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The 2011 Arab Spring Infographic Timeline

TYRSOLUTIONS AND DESIGNBYSOAP LTD PROUDLY PRESENT: THE 2011 ARAB SPRING INFOGRAPHICTIMELINE INDECEMBER 2010, ATUNISIAN VEGETABLE-SELLER SET HIMSELF ON FIRE IN PROTEST OF HIS TREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF TUNISIAN POLICE. THIS SET IN MOTIONA CHAIN OF EVENTS ACROSS THE ARAB AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES WORLD THAT C MrHOSE COUNTRIE THE POLITICALA THE FOLLOWING INFOGRAPHIC PRESENTS A TIMELINE OF THE KEY EVENTS OF THE ARAB SPRING 19 DECEMBER 2010 TUNISIA MOHAMED BOUAZIZI SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE IN PROTEST AFTER POLICE CONFISCATETHE 29 DECEMBER 2010 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES HEWAS SELLING FROM ASTREET STALL BOUAZIZI DIES SHORTLY TUNISIA AFTER, SPARKING PROTEST RIOTS INTUNISIA AFTERTEN DAYS OF PROTESTS, TUNISIAN PRESIDENT ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI APPEARS ONTV PROMISING MORE JOBS INTHE COUNTRY. 1 JANUARY 2011• EGYPT HEALSOVOWSTO PUNISH RIOTERS, STATING THAT THE LAW WILL BE APPLIED IN ALL FIRMNESS 21 PEOPLE ARE KILLED INA SUSPECTED AL-QAIDA SUICIDE BOMBING OUTSIDE A CHURCH IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. FOLLOWING THE BLAST HUNDREDS OF CHRISTIANS TOOK TO THE STREETS, CLASHING WITH POLICE AND 7 JANUARY 2011 ALGERIA MUSLIMS. POLICE HAD TO USE TEAR GASTO RIOT POLICE ARMEDWITHTEARGAS AND DISPERSE CROWDS BATONS FORCED TO DEPLOY IN ALGERIA, AFTER RIOTS BREAK OUT ACROSSTHE COUNTRY. THE RIOTERS ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN PROTESTING OVER UNEMPLOYMENT AND 9 JANUARY 2011N TUNISIA RISING FOOD PRICES AT LEAST 11 PEOPLE DIE IN CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES INTUNISIA, MARKING FOUR WEEKS OF UNREST ACROSS THE COUNTRY. RIOTS CONTINUETHROUGHOUTTUNISIA, WITH 13 JANUARY 2011 ALGERIA PROTESTORS ATTACKING PUBLIC BUILDINGS MOHSEN BOUTERFIF SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE IN AND SETTING FIRETO CARS ALGERIA AFTER FAILING TO FINDAJOB ANDA HOUSE, ECHOING THE DEATH OF MOHAMED BOUAZIZI IN TUNISIA. BOUTERFIF EVENTUALLY 14 JANUARY 2011 TUNISIA DIES OF HIS INJURIES, SPARKING FURTHER RIOTING IN ALGERIA TUNISIAN PRESIDENT BEN ALI FINALLY BOWS TO PROTESTS AND FLEESTUNISIA, HEADING TO SAUDI ARABIA BY WAY OF MALTA 17 JANUARY 2011 EGYPT 23 JANUARY 2011 YEMEN ANEGYPTIAN MAN SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE OUTSIDE OF THE EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING INA PROTEST AGAINST POORLIVING CONDITIONS. THE PROTESTOR LIVES, BUT SELF-IMMOLATION BECOMES MORE PREVALENT TAWAKUL KARMAN, A PROMINENT FEMALE ACTIVISTIS ARRESTED DURING THE NIGHT BY POLICE OFFICERS IN YEMEN, AFTER CALING ACROSS THE ARAB NATIONS FOR PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEHTO STEP DOWN. HER ARREST SPARKS PROTESTS 25 JANUARY 2011 ACROSS YEMEN, WHICH ARE MET WITH FORCE FROM SECURITY SERVICES EGYPT EGYPT'S FIRST COORDINATED PROTESTSTURN CAIRO INTO A WARZONE'AS PROTESTS CALLING 25 JANUARY 2011 FOR THE RESIGNATON OF HOSNI MUBARAK ERUPT ACROSS THE COUNTRY, MAKING ITHE LEBANON LARGEST DEMONSTRATION IN EGYPT IN A GENERATION. THE GOVERNMENT BLOCKS THOUSANDS OF SUNNIS TAKE PART INA DAY OF RAGE'INOPPOSTIONTO THE PROSPECT OF TWITTERAND SHUTS DOWN MOBILE AND INTERNET NETWORKS IN ANATTEMPTTO ANEW GOVERNMENT UNDER HEZBOLLAH PREVENT COORDINATION OF FURTHER RIOTS CONTROLAFTER THE OUSTING OF SAAD HARIRI AS PRIME MINISTER OF THE US-ALLIED GOVERNMENT. FLAGS AND VEHICLES ARE TORCHED ALL OVERTHE COUNTRY AS 26 JANUARY 2011 EGYPT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TAKE TOTHE STREETS AS RIOTS CONTINUETHROUGHOUT EGYPT, 27 JANUARY 2011 YEMEN SECURITY FORCES CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTORS USINGTEARGAS AND BEATINGS, ARRESTING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. THE RESPONSE FROM SECURITY FORCES IS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TAKE THE STREETS OF SANA'A, CALLING FOR ANENDTOTHE REIGN OF PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH IN SOME OF THE BIGGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT RALLIES YEMEN HAS SEEN FOR OVERA DECADE CONDEMNED BY EUROPEAN LEADERS 28 JANUARY 2011 JORDAN THE UNREST SPREADSTO JORDAN, AS THOUSANDS GATHER IN AMMAN TO DEMAND 28 JANUARY 2011 EGYPT POLITICAL CHANGE INTHE COUNTRY PRESIDENT MUBARAK MAKES HIS FIRST TV APPEARANCE FOLLOWING FOUR DAYS OF PROTEST AND VIOLENT CRACKDOWN. HE 31 JANUARY 2011 SACKS HIS GOVERNMENT AND PLEDGES HIS COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY, BUT REFUSES EGYPT TOSTEP DOWN. AT LEAST 25 PEOPLE DIE ASTHE DEATHTOLL IN EGYPT GROWS PAST 100, ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS PROTESTSCONTINUE EGYPT'S ARMY MAKES ITS