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June 15, 2011

Syrian army units are poised to sweep into another northern town to crush anti-government protests, sending residents running for their lives as Bashar Assad's regime sought to control the spectacle of thousands of terrified refugees streaming across the border into Turkey. Maj. Gen. Riad Haddad, head of the military's political department, says tanks surrounding the northern town of Maaret al-Numan have not entered "yet" - suggesting they were readying an operation there. Activists say hundreds of residents are fleeing the town.

June 14, 2011

The Syrian military widenes its crackdown on anti-government protesters, dispatching tanks to at least two more locations, including a town near the border with Iraq, as the government seeks to extinguish an expanding rebellion that appears to threaten the army's cohesion. Tanks moved into position on the outskirts of the eastern border town of Deir al-Zour, site of some of the biggest protests of the three-month-old uprising. Activists said tanks were also converging on the town of Maarat al-Nouman, where protesters reportedly burned government buildings over the weekend.

June 10, 2011

Syrian troops launch "military operations" against a rebellious northwestern town as thousands of Syrians take to the streets around the country to call for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. Activists say the attack appeared to be focused on villages surrounding the town of Jisr al-Shughour, which became the latest target of the Syrian government's brutal effort to suppress a 12-week-old uprising after Syrian state media reported the deaths of 120 soldiers there earlier in the week.

June 8, 2011

Syria's tourism industry suffers as the absence of foreign visitors in Damascus is the most visible sign of huge economic damage from nearly three months of unrest. The wave of protests and brutal government response, which human rights activists say has killed more than 850 people, is all but invisible in the center of Damascus.

June 6, 2011

The Syrian government says that 120 people have been killed by armed protesters in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, amid indications that at least in some parts of the country what began as a peaceful protest movement is turning into an armed rebellion. A whole swath of villages around Jisr al-Shughour, a region that has a long history of loyalty to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, are now outside government control, said one human rights activist, suggesting the Syrian uprising is entering a dangerous new phase.

June 3, 2011

Syrian troops open fire during an anti-government demonstration that appears to be one of the biggest yet, reportedly killing dozens of protesters and wounding many more in the central town of Hama as Syrians around the country pour onto the streets in a renewed effort to force the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.

May 31, 2011

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday issues a general amnesty for prisoners that includes those deemed to have committed political crimes, as pressure built from a 10-week-old uprising that his government has failed to quell with overwhelming military force. The opposition swiftly rejectes the offer as another ploy by the government to gain time.

May 29, 2011

The apparent torture of a 13-year-old Syrian boy reinvigorates Syria's protest movement. When found, the boy's head is swollen, purple and disfigured. His body is a mess of welts, cigarette burns and wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill. His kneecaps have been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off. What finally killed him is not clear, but it appeared painfully, shockingly clear that he had suffered terribly during the month he spent in Syrian custody. Since a video portraying the torture inflicted upon him was broadcast on the al-Jazeera television network Friday, he has rapidly emerged as the new symbol of the protest movement in Syria.

May 27, 2011

Thousands of protesters pour into the streets in towns and cities across Syria after Friday prayers to demand the end of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Activists dedicate this 10th consecutive Friday of protests to the army, dubbing the day "Guardians of the Homeland Friday" in an effort to woo the military to the demonstrators' side. Protesters were told to take flowers and offer them to soldiers who sought to suppress the demonstrations.

May 24, 2011

The death toll from Syria's crackdown on a nine-week uprising has exceeded 1,000, a prominent human rights group said Tuesday, as the country's opposition called for fresh protests and clearer goals.

May 18, 2011

The Obama administration imposes sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six of his government's top officials as the White House seeks to increase pressure on Assad to halt violence against anti-government protesters. President Obama approves the financial penalties as part of an executive order accusing Assad of human rights abuses during a brutal, two-month crackdown that has left hundreds of civilians dead and thousands behind bars.

May 13, 2011

A top government adviser says Friday that Syria plans to respond to what she calls the legitimate demands of peaceful protesters, after Syrians again defy troops and tanks to demonstrate around the country, suggesting that the regime is starting to realize that its strategy of using overwhelming force to quell the stubborn opposition movement is failing. Tens of thousands of Syrians pour into the streets after Friday prayers in dozens of towns and villages in defiance of the crackdown.

