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April 25, 2011

Libya's government accuses NATO of trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi after the coalition sends at least two large guided bombs into the sprawling office, residential and military complex where he lives in the heart of Tripoli, destroying offices and a library used by the Libyan leader.

April 22, 2011

Libyan rebels claim Friday that they have regained nearly full control of the center of Misurata, partly thanks to weeks of NATO airstrikes, and say they hope deployment of U.S. armed Predator drones can help them drive Moammar Gaddafi's forces out completely.

April 20, 2011

The United States and its allies enter a new stage of involvement in Libya, sending assistance and advisers directly to opposition military forces, which have been unable to break Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's stranglehold over much of the country despite help from NATO airstrikes. France and Italy say they will join Britain in dispatching military advisers to assist the inexperienced and disorganized rebel army, primarily in tactics and logistics. President Obama authorizes sending $25 million worth of nonlethal equipment, including body armor, tents, uniforms and vehicles.

April 18, 2011

The Libyan government promises to allow the United Nations to open a humanitarian corridor to the besieged western city of Misurata to provide aid, food and medicine to civilians and safe passage for people to leave, after weeks of attacks that have left an estimated 1,000 people dead.

April 12-14, 2011

Officials from France and Britain complain that other NATO allies, including the United States, need to increase air strikes and commit more resources to protecting civlians in places like Misurata, where hundreds of people have been killed and a humanitarian crisis is escalating. U.S. officials play down the rift at a NATO summit on Thursday.

April 9-11, 2011

Gaddafi accepts a "political road map" and ceasefire agreement proposed by an African Union delegation on Sunday, but the opposition council in Benghazi rejects the plan on Monday, saying that they will not agree to anything that does not include Gaddafi's ouster. Fighting is centered around the strategic city of Ajdabiya, with rebel fighters becoming increasingly dependent on NATO airstrikes.

April 5-8, 2011

A NATO commander acknowledges that allied warplanes may have mistakenly bombed rebels outside Brega Thursday, killing at least five people. Western diplomats say on Wednesday that Gaddafi's forces are using human shields to prevent NATO planes from striking.

April 3, 2011

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi launches a diplomatic initiative toward some members of NATO, with the Greek government saying that a senior Libyan official met with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and plans to travel to Turkey next. The Gaddafi regime is "searching for a solution," Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas says, but he provides no details of the meeting with acting Libyan Foreign Minister Abdulati al-Obeidi. Droutsas adds that his government would inform "all our partners and allies" about the Libyan proposals.

March 30, 2011

The Obama administration announces it has sent teams of CIA operatives into Libya in a rush to gather intelligence on the identity, goals and progress of rebel forces opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, according to U.S. officials. In Libya, in the face of a new onslaught by government troops, rebel forces flee eastward from cities and towns they had captured just days ago. But Gaddafi suffers a political defeat with the defection to Britain of his foreign minister, Musa Kusa, the most senior official thus far to break ranks.

March 28, 2011

Libyan rebels fight their way toward Moammar Gaddafi's hometown on the Mediterranean coast as his government sends in reinforcements, setting up a potentially crucial battle in the six-week-old uprising against him. Aided by airstrikes launched by a Western-led coalition, rebels push westward to the town of Nawfaliyah and vow to move in the coming days on Sirte, Reuters news agency reports.

March 25, 2011

A top French military official predicts that the international military campaign against Libya will last several weeks and says a political solution is needed to end the conflict between rebels and those loyal to Moammar Gaddafi. Seven days into a Western-led air operation to enforce a no-fly zone and arms embargo for Libya, the United States has reached an agreement to hand over control of the effort to NATO, and the United Arab Emirates says it will deploy 12 aircraft to join the effort.

March 23, 2011

International military forces step up attacks on government troops in Misurata, 131 miles east of Tripoli. The airstrikes seem to bring a temporary respite from the fighting that had raged for six days between forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi and rebels, as government tanks retreated from the city center. But after nightfall, the tanks return and resume their attacks, according to a doctor at the city's main hospital. "They are shelling everywhere," he says by telephone.

March 22, 2011

After four days of leading strikes against Gaddafi's forces to protect Libyan civilians, the U.S. said on Tuesday that it would hand control of the operation over to its allies within days.