FIRST EXPLICIT STATEMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE PROTESTORS, TELLING THEM THEARMED FORCES WILL NOT RESORTTO USE OF FORCE AGAINSTOUR GREAT 2 FEBRUARY 2011 EGYPT PEOPLE SOME OF THEWORST VIOLENCE SO FAR ERUPTS 4 FEBRUARY 2011 INEGYPT AS GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED MUBARAK SUPPORTERS STORM TAHR SQUARE INA BIDTO CRUSHTHE UPRISING. THE PRO- MUBARAK RIOTERS ATTACK PROTESTORS WITH EGYPT DESPITE THE EARLIER VIOLENCE IN TAHIR SQUARE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLETURNOUT FORTHE 'DAY OF DEPARTURE CLUBS, WHIPS, KNIVES AND HOMEMADE 5, MANY OF THEM RIDING HORSES AND KOS THEM BIDNG HOISES CAMELS. THE VIOLENCE SPREADS INTO THE A COMPLETELY PEACEFUL PROTEST DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT MUBARAK. TAHIR SQUARE BECOMES A STRONG- HOLDFORANTI-MUBARAK PROTESTORS, ALTHOUGHTHE PRESIDENT CONTINUESTO NIGHT ASTHE ARMY DO LITTLE TO STOP THE CLASHES REFUSETO STEP DOWN 11 FEBRUARY 2011 EGYPT 12 FEBRUARY 2011 ALGERIA & YEMEN WITHTHE EVENTS IN EGYPT REVERBERATING AFTER 18 DAYS OF MASS PROTEST, PRESIDENT MUBARAK FINALLY AGREES TO STEP DOWN AND HAND POWERTOTHE MILITARY. EUPHORIC CROWDS POUR INTO TAHIR SQUARE TO AROUND THE ARAB WORLD, POLICE IN ALGERIA CELEBRATE THE NEWS ENFORCEA PROTEST BAN, BEATING BACK 2,000 PROTESTORS INCENTRAL ALGIERS.THE PROTESTS QUICKLYTURN INTO RUNNING 14 FEBRUARY 2011 YEMEN, IRAN, BAHRAIN BATTLES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AT THE SAMETIME, ORGANISED DEMONSTRATIONS IN YEMEN SEE AT LEAST 5,000 YOUNG PEOPLE GATHERED INTHE CAPTIAL, SANAA TO CALL EGYPT'S UPRISING CONTINUES TO SEND SHOCKWAVES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST, WITH TWO DEATHS IN CLASHES IN IRAN AND BAHRAIN AND VIOLENCE DEMONSTRATIONS IN YEMEN, ASWELL ASFURTHER PROTESTS FOR EGYPT-STYLE REFORM ACROSS EGYPT 15 FEBRUARY 2011 BAHRAIN BAHRAIN'S MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY 16 FEBRUARY 2011 LIBYA PROTESTS ERUPT IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA AFTER WITHDRAWS FROM PARLIAMENT IN PROTEST AFTER TROOPS FIRE ON MOURNERS AT THE FUNERAL FORA PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTOR SHOT DEAD THE DAY BEFORE. THOUSANDS OF PROTESTORS SET UPTENTS ON PEARa. ROUNDABOUT IN MANAMA ARREST OF A PROMINENT HUMAN RGHTS CAMPAIGNER. WITNESSES SAY A PEACEFUL ESTWAS ATTACKED BY GADDAFI LOYALISTS. THE UNREST SPREADS TOZENTAN WHERE A POLICE STATION IS SET ALIGHT 17 FEBRUARY 2011 BAHRAIN SECURITY FORCES STAGE AN EARLY MORNING 17 FEBRUARY 2011 LIBYA LIBYA'S GOVERNMENT BRINGS OUT ITS SUPPORTERS TO EXPRESS THEIR LOYALTY TO RAIDON PROTESTORS IN PEARL SQUARE, E.THE VIOLENCE NG ST n ES WITH RIOT POLICE TRY AND STIFLEA PLANNED'DAY OF RAGE BUT SPORADICVIOLENCE CONTINUES IN THE EAST WITHAT LEAST 15 PEOPLE REPORTED KILLED 18 FEBRUARY 2011 BAHRAIN AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS KILLED AND DOZENS 18 FEBRUARY 2011 INJURED WHEN SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE AS HUNDREDS OF PROTESTORS MARCHTOWARDS PEARL ROUNDABOUT, THE SCENE OF VIOLENT LASHES A DAY EARLIER LIBYA DOZENS OF PROTESTORS ARE REPORTED KILLED DURING ATTACKS BY SECURITY FORCES IN EASTERN CITIES INCLUDING BENGHAZI, WITH CONFUCTING REPORTS FROM THE REGION 21 FEBRUARY 2011 MOROCCO IMPOSSIBLETOVERIFY BECAUSEOF THE MEDIA BLACKOUT IMPOSED BY THE GADDAFI REGIME THOUSANDS PROTEST PEACEFULLY INRABAT, CASABLANCA, TANGIER AND MARRAKECH 22 FEBRUARY 2011 DEMANDING A NEW GOVERNMENT AND AN END TO CORRUPTION. LATER FIVE PEOPLE DIE LIBYA INAFIRE AT A BANK IN AL HOCEIMA. PROTESTORS BLAME RIOTING ON FOOTBALL MUAMMAR GADDAFI DELIVERS A RANTING TV HOOLIGANS ADDRESS URGING LOYALISTSTO TAKETO THE STREETSTO FIGHT GREASY RATS'INTHE PAY OF ENEMIES RANGING FROMTHE USTO AL-QAIDA. HE INSISTS HEWILL DIE IN LIBYA RATHER THAN 23 FEBRUARY 2011 FLEEING THE COUNTRY YEMEN UNREST IN YEMEN INTENSIFIES WHEN AT LEAST TWO PROTESTORS ARE SHOT DEAD DURING A STREET BATTLE BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATORS NEARSANA'A UNIVERSITY-THE FIRST DEATHS IN THE CITY AFTER 12 DAYS OF PROTESTS 25 FEBRUARY 2011 LIBYA LIBYA'S UPRISING REACHESTHE HEART OF TRIPOU AS ANTIREGIME DEMONSTRATORS DEFYA SECURITY CLAMPDOWN TO DEMAND GADDAFIS OVERTHROW. GUNMEN IN CARS REPORTEDLY OPEN FIRE ON PROTESTORS. 