May 9, 2011

Syrian troops detain hundreds more people in towns across the country as they pursue their relentless crackdown against the stubbornly persistent protest movement that has swelled in recent weeks to challenge the government. Troops backed by tanks seal off the Damascus suburb of Moadhamiya in the small hours of the morning, and residents hear gunfire as soldiers conducted house-to-house raids looking for people who have joined in recent anti-government demonstrations.

April 29, 2011

The Obama administration slaps sanctions on three Syrian officials and Syria's intelligence service in what is described as a warning shot against President Bashar al-Assad's government after weeks of steadily worsening violence against protesters. The measures targeting key members of Assad's security apparatus come amid reports of dozens more deaths across the country as Syrians rally in several cities including, for the first time, in large numbers in Damascus, the capital - for a national "Day of Rage" denouncing government brutality.

April 28, 2011

Syrian army units clash with each other following President Bashar Assad's orders to crack down on protesters in Daraa, a besieged city at the heart of the uprising, witnesses and human rights groups say. More than 450 people have been killed across Syria - about 100 in Daraa alone - and hundreds detained since the popular revolt against Assad began in mid-March, according to human rights groups.

April 27, 2011

Syria ignores mounting international pressure to halt its bloody crackdown against anti-government protesters, dispatching army reinforcements to the besieged southern town of Daraa and the Damascus suburb of Douma, while continuing to round up activists in other towns where demonstrations have occurred. Germany joins France, Britain and Italy in threatening sanctions unless President Bashar al-Assad's forces stop gunning down protesters, and the U.N. Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, agrees to a U.S. request for a special session on Syria on Friday.

April 25, 2011

Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers move in before dawn to Daraa, where Syria's anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they open fire indiscriminately on civilians and go house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people are killed and 14 others lay in the streets - either dead or gravely wounded, witnesses say.

April 24, 2011

Syrian security forces detain dozens of opposition activists and fire from rooftops in a seaside town as authorities turn to pinpoint raids after days of bloodshed bring international condemnation and defections from President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The strategy, described by a rights activist, appears to be aimed at rattling the opposition's leadership and showing that despite last week's lifting of emergency laws in place nearly 50 years, the state's ability to conduct arrest sweeps has not changed.

April 22, 2011

Syrian security forces open fire on anti-government protesters in several towns, killing dozens of people after crowds take to the streets to call for an end to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, activists say. As reports of the violence trickle out of cities and towns throughout the day, a picture begins to emerge of a broad crackdown on the protest movement despite ostensible government concessions earlier in the week.

April 19, 2011

The Syrian government ratchets up its efforts to quell weeks of demonstrations, firing live ammunition into a crowd of protesters in one city even as it lifts decades-old emergency laws in an attempt to appease its critics. The actions come in the wake of the boldest, and most organized, anti-government rally in the month-long uprising, with protesters occupying a square in Syria's third-largest city as they demand an end to the Assad family's 40-year rule.

April 17, 2011

Protests in Syria turn violent when security forces shoot at demonstrators in two towns, killing at least 13 people and detaining many more, activists say. The shootings come at the end of a day in which thousands of people take to the streets in towns and cities across Syria, calling for an end to President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a day after he vowed to lift emergency laws that have been in place for almost 50 years.

April 12, 2011

Two northern Syrian villages near the Mediterranean port of Baniyas come under fierce attack by government forces, according to witnesses and activists, as President Bashar al-Assad's government intensifies efforts to suppress an apparently strengthening protest movement.

April 11, 2011

Syria's military moves into the Mediterranean port of Baniyas, human rights workers and activists say, a day after at least 13 people - four demonstrators and nine members of the state's security forces - are killed in violent clashes there. Other activists say the unrest in Syria had reached Damascus University, Syria's oldest and most prestigious institution of higher learning, in the nation's capital. The Associated Press says there were reports that one student was killed, but the news service could not independently confirm the death.

April 8, 2011

Mass protests calling for sweeping changes in Syria's authoritarian regime turn deadly, with the government and protesters both claiming heavy casualties as the country's three-week uprising enters a dangerous new phase. The bloodiest clashes occurr in the restive city of Daraa, where human rights activists and witnesses say Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters, killing 25 people and wounding hundreds.

