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| - Jordan holds legislative elections on November 10. Here is a timeline of the seven-decades-old desert kingdom. On May 25, 1946, the Arab state of Transjordan declares its independence from Britain, with King Abdullah as its sovereign. Two years later, five Arab countries including Transjordan attack the newly independent Israel, taking the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Now known as Jordan, it formally annexes both in 1950. After King Abdullah is assassinated and King Talal declared mentally unfit after a year on the throne, Abdullah's grandson Hussein is proclaimed king in August 1952, aged 17. He ascends formally to the throne when he turns 18 the following year. His reign will span 46 years. In the Six-Day War of June 1967, Jordan loses the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Israel. Some 200,000 Palestinians flee to Jordan, where more than half the country's population is now of Palestinian descent. King Hussein moves to crush the growing power of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1970, deploying 40,000 troops. A ten-day conflict leaves several thousand dead. On July 31, 1988, Jordan officially cuts administrative ties with the West Bank. In 1989, after bloody demonstrations over high living costs, King Hussein agrees to democratic reforms. Elections are held in 1993, with independents supportive of Hussein prevailing. The prime minister and cabinet are chosen by the king. A year later, the United States oversees the signing of a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. King Hussein dies of cancer on February 7, 1999, leaving the throne to Abdullah II. In January 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, mainly Islamist opposition activists begin regular protests to demand reforms. Later that year, thousands march to protest against an increase in energy prices, with some demanding the removal of the king -- a first. In June 2018, Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigns after several days of popular protest against proposed tax reforms and energy price increases. Protests continue under the new premier Omar al-Razzaz and a year later, Human Rights Watch condemns Jordan for repressing the opposition. In September 2014, Jordan joins a Washington-led coalition to carry out airstrikes in conflict-hit Syria. Four months later, the Islamic State group burns a captured Jordanian pilot alive in a cage, causing horror in the country. Amman hangs two jihadists and extends its support of the anti-IS coalition to Iraq. In June 2016, an IS suicide bomber kills seven Jordanian soldiers near the Syrian border. Six months later, IS attacks a tourist site near Kerak, killing seven police officers, two Jordanians and a Canadian tourist. On September 20, 2016, the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, wins 16 seats out of 130 in parliamentary elections, after leading a boycott of votes in 2010 and 2013. Although Jordan's top court this summer ordered the Brotherhood to be dissolved, the Islamic Action Front has announced it will participate in this month's election. acm-nrh/fg/sw/gle
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