On 1 February 1979, Air France flight 4721 landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport at 09:27. On board were 120 international journalists and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini had been...

What: Israel waged a three-week military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,400 Palestinians and wounding thousands more. Where: The Gaza Strip When: 27 Dec 2008 – 18...

On 17 December 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire outside the governor’s office, despondent at being unable to earn money and provide for his family....

30 years ago: 5 October 1988 is considered Algeria's Arab Spring

What: After a group of extremist Israelis stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, waves of violence broke out across Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. Where: Jerusalem When: 14 September 2015 What happened? On 13...

On this day in 1993, Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, shook hands after signing the Oslo peace accords, in...

What: Extremist Jewish Israeli settlers attacked the Dawabsheh family home, orphaning Ahmed and killing his parents and baby brother, Ali. Where: Duma village near Nablus, occupied West Bank. When:...

What: Israel installed metal detectors at the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Where: Jerusalem When: 16-25 July 2017 What happened? On 16 July 2017 Israel installed metal detectors...

What: Israel waged aerial, ground and naval war on Lebanon’s Hezbollah Where: Southern Lebanon and northern Israel When: 12 July – 14 August 2006 What happened? Between 12 July...

On this day four years ago, Israel launched one of its deadliest military offensives against the Gaza Strip in recent history. The conflict left 2,251 people dead, with more...

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...

The city of Hama became known as a Brotherhood stronghold and the centre of anti-regime uprisings

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 in 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stepped down after the Jasmine Revolution broke out in the country, giving birth to what became known...

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...