Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the Amenas Gas Project in Algeria

French troops arrive in Mali, at the government's request, to help in evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country

About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when Algerian forces raid the Amenas gas site

Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood

Violent clashes erupt again throughout Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood supporters of President Morsi and those objecting to his Islamist policies

Tunisia, where the Arab Spring was launched, adopts a new constitution recognizing Islam as the state religion while also guaranteeing freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the rights of women

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, becomes the first Islamic terrorist to be convicted in a civilian court in the USA

General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in Pakistan in a 1999 coup, is charged with reason by a special court in Islamabad