On this day 70 years ago, some 120 members of underground Jewish militia groups invaded the Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin, killing between 100 and 250 people including...

To protest against the new measures, the Palestinian population declared a general strike.  

What: US-led ‘Operation Desert Sabre’ and the Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait Where: Iraq and Kuwait When: 24 – 26 February 1991 What happened? On 24 February 1991, the United...

What: Massacre and siege of Hama Where: Hama, Syria When: 2 February-28 February 1982 What happened? Since the 1940s, clashes between the secular Ba’ath Party of Syria and the...

On this day seven years ago, Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was forced to step down after a three-decade-long presidency while 20,000 protesters spilled onto the streets of...

Government corruption under President Hosni Mubarak was a key focal point of the protests, as demonstrators shouted 'Down with Mubarak' in the streets.

On this day seven years ago, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down after the Jasmine Revolution broke out in the country, giving birth to what became...

On this day 30 years ago, the First Intifada broke out in occupied Palestine. It was an uprising which would last for over five years, and witness the deaths...

On 14 November 2012, Israel launched “Operation Pillar of Defence” against the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. Over the following eight days, almost 175 Palestinians were killed and...

44 years ago, on 6 October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a military campaign to reclaim territories they had lost to Israel six years earlier in 1967. The countries...

On 28 September 2000 then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque with heavily armed Israeli policemen and soldiers provoking a Palestinian uprising that lasted five years and...

Thirty-seven years ago this week the longest and one of the bloodiest wars seen in the 20th century began, when Iraq launched a full scale invasion of Iran. The...

Three years ago today the Ansar Allah armed group – otherwise known as the Houthis – took control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. Led by Abdul Malik Al-Houthi the group...

On 21 August, 1969, an extremist Australian Christian, Dennis Michael Rohan, attempted to set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque; his action had the apparent blessing of the Israeli occupation forces....

Four years ago today 37 Egyptians were gassed to death in a police van outside the Abu Zaabal prison in Cairo. Temperatures outside topped 31 degrees and many had...

Four years ago today the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa square and slaughtered 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country’s first democratically...

What: Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Where: Cairo, Egypt When: July 22-26, 1952 What happened? The Egyptian army’s failures became evident after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 with many of...

On this day a year ago, the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Whilst the coup...

Shortly after dawn prayers on 8 July 2013 Egyptian security forces shot dead 51 protesters who had camped out at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo to call for...

What: Algeria gains independence from France after 132 years Where: Algeria When: 5 July 1962 What Happened? Algeria’s war of independence against colonial France, which had occupied the country...

Four years ago today the Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi. In the aftermath of the coup Egypt’s armed forces suspended the constitution and...

Fifty years ago this month, Israel launched a war against its neighbours and took control of the parts of Palestine which it had failed to capture during its 1948...

Seven years ago, Israeli commandos attacked a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza. The assault took place in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine...

Sixty-nine years ago, the state of Israel was born following the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by Israeli forces. What: The Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) When: 15 May...

What: French massacre of Algerians When: 8 May 1945 Where: Setif, Guelma and surrounding areas What Happened? As Europe celebrated the beginning of the end of World War II...

What: The 1980 Berber Spring Where: Tizi Ouzou, Algeria When: 20 April 1980 What Happened? On 10 March 1980, Algiers’ decision to cancel a conference in the University of...

Find out what happened to Baghdad after the United States led an illegal international coalition to invade Iraq on 20 March 2003.

Summary: 29 years ago today, thousands of Iraqi Kurds were killed when their village of Halabja was gassed in the closing months of the Iran-Iraq War.  What: Mass killing...

What: 1992 elections are cancelled by the military Where: Algeria When:  11 January 1992 What happened? By October 1988, Algerians’ anger was made tangible for the country’s ruling National...

The Ottomans surrendered Jerusalem to Britain on 9 December 1917

By the end of the First Intifada in 1993, 1,489 Palestinians and 185 Israelis had been killed

1.5 million people perished in the seven and a half year Algerian War which erupted in 1954