Category
page 1Arrests of individual people
2026 United States intervention in Venezuela
On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military strike in Venezuela and captured incumbent Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The US operation, codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve, began around 2 a.m. local time, when explosions were observed. The US Armed Forces bombed infrastructure across northern Venezuela to suppress air defenses as an apprehension force attacked Maduro's compound in Caracas. Maduro and Flores were transported to New York City by US forces to face their trial there. If the operation is considered a military conflict, at 2 hours and 28 minutes it would qualify as one of the shortest wars in history.
arrest of Jesus
pivotal event recorded in the canonical gospels
Xi'an Incident
mutiny in the Chinese army
Operation Red Dawn
2003 U.S. military operation in the Iraq War
arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu
2025 arrest of the mayor of Istanbul
detention of Mark Bernstein
detention of Wikipedian by Belarusian security force
Pavel Pernikaŭ
Belarus Wikipedian (1992-)
arrest of Rodrigo Duterte
2025 arrest of the former Philippine president
arrest of Pavel Durov
arrest of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, on 24 August 2024 in Paris
capture of Nicolás Maduro
January 2026 extraterritorial arrest of the former president of Venezuela by the government of the United States
arrest of Yoon Suk Yeol
2025 arrest of the suspended president of South Korea
Capture of Adolf Eichmann
covert operation by the Israeli Mossad
detention of Patrick Zaki
detention of the Egyptian student Patrick Zaki
Arrest of Mark Kaminsky and Harvey Bennett
1960 arrest of Americans by the Soviet Union
Johan Floderus
Swedish diplomat and EU official
detention of Mahmoud Khalil
2025 arrest in New York City