-convoy-attack","title":"World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack","date_start":"2024-04-01"},{"id":"2024-turkish-local-elections","title":"2024 Turkish local elections","date_start":"2024-03-31"},{"id":"tel-al-sultan-attack","title":"Tel al-Sultan attack","date_start":"2024-05-26"},{"id":"flour-massacre","title":"Flour Massacre","date_start":"2024-02-29"},{"id":"nuseirat-rescue-and-massacre","title":"Nuseirat rescue and massacre","date_start":"2024-06-08"}]}}}