April 3, 2011

The State Department issues a warning Sunday for U.S. citizens traveling in Syria, citing political and civil unrest. Citizens are urged to defer nonessential travel, and eligible family members of U.S. government workers are authorized to leave the country.

March 29, 2011

Syrian state-run television says the Cabinet has resigned as the country sees the worst unrest in decades. President Bashar Assad accepted the Cabinet's resignation following a meeting. The resignation is the latest concession by the government aimed at appeasing more than a week of mass protests.

March 26, 2011

In an apparent effort to quell anger a day after a deadly crackdown on protesters, President Bashar al-Assad releases hundreds of political prisoners and pulls back security forces from the southwestern city where Syria's burgeoning unrest began last week.

March 18, 2011

Syrian security forces launch a harsh crackdown Friday on protesters calling for political freedoms, killing at least five people and marking the gravest unrest in years in one of the most repressive states in the Mideast, according to accounts from activists and social media.

March 15, 2011

Pro-democracy protests in Syria appear to have started in earnest, as a group of 200 mostly young protesters gather in the Syrian capital Damascus to demand reforms and the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a 'Day of Rage', Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports.

Feb. 4-5, 2011

An online campaign organizes "days of rage" against Syrian President Bashar Assad Feb. 4 and 5, 2011, but no one shows up. The lack of demonstration is attributed to intimidation by security agents and strong support among Syrians of Assad's anti-Israel policies. It's also believed that many of the online organizers were Syrians living abroad. After the "days of rage," Syrians said Facebook and Youtube became available for the first time in three years. The country has had a longstanding ban on social networking sites.

July 5, 2011

A court convicts the former Tunisian president of smuggling drugs, guns and archaeological artifacts and sentences him to 15 1/2 years in prison in the latest trial in absentia of the deposed autocrat. The verdict follows a trial two weeks ago in which he and his wife each received sentences of 35 years in prison and $64 million in fines for embezzlement and other charges.

Tunisia's leading Islamist party announces it is pulling out of a commission that is preparing the country for its first elections. The pullout is the latest sign of tension between Tunisia's emerging political forces as they struggle to decide what the country will look like after decades of autocratic rule.

June 21, 2011

Tunisia's former ruler denies accusations he fled the country and says he was "tricked" into leaving. A statement released by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's Lebanese attorney says the ousted leader boarded a plane to Saudi Arabia after he was advised by his security chief of an assassination plot against him.

June 20, 2011

Tunisia's former autocratic ruler, whose ouster triggered a series of Arab world uprisings, goes on trial in absentia in the first of what will likely be a long series of court proceedings five months after he went into exile. The Tunis Criminal Court is hearing two embezzlement, money laundering and drug trafficking cases against Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

March 22, 2011

The State Department announces that it will give $20 million to Tunisia to help build its new democracy, boosting to more than $170 million the total in assistance for Arab countries that recently overthrew authoritarian leaders.

Feb. 27, 2011

Less than a minute after Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannoushi resigns in a speech on national television, the crowd filling this city's Casbah Square suddenly halts the angry chants that had continued round-the-clock for days. There is silence, and then cheers, chants and circles of ecstatic dancing. For the second time in as many months, the people of Tunisia have toppled their government, and now their chant changed to "The act is done, the rest is yet to come!"

Jan. 14, 2011

Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali loses his grip on power. The country's prime minister announces that he is taking over to organize early elections and usher in a new government. Ben Ali, 74, flees the North African country. After several hours of mystery over his whereabouts, the office of Saudi King Abdullah confirms early Saturday that Ben Ali and his family have landed in Saudi Arabia.

Jan. 4, 2011

With burns from his self-immolation covering 90 percent of his body, Bouazizi dies in a hospital. By this time, his act had spurred protests throughout the country, against stifling bureaucracy and corruption.

Dec. 17, 2010

College-educated Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, a fruit vendor in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, sets himself on fire in protest. He was angered by a municipal inspector who tried to confiscate his apples then slapped him in the face when he reached back for them. He was then beaten by two of the inspector's colleagues.

July 13, 2011

Saudi border guards arrest more than 19,000 infiltrators from troubled Yemen in June, nearly double the number caught the month before. The sharp increase comes as Yemen's security situation is rapidly unraveling. Yemen's president is being challenged by a five-month-old popular uprising that has emboldened al-Qaida-linked militants in Yemen's south.

