The 1932 census, the last official count · SSNP founded (16 Nov 1932)
The Franco-Lebanese Treaty of 1936 · Kataeb Party founded (21 Nov 1936)
Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon and the independence pledge
1943 parliamentary elections · Bechara El Khoury elected the first president of independent Lebanon · First post-independence government · Arrest of the independence leaders at Rashaya · The lira at independence: tied to the French franc · 22 November 1943: Independence Day, the leaders released
Lebanon a founding member of the Arab League · Lebanese Army established (1 Aug 1945)
Withdrawal of the last French troops
Monetary agreement with France: the lira leaves the franc · The Nakba · Hula massacre
The Arab defeat in the 1948 war · Lebanon–Israel armistice signed at Naqoura · Coup in Syria · Progressive Socialist Party founded · The SSNP coup attempt · Execution of Antoun Saadeh
End of the Lebanese–Syrian customs union
1951 parliamentary elections · Assassination of Riad al-Solh
Nasser's revolution in Egypt · Resignation of Bechara el-Khoury
Nationalisation of the Suez Canal · The Tripartite Aggression on Egypt
Lebanon accepts the Eisenhower Doctrine · 1957 parliamentary elections · The Miziara massacre
Founding of the United Arab Republic · Uprisings across Lebanon · Coup in Iraq · US Marines land in Beirut · Election of Fouad Chehab · National Liberal Party founded (Chamoun)
Security clampdown on the Palestinian camps · Founding of Fatah
1960 parliamentary elections · Chehab resigns, then withdraws his resignation
Officers' coup in Syria · The SSNP coup attempt against Chehab
Banque du Liban begins operations · 1964 parliamentary elections · Founding of the PLO
The Six-Day War · Marada Brigade founded · PFLP-GC founded (George Habash)
1968 parliamentary elections · Arafat takes the lead; "Fatahland" takes shape · PFLP-GC founded (Jibril) · Hijacking of El Al flight 426 · Attack on El Al flight 253 in Athens · Israeli raid on Beirut airport
Attack on El Al flight 432 in Zurich · The 23 April 1969 clashes and the seven-month cabinet crisis · Israeli attack on the South · Hijacking of TWA flight 840 · Army–fedayeen clashes before the Cairo Agreement · The Cairo Agreement
Capture of an Israeli soldier · Attack on Kfar Kila · The Communist Party announces the "Popular Guard" to defend southern villages · Avivim school-bus attack launched from Lebanon · Attempt on Wadie Haddad · Attempt on George Habash · Hijacking of Olympic Airways flight 255 · Chehab declines to run again · Election of Suleiman Frangieh · Four airliners hijacked · Black September · Death of Gamal Abdel Nasser · Hafez al-Assad's coup in Syria
Prisoner exchange · The PLO leadership and forces move from Jordan to Lebanon · Army commander Jean Njeim killed in a helicopter crash
Four-day Israeli incursion into the south · 1972 parliamentary elections · Hijacking of Sabena flight 571 · Lod airport attack · Israeli ambush in South Lebanon · Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani · The Munich operation · Israeli air raids on Syria and Lebanon · Israeli incursion into the South · Hijacking of Lufthansa flight 615 · Ghandour factory protests · The 11 November massacre · Kamal Jumblatt's demonstration
The Verdun operation · The army and the camps · Arab boycott of Lebanon · The Melkart Agreement · Mossad operation in Tripoli · The October War · The rise of Saudi Arabia
Founding of the Movement of the Deprived · Kiryat Shmona attack from Lebanon · Israeli reprisal raids on southern villages after Kiryat Shmona · The Ma'alot operation · Bombing of the Nabatieh camp after Maalot · Dekwaneh clashes
Assassination of Maarouf Saad · Army withdrawal from Sidon · Shots at Pierre Gemayel's motorcade · The Ain el-Remmaneh bus · Government demands the dissolution of the Kataeb · Resignation of Prime Minister Rashid al-Solh · Fighting in West Beirut, Tel al-Zaatar and Tripoli · Snipers and identity-card kidnapping checkpoints · First official ceasefire · A military government appointed · Black Thursday 1975 · Rashid Karami's government appointed · Guardians of the Cedars founded · LNM announces its reform programme · Army commander Iskandar Ghanem dismissed · Beit Mellat massacre · The Battle of the Hotels · Black Saturday
Bashir Gemayel begins secret visits to Israel · Siege of Tel al-Zaatar begins · Fall of the Dbayeh camp · Karantina massacre · Palestine Liberation Army intervenes · Damour massacre · Looting · The army splits: the Arab Army of Lebanon · Siege of Camille Chamoun at Saadiyat; residence looted and burned · Frangieh–Syria settlement · Ahmad al-Khatib seizes the southern barracks · Fedayeen move into Khiyam and its barracks · Aziz al-Ahdab's coup attempt · The Akkar brigade breaks away · The "Army of Legality" (Free Lebanon Army) breaks away · Fouad Malik's "Army of Lebanon" breaks away · First Kataeb contact with Israel: Abu Khalil's trip · Fall of the Holiday Inn · Baabda palace shelled; Frangieh moves to Kfour · Assad–Jumblatt meeting (the seven hours) · US envoy Dean Brown's visit · Israel's red lines · First extension of the 1972 parliament · Election of Elias Sarkis · Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt's sister · Frangieh requests Syrian intervention · The Syrian army enters officially · Vanguards of the Lebanese Arab Army formed · Clashes with the Syrian army · Assassination of the US ambassador · Hijacking of Air France flight 139 · Fall of the Jisr al-Basha camp · Chekka massacre · Israel's "Good Fence" policy opens the border to southern villagers · Tel al-Zaatar massacre · Founding of the Lebanese Forces · Attack on a Damascus hotel · The Maani Vanguards break away (Druze Jihad Organisation) · Saad Haddad's mutiny · Arab ceasefire (Riyadh mini-summit) · Aishiyeh massacre · The Arab Deterrent Force enters · Frangieh leaves the Lebanese Front · Attempt on Raymond Eddé · The Kataeb set up the first "canton," reaching Batroun on the edge of Marada territory
