May 12 (Reuters) - Clashes resumed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday in fighting between Hezbollah and its pro-government opponents. The drive by Hezbollah to take control of strategic locations has increased pressure on the governing coalition, supported by the United States and Saudi Arabia, to accept the opposition's terms for ending 18 months of political conflict. Here is a chronology of events in Lebanon in the last 18 months. Nov. 11, 2006 - Five pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim ministers from Hezbollah and its ally, the Amal movement, resign after the collapse of talks on giving their camp more say in government. Nov. 21 - Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel is killed by gunmen. 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. 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 which kills over 420 people, including 168 soldiers. Sept. 19 - Car bomb in Beirut kills anti-Syrian Christian lawmaker Antoine Ghanem and six 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. Dec. 5 - Speaker Berri says rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on General Michel Suleiman as president. 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. 11 - Three army officers and 16 soldiers are charged over the killing of seven opposition protesters on Jan. 27. Feb. 14 - Lebanon's Hezbollah holds mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, in Beirut. He was killed in a bomb blast in Syria the day before. May 6 - Hezbollah says it is infuriated by government allegations it spied on Beirut airport and by the cabinet's decision to fire the head of airport security who is close to the opposition. May 7 - Some 10 people are wounded as government supporters clash with gunmen loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition in Beirut after followers of Hezbollah paralysed the capital. May 8 - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the government has declared war against the group after its decision to dismantle and take legal action over the group's communication network. May 9 - Hezbollah takes control of the Muslim half of Beirut. May 10 - Hezbollah fighters pull back from areas they had seized in Beirut after the army -- seen as a neutral player -- overturned government measures against the group. May 11 - Hezbollah-led forces overrun several posts held by gunmen loyal to Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, in the Aley district east of Beirut before he agreed to hand them over to the army. At least 36 people are killed. May 12 - Clashes resume in Tripoli in fighting which has so far killed 81 people since May 7. (For main story on Lebanon click on [nL12505038]) (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
A woman holds a picture of killed Hezbollah fighter Hussein Burji during his funeral in south of Beirut May 12, 2008. Clashes resumed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday ...
