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Official media deny reports of heavy security presence and minor skirmishes with opposition supporters, stressing that the city is completely calm. But witnesses describe large groups of protesters at several points in town and a large number of security forces out to meet them.

Feb. 14, 2011

Thousands of government supporters demand the execution of opposition leaders, but influential Muslim cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati says they should be placed under permanent house arrest. The calls come as Iran's opposition movement plans new anti-government demonstrations on Sunday.

Feb. 14, 2011

Crowds of demonstrators battle security forces armed with tear gas and batons during a surprisingly large anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran that draws inspiration from the recent popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The gathering appears to be the most significant anti-government protest in the capital since security forces cracked down on a series of massive demonstrations in 2009.

Feb. 11, 2011

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking several hours before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, urges Egyptians to continue their protests and to "free" themselves and choose their own leaders and their own form of government. During a large state-sponsored rally to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ahmadinejad says that the uprisings in the Arab world have been inspired by his country's struggle against Western powers.

June 10, 2011

An anti-government protest scheduled in Iraq's capital is quashed after several participants reported being beaten with sticks and clubs to make way for a counter-demonstration. Following the end of a 100-day cooling-off period requested by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, students and activists had been expected to flock to Baghdad's Tahrir Square to press for reforms and more government services.

Feb. 27, 2011

In his latest attempt to appease a growing protest movement here, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he is giving his cabinet 100 days to respond to demands for better government services from electricity to jobs and for an end to corruption. Maliki has already announced other concessions, saying he will slash his salary by half and not to seek a third term. He has accepted resignations from three provincial governors from his party so far.

Feb. 25, 2011

At least 19 people are killed in Iraq as tens of thousands defiy an official curfew and gathered for a "Day of Rage" demonstration, echoing protests that have been held across the Middle East and North Africa for more than a month. Despite pleas by the government and Shiite religious leaders for Iraqis to stay home, demonstrations are reported from Basra in the south to Mosul and Kirkuk in the north. Protesters denounce official corruption and called for the resignation of local leaders.

Feb. 24, 2011

At least five people are killed in Iraq as tens of thousands defiy an official curfew and gathered for a "Day of Rage" demonstration, echoing protests that have been held across the Middle East and North Africa for more than a month. Despite pleas by the government and Shiite religious leaders for Iraqis to stay home, demonstrations are reported from Basra in the south to Mosul and Kirkuk in the north. Protesters denounce official corruption and called for the resignation of local leaders.

Feb. 17, 2011

At least two protesters are killed when soldiers open fire on stone-throwing demonstrators in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah as the unrest triggered by turmoil elsewhere in the Middle East reaches the normally placid enclave of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Forty-three people weae injured when the Kurdish pesh merga fighters fire live ammunition at youths throwing stones at the headquarters of the region's dominant political party, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), witnesses say.

Feb. 16, 2011

The governor of a remote southern Iraqi province is forced to flee when protesters storm his headquarters during violent demonstrations that illustrate the potential for upheaval in Iraq's new, and still shaky, democracy. The violence eruptes after local police opened fire on demonstrators protesting poor services and corruption outside the governorate of Wasit province in the city of Kut, killing three and wounding more than 50, says Capt. Mahdi Abbas of the province's emergency police force.

April 15, 2011

Hundreds of protesting Islamic hard-liners clash with supporters of Jordan's king, wounding dozens, in the latest move by the extremist movement to assert itself amid the country's wave of anti-government demonstrations. A crowd of about 350 extremist Salafi Muslims face off with a slightly smaller group of king loyalists in the town of Zarqa. Salafis beat the government supporters with clubs and fists, and the two sides hurl stones at each other, leaving people bloodied on the ground.

April 7, 2011

A Jordanian man sets himself on fire outside the prime minister's office in the first such act since political unrest hit the country in January. A doctor says Mohammed Abdul-Karim is in critical condition. Similar acts of self-immolation have occurred in other Muslim countries to protest repressive governments. The protests calling for political reform in Jordan have generally been smaller and more peaceful than in other Arab nations, but one person died in a protest March 25. On Thursday, prosecutors charge 80 people with resisting arrest in that demonstration.

March 31, 2011

From the AP: Supporters of Jordan's king denounce reports alleging they were behind bloody clashes that left one person dead in the worst violence in three months of protests in this key U.S. ally. Clashes between protesters demanding reforms and government supporters also left 120 injured last Friday in a central Amman square after security forces charged the two sides, which had been pelting each other with stones.

