Timeline of 21st-century Muslim history

21st century (2001–2100) (1421 AH–1527 AH)

2001

• Damascus Spring is brought to an end by the arrest of ten civil society activists who were sentenced to between two and ten years.
• Over several weeks beginning on March 2, the Taliban began the systematic shelling and dynamiting of two giant sixth century Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Banyam valley in central Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammed Omar justified the destruction of this UNESCO World Heritage Site on the ground that they were idols under Islamic law.
• On September 11, members of the
  Al Qaeda terrorist organization attacked the United States by hijacking commercial airliners and flying them into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, killing upwards of three thousand. In response the United States government would declare a war on terror, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan
  .
• The 7.7 M_w 
  Mercalli intensity
  of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.

• General elections in Pakistan are held after the 1999 military takeover. PML (Q) led by Mian Muhammad Azhar, a pro-military party, gains majority throughout Pakistan. Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali became the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• The
  riots
  between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, India. More than 5000 reported killed, most of them Muslims.
• A terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda kills more than 200 people in the 2002 Bali bombings.^[1]
• Chechen rebels take 800 hostages in the Moscow theater hostage crisis.^[1]

2003

• The United States leads the invasion of Iraq, searching for "weapons of mass destruction," starting the second Iraq War.^[1] As a result of US De-Ba'athification policy, former Iraqi soldiers and police form secret groups and begin insurgency.
• Shirin Ebadi becomes the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in promoting human rights.
• On April 5 Israel conducts the
  Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  .
• Truck bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kill 34.^[1]
• Spanish restaurant and Jewish centers attacked in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 43 people.^[1]
• Attack on hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia kills 10.^[1]
• 52 killed in suicide attacks on British and Jewish targets in Istanbul.^[1]

2004

• The second-largest earthquake ever recorded occurs in the Indian Ocean, triggering the Asian tsunami. Indonesia suffers the heaviest damage with 167,736 dead, 37,063 missing and over 500,000 displaced.
• Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution coalition forces hand over sovereignty of Iraq to caretaker government.
• Photos and documentation reveal extensive torture and abuse of prisoners by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib.
• US troops assault the Iraqi city of Fallujah.^[1]

2005

• Iraq holds
  ratified by popular vote
  that same year.
• Local body elections are held in Pakistan on non-party basis.
• Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, who had assumed de facto leadership of the country after King Fahd suffered a debilitating stroke
  in 1994, is declared king.
• A powerful, 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits the Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan, killing upwards of 73,000 people.
• On October 8 an earthquake in Pakistan kills thousands and leaves families homeless in Khyber-Pakhunkha/Hazara region. Multi story apartment building in Islamabad also collapsed.
• Israel removes Jewish settlers and military personnel from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, but continues control of its borders.
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins Iranian presidential election.^[1]
• A high turnout among Muslims in Iraq parliamentary elections, despite insurgency.^[1]
• US attacked Iraq & casualties in Iraq pass the 2000 mark.^[1]

2006

• Israel invades part of
  Lebanon in pursuit of Hezbollah
• Execution by hanging of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.
• Muhammad Yunus wins Nobel Peace Prize for successful application of microcredit schemes to poor entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.

2007

• Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto
  returns to Pakistan after 10 years of self-imposed exile.
• Death of Benazir Bhutto in an attack by terrorist at Liaqat Bagh, Rawalpindi. General elections were rescheduled.

2008

• In November 2008, 10 Pakistani members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic militant organization, carried out a series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai, India.

2009

• President Barack Obama delivers an address at Cairo University promising "A New Beginning" in US-Muslim relations.

2010

• Last US combat troops leave Iraq.
• Rima Fakih becomes the first Miss USA winner to claim the Muslim faith.

2011

• Tunisian Revolution, an intensive campaign of civil disobedience and protests begun in December 2010, ousts long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali—the first of a series of upheavals known as Arab Spring
  .
• January 25 Revolution, a series of demonstrations, civil disobedience and strikes in Egyptian urban areas, part of the Arab Spring movement, resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who turned power over to a Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
  .
• Crack down in Syria on protests inspired by Arab Spring leads to
  Syrian refugees
  fleeing to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.
• Militant uprising of the professional class, defecting soldiers and Islamists later backed by French, British and US airpower topple administration of Muammar Gaddafi (who is captured and executed), the power of which was assumed by the rebels' organization the National Transitional Council
  .
• killed by US Special Forces
  inside Pakistan.

• June 2013 Egyptian protests, a mass public demonstration against the administration of Mohamed Morsi, followed by a military coup d'état in which Morsi was deposed and arrested. After leading protests against the coup, the Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned by the end of the year.
• 2013 was the year in which the
  Timeline of ISIL-related events (2013)

2014

• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  invades Northern Iraq.
• In early 2014, the
  Timeline of ISIL-related events (2014)
• On August, according to statements by the Iraqi government and others, ISIL militants
  Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
• Islamic extremist group Boko Haram kidnaps 276 female students in northeast Nigeria.
• Sunni inmates before executing the remaining prisoners.^[18][19][20] Moreover, there were 39 Indian construction workers who were executed in the region.^[21]
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed 1,700 or more^[22][23] Iraqi people in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets in the camp,^[24] and ISIL fighters selected the Shias and non-Muslims for execution. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history.^[25]

• 3 February:
  Timeline of ISIL-related events (2015)
• widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen's humanitarian situation, that reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"^[30] or "humanitarian catastrophe",^[31][32][33] and many have labelled it as a genocide.^[34][35]

• 9 February Iraqi government forces seized the final pocket of
  Timeline of ISIL-related events (2016)
• Shia district of Karrada, busy with late night shoppers for Ramadan. A second roadside bomb was detonated in the suburb of Sha'ab, killing at least five.^[40][41]
• 17 October
  Mosul liberation

• 10 July Iraqi Prime Minister
  Timeline of ISIL-related events (2017)
• 9 December Prime Minister
  Daesh (ISIL).^[43][44]

• 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war from 27 September – 10 November was an armed conflict between Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey, and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh together with Armenia, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh
  .

• June: Professional ice hockey player Nazem Kadri became the first Muslim to win the Stanley Cup for the Colorado Avalanche team.

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