Haddad's militia takes Khiyam · Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt · Revenge killings in the Chouf after Jumblatt's assassination · The fedayeen retake Khiyam · The Shtura agreement on applying the Cairo accord · Attack on St George's church in Brih · Renewed fighting over Khiyam · Sadat at the Knesset
Fayadieh attack · The Lebanese Revolutionary Army Movement · The Coastal Road operation (Dalal Mughrabi) · The Litani invasion · Occupation of Khiyam · Khiyam massacre · Resolution 425 · UNIFIL arrives at Naqoura · Assassination of Wadie Haddad · Haddad's militia shells UNIFIL headquarters · Kaukaba clash between the Norwegian battalion and the fedayeen · Joud al-Bayeh killed in Zgharta · Ehden massacre · Handover of the border strip to Saad Haddad's militia · Syrian retaliation at Qaa · The Hundred Days' War · Disappearance of Sayyed Musa al-Sadr · The Camp David Accords · Security Council resolution to halt the Syrian shelling · Beiteddine conference · Assassination of Captain Samir al-Ashkar
The Arab force withdraws from Lebanon · Assassination of Abu Hassan Salameh · The Islamic Revolution in Iran · Attempt on Gemayel · Egypt–Israel peace treaty · The "State of Free Lebanon" · The Samir Kuntar operation · Founding of the "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners"
Battle of Qnat · Abduction and killing of the journalist Salim al-Lawzi · Siege of the Irish battalion at At Tiri · Two Irish soldiers executed by Haddad's militia · Arming of the Druze · Safra massacre · Assassination of Riad Taha, head of the press syndicate · Assassination attempt on US Ambassador John Gunther Dean · Iraq invades Iran · Battle of Zahle begins
Fighting in East and West Beirut · Full Syrian siege of Zahle begins · Bashir Gemayel asks Israel to intervene in Zahle · The Zahle war · Syria deploys SAM-6 missiles in the Bekaa · The Forces withdraw from Zahle · The Fakhani bombing · Fighting in the South · The Saudi peace initiative · Assassination of the French ambassador · Car bomb at the Joint Forces HQ in Sidon, and the Chekka blast · Car bomb outside PLO offices in Fakhani · The Azbakiyah bombing in Damascus · Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut: the first suicide car bombing
Ghazi Kanaan heads Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon from Anjar · Amal fights a pro-Saddam group · French embassy bombing in Beirut · Attempt on ambassador Shlomo Argov in London · The Israeli invasion of Lebanon · Battle of Beaufort castle · Battle of the Ain al-Hilweh camp · The Beqaa air battle: Operation Mole Cricket 19 · Battle of Sultan Yacoub · Battle of Khalde · The National Salvation Committee · The siege of Beirut begins · Hussein al-Musawi breaks from Amal and founds Islamic Amal · Kidnapping of the Iranian diplomats · Ansar detention camp opened · Kidnapping of David Dodge · Black Thursday: the heaviest bombing of Beirut · The PLO leaves Lebanon · Election of Bachir Gemayel · The Multinational Force arrives · The Bhamdoun operation: eight Israeli soldiers captured · The Deir al-Qamar speech: "the 10,452 km²" · Assassination of Bachir Gemayel · The Israeli army occupies West Beirut · Sabra and Shatila massacre · Launch of the Lebanese National Resistance Front (Jammoul) · The Wimpy operation: Khaled Alwan shoots Israeli officers in Hamra · Israel withdraws from West Beirut · The Ahmad Qassir operation
Car bomb in Chtaura · Bombing of the Palestine Research Center in Beirut · Kahan Commission report · Ali Safieddine suicide operation at Deir Qanoun al-Nahr · US embassy bombing · The 17 May Agreement · Bir al-Abed mosque demonstration · David Dodge released · The National Salvation Front formed · Escape from Ansar camp · Car bomb in the Baalbek market · Army–Amal fighting in West Beirut · Israel withdraws from the Mountain and Beirut · The Mountain War · Kfarmatta massacre · Fall of Bhamdoun to the Druze · Battle of Souk el-Gharb 1983 · The Hawker Hunters' first and last combat sorties · Ashura uprising in Nabatieh · Marine and French paratrooper barracks bombings · The Geneva national dialogue conference · Battle of Tripoli: the Palestinian dissidents against Arafat · Second Tyre suicide operation on the Israeli intelligence HQ · US air strike on Syrian positions, pilot Goodman captured · The Chiyah bombing · Sea evacuation of Deir el-Qamar · Arafat leaves Tripoli · The Sabra-Shatila battle between the army and Amal
Death of Saad Haddad · AUB president Malcolm Kerr assassinated · Fourteen-year-old Nazih Qubrusli attacks an Israeli patrol in Sidon · The 6 February uprising · The Sixth Brigade mutinies · The lira begins to slide · The national parties take West Beirut · USS New Jersey shells the Mountain: 288 rounds · Collapse of the 4th Brigade and the fall of Damour · Assassination of Sheikh Ragheb Harb · US Marines withdraw from Beirut · Lebanon abrogates the May 17 Agreement · The Lausanne conference · Kidnapping of William Buckley · Antoine Lahd appointed · Bombing of the US embassy annex in Awkar · Sohmor massacre · Peter Kilburn kidnapped