March 25, 2011

From the AP: Pro-government supporters attack a gathering of Jordanian protesters demanding the dissolution of parliament and the firing of the country's prime minister, pelting them with stones and injuring six people. The violence comes as about 1,000 Jordanians join protests at the camp in central Amman, styled after Cairo's Liberation Square, where a popular uprising led to the ouster of Egypt's longtime president.

March 24, 2011

According to the AP, hundreds of Jordanians set up a protest camp in a main square in the capital demanding the ouster of the prime minister and wider public freedoms. From the AP: "The 500 protesters appear to be mostly university students or unemployed graduates unaffiliated with any political party. Many say met through Facebook last month to launch a group called the Jordanian Youth Movement."

March 15, 2011

Jordan's king sets a three-month deadline for agreement on political reforms. Abdullah II says a 53-member committee with government officials and opposition leaders will draft new laws for parliamentary elections and political parties - key demands in 11 weeks of protests.

March 7, 2011

In the first protest of its kind here, journalists from state-controlled media demonstrate for press freedom and demand the ouster of the editor of the main government-controlled newspaper. Inspired by the anti-government uprisings sweeping the Arab world and mounting calls for change at home, about 200 journalists from official and independent media rally near the headquarters of Al-Rai, the main state-controlled paper.

Feb. 18, 2011

Clashes erupt Friday in the Jordanian capital, Amman, when about 300 protesters calling for political reforms are set upon by government supporters armed with metal rods and sticks as police stand by, participants said. At least eight people are reportedly injured.

It is the first time protesters have been attacked during demonstrations in Amman for political and economic change, which have been held for the past several Fridays.

Feb. 13, 2011

Senior U.S. officials hold talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II as part of an Obama administration diplomatic offensive in the wake of back-to-back popular uprisings in the Middle East. The White House dispatches Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and the State Department's top career diplomat, Undersecretary for Political Affairs William J. Burns, to Jordan over the weekend in a show of support for the key U.S. ally.

Feb. 11, 2011

Hundreds of Jordanians take to the streets calling for the ouster of new Prime Minister Maroud al-Bakhit and demanding elections

Feb. 1, 2011

Jordan's Royal Palace says the king has sacked his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new Cabinet.

Jan. 28, 2011

Thousands protest in late January, peaking on Jan. 28. The demonstrations are inspired by the unrest in the region and reflect growing discontent stoked by the most serious domestic economic crisis in years as well as accusations of rampant government corruption. Demonstrators protest rising prices and demand the dismissal of Prime Minister Samir Rifai and his government, but do not directly challenged the king, criticism of whom is banned in Jordan.

March 8, 2011

Youth groups in Kuwait plan to hold demonstrations Tuesday calling for the resignation of the prime minister and for greater political freedoms, Al Jazeera reports. Two groups called the al-Soor al-Khames (Fifth Fence) and Kafi rally followers on Twitter to take to the streets on Tuesday as parliament holds its first session in six weeks.

Feb. 20, 2011

Kuwait's parliament speaker appeals for an end to three days of protests by the descendants of desert nomads demanding citizenship and the generous state benefits that go with it. Police fire tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, who hold no nationality but have settled in Kuwait for generations. They seek access to Kuwaiti benefits such as free health care and state jobs.

Feb. 18, 2011

Kuwaiti authorities use tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to break up a demonstration by about 1,000 stateless residents west of Kuwait City, according to Bloomberg. The proetesters were demanding greater rights for residents who are not citizens of the country.

Feb. 6, 2011

Kuwait's Interior Minister steps down amid calls for street demonstrations on social media sites. The organizers list claims of corruption and perceived attempts to limit political freedoms. After the resignation of the interior minister, Sheik Jaber al-Khaled al-Sabah (who is replaced by a relative of Kuwait's ruler), protesters reschedule planned demonstrations to March 8.

June 13, 2011

The prime minister forms a new Cabinet that gives Hezbollah far more power five months after the Iranian-backed militant group and its allies brought down the Lebanese government. Hezbollah has seen a steady rise over the past few decades from a resistance group fighting Israel to Lebanon's most powerful military and political force.

