Indonesia

Early in the month, several suspected terrorists were detained in central Java, including Zarkasih, the alleged head of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and Abu Dujana, believed to be the leader of JI's military wing. (CNN.com)

Iraq

According to the Interior Ministry, 1,227 civilians, 31 soldiers, 190 police and 416 insurgents were killed this month. (CNN.com)

Philippines

The military said Yasser Igasan became the leader of the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the early part of the month. (Reuters)

South Africa

Some 600,000 public sector workers participated in a strike which lasted most of the month. (Reuters)

1 JUNE 2007

Bosnia

Bosnian Serb police arrested Zdravko Tolimir, a senior aid to Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic during the 1992-95 war, as he was crossing over the border from Serbia. He was immediately handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP)

2 JUNE 2007

Iraq

In Falluja, US and Iraqi forces destroyed a truck bomb factory and killed or captured over a dozen suspected members of al Qaeda in Iraq. (CNN.com, AP)

Nigeria

The rebel group Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta announced it would suspend attacks on oil installations for one month. On 4 July it called off the truce. (AP, Reuters)

Germany

Tens of thousands protested, some violently, at the G8 summit near Rostock. (AP)

3 JUNE 2007

Iraq

A car bomb in Balad Ruz killed ten people. (CNN.com, AP)

Somalia

A suicide vehicle bomb attack on Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi's home in Mogadishu damaged his house and killed several guards; Gedi was not hurt. (CNN.com)

4 JUNE 2007

United States

Ten people, including Laotian Vang Pao and American Harrison Jack, were arrested in California and charged with plotting to overthrow the Laotian government. (CNN.com)

5 JUNE 2007

Iraq

A suicide car bomb attack on a market near Falluja killed 15 people. (CNN.com)

Spain

ETA announced it was calling off the cease-fire it declared in March 2006. (CNN.com)

6 JUNE 2007

Iraq

Two car bombs in northern Baghdad killed seven people. (CNN.com)

10 JUNE 2007

Belgium, politics

Parliamentary elections were held; the opposition Christian Democrats made major gains. The next day, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt resigned. (AP)

Iraq

Two car bombs in southwestern Baghdad killed three people. (CNN.com)

10-17 JUNE 2007

France, politics

In parliamentary elections, President Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) retained a comfortable majority in the National Assembly, though it lost some ground to the Socialist Party (PS). (IFES)

11 JUNE 2007

Bulgaria, politics

Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu's government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote proposed by the Democrat party. The votes for the motion were slightly greater than the votes against, but less than half of what was needed to topple the government. (Reuters)

11-17 JUNE 2007

Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip

There was renewed fighting between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza. On the 12th, Hamas forces overran Fatah positions in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and declared all towns north of Gaza City a closed military area. On the 14th Hamas claimed complete control of Palestinian Authority (PA) security agencies in Gaza.

PA president Mahmoud Abbas, who was in the West Bank, issued a decree dissolving the Hamas-led unity government and establishing an interim government staffed by Fatah. However, PA prime minister Ismail Haniya said Hamas had no intention of splitting the PA. On the 17th Abbas swore in a temporary cabinet with Salam Fayyad as prime minister of an emergency government. (CNN.com)

12 JUNE 2007

Iraq

According to the US military, Kamal Jalil Bakr 'Uthman, a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader also known as Sa'id Hamza, was killed in Mosul by coalition forces. (CNN.com)

Croatia

Milan Martic, a leader of the 1991-95 ethnic-Serbian rebellion in the Krajina region, was sentenced by the ICTY to 35 years imprisonment for his role in hundreds of murders and for other crimes. (AP)

13 JUNE 2007

Lebanon

Member of parliament Walid Eido and at least six others were killed by a bomb blast in Beirut. Eido was a member of a political block led by Saad Hariri. (CNN.com)

13-14 JUNE 2007

Iraq

On the 13th there was another bomb attack on the Al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra. This was followed by scattered attacks on Sunni mosques around Iraq. There were also widespread but small Shiite protests; these were generally peaceful, and some demonstrators called for peace and unity. (CNN.com)

15 JUNE 2007

Philippines

A bomb attack on a bus near Davao killed ten people. (Reuters)

17 JUNE 2007

Montenegro

Vlastimir Djordjevic, a Serbian police general wanted by the ICTY for crimes against humanity in Kosovo in the late 1990s, was arrested in Budva and handed over to the ICTY. (Reuters)

18 JUNE 2007

Iraq

Two car bombs in southwest Baghdad killed nine people, and a car bomb in Falluja killed three. (CNN.com)

18-19 JUNE 2007

Iraq

There were clashes between Iraqi security forces and Medhi Army militia in Nasiriya. (CNN.com)

19 JUNE 2007

Iraq

A truck bomb attack on Baghdad's Khalani Square killed at least 78 people and wounded at least 214.

Operation Arrowhead Ripper, an effort by US forces against al Qaeda in Iraq elements in the Baquba area, began. Participating were some 10,000 troops with light armor and attack helicopter support. (CNN.com)

20 JUNE 2007

Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Special Court convicted Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor Kanu, leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council during the late 1990s and early 2000s, of terrorism, using child soldiers, enslavement, rape and murder. (AP)

21 JUNE 2007

Lebanon

The army said it had overrun Fatah al-Islam's main positions inside the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp. However, some militants continued to hold out. (AP)

Economic affairs

The US and Vietnam signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement. (Reuters)

24 JUNE 2007

Iraq

A Baghdad court convicted five men for their roles in Operation Anfal, a military campaign during the Iraq-Iran war that killed up to 100,000 Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid, Sultan Hashem Ahmed and Hussein Rashid Mohammed were sentenced to death; Farhan Jubouri and Saber Abdel Aziz al-Douri were sentenced to life imprisonment. (CNN.com)

25 JUNE 2007

Middle East and North Africa, diplomatic affairs

The leaders of Israel, Egypt and Jordan, along with PA president Abbas, met in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt. (AP)

Iraq

A suicide bomber attacked Baghdad's Mansour Hotel, killing at least 12 people, most of them Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders at a reconciliation meeting. (CNN.com)

26-27 JUNE 2007

Iran

After the government announced increased restrictions on gasoline consumption, there were some riots that night in Tehran and other cities. (CNN.com)

27-28 JUNE 2007

Britain, politics

Tony Blair resigned as Prime Minister and Labour Party leader; he was replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Blair had been under great pressure from within the party due largely to his unpopular Iraq policy. The following day Alistair Darling was named Chancellor of the Exchequer; David Miliband became foreign secretary. (CNN.com)

28 JUNE 2007

Iraq

Two car bombs killed at least 26 people in western Baghdad. (CNN.com)

29 JUNE 2007

Ivory Coast

Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was unhurt after the aircraft he was traveling in was hit by a rocket. (Reuters)

30 JUNE 2007

East Timor, politics

The country held its first parliamentary elections. At stake were all 65 seats of the National Parliament, to be decided through a party-list proportional representation system. The largest vote-getters were the Revolutionary Front of Independent Timor-Leste (FRETLIN) with 21 seats, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) with 18 and the coalition of the Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) with 11. Turnout was 80.5%. (IFES, www.rulers.org)