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April 13, 2011

Security forces clash with anti-government protesters and at least one rebel soldier is killed as fighting breaks out between rival military factions in Sanaa. Forces loyal to the pro-democracy movement march down the city's main road toward the airport, setting up checkpoints as they continue to seize territory, and government forces are ordered to stop the rebel advance.

April 11, 2011

Yemen's opposition rejects a Gulf Arab initiative for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down - because it appears to offer him immunity from prosecution - while Saleh welcomes the plan.

April 8, 2011

Yemen's president rejects a mediation offer by Gulf nations that called on him to resign, denouncing the proposal in a speech before tens of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital. Demonstrations around the country demand his ouster and turn bloody in a southern city where three people are shot dead.

April 7, 2011

The Yemeni opposition welcomes an offer by Arab Gulf states to mediate between President Ali Abdullah Saleh and protesters demanding that he step down after 32 years in power. Saleh's government, however, says the proposal by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council is unconstitutional. The proposal calls on Saleh to hand over power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for him and his family. More than 120 people have been killed in protests in Yemen since they began Feb. 11.

April 4, 2011

Yemeni security forces and pro-government loyalists opened fire on protesters marching in two Yemeni cities on Monday, killing at least 14 and wounding scores, according to witnesses. The violence was the deadliest attacks on demonstrators since March 18th, when snipers loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh shot dead at least 52 protesters in the capital Sanaa. That event triggered wide scale defections of Saleh's top allies from the military, tribes, and government.

March 28, 2011

An explosion rips through crowds of looters in a munitions factory, killing at least 78 and injuring scores in the latest sign of weakening government authority amid Yemen's two-month-old populist uprising. The accidental blast comes after soldiers abandon the factory, allowing the looters to enter - one of a series of incidents in recent days in which government forces have left their posts.

March 25, 2011

Outside Sanaa University, almost every inch of Justice Street fills with tents, as well as nearby Freedom Street. Doctors, teachers, students - anyone, it seems, who is against Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh - stay in tents, calling for his ouster day and night. Now there is a collective feeling in this crowded patch of the capital that Saleh's rule has entered its last days. Reports that Saleh was discussing the terms of his departure with a top military officer who recently joined the opposition only heighten that mood.

March 23, 2011

Yemen's parliament enacts sweeping emergency laws after the country's embattled president asks for new powers to quash a popular uprising demanding his ouster.

March 22, 2011

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in conflicting statements that did not stop calls for his immediate resignation.

March 18, 2011

Yemeni authorities declare a nationwide state of emergency Friday, hours after pro-government gunmen firing from rooftops unleashed a bloody attack on protesters in the capital. The death toll rises to 47 after the surprise assault, in which security forces and government supporters fire directly at protesters for more than 20 minutes, according to witnesses. In addition to the dead, hundreds of people are injured, dozens critically, medical workers say.

March 11, 2011

A day after Yemen's opposition rejects a presidential proposal for a new constitution, tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators gather at Sanaa University in the capital Friday to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immediate ouster and mourn the death of a protester who had been shot in the face by security forces earlier in the week.

March 10, 2011

President Ali Abdullah Saleh announces that a new constitution will be drafted, to transfer power from the president to a parliamentary system by the end of this year.

March 2, 2011

Detainees in one of Yemen's largest prisons riot for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, chanting "the people want to overthrow the regime," Al Jazeera reports. A Yemeni security official says about 2,000 inmates stage the revolt, taking a dozen guards hostage. The riots prompt security forces to open fire with tear gas and live ammunition.

The official says the unrest in the Sanaa prison erupted lwhen prisoners set their mattresses ablaze and occupied the facility's courtyard. At least three prisoners in the Sanaa facility are reported killed and four others injured, inmate Sharif Mobley tells Al Jazeera by phone from within the prison.

March 2, 2011

Yemen's leader comes under new pressure as influential clerics, tribal leaders and some members of Yemen's opposition present a plan for a peaceful transition of power. President Ali Abdullah Saleh earlier pledged that he would not seek reelection in 2013. But some protesters demand that he step down immediately, and the opposition's proposal marks an attempt to find a middle ground.

March 1, 2011

Anti-government demonstrations grow larger and more boisterous. Tens of thousands call for an immediate end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's authoritarian rule. Organizers call it the "Day of Rage," a name chosen to echo the protests in Egypt that led to President Mubarak's ouster. Since the protests in Yemen began Feb. 16, human rights activists say at least 27 people have been killed.

Yemen's embattled president accused the United States and Israel of trying to destabilize his country and the Arab world. Saleh's comments marked his harshest public criticism yet of the U.S. He said "there is an operations room in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world" and that it is "run by the White House."

Feb. 23, 2011

Thousands stream into a square in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, trying to bolster anti-government demonstrators after club-wielding backers of President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried to drive them out. Seven legislators resign from Saleh's ruling General People's Congress party because of the situation in the country and said they will form an independent bloc, according to a member of parliament, Abdul-Aziz Jabbari. The resignations raise to nine the number of legislators who have left the party since protests began.

Feb. 21, 2011

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh rejects demands to resign immediately, declaring that protesters clamoring for an end to his rule must do so through elections rather than through violence and chaos.

But at the same time, he repeats his offer to hold a dialogue over power-sharing with Yemen's main opposition parties. The parties have rejected his proposal, saying they can't negotiate with a government whose loyalists and security forces have attacked pro-reform protesters with "bullets and sticks and thuggery."

Feb. 19, 2011

Yemeni riot police in the capital shoot dead an anti-government protester and injur five others when they open fire on thousands marching in the 10th day of unrest rocking the country. The country's leader blamed the unrest on "a foreign plot." Protesters seeking to oust longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in fighting al-Qaida terrorists march from the University of Sanaa to the Ministry of Justice, chanting: "The people want the fall of the regime."

Feb. 18, 2011

Anti-government protesters clash with loyalists of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the streets of Sanaa for the eighth straight day, hurling insults and chunks of concrete at one another.

For the first time since revolts erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Yemeni soldiers, dressed in orange and brown uniforms, are posted at the scenes of the fighting. In the southern city of Aden, one protester dies and four are wounded when police fired gunshots to try to break up a crowd, the Reuters news service reported. It is the seventh death this week in Aden.

Feb. 17, 2011

In Sanaa, Yemen's anti-government activists suddenly, surprisingly retaliate with fury against heavily armed pro-government mobs, fighting with metal pipes, wooden sticks, and daggers, and deepening the pressure to find a way to calm Yemen's increasingly angry and volatile protesters.

Feb. 15, 2011

Small clashes between anti-government demonstrators and supporters of President Ali Abdullah Saleh break out in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, as demonstrations seeking Saleh's resignation unfolded for a fifth straight day. Saleh has offered significant concessions, including a pledge not to run for another term in office and not to anoint his son as his heir apparent. And Yemen's political opposition has agreed to sit down again with the government to discuss reconciliation and power sharing.

Feb. 14, 2011

Scores of riot police attempt to separate dueling factions in the fourth day of anti-government protests, but the pro-government crowds appeared determined to chase away foes who demanded the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled this impoverished nation for 32 years.

Feb. 11, 2011

Anti-government protests begin in Yemen, inspired by revolts in Egypt and Tunisia.

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