Feb. 28, 2011

In Lebanon, which has no government to rebel against because of disputes among the country's feuding political factions, demonstrators take to the streets to demand the overthrow of the sectarian system that has defined and divided the volatile country for seven decades.

Oct. 23, 2011

Libya top leader declared the country officially “liberated” from the four-decade rule of Moammar Gaddafi, pledging to replace his dictatorship with a more democratic but also a more strictly Islamic system.

Oct. 20, 2011

Moammar Gaddafi was killed after being seized in a sewage tunnel in his home town — the final triumph for pro-democracy fighters who have struggled for eight months to take control of the country.

Aug. 23, 2011

Rebel forces overran the heart of Moammar Gaddafi's fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound, putting them in charge of the fugitive Libyan leader's power base and signaling that the battle for Tripoli may be inching closer to a conclusion. One of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, appeared in public earlier in the day to refute rebel assertions that he had been captured.

Aug. 21, 2011

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's four-decade-long rule over the country was crumbling at breakneck speed as hundreds of rebel fighters swept into Tripoli and took control Monday of the symbolically significant Green Square in the heart of the city.

Aug. 20, 2011

Libyan rebels overran a major military base defending the capital as part of a surprising and speedy leap forward, after six months of largely deadlocked civil war. By nightfall, they had advanced more than 20 miles to the edge of Gaddafi's last major bastion of support.

Aug. 19, 2011

For months, rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi have been predicting the fall of the capital, Tripoli. Now, after weeks of significant gains, they have begun talking openly about plans to maintain security if he is deposed.

Aug. 11, 2011

Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gaddafi's troops along the country's Mediterranean coast have claimed they captured part of Brega, a strategic port city that has repeatedly changed hands in the 6-month-old civil war.

July 31, 2011

Libyan rebels battling on multiple fronts attacked and held ground Sunday in committed fighting that reached from a besieged oil refinery city in the east to the rugged desert mountain towns in the west. The success of the past few days and the still tenuous rebel advances in the mountains come at a price, as opposition commanders here worry that their lines are stretched too thin, leaving their rebel cadres composed of dentists, shop clerks and college students vulnerable to counterattack.

July 28, 2011

Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis and two other senior opposition commanders had been fatally shot in Benghazi by assailants, creating chaos among the fractious coalition trying to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi.

July 15, 2011

The United States grants Libyan rebel leaders full diplomatic recognition as the governing authority of Libya, a move that could give the cash-strapped rebels access to more than $30 billion in frozen assets that once belonged to Gaddafi.

July 13, 2011

Libyan rebels fighting to oust Moammar Gaddafi have looted shops and clinics and torched the homes of suspected regime supporters in some of the towns they seized in the country's western mountains, Human Rights Watch says. The findings come as the rebels enlarge the area under their control in the west and inched closer to a key supply route to Tripoli.

July 7, 2011

Rebel victories in Libya's western mountains are shifting the focus of efforts to topple Moammar Gaddafi's regime, as fighters close in on cities that control the government's main supply routes. The rapid gains in the west come in sharp contrast to battlefields in the east, where the front lines have remained largely stagnant for months.

July 6, 2011

Rebel fighters in western Libya seize two mountain towns from government troops, while the embattled regime of Moammar Gaddafi says it will set up a special court to try rebel leaders for treason. The rebel advances mark small progress in a largely deadlocked civil war.

July 1, 2011

With Libya's conventional forces stretched thin along front lines east and west of Tripoli, government officials say they are scrambling to train volunteers, many of them women, for the looming fight for the capital and other Gaddafi-held areas. Women have long played central roles in Libya's security and intelligence agencies, but the four-month-old conflict appears likely to turn them into combatants more forcefully than ever.

June 30, 2011

The daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi says both direct and indirect negotiations are being held between her father's authorities and Libyan rebels. Aicha Gaddafi doesn't elaborate during the France-2 network interview aired on French television. But she adds to end the spilling of Libyan blood "we are ready to ally ourselves with the devil, with the rebel army."

June 29, 2011

French officials announce that they have armed rebels in Libya, in an attempt to break the stalemate in a conflict that has stretched longer than many policymakers anticipated. France dropped guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other munitions in the western Nafusa mountains of Libya in early June to help rebel forces who were at the time under threat from the Libyan military, a French military spokesman tells news services.