July 10, 2011

During a face-to-face meeting in Saudi Arabia, a top Obama administration official tells Yemen's president to step aside and allow the political transition he had once approved but never ratified to move forward, according to a statement by the White House.

July 7, 2011Yemen's embattled president lashes out at opponents seeking to drive him from power in his first public appearance since he was injured last month in a blast at his palace compound - an attack that left him appearing stiff and weakened. Sitting rigid in a chair, his hair covered with a cloth and his hands wrapped in white bandages, Ali Abdullah Saleh accused "terrorist elements" of carrying out the June 3 attack.

July 6, 2011

Yemeni security forces clash with Islamist fighters near the southern town of Zinjibar, controlled by militants, leaving seven Islamists and a soldier dead. In the west, two soldiers are killed in clashes with armed tribesmen near the southern city of Taiz, a hotbed of opposition protests. Security across the impoverished nation, home to an active al-Qaida branch, has largely collapsed since the uprising seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh broke out in February.

July 5, 2011

At least 40 militants linked to al-Qaida have been killed in two days of airstrikes and clashes with government forces, Yemen's state news agency says. The report by the SABA news agency says the government attacks began after militants tried to storm a military camp in the southern province of Abyan, where Islamist fighters have seized control of several towns.

June 28, 2011

Yemeni government warplanes and artillery pound several villages of anti-government tribes north of the capital, killing at least three people, a senior tribal leader says. Sheik Ali Youssef of the Naham tribe says that Republican Guard forces, which are commanded by embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh's son, began bombarding the villages in the Naham mountain area, some 20 miles north of Sanaa, on Monday, continued throughout Tuesday.

June 26, 2011

Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets across Yemen, demanding that a transitional presidential council be created to replace embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The demonstrations come as a senior Yemeni official declares that Saleh will soon return from Saudi Arabia.

June 20, 2011

Tens of thousands of Yemenis take to the streets of the capital, demanding that the president's son leave the country. Ahmed Saleh, 42, is a one-time heir apparent who commands the elite Yemeni Presidential Guard. The force has led the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators since the uprising began in February.

June 14, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrate in nearly every major city of the country, demanding trial for the family and close aides of the ailing president. They are the largest protests since President Ali Abdullah Saleh went abroad for medical treatment for injuries suffered in an attack on his compound. Some of Saleh's family and closest aides remain behind, and Yemen remains locked in a power struggle between the president's allies and tribesmen demanding an end to the regime's nearly 33-year rule.

June 9, 2011

Nearly 100,000 Yemenis protest in a main square of the capital demanding that the wounded president be removed from power. The rally, held after weekly Muslim prayers, is the biggest since President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a blast that hit a mosque where he was praying in his presidential palace on June 3. Heavily burned, Saleh was rushed to Saudi Arabia for treatment along with a number of top officials from his regime who also were wounded in the blast.

June 8, 2011

Youth and human rights activist leaders say that they intended to launch their own transitional presidential council if the government refuses to abandon President Ali Abdullah Saleh and pave the way for a transition of power. The ultimatum underscores the sense of urgency and frustrations among the activists who fear, even with Saleh outside Yemen, they could lose the gains they have achieved so far and the regime could continue in Saleh's absence.

June 7, 2011

Attacks by militants and the Yemeni army in two restive provinces leave dozens dead, while embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh is reported to be more seriously injured in last week's palace attack than originally stated. A U.S. government official said Saleh, who left Yemen on Sunday to seek medical care in Saudi Arabia, "sustained significant burn injuries and shrapnel wounds." "His condition is serious, and it's likely that it will take him a while to recover fully," the official said. Saleh has burns covering about 40 percent of his body and suffered extensive shrapnel injuries from wood splintered by the rocket attack on his palace, the official said.

June 5, 2011

Yemenis set off fireworks and dance in the streets on Sunday to celebrate the possible end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's reign, as opposition politicians and diplomats scramble to hatch a plan to stop an ongoing, violent power struggle. The jubilation that gripped Sanaa, the capital, is tempered by fresh clashes in the southern city of Taiz, as well as myriad unanswered questions about how, and whether, a change of guard would play out. Residents in Sanaa report loud explosions and sustained gunfire Sunday night, but few details about the violence are available.