Hezbollah's open letter · Israel withdraws from Sidon · The Maarake mosque bombing and the killing of Mohammad Saad · Bir al-Abed bombing · Abu Zeinab (Amer Kalakesh) operation near Metula · The Zrariyeh massacre · The 12 March revolt: Geagea against Amin Gemayel · Terry Anderson kidnapped · Fighting east of Sidon · French diplomats Carton and Fontaine kidnapped · The Sanaa Mehaidli operation · Amal and the PSP crush al-Mourabitoun · Israel withdraws from Tyre · The War of the Camps · Michel Seurat and Jean-Paul Kauffmann kidnapped · Beirut car bomb: 48 killed · Thomas Sutherland kidnapped · Israel withdraws to the security belt · Hijacking of a US airliner (TWA 847) · Damascus ceasefire between Amal and the Palestinian Salvation Front · The Kfar Tibnit crossing operation · Two East Beirut car bombs: 65 killed · William Buckley's execution announced · The Tripartite Agreement
Geagea ousts Hobeika · Two Israeli soldiers captured · Death of French hostage Michel Seurat announced · Nasrallah to al-Khaleej: civil war and resistance · Third round of the War of the Camps · Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona hit a school · Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield kidnapped · US air raid on Libya · Three hostages killed after the US raid on Libya · John McCarthy kidnapped · Syrian commandos enter West Beirut · Frank Reed kidnapped · Joseph Cicippio kidnapped · Storming of the Sojod and Bir Kallab positions on Jabal al-Rihan · Battle of the Rashidieh camp · Assassination of Sheikh Subhi al-Saleh · Capture of Ron Arad · The Iran–Contra affair breaks · Amal's positions in Sidon taken · Jabal Safi engagement · Dallafeh operation and the first captured APC · Ceasefire between Amal and the pro-Syrian factions
Last signs of life from Ron Arad: three letters and two photos · Capture of the Barachit and Beit Yahoun positions and an M113 · Terry Waite kidnapped · Beirut University College professors kidnapped · Storming of the Ali al-Taher position · Relief trucks shelled at the entrance of Burj al-Barajneh · Flag War: Amal driven out of West Beirut · Assassination of Hussein Mroueh, then Mahdi Amel · The Syrian army enters West Beirut · Fathallah barracks massacre · Shumariya and Alman battles: 19 resistance fighters killed · Operation "Badr al-Kubra" on Jabal Safi and Jezzine · Assassination of Rashid Karami · The Night of the Gliders · The first intifada · Founding of Hamas · The lira passes 500 to the dollar
Air strikes on Ain al-Hilweh and the Sidon coast · Kidnapping of William Higgins · Amal–Hezbollah fighting · Gemayel flies to Larnaca to meet Secretary of State Shultz · The Maydoun battle · Last French hostages released · Fighting in the southern suburbs · Syrian troops enter the southern suburbs after two weeks of bargaining with Iran · Zillaya–Didbeh hills clash; commander Mohammad Bjeiji killed · Founding of al-Qaeda · The Haitham Dabbouq martyrdom operation · Libbaya–Bir al-Dahr clash; commander Abu Ali Shahla killed · Richard Murphy: "Mikhael Daher or chaos" · End of Amine Gemayel's term · Two governments · The Forces seize Kataeb positions · Abdallah Atwi suicide operation at the Fatima Gate · General Sami al-Khatib named to lead the army in West Beirut · The Souha Bechara operation
First Iqlim al-Tuffah round · Hezbollah–Amal ceasefire · al-Wahda al-Islamiya interview: Shiite reconciliation · Army–Lebanese Forces clashes · Attempt on Geagea · The War of Liberation · Assassination of the Sunni Mufti · Abduction of Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid · Execution of Col. William Higgins announced · The Sheikh Asaad Berro operation · The Battle of Souk el-Gharb · The ceasefire that opened the road to Taif · The Taif Agreement · Aoun rejects Taif · Election of René Moawad · Election of Sheikh Sobhi Tufayli · Aoun supporters storm Bkerke · Assassination of René Moawad · Election of Elias Hrawi · Khiam prison uprising · Emile Lahoud appointed army commander · Resignation of Sami al-Khatib
Elias al-Zayek assassinated · The War of Elimination · Double attack on the Jisr al-Hamra and Bayyada positions · Barghouz–Ahmadiyeh bomb destroys an APC and a jeep · Storming of the Zimriya position and a twelve-hour battle in the Western Beqaa · Israeli commandos repelled · Robert Polhill released · Frank Reed released · Siege of Iqlim al-Tuffah · Mitterrand pardons Anis Naccache and his comrades · Iraq invades Kuwait, Syria joins the coalition · Syrian army assault on Baabda palace · End of the civil war · Dahr al-Wahsh massacre · Assassination of Dany Chamoun and his family · Amal–Hezbollah agreement ends the war
First Merkava tank destroyed near al-Ahmadiya · Decision to disarm the militias · Ambush of an SLA patrol in the Western Beqaa · Election of Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi · The Treaty of Brotherhood, Cooperation and Coordination with Syria · The heaviest Israeli raids since 1982 · Appointment of forty MPs · The Battle of Sidon · Blida ambush: deputy commander of the western sector killed · Kfar Houna ambush · John McCarthy released · The general amnesty law · Aoun leaves for exile in France · Exchange: 51 Khiam detainees for the body of an Israeli soldier · Fifteen detainees freed from Khiam and Israeli prisons · The Madrid peace conference · Lahd's militia kills an Irish UNIFIL soldier · Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland released · Two bombs on the Tallouseh–Markaba road · Twenty-five detainees freed from Khiam · Joseph Cicippio released · Release of the foreign hostages · Collapse of the Soviet Union · Storming of the Rshaf position · The Basta bombing