March 19-21, 2011

The United States, Britain, France and other coalition countries launch strikes by sea and air against Gaddafi's air defense systems, airfields and ground forces in a U.N.-supported mission to protect Libyan civilians.

March 18, 2011

Despite the declaration of a ceasefire in response to the U.N. Security Council's resolution, Gaddafi's forces continue pummeling areas of eastern Libya with artillery and airstrikes well after the cease-fire was supposed to take effect. The attacks target the areas around Zuwaytinah and Ajdabiya, more than 90 miles south of Benghazi. Jets streak across the sky firing at targets, at least one helicopter flies low across the desert, and artillery bombardment can be heard for several hours Friday afternoon around Zuwaytinah.

March 16, 2011

Libyan rebels battle to hold a strategic eastern city against a punishing offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, voicing anger and frustration at the West for not coming to their aid. At the same time, government troops heavily shell the last main rebel bastion near the capital.

March 15, 2011

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi launch a major assault on the strategic eastern city Ajdabiya, deploying artillery, tanks and rockets to pummel rebel positions in an effort to push their way toward the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

March 12, 2011

The Arab League called on the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to immediately impose a no-fly zone over Libya and announced that it was recognizing the rebel movement as that country's legitimate government. The move could significantly raise pressure on the United States and European nations to act in response to the conflict that has erupted in recent weeks as rebels have seized half of Libya and Col. Moammar Gaddafi's security forces have struck back with massive firepower.

March 11, 2011

European governments declare that Moammar Gaddafi can no longer be considered the leader of Libya and must step down immediately, but they stop short of formally recognizing the Libyan rebel movement or endorsing military action to support its armed struggle.

President Obama expresses concern about a U.S. intelligence assessment that Moammar Gaddafi may have the firepower to win a war of attrition against Libyan rebels, but he insists that "we are slowly tightening the noose" on the longtime leader.

March 10, 2011

Pro-government forces intensify their siege around the rebel-held town of Misurata, one resident says, cutting off the delivery of food and supplies, preventing farmers from going to their fields, and abducting people on the city's outskirts. War is also being waged on at least two other fronts, with rebel forces claiming on March 9 to have broken through a three-day standoff with government fighters in the town of Bin Jawwad but acknowledging another day of heavy casualties in Zawiyah.

March 9, 2011

Residents of Zawiyah, the city closest to Libya's capital, say the city remains under siege by pro-Gaddafi forces. "They are killing everybody who walks the street," one man says. Internet service and electricity have been cut. A U.N. special investigator says he has started a probe into allegations of torture used by Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi's forces, according to AP.

March 7, 2011

Fierce fighting between government and rebel forces continues as loyalists to Moammar Gaddafi renew assaults on several fronts to try and reclaim ground lost since the uprising began. The Libyan opposition says an offer--purportedly from Gaddafi--has been conveyed to council elders in the provisional capital of Benghazi.

According to an opposition spokesman, the Libyan leader would agree to step down if granted immunity from prosecution and safe passage out of the country. But opposition officials say they are still trying to establish the veracity of the offer, which came from Jadallah Azous al-Talhi, a former minister in Gaddafi's government.

March 6, 2011

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi escalate a lethal counterattack heightening assaults on rebels in two key western cities near his stronghold of Tripoli while launching airstrikes and engaging opposition bands marching from the east toward his hometown of Sirte in heavy ground clashes along the Mediterranean coast.

March 3, 2011

Forces loyal to Gaddafi launch renewed airstrikes against two key rebel-held towns, a day after poorly armed citizens repelled a major government assault on the area. At least three powerful air strikes hit Brega, the oil installation town. There is also a strike near an army munitions storage unit just outside of Ajdabiya, about 40 miles away. But there is no ground fighting.

March 2, 2011

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi move to recapture control of a key oil port in eastern Libya. It looks as if loyalist forces could reverse the tide of the opposition uprising. Gaddafi also gives a televised public rally in the capital, Tripoli, denying the existence of protests in Libya and saying the power was in the "hands of the people".

March 1, 2011

Libyan soldiers and paramilitaries loyal to Moammar Gaddafi attempt to retake territory that has been seized by rebels, but neither side appears to gain ground, according to accounts of the fighting from residents and officials with the opposition movement. In a six-hour battle, rebels armed with tanks, anti aircraft guns and automatic weapons repel an overnight attack by government troops using the same weapons in the town of Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, the Associated Press reports.