June 4, 2011

Hours after Yemen's president flies to Saudi Arabia for treatment of wounds sustained in a rocket attack, thousands of demonstrators flock to the streets of the capital Sunday to celebrate what they billed as the latest ouster of an Arab autocrat. "The Yemeni people have been born again," cried out Fatima Ahmad, 72, who was among those who walked to Change Square in Sanaa to celebrate the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

June 3, 2011

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is wounded in a rocket attack on his presidential palace, aides say, as fighting between government forces and opposition tribesmen pushes Yemen closer to civil war. Three guards are killed, and government officials and a Muslim prayer leader are wounded, when a rocket strikes near the palace's mosque during evening prayers.

June 1, 2011

Street battles between Yemeni government forces and armed tribesmen in Sanaa kill dozens of people in this country teetering on the brink of civil war, forcing residents to cower in basements or brave gunfire to fetch bread and water. At least 41 people are killed as clashes spread to new quarters of the city.

May 31, 2011

A Yemeni security official says radical Islamists who overran a southern town have killed five soldiers in an ambush. The official says two militants were killed in a resulting gunfight west of the town of Zinjibar, near Yemen's south coast.

May 29, 2011

Islamic militants seize control of Zinjibar in what is seen by opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh as an effort to ignite Western fears of Yemen's instability should he step down.

May 22, 2011

Gulf Arab states suspend an effort to give Yemen's embattled president a dignified exit after Ali Abdullah Saleh refuses at the last minute to sign a U.S.-backed deal that would have given him immunity. Saleh balks at signing the accord after a large mob of heavily armed supporters throng the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Sanaa, trapping the U.S. ambassador and other envoys inside for hours.

May 17, 2011

Two Yemeni soldiers and a civilian are killed when armed men believed to belong to al Qaeda attack security posts in the eastern city of Mukalla. Yemen's active al Qaeda offshoot has taken advantage of three months of popular protests calling for the ouster of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step up operations in the country's weakly governed provinces.

May 15, 2011

Gunmen on a motorcycle open fire on two soldiers in a market in southern Yemen, killing one and wounding the other as protests against the longtime president escalate. Yemen's opposition, meanwhile, says it is not ready to accept a new attempt to revive a regional initiative to defuse the crisis if it means giving President Ali Abdullah Saleh more time in office.

May 8, 2011

Security forces backed by army units open fire Sunday on protesters demanding the ouster of Yemen's longtime president, killing three, an opposition activist says. In all, tens of thousands of protesters mobilized in several cities and towns, according to activists - the latest installment of daily protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that have been staged for almost three months.

April 27, 2011

A violent clash in Sanaa leaves at least 10 anti-government protesters dead and scores injured after a crowd tries unsuccessfully to take control of the state-run television station, according to protesters and volunteer doctors. The violence is a sign of growing unrest despite a tentative deal between the government and an opposition coalition that calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down within 30 days and grants Saleh and his family immunity from criminal prosecution.

April 23, 2011

President Ali Abdullah Saleh agrees to step down in exchange for immunity from criminal prosecution for himself and his family, the strongest indication yet that the embattled leader is willing to give up his 32-year grip on power if the opposition accepts his terms of exit. Under a proposal by neighboring Arab states, Saleh would resign from office 30 days after a formal agreement has been signed.

April 19, 2011

Yemeni security forces open fire on anti-government protesters, killing at least three amid rising international concern over the strategically located nation. The United Nations Security Council meets for a first-ever briefing and discussion about the deteriorating situation in Yemen, where rights groups say two months of protests calling for the president to step down have claimed 120 lives. But the U.N.'s most powerful body couldn't agree on a statement proposed by Lebanon and Germany expressing concern at the political crisis, calling on the parties "to exercise restraint and to enter into a comprehensive dialogue to realize the legitimate aspirations of the Yemeni people," and supporting the mediation role of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

April 16, 2011

Yemen's anti-government movement takes up the issue of women's rights in the conservative Muslim nation, as thousands of demonstrators seeking the president's ouster denounce his comments against the participation of women in protest rallies. In a speech the day before, President Ali Abdullah Saleh says the mingling of men and women at protests in the capital is against Islamic law. Demonstrators, including thousands of women, respond by marching through the capital of Sanaa and several other cities, shouting: "Saleh, beware of injuring women's honor."

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