25 FEBRUARY 2011 GADDAFI GIVES ANOTHER DEFIANT SPEECH IN WHICH HE PLEDGES TO'OPEN UPTHE JORDAN, IRAQ, EGYPT ARSENALS PROTESTS ERUPT INCITIES ACROSSTHE MIDDLE EAST. AT LEAST SDX PEOPLE ARE KILLED IN IRAQ THOUSANDS TAKETO THE STREETS IN SANA'A: ANDEGYPTIANS GATHER IN CAIRO'S TAHRIR SQUARE TO DEMAND ANACCELERATED REFORM PROGRAMME 27 FEBRUARY 2011 LIBYA RESIDENTS CELEBRATE AS ANT-GADDAFI REVOLUTIONARIES TAKE CONTROL OF ZAWIYAH, JUST 30 MILES FROM LIBYA'S CAPITAL 4 MARCH 2011 IRAQ HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CONVERGE ON BAGHDAD'S LIBERATION SQUARE FOR ANANTI GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATION AS IRAQIS RALLY FORTHE SECOND FRIDAY INA ROW, 5 MARCH 2011 LIBYA A CONCERTEDFIGHTBACK BY GADDAFIS TROOPS SEES OPPOSTION FORCES ENCIRCLED INZAWIYAH AFTER SOME OF THE MOST SAVAGE DESPITE A VEHICLE BANTHAT FORCES MANY TO WALK FOR HOURS TOTHE CENTRE FIGHTING IN LIBYA'STWO-WEEK UPRISING. THE TWO SIDES DISPUTEWHO CONTROLSWHAT 7 MARCH 2011 LIBYA 8 MARCH 2011 LIBYAN JETS LAUNCH MULTIPLE STRIKES ON OPPOSITION FIGHTERS NEAR THE OIL CITY OF RASLANUF TO TRYTO HALT THE REBEL ADVANCE. THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL CALLS FOR AN END TO ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS LIBYA GADDAFI'S FORCES LAUNCH A FINAL ASSAULT ONZAWIYAH. DAVID CAMERON AND BARACK OBAMA AGREE TO DRAW UPTHE FULL SPECTRUM OF MILITARY RESPONSES TO THE LIBYAN CRISIS, INCLUDINGA POSSIBLE NO-FLY ZONE 8 MARCH 2011 YEMEN 2,000 INMATES STAGEA REVOLT AT A PRISON IN 9 MARCH 2011 YEMEN THE CAPITAL, TAKE A DOZEN GUARDS HOSTAGE AND JOIN CALLS BY ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTORS FOR SALEH TO STEP DOOWN THE YEMENI GOVERNIMENT ESCALATES EFFORTS TO STOP MASS PROTESTS CALLING FORTHE PRESIDENTS REMOVAL, WITH SOLDIERS FIRING RUBBER BULLETS AND TEAR 10 MARCH 2011 LIBYA THE GADDAFI REGIME WARNSTHAT THE TIME GAS AT STUDENTS CAMPED AT A UNIVERSITY IN SANA'A, WOUNDING AT LEAST 98 PEOPLE FOR ACTION'HAS ARRIVED AS A SUSTAINED MILITARY ASSAULTFORCES THE DEFEATOF 12 MARCH 2011 LIBYAN REBELS INTHE STRATEGICALLY YEMEN IMPORTANT TOWN OF ZAWIYAH AND THEIR RETREAT FROM RAS LANUF YEMENI SECURITY FORCES KILL FOUR PEOPLE ANDWOUND HUNDREDS MORE INTHE SECOND DAY OF A HARSH CRACKDOWNON ANTI- GOVERNMENT PROTESTS. ONE OF THE DEAD WAS A 15 YEAR OLD STUDENT 12 MARCH 2011 LIBYA MUAMMAR GADDAFI'S FORCES ROUT REBELS INEASTERN LSIADNTNGT 15 MARCH 2011 FROM THE TOWN OF BREGA L A DREAT PALESTINE & BAHRAIN TENS OF THOUSANDS TAKE PART IN PROTESTS ROCKET AND SHELLS, AND OPENING UPTHE ROAD TO THE PRINCIPAL OPPOSITION STRONGHOLD, BENGHAZI IN GAZA ANDTHEWEST BANK, DEMANDING AN END TO POLITICAL DIVISION. AT THE SAME TIME, THE STREETS OF BAHRAIN'S CAPITAL, MANAMA, ERUPT INVIOLENCE ASTHE DORDE STOTENI MEASLIRE TO QUELL A FESTERING REBELLION 18 MARCH 2011 YEMEN & BAHRAIN AT LEAST 45 PEOPLEARE KILLED AND HUNDREDS WOUNDED AS SECURITY FORCES AND PLAIN-CLOTHES GOVERNMENT LOYALISTS FIRE ON PROTESTORS IN SANAA. ITISTHE 19 MARCH 2011 WORST DAY OF VIOLENCE IN AMONTH OF PROTESTS AGAINST PRESIDENT SALEH AT THE SAMETIME, THE HUBOF BAHRAIN'S REBELLION IS DESTROYED UNDER GOVERNMENT ORDERS SYRIA & LIBYA SYRIAN POLICE SEAL OFF THE CITY OF DARAA AFTERSECURITY FORCES KILL AT LEAST FIVE ASTHE COUNTRY'S LEADERS INTENSIFY MOVES PROTESTORS INTHE GRAVEST UNREST IN SYRIA TO CRUSHTHE REFORMIST MOVEMENT FOR YEARS, ATTHE SAMETIME, WWESTERN AIR AND MISSILE STRIKES AGAINST GADDAFI'S MILITARY HALT THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST REBELS IN BENGHAZI 21-24 MARCH 2011 LIBYA WESTERN AIR STRIKES CONTINUE TO HIT GADDAFI FORCES, DESTROYING A BUILDING 23 MARCH 2011 SYRIA INGADDAFI'S COMPOUND. A NO-FLY ZONE IS ALSO ENFORCED, WITHA FRENCH JET DESTROYING A LIBYAN PLANE IN MISRATA SYRIAN FORCES KILL AT LEAST SDX PEOPLE IN AN ATTACK ON A MOSQUE IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF DERAA, THE SITE OF PROTESTS CHALLENGING PRESIDENT ASSAD'S REGIME. RESIDENTS SAY UPTO 100 PEOPLE DIE IN A 24 HOURASSAULT 25 MARCH 2011 SYRIA HUNDREDS MARCH IN HOMS, HAMA, TEL AND LATAKIA AND INTOWNS SURROUNDING DERAA, 26 MARCH 2011 LIBYA WITH SMALLER PROTESTS IN ALEPPO AND DAMASCUS. UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAY AT LEAST 23 PEOPLEWERE KILLED, SOME OF THEM INDAMASCUS, HITHERTO UNAFFECTED THE STRATEGICTOWN OF AJDABIYA FALSTO REBELS-THEIR FIRST SIGNIFICANT VICTORY SINCE ALLIED AIR STRIKES BEGAN. IMAN AL- OBEIDI IS ARRESTED AFTER INTERRUPTING A PRESS CONFERENCE TOTELL F JOURNALISTS SHEWAS REPEATEDLY RAPED BY 28 MARCH 2011 SYRIA & YEMEN GOVERNMENT MILITAMEN SECURITY FORCES FIRE SHOTS AND TEAR GAS TO DISPERSE UP TO 4,000 PROTESTORS IN 28 MARCH 2011 DERAA. