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TIMELINE: Key events in Iraq since Maliki took power
(Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush's top officials in Iraq will deliver pivotal testimony to Congress next week on Iraq's security and political situation.
Here are some key events in Iraq since Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki took office in May 2006.
June 7, 2006 - U.S. aircraft kill the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
November 5 - A court in Baghdad finds former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, guilty of crimes against humanity and sentences him to hang for the killing of 148 Shi'ites after a 1982 assassination attempt against him.
November 23 - Six car bombs in different parts of the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad kill 202 people.
Nov 30 - Bush holds summit with Maliki in Amman, praising him as the "right guy" for Iraq.
December 30 - Saddam is executed.
February 14, 2007 - Maliki launches U.S.-backed security crackdown in Baghdad designed to give him "breathing space" to foster national reconciliation between warring majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.
March 10 - Maliki urges regional and world powers at a conference in Baghdad to help end sectarian violence. The meeting is a rare opportunity for Washington and its adversaries Tehran and Damascus to sit together at the same table.
April 12 - A suicide bomber slips into a restaurant in the Iraqi parliament in the fortified Green Zone, killing a lawmaker and wounding two dozen other people.
April 16 - In a split with Maliki, Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr withdraws his six ministers from the cabinet when Maliki refuses to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
April 18 - Multiple car bombs kill 191 people in Baghdad.
May 28 - The U.S. urges Iran to stop supporting militias in Iraq, in rare talks in Baghdad. Both sides later describe the discussions as positive.
June 13 - Suspected al Qaeda militants blow up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian chaos.
June 24 - Saddam's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", is sentenced to hang for masterminding a genocidal military campaign that used poison gas against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
August 1 - The main Sunni Arab political bloc quits the government in a blow to Maliki's shaky coalition.
August 14 - Suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attack Yazidi residential compounds in northern Iraq. Government officials say 411 are killed, but the Iraqi Red Crescent puts the toll at 500.
August 16 - Kurdish and Shi'ite leaders form an alliance to support Maliki's government but fail to bring in Sunni leaders who are crucial to national reconciliation.
Aug 26 - Maliki hits back at Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton and other U.S. critics who have called for him to be replaced, telling them "to come to their senses".
Aug 26 - Maliki and other leaders announce they have reached consensus on some key measures seen as vital to reconciliation, including draft legislation that would ease curbs on former members of Saddam's Baath party returning to public life.
Sept 3 - Bush visits Iraq and says his top officials have told him present security levels could be maintained with fewer forces if what he called current successes continued.
