2010
[
edit
]
December
[
edit
]
Protests arose in
Tunisia
following
Mohamed Bouazizi's
self-immolation.
[1]
[2]
On 29 December, protests begin in
Algeria
[3]
2011
[
edit
]
January
[
edit
]
Protests arose in
Oman
,
Yemen
,
Jordan
,
Egypt
,
Syria
, &
Morocco
.
The government was overthrown in
Tunisia
on 14 January 2011.
[4]
On 25 January 2011, thousands of protesters in Egypt gathered in
Tahrir Square
, in
Cairo
. They demanded the resignation of President
Hosni Mubarak
.
[5]
February
[
edit
]
On 1 February, King
Abdullah II
of Jordan dismisses Prime Minister
Samir Rifai
and his cabinet.
[6]
On 3 February, the
President of Algeria
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
promised to lift the 19-year-old state of emergency.
[7]
[8]
[9]
On 11 February, the
President of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak resigned, and transferred his powers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
[10]
On 12 February, protests erupt in
Iraq
[11]
On 14 February, the protests in Bahrain started, and were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and respect for human rights; they were not intended to directly threaten
the monarchy
.
[12]
[13]
On 15 February protests broke out against
Muammar Gaddafi
's regime in
Benghazi
,
Libya
, starting the uprising that would soon turn into the
Libyan Civil War
.
[14]
[15]
On 17 February, the police raid the
Pearl Roundabout
in Manama, where protesters were protesting, four protesters were killed.
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
On 19 February, protests erupt in
Kuwait
.
[20]
On 26 February, Sultan
Qaboos bin Said al Said
of Oman makes some economic concessions.
March
[
edit
]
On 3 March, the former
Prime Minister of Egypt
,
Ahmed Shafik
, also resigned, after protests.
[21]
On 13 March, Sultan Qaboos promises to grant lawmaking powers to Oman's elected legislature.
[22]
[23]
On 14 March, GCC forces (composed mainly of Saudi and UAE troops) were requested by the government of Bahrain and they occupied the country.
[24]
[25]
On 15 March, uprisings began in Syria.
On 18 March, the government of Bahrain tore down
Pearl Roundabout
monument.
[26]
April
[
edit
]
On April, King Abdullah of Jordan creates the Royal Committee to Review the Constitution with directions to review the Constitution in accordance with calls for reform.
[27]
June
[
edit
]
On 3 June, the
President of Yemen
Ali Abdullah Saleh
was injured in a failed assassination attempt. He temporarily made his Vice President,
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi
, the Acting President of the nation.
[28]
On June, the Constitutional Court of Kuwait declared that the February 2012
National Assembly
election
was "illegal" and reinstated the previous pro-government parliament.
On 26 June, thousands of Kuwaitis rally in
Al-Erada Square
to protest against a court ruling that dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament.
[29]
July
[
edit
]
On 1 July, a
constitutional referendum
is held in Morocco.
[30]
August
[
edit
]
Between 20 and 28 August, the
Battle of Tripoli
, occurred, in
Libya
. Rebel forces captured, and effectively gained control of, the capital city of Tripoli, therefore practically overthrowing the government of the dictator
Muammar Gaddafi
.
[31]
On 27 August, around 3,000 people, mainly men in traditional Kuwaiti dress, gathered opposite parliament at Al-Erada Square to protest changes to the electoral law.
[32]
September
[
edit
]
On 30 September, Abdullah II approves changes to all 42 articles of the Constitution.
October
[
edit
]
On 9 and 10 October,
Coptic Christians
in Egypt
protested
against the destruction of a church. The Army responded by attacking the protesters with tanks, killing many.
[33]
On 20 October, Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed, by rebels, in the city of
Sirte
.
[34]
On 23 October, the
National Transitional Council
(NTC) officially declared an end to the
2011 Libyan Civil War
.
[35]
On 24 October, Abdullah II dismisses Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit and his cabinet.
November
[
edit
]
On 19 November, Muammar Gaddafi's son,
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
, was finally captured, after hiding in
Nigeria
.
[36]
Between 19 and 21 November, many people once again protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding that the SCAF speed up the transition to a more civilian government. Clashes between protesters and soldiers then proceeded to happen, and many people were injured or killed.
[37]
[38]
On 23 November, the
Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry
released its report on its investigation of the events, finding that the government had systematically tortured prisoners and committed other human rights violations. It also rejected the government's claims that the protests were instigated by
Iran
.
On 28 November, Kuwait Prime Minister
Nasser Al-Sabah
resigns.
[39]
[40]
December
[
edit
]
On 20 December, many women protested in Egypt against human rights violations.
[41]
2012
[
edit
]
January
[
edit
]
On 10 January, the
President of Syria
,
Bashar al-Assad
, gave a speech, in which he blamed the uprising on foreigners, and said that it would require the co-operation of all Syrians, in order to stop the rebels.
On 24 January, the Egyptian
Field Marshal
and leader of the military,
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
, announced that the decades-old
state of emergency
would be partially lifted, the following day.
[42]
February
[
edit
]
Starting on 3 February, the Syrian government began
an attack on the city of Homs
.
[43]
On 27 February, the President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, officially resigned, and then transferred his powers to his Vice President,
Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi
.
[44]
April
[
edit
]
On 20 April, many people once again protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square, demanding a quicker transfer of power to a new President.