Assassination of Sayyed Abbas al-Musawi · First use of Katyusha rockets · Nasrallah's first speech as secretary-general · Kafra–Yater clashes: the Katyusha enters the equation · As-Safir interview after Musawi's assassination · The "hunger uprising" · Resignation of Omar Karami's government · Six-day Israeli air offensive · Attack on twelve positions and capture of four SLA men at Alman · Hezbollah enters political life · 1992 parliamentary elections · An-Nahar interview: "victory at the polls" · The lira at its lowest: about 2,800 to the dollar · Killing of Hussein Abdel-Nabi, SLA security chief in Bint Jbeil · Rebuilding Beirut · Hezbollah volunteers in Bosnia
The July aggression (Operation Accountability) · Shihine bombs: nine soldiers killed a week after the July Understanding · Nasrallah on the "first understanding" after Operation Accountability · The Oslo Accords · The September massacre (airport road) · Tallousa attack and capture of twelve SLA militiamen
Lebanon's trains stop · Ambush kills four Israeli soldiers · Our Lady of Deliverance church bombing · Rihan ambush and the destruction of a Merkava · Lebanese Forces dissolved · Samir Geagea arrested · Abduction of Mustafa Dirani · Ain Kawkab massacre · Twenty Katyushas on the Galilee in reply to the Ain Kawkab massacre · Bus bombings in Israel · Attack deep inside the Marjayoun sector · Capture of the Dabsheh position, Hezbollah flag raised on its summit
Clinton freezes assets of 12 organisations incl. Hezbollah (EO 12947) · Nasrallah honouring journalists: "the only organisation with deposits in America is Fatah" · Assassination of commander Abu Ali Rida Yassine · Thirty Katyushas on the Galilee after the killing of Rida Yassin: "the July understanding no longer binds" · The Salah Ghandour martyrdom operation · Press conference naming Salah Ghandour: "the initiative is in the resistance's hands" · Nasrallah's eulogy for Salah Ghandour · Second attack on the Dabsheh position · Attack on the Barachit position · Samir Geagea sentenced · Israel breaches the understanding · Assassination of Sheikh Nizar al-Halabi, head of al-Ahbash · Israeli officer killed at Adaisseh · Elias Hrawi's term extended
Aishiyeh and Mahmoudiya attacks: ten Israeli soldiers killed · The Ali Ashmar martyrdom operation · The April aggression ("Grapes of Wrath") · The Mansouri ambulance strike · Qana massacre · The Nabatieh Fawka massacre · The April Understanding · Nasrallah on the April Understanding · Two bombs in central Marjayoun: three officers and a sergeant killed · Attack on the Dabsheh position: five killed including two officers · Prisoner exchange · 1996 parliamentary elections · The Jarmaq plain–Aishiyeh operation · Ambush of General Amitai's convoy · The Markaba–Adaisseh road operation
Shumariya bomb: three killed by Israeli admission · The helicopter disaster: 73 Israeli soldiers killed · Capture of the Sojod position · Jabal al-Dahr ambush after the Sojod raid · The hunger revolt · Golani raid on al-Kfour · Sidon massacre: Israeli shells on a residential quarter · Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona in reply to the Sidon massacre · Wadi Saluki: Israeli friendly fire · The Ansariyeh ambush · Jabal al-Rafi clashes · Nasrallah on his son Hadi's death · The raids after Jabal al-Rafi: six Lebanese soldiers killed · Attacks on Israeli command convoys · A Sagger missile hits a second tank · The Lebanese Brigades founded · Day of the Wounded: "no remains-for-bodies swap, the prisoners come first" · Lira pegged at 1,507.5 to the dollar
Support Committee iftar: 1997 in review, "the resistance needs money, not men" · Clashes with Tufayli · Attack on the Blat position in the western sector · Raids on Palestinian camps · Nasrallah on "conditional withdrawal": no negotiation over 425 · Israel's cabinet offers a conditional implementation of resolution 425 · Nasrallah's speech "on the Jews" · Bomb seventy-five metres from the border · The exchange · Raid and roadside bomb operation · Simultaneous attack on eighteen positions and the storming of Haddatha · Bashar al-Assad takes the Lebanon file from Khaddam; Shihabi retires · "Serious failure" at Sojod: hand-to-hand fight and the flag raised · Release of Souha Bechara after ten years in Khiam · Election of Emile Lahoud · Honouring martyrs' families: "we faced the myth of the invincible army; now they face the invincible martyr" · Bomb at the border fence kills two soldiers and cuts short Netanyahu's European tour · "Desert Fox": US–British strikes on Iraq
Support Committee iftar: 1,352 operations in 1998 and an outstretched hand to the Lahoud era · Ambush of a Givati unit · Jabbour ambush: paratroop commander Eitan Balhasan killed · The Arnoun uprising · Israel's southern commander killed · Ashura 1999: "wait for the resistance at the doors of your houses and your bedrooms" · Twenty attacks along the front and Sojod stormed again · The Beit Yahoun operation · Barak elected on a pledge to leave Lebanon within a year · Beit Yahoun reception speech: "Barak is weaker than a spider's web" · Withdrawal from Jezzine · Four judges assassinated · "Towards liberation": no trust in Barak's pledge · Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: first Israeli civilian deaths since 1995 · SLA shelling kills a civilian in the south · Raids on the power stations · Assassination of commander Ali Hassan Deeb "Abu Hassan Salameh" in Sidon · The Ammar Hammoud martyrdom operation · The Dinniyeh events · Quds Day 1999: "the enemy before you is weaker than a spider's web", to the Palestinians before the liberation