Feb. 27, 2011

Revolt spreads deeper into the west, with rock-wielding residents expanding control over key towns even as loyalist forces appear poised to counterattack or impose blockades. Gaddafi seeks to reinforce his position in Tripoli, the capital and his stronghold, by literally doling out cash to citizens and vowing huge raises for public workers, residents there say.

Feb. 25, 2011

Gunfire erupts in at least three neighborhoods of Tripoli Friday, as opponents of Moammar Gaddafi try to revive their protests against his regime in spite of a massive security clampdown. Hours earlier, Libyan state television announces that the government will distribute $400 to each family in a bid to head off fresh demonstrations called for by regime opponents after midday prayers.

Feb. 24, 2011

Moammar Gaddafi's son denies that Libya has killed large numbers of protesters through airstrikes and other attacks, while a former top Gaddafi aide says he quit the government to protest its violent crackdown. Libya appears dangerously fractured, with Gaddafi's regime intent on fighting but its authority beyond Tripoli in doubt. The longtime ruler is tightening his grip on the capital, witnesses say, by flooding the streets with militiamen and loyalist troops

Feb. 22, 2011

Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi appears on state television to prove he has not fled the country, as the opposition seems to seize control in some areas and soldiers and government officials resign in outrage over attacks on civilians. Later in the day, he makes another public address, defiantly rejecting opposition demands that he give up power, vowing that he would never leave the North African nation he has ruled for more than four decades and would die a "martyr."

The vicious crackdown against demonstrators appears to be fast eroding whatever support remains for Gaddafi, 68, who assumed power in a 1969 military coup.

Feb. 21, 2011

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's regime shows more signs of crumbling Monday following a volatile night in which dozens are reportedly killed in the capital and Gaddafi's son and heir-apparent declares in a televised speech that the North African nation could fall into anarchy if his father was ousted. There are also reports of senior Libyan officials resigning from their posts, outraged by the killings carried out by security forces.

Feb. 20, 2011

Continuing clashes between protesters and security forces lead to at least 200 deaths. In a travel warning, the State Department urges its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Libya.

McClatchy reports that Amnesty International urges Moammar Gaddafi to "immediately rein in his security forces amid reports of machine guns and other weapons being used against protesters."

Feb. 19, 2011

Moammar Gaddafi's forces fire on mourners leaving a funeral for protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more as the regime tries to squelch calls for an end to the ruler's 42-year grip on power. Libyan protesters are back on the street for the fifth straight day, as Gaddafi takes a hard line toward the dissent.

Feb. 17, 2011

Libyan protesters defy a crackdown and protest in four cities Thursday during a "day of rage." At least 20 demonstrators are killed in clashes with pro-government groups, according to reports. New York-based Human Rights Watch says Libyan internal security forces also have arrested at least 14 people. Hundreds of pro-government demonstrators rally in the capital, Tripoli, blocking traffic in some areas, witnesses say.

Feb. 16, 2011

Roughly 200 protesters take to the streets in Benghazi to show support for human rights activist and lawyer Fathi Terbil, according to CNN. Several are arrested amid confrontations with police. A highly placed source close to the Libyan government tells CNN, "there is nothing serious here. These are just young people fighting each other."

June 26, 2011

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate around Morocco both for and against a proposed new constitution, just a week before it is to be voted on in a referendum. In Morocco's largest city, Casablanca, government supporters block and attack with rocks a march by thousands of activists, wounding many.

June 12, 2011

Thousands march through Morocco's largest city calling for greater democracy and an end to corruption even as the king prepares to unveil new constitutional amendments to address calls for reform. There is only a light police presence blocking off traffic as about 6,000 protesters flow through the wide streets of downtown Casablanca chanting slogans against the government.

March 9, 2011

King Mohammed VI says that Morocco will revise its constitution for the first time in 15 years, aiming to strengthen democracy in the face of a push across the Arab world. In a rare TV and radio speech to the nation, the popular monarch says a new commission will suggest constitutional revisions to him by June, and the overall project will be put to Moroccan voters in a referendum.

Feb. 20, 2011

Thousands of people march in cities across Morocco demanding a new constitution to bring more democracy in the North African kingdom amid the wave of Arab world upheaval. Demonstrators shout slogans calling for economic opportunity, educational reform, better health services and help coping with rising living costs during a march on central Hassan II Avenue in the capital, Rabat.

