Last update - 00:00 12/12/2007
Chronology of events in Lebanon since Hariri assassination
By Reuters
Here is a chronology of some of the main events in Lebanon since former
Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was killed, along with 22 other people, on Feb. 14, 2005.
Feb. 28 - Pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigns.
March 5 - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tells his parliament Syrian
troops will start phased pullout from Lebanon.
April 26 - Last Syrian soldiers leave Lebanon.
June 2 - Samir Kassir, journalist opposed to Syria's role in Lebanon, is
killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car.
June 16 - UN investigation into Hariri's killing starts.
June 19 - Lebanese parliamentary elections end in victory for anti-Syrian
alliance led by Hariri's son Saad al-Hariri.
June 21 - Former Communist Party leader and critic of Syria George Hawi is killed in Beirut by a bomb in his car.
Oct. 20 - UN investigators say high-ranking Syrian officials and their
Lebanese allies were involved in Hariri's killing, in report to UN Security Council. Syria denies it.
Dec. 12 - Gebran Tueni, anti-Syrian member of parliament and Lebanese
newspaper magnate, is killed by a car bomb near Beirut.
July 12, 2006 - Hezbollah captures two Israel Defence Forces soldiers in cross-border raid, setting off Second Lebanon War.
Nov. 11 - Five pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim ministers from Hezbollah and its
ally, the Amal movement, resign after collapse of all-party talks on their demand for more say in government.
Nov. 21 - Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel is killed by gunmen. UN
Security Council approves plans for tribunal to try suspects in assassination of Hariri and subsequent attacks.
Dec. 1 - Hezbollah, Amal and supporters of Christian leader Michel Aoun camp outside Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's office in central Beirut in open-ended campaign to topple government.
Jan. 25, 2007 - Aid conference in Paris pledges more than e7.6 billion to
help Lebanon recover from the war.
Feb. 13 - Three people are killed in two bomb blasts near a Christian
village northeast of Beirut.
June 13 - Anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido and five other people
killed by a car bomb near a Beirut beach club.
Sept. 2 - Lebanese troops seize complete control of Nahr al-Bared camp
after months of fighting with Fatah al-Islam militants. More than 420 people, including 168 soldiers, have been killed in the worst internal violence since the civil war.
Sept. 19 - Car bomb in Beirut kills seven people, including anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem.
Sept. 25 - Parliament postpones a presidential election for the first of
eight times in a bid to break a deadlock over a consensus candidate and end the political crisis. France leads mediation efforts for a deal on a
presidential candidate.
Nov. 23 - President Emile Lahoud leaves presidential palace at the end of his term, without a successor.
Nov. 24 - Siniora says his cabinet is assuming executive powers in the
absence of a president.
Dec. 5 - Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says rival Lebanese leaders have
agreed on General Michel Suleiman as president.
Dec. 11 - Berri postpones parliament session to elect Suleiman to Dec. 17
to give rivals more time to reach broad political agreement.
Dec. 12 - Car bomb kills Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, the army's
head of operations, and a number of bodyguards in a Christian town east of Beirut.