[45]
On 2 May, as the protests continue,
Awn Al-Khasawneh
resigned,
[46]
and the King appoints
Fayez Tarawneh
as the new Prime Minister of Jordan.
[47]
On 23 & 24 May, the Egyptian people voted in the first round of a
presidential election
.
Ahmed Shafik
and
Mohammed Morsi
were the two winners, of this election.
[48]
On 25 May, the Syrian government carried out a
massacre in Houla
, killing 108 people.
[49]
June
[
edit
]
On 2 June, the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison, by an Egyptian court.
On 13 June, the former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced to prison, by a Tunisian court.
On 16 & 17 June, the Egyptian people voted in the 2nd round of a presidential run-off election, in which
Mohammed Morsi
received the most votes.
[48]
On 24 June 2012,
Egypt
's election commission announced that
Muslim Brotherhood
candidate
Mohammed Morsi
had won Egypt's presidential runoff. Morsi won by a narrow margin over
Ahmed Shafiq
, the last prime minister under deposed leader
Hosni Mubarak
. The commission said Morsi took 51.7 percent of the vote versus 48.3 for Shafiq.
July
[
edit
]
On 12 July, the Syrian army carried out a
massacre
in the Village of Tremseh. Up to 225 people were killed.
On 15 July, the
International Committee of the Red Cross
officially declared that the Syrian uprising was now a
civil war
.
On 18 July, a
bombing in Damascus
killed many members of President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle, including his brother-in-law,
Asef Shawkat
.
On 19 July, the former Vice President of Egypt,
Omar Suleiman
, died of a
heart attack
at a hospital in
Cleveland, Ohio
, in the
United States
Starting on 27 July, government forces and rebels began fighting a battle to capture Syria's largest city,
Aleppo
. The
UN
reports that over 200,000 Syrian refugees have now fled the country, ever since the fighting began.
September
[
edit
]
In late September, the
Free Syrian Army
moved its command headquarters from southern Turkey into rebel-controlled areas of northern Syria.
[50]
September 11, 2012,
Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi
, in Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador
J. Christopher Stevens
and Sean Smith, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer.
October
[
edit
]
On 9 October, the Free Syrian Army
seized control of Maarat al-Numan
, a strategic town in
Idlib Governorate
on the highway linking Damascus with Aleppo.
[51]
By 18 October, the FSA had captured the suburb of Douma, the biggest suburb of Damascus.
[52]
On 10 October, Abdullah dissolves the parliament for new early elections, and appoints
Abdullah Ensour
as the new Prime Minister.
On 19 October,
Wissam al-Hassan
, a
brigadier general
of the
Lebanese
Internal Security Forces
(ISF), died along with several others in the
2012 Beirut bombing
.
November
[
edit
]
On 22 November 2012
[53]
Egyptian protests
started, with hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrating against
Egyptian
president
Mohammed Morsi
, after he granted himself unlimited powers to “protect” the nation,
[54]
[55]
and the power to
legislate
without judicial oversight or review of his acts.
[56]
2013
[
edit
]
January
[
edit
]
On 25 January,
protests
against
Mohamed Morsi
developed all over
Egypt
on the second anniversary of the
2011 revolution
, including in
Tahrir Square
, where thousands of protesters gathered. At least 6 civilians and 1 police officer were shot dead in the Egyptian city of
Suez
, while 456 others were injured nationwide.
[57]
[58]
[59]
[60]
February
[
edit
]
In early February, Syrian rebels began an
offensive on Damascus
. On 12 February 2013, the
United Nations
stated that the death toll of the
Syrian civil war
had exceeded 70,000.
[61]
March
[
edit
]
On March 6, Syrian rebels
captured Ar-Raqqah
, the first major city to be under rebel control in the
Syrian civil war
.
[62]
Meanwhile, the
Syrian National Coalition
was granted Syria's membership in the
Arab League
.
[63]
[64]
April
[
edit
]
On 24 April, the minaret of the
Great Mosque of Aleppo
, Syria, built in 1090,
[65]
was destroyed during an exchange of heavy weapons fire between government forces and rebels.
[66]
[67]
[68]
June
[
edit
]
On June 5, Syrian government forces
retook
the strategic town of
Al-Qusayr
.
[69]
[70]
July
[
edit
]
Mohamed Morsi is deposed as President of Egypt in a
coup d'etat
,
[71]
[72]
followed by
clashes between security forces and protestors
.
[73]
August
[
edit
]
On 14 August, Egyptian security forces under the command of interim president
Adly Mansour
raided two camps of protesters in Cairo
.
[74]
In the
Ghouta chemical attack
on 21 August 2013, several areas that were disputed or controlled by the
Syrian opposition
were struck by
rockets
containing the
chemical
agent
sarin
. Estimates of the death toll range from 'at least 281'
[75]
to 1,729 fatalities.
[76]
December
[
edit
]
On 30 December, the
Iraqi Civil War
officially begins.
2014
[
edit
]
January
[
edit
]
A
conflict between the Syrian opposition and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
erupts.
February
[
edit
]
Egyptian government resigns, paving way for military chief Sisi to
run for president
.
Syrian rebels withdraw from the
siege of Homs
.
[77]
September
[
edit
]
On 8 September,
Haider al-Abadi
is elected Prime Minister of Iraq after elections.
By country or region
[
edit
]
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[
edit
]
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