Assassination of Aql Hashem · Two missiles on an Israeli convoy: three killed · Apache strike on Ibrahim Aqil's car in Barish · Air strikes on the Baalbek, Deir Nbouh and Jamhour power stations · Operation kills five Israeli soldiers · Thirteen prisoners released from Ayalon prison · The Aramta operation · Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: the fiercest salvo in a year · Israeli shelling kills two Lebanese women · Strikes on the Bsalim power station: Lebanon in the dark three weeks before the withdrawal · Storming of the Bayyada position 72 hours before the withdrawal · Fall of Taibeh and the start of the strip's collapse · Lahd's militia collapses · Khiyam prison freed · Nasrallah to Lahad's men on the eve of the withdrawal: "in their homes and in their beds" · Liberation · The Hoss cabinet declares 25 May "Resistance and Liberation Day" a public holiday · The "spider's web" speech · Death of Hafez al-Assad · The UN certifies the withdrawal and draws the Blue Line · 2000 parliamentary elections · The Maronite bishops' appeal · The second intifada · The Shebaa Farms capture operation · al-Rai al-Aam interview on the second intifada · Capture of Israeli colonel Elhanan Tannenbaum
First Shebaa Farms operation after the capture of the three soldiers · Shebaa Farms attack: one soldier killed · Strike on a Syrian radar at Dahr al-Baidar, first on Syrian forces in Lebanon since 1996 · The Qornet Shehwan gathering · Patriarch Sfeir's visit to the Chouf: the Mountain reconciliation · The 7 August 2001 crackdown on Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese Forces activists · Justice Palace clashes · The 11 September attacks · Hezbollah answers overflights with anti-aircraft fire · The war on terror · Washington lists Hezbollah after 9/11; Lebanon refuses to freeze its assets · Nasrallah on 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan
Assassination of Elie Hobeika · Hezbollah members detained in Jordan over arms smuggling to the intifada · The Arab summit in Beirut · Shelling of a patrol and four Shebaa Farms posts as the West Bank invasion begins · Tank destroyed at Ruwaisat al-Qarn by a direct missile hit · Storming of the Ruwaisat al-Alam post during the West Bank invasion · Rustom Ghazaleh succeeds Ghazi Kanaan at Anjar · The Wazzani water crisis · The Paris II conference
Nasrallah against the Iraq invasion · The US invasion of Iraq · Collapse of Bank al-Madina; Rustom Ghazaleh accused of siphoning $72m · Mahdi Army founded · Assassination of Ali Saleh · Assassination of Sayyed Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim · The Kennedy-Lugar YES exchange programme for school students · Assassination attempt on Sheikh Yassin and Haniyeh in Gaza · Israel's cabinet approves the German-mediated exchange with Hezbollah · The Syria Accountability Act · Capture of Saddam Hussein
Israeli bulldozer destroyed after crossing into Lebanon · The exchange deal · Assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin · First Mahdi Army uprising in Najaf and Kufa · Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi assassinated · The Abu Ghraib scandal · The shrouds march in Beirut for Najaf and Karbala · The Hay al-Sellom events · Transfer of power in Iraq · Assassination of commander Ghaleb Awali · Two Israeli soldiers sniped near Zarit in reply to the Awali assassination · Battle of Najaf: Mahdi Army against US forces · Resolution 1559 · Emile Lahoud's term extended · The Majdal Anjar events · Ismail al-Khatib dies in custody; Majdal Anjar protests · Attempt on Marwan Hamadeh · Zarqawi pledges to bin Laden: al-Qaeda in Iraq · The Mirsad-1 drone
Israeli officer killed in Shebaa Farms · Israeli bulldozer destroyed at Zabdine hill · Assassination of Rafik Hariri · Nasrallah the night after Hariri's assassination: "we must not rush to accuse" · Resignation of Omar Karami's government · The "thank you Syria" speech · 14 March: the "Cedar Revolution" · Second Mirsad-1 flight over the Galilee · Families of Lebanese detained in Syria begin their sit-in at ESCWA · The Syrian army withdraws from Lebanon · Michel Aoun returns from exile · The quadripartite electoral alliance of 2005 · 2005 parliamentary elections begin (four rounds) · Samir Kassir assassinated · George Hawi assassinated · The general amnesty · Fouad Siniora's government · Samir Geagea released · Detlev Mehlis appointed · The Baghdad al-Aimmah bridge stampede · Israel withdraws from Gaza · Free Patriotic Movement registered as a party · Attempt on May Chidiac · Ghazi Kanaan found dead in his Damascus office: "suicide" · First Mehlis report: the four generals and the "false witnesses" · The Ghajar confrontation: attempt to capture Israeli soldiers · Ghajar martyrs speech: "Who are you?" · Mass graves near the former Syrian intelligence headquarters at Anjar · Gebran Tueni assassinated · Khaddam defects: Bashar threatened Hariri
Burning of the Danish consulate in Ashrafieh · The Mar Mikhael understanding · Ashura speech against the cartoons of the Prophet · Bombing of the al-Askari shrine · The "shrouds" demonstrations in Dahiyeh · The national dialogue table · Assassination of the Majzoub brothers · Dahieh protests over the "Basmat Watan" sketch · Nasrallah's press conference after the "Basmat Watan" protests · Killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi · The Mahmoud Rafeh network exposed: a Mossad cell behind assassinations since 1999 · Capture of Gilad Shalit · Assault on Gaza · Operation "Truthful Promise" · The July 2006 war · Nasrallah's press conference after the capture · Airport and bridges bombed, the blockade begins: Dweir the first massacre · Saudi statement: "uncalculated adventures", full responsibility on the resistance · Nasrallah: "look at it burning" (INS Hanit hit) · The corvette Hanit hit off Beirut · Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq founded · Marwahin massacre: a convoy of displaced villagers