Feb 28 2005 - 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 - U.N. 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 - U.N. investigators say high-ranking Syrian officials and their Lebanese allies were involved in Hariri's killing, in report to U.N. 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 Israeli soldiers in cross-border raid, setting off 34-day war in which Israel kills about 1,200 people in Lebanon.

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 giving their camp more say in government.

Nov 21 - Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel is killed by gunmen. U.N. 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 Beirut in open-ended campaign to topple the government.

Jan 25, 2007 - Aid conference in Paris pledges more than $7.6 billion to help Lebanon recover from the war with Israel.

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 Fatah al-Islam militants which kills over 420 people, including 168 soldiers, in the worst internal violence since the civil war.

Sept 19 - Car bomb in Beirut kills anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem and 6 other people.

Nov 23 - Lahoud leaves presidential palace at end of his term, no successor has been elected. Next day Siniora says his cabinet is assuming executive powers in the absence of a president.

Dec 5 - Speaker Berri says rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on General Michel Suleiman as president, though parliament has yet to elect him.

Dec 12 - Car bomb kills Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, the army's head of operations, and a bodyguard in a Christian town east of Beirut.

Jan 15, 2008 - Car bomb in Christian area of Beirut kills at least 3 people and wounds 16, damages a U.S. embassy car and destroys others.

Jan 25 - Wisam Eid, a captain in a Lebanese police intelligence unit, is killed by a bomb blast in mainly Christian east Beirut. At least five other people are killed.

Feb 9 - Parliament Speaker Berri says the presidential election has been postponed to February 26, the 14th delay in the vote.

Feb 11 - Three army officers and 16 soldiers are charged over the killing of seven opposition protesters on January 27.