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SAY MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN 1 DAYS. LIBYA LIBYAN REBELS ADVANCE ON GADDAFI'S HOME CITY, SIRTE, RAPIDLY MOVING MORETHAN 150 MILES WEST ALONG LIBYAS COASTAL ROAD. RECAPTURING SEVERAL TOWNS WITHOUT MEANWHILE, INYEMEN, AT LEAST 121 PEOPLE DIE AFTERA SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS AT A MUNITIONS FACTORY IN SOUTHERN YEMEN AS PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH LOSES HIS GRIP ON PARTS OFTHE COUNTRY RESISTANCE. SIRTE MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST OF LIBYA 1 APRIL 2011 SYRIA 1 APRIL 2011 LIBYA AFTERA SPEECH BY PRESIDENT ASSAD ANGERS oOTESTORS, TI THOUSANDS TAKETOTHE STREETS ON A DAY DUBBED THE FRIDAY OF MARTYRS: SECURITY FORCES OPEN FIRE ON ASENIOR AIDETO GADDAFIS SON SAIF AI DEMONSTRATORSIN DOUMA AND KAFER ISLAM VISITS LONDON FOR CONFIDENTIAL SOUSEH, KILLING THREE PEOPLE ANDINJURING TALKSWITH BRITISH OFFICIALS AND THE SCORES MORE COUNTRY'S FORMER PRIME MINISTER SAYS LIBYAN OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE WEST, AS REBELS OUTLINE CEASEFIRE CONDITIONS 4 APRIL 2011 YEMEN YEMENI SECURITY FORCES AND GUNMEN IN 5 APRIL 2011 OVILIAN CLOTHES FIRE ON PROTESTORS YEMEN MARCHING THROUGHTHE SOUTHERN CTY OF TAIZ, KILLING AT LEAST 12 PEOPLE AMID REPORTS THAT THE USNOWWANTS PRESIDENT ALIABDULLAH SALEH TO QUIT THOUSANDS OF DEMONSTRATORS ARE ATTACKED BY TROOPS AND PLAINCLOTHES POLICE INTAIZ. HUNDREDS ARE WOUNDED AND DOZENSTAKENTO HOSPITAL 7 APRIL 2011 8 APRIL 2011 JORDAN LIBYA AJORDANIAN MAN SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE OUTSIDE THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE IN NATO'STRONGLY REGRETS'THE LOSS OF LIFE CAUSED BY AN ATTACKON REBEL FORCES IN AMMAN AND IS IN CRITICAL CONDITIONWITH THIRD DEGREE BURNS. PROSECUTORS CHARGE 80 PEOPLEWILL RESISTING POLICE EASTERN LIBYA INWHICH AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED. NATO DOESN'TISSUE AN APOLOGY HOWEVER, SAYING IT HAD NOT BEEN TOLD THAT THE REBELSWERE IN POSSESSION OF TANKS INTERVENTION DURINGA DEMONSTRATION ON MARCH 25 8 APRIL 2011 9 APRIL 2011 SYRIA EGYPT MORETHAN 100,000 PROTESTORS GATHERIN CAIRO'S TAHRIR SQUARE, PILING PRESSURE ON THE RULING MILITARY COUNCIL TO MEET DEMANDS INCLUDINGTHE PROSECUTION OF HOSNI MUBARAK IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS SPREAD ACROSS SYRIA WITHTHE HIGHEST TURNOUT YET AND AT LEAST 22 PEOPLE ARE ERAA WHEN TROOPS OPEN FIRE ON THOUSANDS OF PROTESTORS AND KILLED IN D DEMONSTRATIONS SINCE HEWAS OUSTED AMBULANCES ARE PREVENTED FROM REACHING THE SCENE 10 APRIL 2011 SYRIA 12 APRIL 2011 AT LEAST THREE PEOPLEARE KILLED AND MANY MOREWOUNDED IN SHOOTINGS INTHE PORT CITY OF BANIAS AMID REPORTS THAT SYRIA SYRIAN SOLDIERS ARE SHOT BY SECURITY FORCES AFTER REFUSING TO FIRE ON PROTESTORS AS A CRACKDOWN ON ANTI THE ARMY IS BEING DEPLOYED GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUES 13 APRIL 2011 YEMEN 17 APRIL 2011 A SHOWDOWN LOOMS IN YEMEN AFTER SIX PEOPLEARE KILLED IN A SKIRMISH BETWEEN RIVAL MILITARY FACTIONS IN SANAA, AS LIBYA GADDAFIS FORCES ATTACK THE KEY REBEL HELD TOWN OF AJDABIYA AS THE REGIME STEPS UP EFFORTS TO REGAINEASTERN TERRITORY. THE TOWN HAS CHANGED HANDS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ANTI-REGIME PROTESTORS RALLY ACROSS THE COUNTRY SEVERAL TIMES SINCETHE CONFUCT BEGAN 18 APRIL 2011 SYRIA 18 APRIL 2011 IRAN SYRIAN FORCES SHOOT DEAD EIGHT PEOPLE INHOMS IN CLASHES AFTERTHE DEATH OFA JAILED TRIBAL LEADER. SHOTS AND TEARGAS ARE FIRED AT CROWDS WHO DEFIED WARNINGS AT LEAST 12 PEOPLEBELIEVED TO BELONG TO IRANS SUNNI MINORITY ARE KILLED IN THREE TO HALT WHAT AUTHORITIES CALLEDAN INSURRECTION DAYS OF CLASHES BETWEEN SECURITY FORCES AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTORS IN THE SOUTH-WESTOTY OF AHWAZ 20 APRIL 2011 YEMEN 22 APRIL 2011 SYRIA AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE ARE KILLED WHEN SYRIA ENDURES ITS BLOODIEST DAY OF PROTESTS. TENS OF AFTER FRIDAYI POLICE OPEN FIRE ON ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTORS IN SANAA AND TAIZ. THE UN CALLS FOR RESTRAINT IN ITS FIRST DISCUSSION DAY PRAYERS FOSANDS MAHCH OF THEVIOLENCE IN YEMEN FREEDOM AND AN END TO BAATH PARTY RULE SECURITY FORCES USE LIVEROUNDS AND TEARGAS, KILLING AT LEAST 88 PEOPLE 24 APRIL 2011 LIBYA 25 APRIL 2011 SYRIA GADDAFIS TROOPS POUND MISRATA, HOURS AFTERTHE REGIMECLAIMED ITS FORCED HAD PULLED BACK TO LETTRIBAL LEADERS TRY THE SYRIAN CRACKDOWN ON PRO- TO NEGOTIATE A POLITICAL RESOLUTION, OR DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATIONS ESCALATES, UNLEASH A 'BLOODY ASSAULT: KUWAIT WITHTANKS DEPLOYED FORTHE FIRST TIME. AGREES TO CONTRIBUTE 110MTO THE REBELS SCORES ARE REPORTED KILLED AND MANY MORE ARRESTED. DERAA BEARS THE BRUNT, WITH 3,000 TROOPS SAID TO BE DEPLOYED 27 APRIL 2011 YEMEN 29 APRIL 2011 SYRIA SECURITY FORCES FIRE ON AN ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTEST BY 100,000 PEOPLE IN SANAA, KILLING 12PROTESTORS. A CVIL THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS DEFY A BLOODY DISOBEDIENCE CA E CAMPAIGN CALLING FOR GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN, BRAVING GUNFIRE FROM SECURITY FORCES TO DEMONSTRATE IN DAMASCUS AND OTHER AREAS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AT LEAST 42 ARE KILLED, MOSTLY IN BESIEGED DERAA PRESIDENT SALEHTO QUIT CLOSES SHOPS SCHOOLS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN CTES NATIONWIDE 30 APRIL 2011 2 MAY 2011 LIBYA GADDAFIS FORCES BOMBARD MISRATA, SYRIA THE REGIME SENDS FRESH TROOPS TO POUND THE BESIEGED CITY OF DERAA. TANKS AND ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS ARE DEPLOYED AND TROOPS STORMTHE OMARI MOSQUE, A HUB FOR PROTESTORS, KILLING PREVENTING HUMANITARIAN AID SHIPS FROM ENTERING FORTHE FOURTH DAY. REBELS ASK NATO FOR HELP. CROWDS IN TRIPOLI ATTEND FOUR PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE IMAM'S SON THE FUNERAL OF GADDAFI'S SONANDTHREE GRANDCHILDREN, KILLED IN A NATO AIRSTRIKE 4 MAY 2011 SYRIA 5 MAY 2011 SYRIA SYRIAN FORCES SEIZE CONTROL OF THE HUNDREDS OF SYRIAN SOLDIERS IN COMBAT GEAR BREAK INTO HOUSES AND MAKE ARRESTS IN DAMASCUS, THE SCENE OF A MASS COASTAL CITY OF BANIAS FROM PROTESTORS CHALLENGING THE AUTHORITARIAN RULE OF PRESIDENT ASSAD DEMONSTRATION LASTWEEK DEMANDING THE REMOVALOF OF PRESIDENT ASSAD 5 MAY 2011 SYRIA 7 MAY 2011 LIBYA THE SYRIAN REGIMESVIOLENT CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTORS CONTINUES, WITH AT LEAST 16 KILLED DURING A DAY OF DEFIANCE MANY THOUSANDS TURNED OUT IN 65 TOWNS AND LIBYANGOVERNIMENT FORCES BOMB FOUR CTES ACROSS THE COUNTRY LARGE OIL TANKS IN MISRATA, DESTROYING THE CITY'S ONLY SOURCE OF FUEL ACCORDING TO REBELS 8 MAY 2011 EGYPT 11 MAY 2011 YEMEN MUSLIM CHRISTIANCLASHES IN CAIRO LEAVE 12 DEAD AND CASTA CLOUD OVERHOPES FOR PEACEFUL TRANSITION. THE GOVERNMENT YEMENI FORCES OPEN FIRE ON PROTESTORS INTHREE CITIES, KILLING AT LEAST 18 AND SWIFTLY ANNOUNCES COMPENSATION FORTHE DEAD AND INJURED AND STRICT WOUNDING HUNDREDS IN ONE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW LAWS BANNING FIERCEST BOUTS OF VIOLENCEWITNESSED IN GATHERINGS OUTSIDE PLACES OF WORSHIP NEARLY THREE MONTHS OF UNREST AIMED AT TOPPLING PRESIDENT SALEH 15 MAY 2011 PALESTINE 13 MAY 2011 SYRIA SIX PEOPLE ARE KILLEDAS PROTESTORS CONTINUETO DEFY A GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN. HILARY CLINTON LEADS INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF THE POTENTIAL NEW FLASHPOINTS INTHE MIDDLE EAST UNREST OPENAFTER ISRAEL OPENS FIRE ON PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTORS ON ITS BORDERS WITH SYRIA AND LEBANON, KILLING MORE THAN 12 PEOPLE AND DRAWING VIOLENCE AND BRITAIN CALLS INTHE SYRIAN AMBASSADOR FURIOUS CONDEMNATION FROM DAMASCUS 15 MAY 2011 EYGPT 20 MAY 2011 SYRIA THE HEAD OF EGYPTS COPTICORTHODOX CHURCH URGES FOLLOWERS TO ENDAWEEK SECURITY FORCES FIRE ON PROTESTORSIN LONG SIT-IN IN CAIRO AFTERA MOB ATTACKS CHRISTIAN PROTESTORS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS, INJURING 78. CHRISTIANS HAVE HOMS, KILLING AT LEASTTHREE, AND ELSEWHERE; SOMEREPORTS SAY MORETHAN 20 DIED NATIONWIDE, A DAY AFTEROBAMA URGED ASSADTO LEAD THE DEMOCRATIC FACED ATTACKS BY MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS SINCE MUBARAK WAS OUSTED TRANSITIONORGET OUT OF THEWAY 24 MAY 2011 23 MAY 2011 YEMEN LIBYA NATO WARPLANES BOMBARD TARGETS IN TRIPOUWITH MORETHAN 20 AIRSTRIKES, HITTING THE AREA AROUND MUAMMAR UPTO 50 PEOPLE ARE KILLED INTWO DAYS OF GUN BATTLES IN SANAA BETWEEN SECURITY FORCES LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SALEH AND GUARDS FROM YEMEN'S MOST POWERFUL TRIBAL FEDERATIONWHOSE LEADER BACKS GADDAFIS RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND INWHAT WASTHE HEAVIEST NIGHT OF BOMBING YET PROTESTORS'DEMANDS FOR SALEHTO QUIT INTHE CTY 30 MAY 2011 YEMEN 31 MAY 2011 SYRIA HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SALEH STORMA PROTEST CAMP IN TAIZ AND HAMZA AL-KHATB, 13, BECOMES THE MOST FAMOUS VICTIM YET OF SYRIA'S UPRSING. HE WAS ARRESTED ON 29 APRIL AND ON 27 MAY HIS BADLY MUTILATED CORPSE WAS RELEASED TO HIS HORRIFIED FAMILY, WHOWERE WARNED TO KEEP SILENT FIRE ON CROWDS INDISCRIMINATELY, KILLING AT LEAST 20 PEOPLE, ACCORDING TO MEDICAL OFFICIALS AND WITNESSES. SOME REPORTS SAY AS MANY AS 50WERE KILLED 1 JUNE 2011 YEMEN 2 JUNE 2011 SYRIA AT LEAST 41 PEOPLE DIE IN SHELLING AND STREET BATTLES BETWEEN GOVERNMENT FORCES AND REBELS IN SANACA. ARMY THIRTEEN PEOPLE DIE WHEN GOVERNMENT FORCES SHELL THE CENTRAL TOWN OF RASTAN. NEARBY TALBISA IS REPORTEDLY BESIEGED BY DEFECTORS SAID PRESIDENTIAL GUARDUNITS SHELLED THE HQ OF AN ARMY BRIGADEWHOSE COMMANDER WAS RUMOURED TO WANT TO TANKS, HELICOPTERS AND SNIPERS. OPPOSITION GROUPS DISMISS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A CONDITIONAL DEFECT AMNESTY UNDERWHICH SOME DETAINEES WOULD BE FREED 4 JUNE 2011 SYRIA 27 JUNE 2011 SYRIA SYRIAN FORCES KILL AT LEAST 100 PROTESTORS INTWOOF THE BLOODIEST DAYS SINCETHE ASYRIAN ARMY CONSCRIPTWHO DEFECTED TO START OF THE UPRISING, ACCORDING To TURKEY TELLS THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER ACTIVISTS. TENS OFTHOUSANDS MARCHED THAT TROOPSWERE ORDERED TO FIRE ON INDEFIANCE