International incident

An international incident is a seemingly relatively small or limited action or clash that results in a wider dispute between two or more nation-states. International incidents can arise from unanticipated actions involving citizens, government officials, or armed units of one or more nation-states, or out of a deliberate but small provocative actions by espionageagents of one nation-state, or by terrorists, against another nation-state.

1 1938 Polish ultimatum to Lithuania 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania 1960 U-2 incident 2 2004 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel 2006 Slovak–Hungarian diplomatic affairs 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel 2009 Chile–Peru espionage scandal 2009 Singapore Romanian diplomat incident 2010 Georgian news report hoax 2012 Italian shooting in the Arabian Sea A Åland crisis Abyssinia Crisis Kazem Akhavan Albania–Yugoslav border incident (1999) An-24 incident at Gambell, Alaska Anton incident Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran B Beagle conflict Berlin Blockade Berne incident Blue Diamond Affair Bodø affair Bogotá Bracelet C Checkpoint Charlie stand-off Chesapeake Affair Cocktail Wars Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Asia and Oceania) Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Africa)

C cont. Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (analysis of individual leaders) Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Europe) Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Middle East) Corfu Channel Incident Corfu incident D Raymond Allen Davis incident Dikko Affair E 2011 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Egypt Ems Dispatch F Fashoda Incident Flagstaff hill incident G General Sherman incident H Hainan Island incident Brendan Kyle Hatcher I Icarus affair 2011 alleged Iran assassination plot Iranian events of 1921 Iran crisis of 1946 Iran hostage crisis 1998 Iranian diplomats murder in Afghanistan Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982) Itata Incident J July Crisis K Kidnapping of Jalal Sharafi Kuzma's mother L Libyan Hostage Situation 1984 LICOPA affair List of incidents during the Beagle conflict List of people who took refuge in a diplomatic mission List of United States – Soviet Union aircraft interception and shootdowns M 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict Ahmad Motevaselian

M cont. Seyed Mohsen Mousavi N Namamugi Incident Nootka Crisis O Orzeł incident P Don Pacifico affair and case Ion Perdicaris Pig War ¿Por qué no te callas? Port Hamilton Incident Project Dark Gene R Taghi Rastegar Moghadam Reactions to the United States diplomatic cables leak S Guillaume Schnaebelé Sedan (nuclear test) Shoe-banging incident Surveillance Detection Unit Bombings of Switzerland in World War II T 1964 T-39 shootdown incident Telegram Crisis Tientsin Incident Trent Affair Tsushima Incident U U.S. raid on the Iranian Liaison Office in Arbil United Airlines Flight 663 United States diplomatic cables leak V Virginius Affair W Ward Incident We will bury you Welwel, Ethiopia Bud Wolfe X XYZ Affair Z Zimmermann Telegram