June 28, 2011

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, urges Moammar Gaddafi's own aides to arrest the Libyan leader and turn him over for trial on murder and persecution charges - or risk prosecution themselves. The court has issued arrest warrants for the Libyan leader, his son Seif and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi for crimes against humanity, but the court has no police force to detain them.

June 27, 2011

Judges from the International Criminal Court issue a warrant for the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, his son and a top military intelligence chief, calling for them to to stand trial for crimes against humanity in connection with a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters this year.

June 23, 2011

Moammar Gaddafi lashes out at NATO over civilian casualties and says Libya is prepared to fight on, calling the alliance "murderers" after an airstrike on a close associate's family home. A few hundred supporters, most of them women, gather in Tripoli's Green Square hours after the speech, vowing to defend the Libyan leader.

June 21, 2011

NATO acknowledges that it has lost contact with one of its surveillance drone helicopters, as Libyan state television broadcast pictures of what it said was an alliance attack helicopter that has been shot down. A NATO spokesman said that an "unmanned autonomous helicopter drone" lost radio contact at 9:20 a.m. local time.

June 20, 2011

NATO says a coalition bomb misfired into a residential neighborhood of Tripoli, killing civilians. Libyan officials say the blast flattened a two-story house, killing two children and seven adults. Sunday's bombing marks the first time NATO acknowledges that a military mishap has resulted in civilian deaths in Libya, and it comes a day after the alliance confirmes that last week it accidentally struck a vehicle carrying allied rebel fighters.

June 16, 2011

NATO airstrikes pound the area near Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's compound again before dawn. Russia's envoy to Libya later turns up at a bombing site while on a visit to Tripoli for talks on ending the civil war. Gaddafi's son tells an Italian newspaper that his father will not go into exile, but elections under international supervision can offer a way out. The U.S. quickly dismisses the idea and insists Gaddafi must leave.

June 14, 2011

An apparent NATO airstrike hits an area near Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's compound in the capital, as military leaders voice concerns about sustaining the operations if the alliance mission drags on. A column of gray smoke could be seen rising from the area around Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound shortly before dawn. The concussion from the blast was felt at a hotel where journalists stay in the capital.

June 13, 2011

Government artillery rains down on rebel forces but fails to stop their advance into key ground west of their stronghold at Libya's major port. As fighting rages for a fourth day, Germany's foreign minister pays a surprise visit to the rebel's de facto capital. The German foreign ministry says Guido Westerwelle is meeting with the Transitional National Council to deepen relations with the rebels and their nascent government.

June 12, 2011

From the east and west, resurgent rebels battle Libyan government forces at flashpoints along the Mediterranean coast, rebel commanders report. The government says their victory claims are "wishful reporting." Insurgents had reported fighting street by street to retake the Mediterranean port city of Zawiya, 18 miles west of Tripoli, a prize that would put them within striking distance of the capital and cut off one of Moammar Gaddafi's last supply routes from Tunisia.

June 10, 2011

Western and Middle Eastern countries begin opening the aid spigots for Libya's beleaguered rebels, approving measures that will immediately send at least $1 billion to the opposition and promising much larger sums in the weeks ahead. This comes a day after the chief financial adviser to Libya's opposition movement urged Western countries to make good on promises, saying, "Our people our dying."

June 8, 2011

NATO rains scores of bombs on the Libyan capital in by far its heaviest attack on Tripoli since its campaign began, but Moammar Gaddafi responds swiftly with a vow that his people will never surrender. The Libyan government says 60 bombs fell on the city, killing 31 "soldiers, guards and civilians." Reporters in Tripoli count more than 40 explosions.

June 4, 2011

The U.S. House of Representatives rebukes President Obama for failing "to provide Congress with a compelling rationale" for the military campaign in Libya but stopped short of demanding he withdraw U.S. forces from the fight. By a vote of 268 to 145, the House approves a resolution criticizing Obama for not seeking congressional authorization for the 76-day-old campaign against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.

June 2, 2011

NATO blasts Tripoli with a series of air strikes, sending shuddering booms through the city. A NATO statement says the attacks hit military vehicles and ammunition depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher and a fire control radar system. The air strikes rain down hours after NATO and its partners say they will extend the Libyan mission for 90 more days in support of the rebels fighting the regime of ruler Moammar Gaddafi.

May 31, 2011

Libyan rebels reject a reported truce offer from Moammar Gaddafi. Word of the offer comes from South African President Jacob Zuma, who met with Gaddafi the day before.