Scattered violence breakks out in some places. Stone-throwing youths clash with police near the ocre-colored walls of touristic hub of Marrakech, where angry mobs overturn and torch several parked cars.

Protests called for Feb. 20

Bloggers calling themselves "Moroccan movement of 20 February" call for protests on Feb. 20 to challenge a monarchy they say has monpolized power.

June 28, 2011

Fifteen protesters are sentenced to jail terms for taking part in violent demonstrations calling for more jobs and other reforms from Oman's rulers. The one month to one year sentences are linked to unrest that included looting and damaging government buildings after protests broke out in February. Security forces have tightened their hold in Oman since storming protester encampments last month.

March 1, 2011

Oman deploys troops north of the capital Muscat and near the border with the United Arab Emirates, following three straight days of anti-government protests, a government official says.

Feb. 27, 2011

Police kill an anti-government protester in Sohar, after demonstrations turned violent. Several government buildings and a supermarket aree set on fire, local media reports. Oman, ruled by a powerful family dynasty, is the latest Arab nation to be swept up in a wave of regional unrest that has already brought down two leaders and threatened the rule of others.

March 11, 2011

Hundreds march in Al-Ahsa, an oasis town in the country's largely Shiite Eastern Province, and several protesters are arrested, but there is no violence, says Ibrahim al-Mugaiteeb, president of the country's Human Rights First Society. Another witness says that marches are held in three small towns outside Qatif and that late in the evening hundreds of people march in Qatif itself. All the protests take place without incident.

March 10, 2011

Three people are injured when police open fire during a protest in eastern Saudi Arabia, according to a witness and a Saudi official. The witness, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals by authorities, says police at first fired over protesters' heads but then began shooting directly at them during a march in central Qatif, a predominantly Shiite town in oil-rich Eastern Province.

Nov. 14, 2011

Jordan's King Abdullah suggested Bashar al-Assad step down, in the most explicit condemnation yet of Assad by an Arab leader.

Nov. 12, 2011

The Arab League approved on Saturday a sweeping package of measures censuring Syria, clearing the way for a significant escalation of international pressure against President Bashar al-Assad.

Aug. 23, 2011

Syria's fragmented opposition took steps toward forming a national council, but serious divisions and mistrust among the members prevented them from presenting a unified front against President Bashar Assad’s regime more than five months into the country’s uprising, participants said.

Aug. 18, 2011

President Obama on Thursday for the first time told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he must step down. While the move was largely symbolic, designed to increase pressure on the Syrian government, Obama also issued an executive order to freeze all assets of the Syrian government subject to U.S. jurisdiction and prohibited Americans from engaging in any transaction involving the government.

Aug. 14, 2011

Syrian troops backed by gunboats and tanks expanded their offensive against democracy activists to the coastal town of Latakia on Sunday, in continued defiance of growing international pressure on the Syrian government to halt the violence and implement reforms.

Aug. 7, 2011

The Arab League, which had remained silent on the violence in Syria, joined the chorus of international condemnation for the first time Sunday, expressing "growing concern and serious distress" at the harsh tactics being used.

Aug. 5, 2011

Widespread protests erupted across Syria on Friday, suggesting that a deadly military crackdown focused on the central city of Hama this week has served only to fuel anger with the government, not to deter people from taking to the streets.

Aug. 4, 2011

Syrian security forces are summarily executing people on the streets of Hama, a human rights group said Thursday, raising fears that bloodshed could escalate dramatically in the besieged city even as world condemnation of the violence continues to mount.

Aug. 1, 2011

Syrian forces launched a renewed assault on the flash point city of Hama on Monday, extending their effort to crush a four-month-old rebellion into the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan despite growing world condemnation.

July 30, 2011

Syrian troops opened fire on people throwing stones to stop a military convoy from advancing toward the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, killing as many as three people Saturday, activists said, as government forces intensified a pre-Ramadan crackdown on protesters calling for President Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

July 29, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets again in what has become a weekly ritual of Friday protests. Fifteen people were killed nationwide by security forces, according to the Local Coordination Committees, a group that organizes and monitors protests. The death toll was lower than on most previous Fridays, perhaps a sign that the security forces have realized the riskiness of killing people on the eve of Ramadan.