under UNIFIL's eyes · Second wartime appeal: Haifa and beyond · First rocket barrage on Haifa: eight killed at the train depot · Jamhour barracks strike: 11 Lebanese soldiers killed, the Rmeileh convoy massacre · Jumblatt and Hariri: "the adventurers" and "monopolising the decision of war" · Aitaroun massacre: nine killed in the Awada house · The day of seventy martyrs: Srifa, Nabi Sheet and Salaa · Battle of Maroun al-Ras: the first ground engagement · Nasrallah: "if the whole universe came it could not recover the two prisoners without negotiations" · Al Jazeera interview: no release without an exchange; Berri the only channel · Rice: "the birth pangs of a new Middle East" · Broadcast masts bombed, bunker-busting bombs rushed in · Destruction of the Qaem, Sayyed al-Shuhada and Zahraa complexes · Rice's surprise visit to Beirut and the "Siniora kiss" · Apache downed, raid into Avivim · The "beyond beyond Haifa" address: no humiliating terms · Four UN observers killed at the Khiam post · The Rome conference and Siniora's seven points · The Bint Jbeil epic: the Saff al-Hawa ambushes · Security cabinet: no wider ground push, tens of thousands of reservists called up · First Khaibar-1 rocket on Afula: "beyond Haifa" begins · The fighters' letter from the border: "we are your truthful promise" · Appeal: "in the battle of wills we will not break" · Nmairiyeh and Ain Arab massacres, humanitarian truce refused · The second Qana massacre · Berri and Siniora after Qana: negotiations halted, ceasefire first · Second Saar corvette hit off Bayyada, five tanks destroyed · The Dar al-Hikma raid in Baalbek: 18 killed and five abducted · Aita al-Shaab school ambush: 15 Golani casualties · Three hundred rockets in a day, Beit Shean at 70 kilometres · Nasrallah: if you bomb Beirut we bomb Tel Aviv · 150 rockets in an hour: eight killed in Acre and the north · The Qaa massacre: 34 Syrian farm workers · Khaibar on Hadera: 75 kilometres, the Ramat David and Yoav bases · Shayetet 13 landing foiled at Shabriha on the heaviest day of raids · Kfar Giladi: 12 reservists killed by two rockets, and Haifa's "hardest day" · Siniora's tears before the Arab foreign ministers in Beirut · The Chiyah massacre: the displaced families' building near the Hajjaj mosque · The second Ghaziyeh massacre: the funeral of the previous day's dead bombed · Message on the seven points and the draft UN resolution · The day of fifteen: Debel and Taibeh, and the push to the Litani approved · Israeli troops take the Marjayoun barracks and the "tea" scandal · The Markaba and Khiam plain battles: 18 killed and 15 tanks · UNSC resolution 1701 · Strike on the Marjayoun evacuation convoy: seven killed · The Hissa bridge massacre and the Super Dvora boat hit · Wadi al-Hujeir: the "Merkava massacre" and the biggest airlift since 1973 · The last day: 250 rockets, the failed Boudai raid, the pre-ceasefire massacres · The "strategic and historic victory" speech and the reconstruction pledge · Cessation of hostilities and the return of the displaced: Olmert admits failings · The Stockholm reconstruction conference · The Winograd Commission · "Divine Victory" rally · US security assistance to the army and ISF: over $2.5 billion since 2006 · Islamic State of Iraq declared · Assassination of Pierre Gemayel · The downtown sit-in · Nasrallah: "the Feltman government" · Execution of Saddam Hussein
8 March–14 March confrontations · Shooting at the Arab University · The Paris III conference · Two buses bombed in Ain Alaq · Jumblatt's 14 February 2007 speech: "tyrant of Damascus, an ape nature never knew" · Kata'ib Hezbollah (Iraq) founded · The Battle of Nahr al-Bared · The international tribunal · Assassination of Walid Eido · UNIFIL patrol bombed · Future Movement constituted as a party · Assassination of Antoine Ghanem · Limited exchange: Gabriel Dawit's body for a prisoner and two bodies · End of Emile Lahoud's term · Assassination of General François al-Hajj
Assassination of officer Wissam Eid · The Mar Mikhael events: "Black Sunday" in Chiyah · Assassination of commander Imad Mughniyeh · Jumblatt's 14 February speech: "you want an open war" · Nasrallah at Mughniyeh's funeral: "open war" · The government's two decisions · 7 May: the labour strike turns into roadblocks and gunfire · Nasrallah's press conference: "I declare no war, but a decision of self-defence" · Hezbollah and its allies take West Beirut · Future TV shut and Hariri orders his men to stand down · The Mountain fighting begins: Aytat, Aley, Baysour, Choueifat · Halba killings · Mountain fighting: Barouk and Shahhar; villages handed to the army · The army freezes the two decisions, Hezbollah announces its withdrawal from Beirut · Positions handed to the army, an Arab committee led by Qatar · Gunfire in Hamra and the Aley hostage swap · The Arab committee announces a halt and the Doha invitation · WikiLeaks cable: Saudi Arabia proposes an Arab force with US and NATO cover to crush Hezbollah · The Doha Agreement · Election of Michel Sleiman · The prisoner exchange · Assassination of Brig. Gen. Mohammad Suleiman, Bashar's aide and Hezbollah liaison · Sleiman in Damascus: embassies exchanged with Syria · Army helicopter brought down at Sujud, pilot Samer Hanna killed · MEPI "Tomorrow's Leaders" scholarships · The "Dahiya doctrine": Eisenkot threatens every village rockets are fired from · Assault on Gaza ("Cast Lead") · Nasrallah calls on Egyptians to open Rafah
Rockets from South Lebanon · The wave of Israeli spy-ring arrests · Hillary Clinton: "the people we are fighting today, we funded twenty years ago" · Release of the four generals · 2009 parliamentary elections · Jumblatt leaves 14 March · Saad Hariri's government · Hezbollah's new political document
Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 crashes off Beirut · Opening of the Mleeta resistance museum · Feltman testimony: "more than $500 million" since 2006 to reduce Hezbollah's appeal to youth · Arrest of Charbel Qazzi at Alfa: Israel inside the mobile network · The tribunal crisis · The Baabda tripartite summit: Abdullah, Assad and Sleiman · The Adaisseh clash between the Lebanese and Israeli armies · General Fayez Karam arrested on charges of collaborating with Israel · Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's press conference · USAID University Scholarship Program for public-school students · Hariri retracts the accusation against Syria · Ahmadinejad's visit to Beirut and Bint Jbeil · The false-witnesses crisis · WikiLeaks cables: Elias Murr advises Israel via the US ambassador · The Arab Spring uprisings
Hariri's government brought down · Nasrallah meets Jumblatt: the PSP tips the balance to Mikati · Najib Mikati designated · The Future Movement objects · Washington designates the Lebanese Canadian Bank a "primary money laundering concern" · Fall of Hosni Mubarak · Peninsula Shield forces enter Bahrain · The uprising in Syria begins · Nasrallah on Liberation Day: backing the Syrian regime · Adlieh telecom building standoff; Baroud steps aside · Tripoli clashes · Nasrallah: two members recruited by the CIA; the embassy a "den of spies" · STL indictment issued · Nasrallah's reply to the indictment · USAID programmes in public schools: D-RASATI, then QITABI · Fall of Gaddafi · The Arab League suspends Syria, Lebanon "dissociates" · Mikati funds the tribunal outside the budget
Jake Sullivan to Clinton: "AQ is on our side in Syria" · Completion of the "Waad" reconstruction of Dahieh · Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahed shot at an army checkpoint · The Shaker Berjawi clashes · Lebanese pilgrims kidnapped in Azaz · The Baabda Declaration · Siege of the Sayyida Zainab shrine · Damascus crisis-cell bombing kills Assef Shawkat, Dawoud Rajha and Hassan Turkmani · Michel Samaha arrested carrying explosives from Ali Mamlouk for bombings in Lebanon · Protests over the anti-Islam film and the killing of the US ambassador in Benghazi · The "loyalty to the Prophet" march against the offensive film · The Ayoub drone · Nasrallah claims the "Ayoub" drone · Assassination of Wissam al-Hassan · Clashes with Ahmad al-Assir · The Okab Sakr scandal
Battle of Qusayr begins · Nasrallah confirms Hezbollah fighting in Syria · The battle for Qusayr · Liberation Day 2013 at Mashghara: "be where you wish" · First rockets from Syria on Hermel · Parliament's term extended · The Battle of Abra · Car bomb in Bir al-Abed · The MOC operations room in Amman coordinates the southern Syrian rebels · The Ruwais bombing · Nasrallah after Rouwaiss: "I will go to Syria myself" · The Ghouta chemical attack · Al-Salam and al-Taqwa mosques bombed · Azaz hostages freed · Bombing outside the Iranian embassy · The Rhosus enters Beirut port with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate · Assassination of commander Hassan al-Laqqis · Assassination of Mohamad Chatah · The Saudi $3bn grant to the army via France · The Jousieh battles settled
The first Bir al-Abed bombing · Attack on the strategic Qara depot in Qalamoun · Hermel bombing outside the government building · Shells from Syria on Arsal · Second Bir al-Abed bombing · Hermel army-checkpoint bombing · Two bombs outside the Iranian cultural centre · The Otaiba ambush · The battle for Qalamoun · The fall of Krak des Chevaliers · The Tripoli security plan · Fall of Maaloula, the last Qalamoun village · End of Michel Sleiman's term · Mosul falls to ISIS · Sistani's fatwa; Popular Mobilisation Forces formed · Declaration of the "caliphate" · Operation "Protective Edge" on Gaza · Quds Day 2014 speech: "we stand with Gaza" · The Arsal events · Clinton email to Podesta: Qatar and Saudi give ISIL "clandestine financial and logistic support" · Shebaa Farms bomb wounds two Israeli soldiers · The ammonium nitrate unloaded into Hangar 12 · Second extension of parliament
Jabal Mohsen bombing · Assassination of Jihad Mughniyeh · Shebaa Farms ambush in reply to the Quneitra strike · Start of Operation "Decisive Storm" in Yemen · Nasrallah against "Decisive Storm" · Yemen solidarity rally: "the Yemenis need no certificate of their Arabness" · Rustom Ghazaleh dies in Damascus after a beating · The eastern mountain range battle · The battle for Zabadani · The nuclear deal · The garbage crisis · Ahmad al-Assir arrested at Beirut airport · Russia enters the Syrian war · General Security detains two Lebanese and a Syrian for spying for Israel · Burj al-Barajneh bombing · Soldiers held by al-Nusra freed in a swap · Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act signed · Assassination of Samir Kuntar
Shebaa Farms bomb in reply to Kuntar's killing · The Maarab agreement · The "Haifa ammonia" speech · Saudi Arabia halts the $3 billion grant to the army · Khanaser road cut: Aleppo supply line battle · The GCC designates Hezbollah a terrorist organisation · Battle of Tal al-Eis · BDL circular 137 implementing the US law · Death of Sayyed Zulfiqar (Mustafa Badreddine) · BLOM Bank bombing · The Banque du Liban "financial engineering" · The Sanaa funeral hall massacre · Election of Michel Aoun · Saad Hariri's government · East Aleppo retaken