May 30, 2011

The rebel administration that controls much of eastern Libya distributes guidelines on how its fighters should treat prisoners of war, following a string of allegations that rebels have engaged in unlawful arrests, mistreated captives and killed sub-Saharan Africans wrongly accused of being mercenaries. The rebels are holding about 300 prisoners, including 10 foreigners, according to the top legal affairs official in the newly created National Transitional Council, Salwa Fawzi al-Deghali.

May 23-24, 2011

NATO forces launch their most aggressive airstrike to date on Gaddafi's compound early Tuesday morning, rocking the country's capital with at least 15 explosions. In a show of support for the rebel National Transitional Council, the United State's top Middle East envoy announces on Tuesday that the rebel government would open an office in Washington DC.

May 19, 2011

The Libyan government says that it would pull its army out of cities if rebels did the same, while a spokesman called President Obama "delusional" for saying in a speech that Moammar Gaddafi's 41-year rule over Libya would soon come to an end. The government's offer, which the spokesman described as going further than it had before, was made on the condition that NATO stop its attacks on Libyan military targets, and it remained unclear how viable the proposal was.

May 17, 2011

Reports that a top official in the government of Moammar Gaddafi has defected gain strength, as a spokesman for the Libyan government says the regime has been unable to make contact with the man. Shokri Ghanem, Libya's top oil official, left Libya on Monday to go to Tunisia on "official business," said Moussa Ibrahim, spokesman for the Libyan government. Ibrahim told The Washington Post that Libya had not been able to reach Ghanem since Monday night. Ghanem's defection, if confirmed, would be the highest-profile departure from Gaddafi's embattled government since Musa Kusa, the foreign minister, sought safe haven in London at the end of March.

May 9-10, 2011

The U.N. refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration say Monday that a boat carrying hundreds of refugees sank off the coast of Tripoli last week, but details, including how many died, are unclear. As the government assault on rebel-held Misurata continues Tuesday, NATO steps up airstikes on "command-and-control" targets in Tripoli.

May 7, 2011

Libyan government forces bomb fuel depots in the rebel-held city of Misurata, causing a massive conflagration that threatens key sources of electricity and fuel for the besieged city, residents say. The city is the rebels' only major base of power in western Libya, and it has been a scene of fierce back-and-forth fighting for months. Residents say the fuel depots were hit shortly after midnight Saturday, and some say they had heard helicopters - a violation of the NATO-imposed no-fly zone blanketing the country, if true. The reports could not be independently confirmed.

May 3, 2011

There are "reasonable grounds" to charge Col. Moammar Gaddafi's security forces with having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during their crackdown on Libyan protesters, according to the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court. The prosecutor, Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno-Ocampo, claims in a report to the U.N. Security Council that his investigators have established preliminary but "credible" estimates that at least 500 to 700 civilians have been shot to death by government forces.

May 2, 2011

Mourners vow revenge as Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Arab is buried in the country's capital, with two of his brothers in attendance, after his death in a NATO airstrike that has raised questions about the alliance's mission in Libya. About 2,000 Gaddafi supporters gather for the funeral, chanting slogans in support of the regime. There is no sign of Gaddafi, who has appeared in public infrequently since NATO warplanes took over Libya's skies in mid-March.

April 28, 2011

An apparent NATO airstrike kills at least 10 rebel fighters in the northeast area of Misurata, officials say. Opposition leaders say it is still unclear whether NATO bombs or rockets and shelling from Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's forces killed the men as they drove on a swampy road that leads directly to the port of the coastal city. But a doctor in Misurata tells the Associated Press that the explosions did come from coalition aircraft.

April 27, 2011

Police and soldiers are deployed to keep the peace at gas stations throughout government-held western Libya, as lines stretch hundreds of yards and waiting times to fill a tank often last days. Crowds of men mill around at almost every gas station and fist fights are common, according to residents of Tripoli, the capital. The lines represent the most obvious sign that international sanctions against Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's government are beginning to bite.

April 26, 2011

The commander of NATO operations in Libya says that alliance bombers attacked a large government compound in Tripoli the day before to destroy command and control nodes, not to assassinate Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. The assertion, by Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, the Canadian national who commands NATO's Operation Unified Protector, was designed to refute accusations by Libyan officials that the aim of a strike early Monday was to assassinate Gaddafi in violation of international law.

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