OF SECURITY FORCES UNARMED PROTESTORS IN DERAA. HE SAYS HE SAW 100 KILLED EACH WEEK AND SAW NO ARMED PROTESTORS IN AMONTH 29 JUNE 2011 SYRIA 29 JUNE 2011 EGYPT THE SYRIAN ARMY MOVES OUT OF HAMA TO THE SURPRISE OF ACTIVISTS AND DIPLOMATS, AMOVE CELEBRATED BY RESIDENTS AS A 1,000 ARE INJURED INTHE FIERCEST FIGHTING NCAIRO SINCE MUBARAK FELL VIOLENCE VICTORY AFTER ONE OF THEWORST BOUTS OF BLOODSHED THERE ERUPTED AFTERTHE FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER'S TRIAL ON THE CHARGE OF UNLAWFULLY KILLING PROTESTORS WAS DELAYED. THE NEXT DAY PROTESTORSTENTS RETURN TO TAHRIR SQUARE 6 JULY 2011 LIBYA 6 JULY 2011 SYRIA LIBYAN REBELS LAUNCH AN APPARANTLY CO- ORDINATED TWO-PRONGED OFFENSIVE AGAINST PRO-GADAFFI FORCES, STRIKING FROM BASES INTHEWESTERN MOUNTAINS SOUTH-WEST OF TRIPOLI AND FROM THE BESIEGED CITY OF MISRATA, 130 MILES TOTHE RESIDENTS OF HAMA ERECT ROADBLOCKS IN AN UNSUCCESSFULATTEMPT TO STOP TANKS AND ARMOURED COLUMNS RE-ENTERING, FIVE FAST DAYS AFTER THE LARGEST ANT-REGIME DEMONSTRATIONYET INTHE FOUR-MONTH UPRISING. AT LEAST 22 ARE REPORTEDLY KILLEDIN TWO DYS 13 JULY 2011 LIBYA LIBYAN REBEL FORCES LOOTED SHOPS, HOMES 17 JULY 2011 SYRIA AND MEDICAL FACILITIES IN SEVERAL TOWNS THEY SEIZED INTHE WESTERN MOUNTAINS. HUMAN RIGHTSWATCH SAY REBELSTORCHED HOMES BELIEVED TO BELONG TO GADDAFI SYRIA ENDURES ONE OF ITS BLOODIEST SUPPORTERS ASTHE REBELS TAKE QAWALISH WEEKENDS SINCE THE UPRISING BEGAN.IN HOMS MORETHAN 30 PEOPLE ARE REPORTED KILLED IN 24 HOURS, ACCORDING TO A HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP 18 JULY 2011 LIBYA LIBYAN REBELS BACKED BY POWERFUL NATO 19 JULY 2011 SYRIA AIRSTRIKES FIGHTTHEIR WAY INTO PART OF THE GOVERNMENT HELD OIL TOWN OF BREGA IN ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS OFFENSIVES OF THEWAR SO FAR TROOPS AND MILTIAMEN LOYAL TO PRESIDENT ASSAD KILL 16 PEOPLE IN HOMS. THE DEAD INCLUDE 3 MOURNERS AT A FUNERAL FOR 10 PEOPLE KILLED THE PREVIOUS DAY 21 JULY 2011 LIBYA 24 JULY 2011 SYRIA LIBYAN REBELS, SUPPORTED BY NATO AIR STRIKES, CLAIM SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES AGAINST GADDARS FORCES INATWO-DAY ASSAULT. REBELS IN MISRATA SAY THEY TROOPS BACKED BY TANKS ENTERTHE VILLAGE OF SARJEH, CUTTING ELECTRICITY AND WATER AND MAKING ARRESTS. DETENTIONSIN CAPTURED THE CHIEF OF OPERATIONS IN ZITAN, GENERAL ABDUL NABIH ZAYID, AFTER OVERRUNNING HIS COMMAND POST DAMASCUS AND TROOP REINFORCEMENTS IN HOMS ARE ALSO REPORTED AS PRESIDENT ASSAD TRIES TO QUASH DISSENT BEFORE RAMADAN 27 JULY 2011 SYRIA 28 JULY 2011 LIBYA AROUND 20 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AS SECURITY FORCES LAUNCH RAIDS AGAINST SUSPECTED ANTI-GOVERNIMENT PROTESTORS IN AND THE REBELS'CHIEF OF STAFF, ABDEL FATAH YOUNIS, IS KILLED; REBELAUTHORITIES INITIALLY CLAIM HEWAS ASSASSINATED BY PRO-GADDAFI AGENTS. UNTIL THE UPRISING YOUNIS WAS GADDAFIS INTERIOR MINISTER AND CONFIDANT. WHEN RIOTS HIT BENGHAZI HE DRAMATICALLY SWITCHED SIDES AROUND DAMASCUS. ACTIVISTS SAID LOCALS TRIED TO STOPTHE ADVANCE BY THROWING STONES AND BURNING TIRES. TWOTEN-YEAR- OLDS WERE AMONG THOSE KILLED 31 JULY 2011 SYRIA 2 AUGUST 2011 PRESIDENT ASSAD FOLLOWS IN HIS FATHER'S SYRIA FOOTSTEPS AND SENDS IN TANKS TO ENDA MONTH-LONG SIEGE BY PROTESTORS IN HAMA. SMASHING THROUGH MAKESHIFT BARRICADES SECURITY FORCES CONTINUE TO ATTACK CVILIAN PROTESTORS IN HAMA AND JUST AFTER DAWN ONTHE EVE OF RAMADAN DAMASCUS, REPORTEDLY KILLING 28 INTWO DAYS. THE EU IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON KEY REGIME FIGURES AND THE UN STRUGGLESTO AND KILLING UP TO 100 PEOPLE AGREETO CONDEMNTHEVIOLENCE 4 AUGUST 2011 SYRIA 5 AUGUST 2011 SYRIA U LACKOUT, CITIZEN JOURNALISMORGANISATION AVAAZ SAYS 109 AMIDA MEDIA BL PEOPLEARE KILLED IN HAMA IN ONE DAY. CROWDS PROTEST AGAINST ASSAD'S REGIME FLEEING RESIDENTS DESCRIBE CORPSES LYING AND DECLARE SUPPORT FOR HAMA, WHERE UNBURIED FOR FEAR OF GOVERNMENT SNIPERS 200 RESIDENTS HAVE REPORTEDLY BEEN KILLED SINCE SUNDAY. TROOPS FIRE ON CROWDS AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS, KILLING AT LEAST 13. IN HAMA, TANKS RESUME SHELLING OF RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS 11 AUGUST 2011 SYRIA SEVEN PEOPLE ARE REPORTED KILLED IN RAIDS 14 AUGUST 2011 SYRIA AFTER TANKS ENTERED QUSAYR AND THREE INDEIREZZOR. THE OPPOSITION SAYS 2S7 HAVE DIED INTHELATEST 11-DAY-OLD CRACKDOWN. SYRIA USES GUNBOATS FORTHE FIRS TIME TO PROTESTORS CALL FOR MASS PROTESTS-ADAY OF NOT KNEELING CRUSHTHE UPRISING.AT LEAST 19 PEOPLE DIE INLATAKIA WHEN MACHINE GUNS ARE FIRED FROMA SHIP AND ARMOURED VEHICLES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RAMEL 14 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA 18 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA REBELSCLAIMTO BE ADVANCING ONTRIPOU ONTHREE