Groundbreaking for the new US embassy compound in Awkar: $1 billion on 43 acres · Third extension and the proportional law · Trump halts the CIA rebel-arming programme Timber Sycamore · Arsal outskirts battle: Hezbollah vs Nusra · The salary scale and its tax package passed · Operation "Dawn of the Outskirts" · Remains of the soldiers held by ISIS recovered · State Security arrests three Mossad collaborators in Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath al-Jebbeh and Deir Qanoun · Hamad bin Jassim: Syria was "prey we fought over, and it got away" · Saad Hariri held in Saudi Arabia · Nasrallah: Hariri's resignation is a Saudi decision and he is being held · Hariri withdraws his resignation · Trump recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital · Jerusalem solidarity demonstration in Dahieh
Car bomb against Hamas cadre Mohammad Hamdan in Sidon; Ahmad Baytiyeh arrested · "Rise and Kill First" reveals Israel ran the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners · The CEDRE conference in Paris · First elections under proportional representation · The US leaves the nuclear deal · US embassy moves to Jerusalem; the Great March of Return massacre · Sanctions on Hezbollah figures · Saad Hariri designated again · Jamal Khashoggi killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul · HIFPA Amendments Act signed · Army intelligence detains Mohammad Hussein Fakih trying to cross to Israel · The Sunni independents' seat blocks the cabinet
Hariri's third cabinet formed after nine months · Battle over BdL vice-governors: Washington backs keeping Baasiri · The Qabrshmoun incident · Sanctions on MPs Raad and Sherri and on Wafiq Safa · Strike near Damascus kills two Hezbollah members · Israeli drones crash in Moawad; Nasrallah speech · Sanctions on Jammal Trust Bank · The Avivim reply: guided missiles on an Israeli vehicle · Arrest of Amer Fakhoury, former Khiam prison warden, after his return to Lebanon · General Security arrests Lebanese-Canadian Tabet Tabet at the airport on Mossad spying charges · The October protests · Hariri's 72-hour speech · Nasrallah: we will not allow the presidency to fall · Resignation of Saad Hariri's government · Attack on the protesters' tents in central Beirut · Banks close and informal capital controls begin · Rocket attack on K-1 base kills a US contractor · US strikes on Kata'ib Hezbollah · Storming of the US embassy in Baghdad
Assassination of Hajj Qassem Soleimani · Nasrallah: the response is to expel America from the region · Iranian missile strike on Ain al-Asad · Covid-19 · First offshore drilling in Block 4 ends without a find · Lebanon defaults on its Eurobonds · Collaborator Amer Fakhoury freed and flown out by US helicopter · Nasrallah: Covid is a "humanitarian battle" · Circular 151: the "lollar" at 3,900 · Diab publicly attacks the central bank governor · The government recovery plan and the start of IMF talks · Cabinet orders seizure of goods smuggled to Syria: subsidised fuel and flour · New BdL vice-governors appointed; Baasiri out · The Caesar Act comes into force · Judge Mohammad Mazeh bans interviews with Ambassador Shea, is referred to inspection, resigns · The port explosion · Macron's post-explosion visit and the French initiative · Nasrallah after the port explosion: "no arms, no missiles at the port" · Hassan Diab steps down · Schenker in Beirut meets protest activists and skips officials · Sanctions on Ali Hassan Khalil and Youssef Fenianos · Mustapha Adib steps down; the French initiative stalls · Berri announces the framework for maritime talks · Sanctions on Gebran Bassil
Assassination of Lokman Slim · The dollar passes 10,000 lira · Saudi Arabia bans Lebanese produce over Captagon smuggling · The "Sword of Jerusalem" battle · Liberation Day 2021: the "Jerusalem equation" · The Khalde clashes: a Hezbollah funeral attacked · Israeli air strikes on Jarmaq and Shawakir: first on the south since 2006 · Rockets on Shebaa Farms in reply to the Jarmaq air strikes · Fuel, power and medicine shortages · The Tleil explosion · Mikati's government · The Iranian fuel ships · Nasrallah attacks the judge Tarek Bitar · The Tarek Bitar crisis · The Tayouneh events · The Kordahi affair: Saudi Arabia expels Lebanon's ambassador and halts imports · George Kordahi resigns
Seventeen Israeli spy networks dismantled: the largest operation since 2009 · Russia invades Ukraine · General Security detains a "veteran" spy in Sidon suspected of a role in the Majzoub assassination · Staff-level agreement with the IMF · Schenker at the Washington Institute: Jammal Trust sanctions timed after Moody's, and using the October 17 movement against Hezbollah · Parliamentary elections · Drones over the Karish field · Assault on Islamic Jihad in Gaza · The Alvarez & Marsal forensic audit of the central bank · "Alphabet of victory": Hezbollah's 40th anniversary speech · Depositors storm the banks: the Sali Hafez case · Nasrallah: "our eyes and our missiles are on Karish" · The maritime border agreement · End of Michel Aoun's term
Official rate moved to 15,000 · The earthquake · The dollar passes 100,000 lira · Rockets from the South · French arrest warrant for Riad Salameh · Quran burning outside the Stockholm mosque · Ain al-Hilweh camp clashes · Salameh's term ends; Mansouri takes over as acting governor · The Kahaleh incident · Massacre at the officers' graduation ceremony · 7 October · Hezbollah opens the "support front" from the south · Nasrallah meets Nakhalah and Arouri: axis coordination after the Flood · Nasrallah's first speech after 7 October
The army arrests two Syrians recruited by Israel to photograph strike sites · Israeli naval raid at Batroun abducts Imad Amhaz · Post-2024-war wave of collaborator arrests: 32 detained, 21 handed over by Hezbollah