July 11, 2011

Supporters of the Syrian government pelt the U.S. embassy with rocks, smash windows and raise their national flag in place of the American one, a day after the U.S. ambassador delivered an extraordinary rebuke to the Syrian government on Facebook. A U.S. embassy official says about 10 of the protesters broke into the embassy compound, destroying the main entrance.

July 8, 2011

The U.S. ambassador to Syria has positioned himself in the restive city of Hama ahead of planned demonstrations this weekend, State Department officials say, in an unusual move that appears aimed at discouraging new violence against protesters. Ambassador Robert Ford acts without official Syrian blessing in traveling to the city of 700,000 that has been at the center of the country's four-month-old uprising, U.S. officials say.

July 6, 2011

Syrian security forces may have committed crimes against humanity during a deadly siege in May, Amnesty International says, citing witness accounts of deaths in custody, torture and arbitrary detention. The London-based rights group calls on the U.N. Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court.

July 5, 2011

Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to the regime shoot dead 11 people as residents erected roadblocks to prevent the advance of tanks ringing the city of Hama, which has become a flashpoint of the uprising against autocratic President Bashar Assad, activists say.

July 1, 2011

Around 100 peaceful protesters calling for freedom were met with police and baton-wielding security forces at Damascus University. Students gathered outside the faculty of economics in the Baramkeh area of Damascus minutes after 3pm calling for freedom. Dozens more students joined together with the small group as the chanting became more forceful. One female protester managed to unfurl a flag before police and security forces charged on the crowd.

June 30, 2011

Syrian army forces spread through a restive mountainous area near the Turkish border as the death toll from a two-day military siege rises to 19 people, activists and a witness says. The action by Syrian troops in the northwestern area of Jabal al-Zawiya appears to be aimed at preventing residents from fleeing to Turkey, where more than 10,000 Syrians have already taken shelter in refugee camps, activists say.

June 28, 2011

A Russian envoy tells Syrian opposition members that "leaders come and go" - an apparent signal to Syrian President Bashar Assad that he cannot count on his ally's unconditional support after months of protests demanding his ouster. It remains to be seen if Mikhail Margelov's comments indicate a change in Moscow's opposition to tough U.N. action on Syria for Assad's bloody crackdown on his opponents.

June 27, 2011

Critics of Syria's authoritarian regime, at a rare gathering in Damascus, call for a peaceful transition to democracy and an end to the Assad family's 40-year-old monopoly on power. Otherwise, they say, Syria's current chaos might destroy the country.

June 23, 2011

Syrian troops push to the Turkish border in their sweep against a 3-month-old pro-democracy movement, sending panicked refugees, including children, rushing across the frontier to safe havens in Turkey. The European Union announces it is slapping new sanctions on the Syrian regime because of the "gravity of the situation," in which the Syrian opposition says 1,400 people have been killed in a relentless government crackdown.

June 22, 2011

The Syrian regime lashes out at European governments for threatening a new round of sanctions and accuses the West of trying to sow chaos and conflict in the Arab nation. But Foreign Minister Walid Moallem also reiterates the president's call for national dialogue and speaks of democracy over the horizon - a bold assertion after more than four decades of iron-fisted rule by the Assad family and months of bloody reprisals.

June 21, 2011

Syrian President Bashar Assad's efforts to drown out pro-democracy protests explode into clashes between government supporters and opponents. Security forces open fire and kill seven people, including a teenager, activists say. The violence flares a day after a speech in which Assad offered a vague promise of reform.

June 20, 2011

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blames the mass protests rocking his country on "saboteurs" and "vandalism," declaring in a televised speech that "there can be no development without stability." Assad, wrestling with the boldest challenge ever to his family's 40-year rule, speaks at Damascus University, sounding mostly defiant despite some conciliatory notes.

June 17, 2011

Syrian troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships seize control of another northwestern town, activists report. Tens of thousands of Syrians pour onto the streets of cities around the country to press their demand for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. Rami Makhlouf, Assad's cousin and childhood friend, is relinquishing control over his business interests.

June 16, 2011

Syrian security forces make sweeping arrests, randomly detaining males above the age of 16 in a northwestern province that has been under military siege for a week, a Syrian human rights activist says. Mustafa Osso says the arrests are mainly concentrated in the Jisr al-Shughour area, the town of Maaret al-Numan and nearby villages, where the army has been massing troops for days in what appears to be a preparation for a fresh military operation.

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