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March 30, 2018
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Nasim Ahmed
To protest against the new measures, the Palestinian population declared a general strike.
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February 24, 2018
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Rebecca Stead
On 24 February 1991, the United States of America and its coalition partners began “Operation Desert Sabre”, the ground invasion of southern Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait.
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February 12, 2018
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Yasmina Allouche
The city of Hama became known as a Brotherhood stronghold and the centre of anti-regime uprisings
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February 11, 2018
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Khalil Dewan
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 the capital, Sana’a.
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January 25, 2018
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Rebecca Stead
Government corruption under President Hosni Mubarak was a key focal point of the protests, as demonstrators shouted 'Down with Mubarak' in the streets.
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January 14, 2018
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Jehan Alfarra
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...
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December 9, 2017
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Hana Hussain
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...
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November 14, 2017
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Hana Hussain
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...
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October 6, 2017
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Nasim Ahmed
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
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September 28, 2017
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Hana Hussain
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
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September 22, 2017
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Nasim Ahmed
22 September 1980 marked the beginning of one of the longest and bloodiest wars in Middle East history
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September 21, 2017
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Khalil Dewan
On 21 September 2014, the Houthis in Yemen took over the capital Sanaa
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August 21, 2017
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Hana Hussain
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....
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August 18, 2017
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Amelia Smith
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...
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August 14, 2017
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Amelia Smith
In mid-August 2013, 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 elected...
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July 23, 2017
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Yasmina Allouche
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...
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July 15, 2017
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Hana Hussain
On this day in 2016, the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Whilst the coup was...
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July 8, 2017
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Amelia Smith
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...
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Algeria’s war of independence against colonial France, which had occupied the country for 132 years, began on 1 November 1954
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July 3, 2017
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Amelia Smith
On this day: The Egyptian army overthrew the country’s first democratically elected leader, Mohammed Morsi
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May 31, 2017
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Nasim Ahmed
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...
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May 15, 2017
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Nasim Ahmed
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...
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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...
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April 20, 2017
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Yasmina Allouche
On 10 March 1980, Algiers' decision to cancel a conference in the University of Tizi Ouzou by renowned Kabyle (Berber) poet Mouloud Mammaeri because of the "risk of public unrest" sparked a rebellion
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April 10, 2017
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
Find out what happened to Baghdad after the United States led an illegal international coalition to invade Iraq on 20 March 2003.
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March 16, 2017
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
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...
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January 11, 2017
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Yasmina Allouche
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...
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December 14, 2016
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Jehan Alfarra
The Ottomans surrendered Jerusalem to Britain on 9 December 1917
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December 8, 2016
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Yasmina Allouche
By the end of the First Intifada in 1993, 1,489 Palestinians and 185 Israelis had been killed
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November 1, 2016
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Yasmina Allouche
1.5 million people perished in the seven and a half year Algerian War which erupted in 1954
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October 17, 2016
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Yasmina Allouche
On this day in 1961, hundreds of Algerians were massacred by French police and had their bodies thrown in the River Seine.