FRONTS, ZAWIYA, GHARIYAN AND TAWARGA, CUTTING SUPPLY LINES AND ADVANCE ONTRIPOLICONTINUES TO GATHER PACEAS REBELS CELEBRATE MILESTONE OF CONTROLOVER COASTAL HIGHwWAY, ASWELL AS CONTROL OVERTHE CAPITALS PETROL MEETING ONLY SPORADICRESISTANCE A GOVERNMENT THAT ITIS HOLDRIGTALKS NTUNSIA S REBELS SUPPLY 24 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA 22 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA THE CAPITAL APPEARS POISED TO FALL AS GADDARI FLEES FROM HIS COMPOUND AS OPPOSITION FIGHTER SWARM HIS FORTIFIED REBELS ENTER GREEN SQUARE AND THENTC CITADEL A DAY OF HEAVY FIGHTING CONCLUDES WITH IMAGES OR REBELS CONTROLLING HIS OWN COMPOUND, THE STAMPING ON A GILDED BRONZE HEAD OF DICTATOR HIMSELF APPEALS FOR HELPON GADDAFI AND SETTING FIRE TO HIS FAMOUS TELEVISION TENT. GADDAFIVOWS'MARTYRDOM OR VICTORY'AS HE LEAVES THE COMPOUND 25 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA 26 AUGUST 2011 LIBYA WITH HISWHEREABOUTS STILL UNKNOWN ANDOPPOSITION FIGHTERS ATTEMPTING TO INITS FIRST TRIPOU PRESS CONFERENCE, THE FLUSH OUT POCKETS OF RESISTANCE FROM HIS SUPPORTERS, MUAMMAR GADDAFIURGES SUPPORTERS TO MARCH ON TRIPOLIAND RID THE CAPITAL OF REBELS NATIONAL TRANSITONAL COUNCIL SAYS TS CABINET WILL BE MOVING FROMBENGHAZITO THE CAPITAL THIS EVENT OFFICIALLY MARKSA REGIME CHANGE IN LIBYA, ALTHOUGH GADDAFI REMAINS AT LARGE SOMEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY 7 SEPTEMBER 2011 SYRIA 8 SEPTEMBER 2011 LIBYA SYRIA'S VIOLENCE ESCALATES SHARPLY, WITH UPTO 28 PEOPLE REPORTEDLY KILLED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS FRANCE BLUNTLY ACCUSES MUAMMAR GADDAFIISSUES A DEFIANT MESSAGE FROM HIDING INWHICH HEVOWS "NEVERTO LEAVETHE LAND OF HIS BASHAR AL- CRIMES AGAINT NTY COMMITTING ANCESTORS AND DENIES CLAIMS HE HAD FLED THE COUNTRY FORNEIGHBOURING NIGER 10 SEPTEMBER 2011 EGYPT 12 SEPTEMBER 2011 ISRAEL EVACUATESITSEGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR LIBYA AFTER CROWDS STORM THE EMBASSY IN CAIRO, PRECIPITATING A DIPLOMATIC CRISIS. A SENIOR FORCES LOYAL TO GADDAFI KILL 17 GUARDS OUTSIDEAN OIL REFINERY NEARRAS LANOUF EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL SAYS AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE INA SURPRISE ATTACK THAT DEMONSTRATED DIED AND MORE THAN 1,000 WERE HURT DURING CLASHES WITH POLICAND TROOPS HISTOPPLED REGIME IS NOT DEAD. EMPLOYEES SET FIRE TO THE FACILITY AND FIVE SABOTEURS ARE KILLED 16 SEPTEMBER 2011 18 SEPTEMBER 2011 LIBYA LIBYAN REBEL FIGHTERS ARE INVOLVED IN YEMEN HEAVY FIGHTING INA FINAL BATTLETO YEMENI FORCES REPORTEDLY OPEN FIREWITH CAPTURE MUAMMARGADDAFI'S HOMETOWN ANT-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND AUTOMATIC OF SIRTE, ONE OF THE LASTTHREE SIGNIFICANT WEAPONS ON TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANT- STRONGHOLDS STILL HELD BYTHE OLD REGIME T PROTESTORS GATHEREDIN e TDDEMAND THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, KILLING AT LEAST 26 PEOPLE AND WOUNDING DOZENS MORE 18 SEPTEMBER 2011 SYRIA 19 SEPTEMBER 2011 AT LEAST ONE CHILDIS SHOT DEAD AND ANOTHER ARRESTEDAS SYRIAN PUPILS YEMEN MORETHAN 22 PROTESTORS ARE KILLED AND PROTEST AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ONTHE FIRST DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. THE KILLED AT LEAST 350 WOUNDED IN THE STAND-OFF BOY WAS REPORTEDLY SHOT INTHE HEAD BETWEEN ANT-GOVERNMENT GROUPS AND LOYALIST FORCES, MAKING IT THE BLOODIEST DAY SO FAR IN YEMEN 24 SEPTEMBER 2011 YEMEN 25 SEPTEMBER 2011 LIBYA AT LEAST 40 PEOPLEARE KILLED AMID FIERCE FIGHTING ON THREE FRONTS IN SANA'A BETWEEN TROOPS LOYAL TO PRESIDENT SALEH GOVERNMENT FORCES APPROACH CENTRAL ANDA REBEL ARMY DIVISION, TRIBAL FIGHTERS SIRTE; NATO ORDERS A HALT TO FIGHTING TO AND PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATORS ENABLE ITS PLANESTO DESTROY PRO-GADDAFI ARTILLERY. A MASS GRAVE CONTAINING 1,270 BODIES IS DISCOVERED IN TRIPOLI 4 OCTOBER 2011 9OCTOBER 2011 LIBYA HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES AS ANTI-GADDAFI EGYPT FIGHTERS BACKED BY NATO AIRCRAFT MAKE SLOW PROGRESS INEFFORTS TO CAPTURETHE DICTATOR'S HOMETOWN OF SIRTE MILITARY POLICE ACCUSED OF USING EXCESSIVE FORCE AS PROTEST MARCH BY CHRISTIANS ERUPTS INTO THEWORST VIOLENCE SINCE THE FALL OF MUBARAK. THE VIOLENCE RESULTS IN AT LEAST 24 DEATHS 15 OCTOBER 2011 YEMEN 16OCTOBER 2011 YEMEN SECURITY FORCES AND PLAIN-CLOTHED GOVERNMENT SUPPORTERS ATTACIK MASS RALLY INYEMENI CAPITAL 12 ARE KILLED AND DOZENS WOUNDED, RAISING FEARS THAT THE COUNTRY COULD SLIDE INTO CIVIL WAY SX PEOPLE, INCLUDINGA 20 YEAR OLD WOMAN, ARE SHOT DEAD AS PRO- GOVERNMENT SNIPERS ATTACK PROTESTORS INTHEYEMENI CAPTIAL FORTHE SECOND DAY RUNNING 17OCTOBER 2011 YEMEN 18 OCTOBER 2011 YEMEN CHANGE SQUARE SEES SOME OF THE WORST VIOLENCE IN MONTHS AS GOVERNMENT