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Year
Key Developments
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2010
December: the Boua`zizi incident
December: The ousting of Zine al-'Abadin Ben Ali in Tunisia -
2011
January: Tahrir Square events in Cairo
February: Mubarak's resignation
February: Public protests begin in Libya
January-February: Public protests in the Gulf states, Jordan, Algeria, and Morocco
April: The Civil War breaks out in Syria
May: The Civil War breaks out in Yemen
October: Parliamentary elections in Tunisia
October: Execution of Muammar Qadhafi
November-December: Egyptian parliamentary elections -
2012
February: Ali Abdullah Saleh is ousted as president of Yemen
June: The Muslim Brotherhood wins the Egyptian presidential elections -
2013
June-July: Morsi is ousted in Egypt and al-Sisi rises to power
August: The Ghouta Chemical Attack by Assad's regime -
2014
January: Raqqa and Fallujah are captured by ISIS
April: Parliamentary elections in Tunisia
May: The Second Civil War erupts in Libya
June: ISIS seizes control of Mosul and establishes the Islamic State
July-August: Operation "Protective Edge" in the Gaza Strip
August: The international campaign against ISIS begins -
2015
January: The Houthis take control of Sana'a
March-April: Operations Decisive Storm and Restoring Hope in Yemen
November: ISIS carries out a series of lethal terror attacks in France -
2016
February: A ceasefire between the Assad regime and rebel groups is reached
July: ISIS activist carries out mass truck-ramming attack in Nice -
2017
June: Arab states sever diplomatic relations with Qatar
May-June: ISIS carries out a series of lethal terror attacks in the UK
June-October: al-Raqqa and Mosul are liberated from the Islamic State
December: Houthis in Yemen kill Ali Abdullah Saleh -
2018
April: The Douma Chemical Attack by Assad's regime, followed by the West's military strikes against the Syrian government
May: The U.S. Embassy is moved to Jerusalem -
2019
June: The Manama Conference
September: Iran attacks Saudi oil installations
October: The second wave of the Arab Spring begins in Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Algeria
October: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed
October: The U.S. withdraws from North Syria and Turkey invades it
October: Presidential elections in Tunisia
December: Presidential elections in Algeria -
2020
January: U.S. air strike kills Qasem Soleimani
January: The Trump Peace Plan ("Deal of the Century") is announced
January: Turkish intervention in the war in Libya is deepened
September: Israel, the U.A.E and Bahrain normalize their relations (the signing of the Abraham Accords)
October: Israel and Sudan also normalize their relations
November: Biden is elected U.S. President
December: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of the Iranian military nuclear program, is assassinated
December: The Israel-Morocco normalization agreement is announced