LOYALISTS ATTACK REBELS. PROTESTORS ARE SAIDTO BEWRITING THEIR NAMES ACROSS CRACKDOWN CONTINUES UNABATED AS SALEH LOYALISTS ATTACK ANOTHER MASS THEIR CHEST FORIDENTIFICATION AFTER DEATH DEMONSTRATION, KILLING SEVEN PEOPLE AND WOUNDING MORETHAN S0. ALL THE DEAD ARE REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN UNARMED 20 OCTOBER 2011 LIBYA CORNERED BY GOVERNMENT FORCES AND 22 OCTOBER 2011 LIBYA PINNED DOWN BY NATO AIR STRIKES, GADDAFI ISFOUND ALIVETRYING TO FLEE SIRTE. GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE ENSUING CHAOS SUGGESTS GADDAFI'S CORPSE BECOME A MACABRE SPECTACLE AS LIBYANS QUEUE OUTSIDEA STORE TO CONFIRM THAT KDEAw DEAD. THE BOOY OF HIS SON HEQUICKLY MET A BRUTAL END ATTHE HANDS OF HIS CAPTORS MUTASSIM, IS ALSO DISPLAYED FOR LIBYANS TOVIEW 8 NOVEMBER 2011 13 NOVEMBER 2011 SYRIA SYRIA UNESTIMATESTHAT 3 HAVE BEEN KILLED BYT PEUPLEIN SYRIA MEAS MILITARY SAUDL QATARI, FRENCHAND TURKISH CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMS PROTESTORS CONTINUES EMBASSY STORMED BY PRO-ASSAD SUPPORTERS AS REGIME DEMANDS EMERGENCY ARAB LEAGUE MEETING AND VIOLENCE ESCALATES IN HAMA 16 NOVEMBER 2011 18 NOVEMBER 2011 EGYPT SYRIA MEMBERS OF THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY HIT A STRING OF MILITARY BASES NEAR DAMASCUS, INCLUDING ANINTELLIGENCE COMPLEX, IN THOUSANDS GATHER INTAHRIR SQUARE FOR THE FIRST SUCH REPORTED ASSAULT ONA ONE OFTHELARGEST DEMONSTRATIONS MAJOR SECURITY FACILITY INTHE UPRISING SINCE HOSNI MUBARAKWAS OUSTED AND NEW RULERS TOOK OVER THE PROTEST IS AGAINST THEMILITARY JUNTA 19 NOVEMBER 2011 EGYPT EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES OPEN FIRE ON THOUSANDS OF ANTI-JUNTA PROTESTORS IN TAHRIR SQUARE, LEAVING 2 DEAD, MORETHAN 19 NOVEMBER 2011 LIBYA CELEBRATIONS ERUPT IN LIBYA AS MUAMMAR 600 INJURED ANDTHE ABILITY OF AUTHORITIES TO HOLD FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS IN DOUBT GADDAFI'S FUGITIVE SON SAIF AL-ASLAM GADDAFI IS DETAINED WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO FLEE TO NIGER, LEAVING GADDAFIrS INTELLIGENCE CHIEF AS THE LAST FUGITIVE MEMBER OF THE REGIME 20 NOVEMBER 2011 LIBYA ABDULLA AL-SENUSSI DETAINED NEARTO WHERE GADDAFIrs SON WAS CAPTURED MEANS ALL LEADING FIGURES FROM THE GADDAFI 20 NOVEMBER 2011 EGYPT VIOLENCE IN CAIRO CONTINUES FORA SECOND DAY AS SECURITY FORCES USE TEAR GAS, RUBBER BULLETS AND BATONS TO EVICT SEVERAL THOUSAND PROTESTORS FROM TAHRIR SQUARE, LEAVING AT LEAST 3 DEAD. THE PROTESTORS LATER RETAKE THE LANDMARK REGIME HAVE BEEN APPREHENDED, KILLED OR DRIVEN INTO EXILE 21 NOVEMBER 2011 EGYPT 24 NOVEMBER 2011 YEMEN THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT BOWSTO GROWING PRESSURE AND OFFERS RESIGNATION AS VIOLENCE LEAVES 33 PEOPLE DEAD AND MORE PRESIDENT SALEH RESIGNS, BUT JUBILATION THAN 2,000 INJURED IN ONGOING CLASHES THROUGHOUT EGYPT ONTHE STREETS TURNSTO FURY AS SALEH LOYALISTS ATTACK PROTESTORS, SHOOTING FIVE PEOPLE DEAD ANDINJURING DOZENS MORE 25 NOVEMBER 2011 EGYPT 29 NOVEMBER 2011 IRAN A CROWDOF MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE GATHERS IN TAHRIR SQUARE AS A NEW MILITARY APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER TAKES POWER. THE US CALLS FOR CIVILIAN RULE FOLLOWING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PROTESTORS CLASHWITH RIOT POLICE AS IRANIAN STUDENTS STORM THE BRITSH EMBASSY IN TEHRAN. THE PROTESTS WERE SPARKED AFTER LONDON BACKS HARSHER SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN. WILLIAM HAGUE WARNS IRAN OF'SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES 3 DECEMBER 2011 SYRIA 7 DECEMBER 2011 LIBYA AT LEAST 25 PEOPLEKILLEDIN SYRIA IN CASHES BETWEEN SECURITY FORCES AND MILITARY DEFECTORS, ACCORDING TO AN OPPOSTON TRIPOUPLACED IN LOCKDOWN AND SECURITY GROUP. THEVIOLENCE COMES AFTER UN HUMAN FORCES DEPLOYEDACROSSTHE CAPITAL AS RIGHTS CHIEF CALLED ON THE INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT SETSTWOWEEK DEADLINE FOR COMMUNITY TO PROTECT CIVILIANS MILITIA GUNMENTO DISARM OR LEAVE 16 DECEMBER 2011 EGYPT 14 DECEMBER 2011 SYRIA MEN DESCRIBED AS DEFECTORS FROMTHE AT LEAST 3 PEOPLETHOUGHT TO BE SHOT SYRIA ARMED FORCES AMBUSH A CONVOY OF DEAD BY EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES WHO FOUR JEEPS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HAMA MOVED TO CLEARA SIT-IN NEARA GOVERNMENT BUILDING SHOOTING EIGHT SOLDIERS DEAD IN RETALIATION FORCIVILIAN DEATHS NFOGRAPHICCOMMISSONEDBIWWTYRSOLUIONS.COM DESGNBYWWWDESIGNBYSOARCOUK DATA DKENFROMWWWGUNOANCOUK

The 2011 Arab Spring Infographic Timeline

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An infographic timeline covering all the major elements of the Arab Spring in 2011, in each of the major affected countries

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