History:

1990:
Europe:
•	Russia and Belarus secede from the USSR, ending the Soviet Union’s direct control. Baltic nations follow suit.
•	Bulgaria reinstitutes their monarchy under Tsar Simeon II.
•	Russian troops invade Romania to secure oil pipelines owned by the former Soviet Union. Troops remain in East Germany.
Asia:
•	India leaves Sri Lanka as the civil war against the LTTE continues.
•	Free elections are held in Myanmar in which Aung San Suu Kyi wins, but the military refuses to recognize the results and instead solidifies its grip on power.
Middle East:
•	North and South Yemen agree to unify under the Republic of Yemen.
Americas:
•	General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US forces in Panama.
•	The Sandinistas are defeated in the Nicaraguan elections. Soon after, the Contras are allowed to re-enter the country.
•	The US, Mexico, and Canada sign NAFTA.
Africa:
•	UN troops enter Somalia to distribute aid to the civil war affected nation.
•	South Africa soldiers leave Southwest Africa and the former territory declares independence as Namibia.
•	The African National Congress becomes a legal party in South Africa and Nelson Mandela is freed from prison after 27 years.
•	Cuba violates international law by continuing to send troops to Angola.

1991:
Europe:
•	The USSR attempts to regain control of Russia but President Boris Yeltsin bans all Communist parties.
•	Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus dissolve the USSR and form the Commonwealth of Independent States. All other republics declare independence.
•	France, Italy and Benelux sign the Treaty of Maastricht. The foundation for the European Union is established.
•	French troops enter Bulgaria at the behest of NATO and Russia to protect the newly independent people from Russia.
•	West Germany annexes East Germany, unifying the two nations.
•	Russian troops leave Romania.
•	The Yugoslav Wars begin with Croatia and Slovenia declaring independence from Yugoslavia.
•	Ex-KGB agents Vladimir Kryuchkov, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin stage an ultra-nationalist coup d'etat in the name of the Liberal Democratic Party with the help of Vladimir Toporov, commander of the Moscow Military District. Boris Yeltsin is soon placed under arrest. Legislature is suspended and temporary power given over to a triad of Toporov, Kryuchkov, and Zhirinovsky.
•	Russia deploys troops to Chechnya and besieges the capital, Grozny, to stop the separatist movement. Heavy resistance prolongs the war.
Asia:
•	The Georgian Civil War kicks off when Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
Middle East:
•	Syrian military forces invade and occupy Mount Lebanon, making Lebanon a puppet nation as pro-US administrative areas break down.
•	Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait but is restored after a US-led invasion.
•	Iraq faces a Shi’ite and Kurdish rebellion.
•	Israel props up the South Lebanon Army.
Americas:
•	In response to Cuba’s violation of the Angolan Civil War treaties, the US bombs several Cuban ships and ports.
Africa:
•	The Rwandan Patriotic Front wages war in Rwanda as a guerrilla rebellion, sparking the Rwandan Civil War.
•	The MPLA in Angola denounce Marxism-Leninism and abolish the one-party system. A cease-fire with the UNITA is signed and a general election with UNITA as opposition is scheduled for 1992.
•	Somalia ends their one-party rule with multi-party elections. The President is overthrown and the nation descends into warlord-led chaos. UN forces hold onto Mogadishu.
•	Somaliland declares independence from Somalia but is unrecognized.
•	Cuba withdraws from Angola due to American pressure.

1992:
Europe:
•	Russian troops capture Grozny, leading to the deaths of 27,000 civilians.
•	Tensions rise when Georgia refuses to stop backing Chechen rebels. Russia responds with a union plan between Russia, Belarus, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia but is never formalized.
•	France caves to international pressure and withdraws troops from Bulgaria.
•	Bosnia and Herzegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia. Macedonia later does the same.
•	The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is proclaimed, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, the only two remaining republics.
•	Serbian troops besiege Sarajevo to prevent Bosnian independence and aid the Serbian Republika Srpska.
•	Russia recognizes Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria independence.
•	Ukraine agrees to transfer all nuclear weapons to Moscow.
Asia:
•	Russian nationalists take up arms in Kazakhstan.
•	Russia invades Georgia, securing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia before capturing the capital, Tbilisi, in a costly battle.
•	Armenia receives Russian aid, gaining an advantage in the Nagorno-Karabakh War against Azerbaijan.
Middle East:
•	Saddam rejects the sovereignty of Kuwait and Iraq is heavily sanctioned. US forces leave Kuwait with the Iraqi military soundly defeated.
•	Iraqi forces fight a US and Iranian-backed Shi’ite rebellion in the south and US-backed Kurdish rebellion in the north.
•	Kabul falls to mujahedeen fighters, ending the communist government. Fighting continues between various alliances and Islamist factions.
Americas:
•	El Salvadorian Civil War ends.
Africa:
•	Mali’s government is overthrown by protestors demanding free elections.
•	Algeria’s leader, Mohamed Boudiaf, is assassinated.
•	Chinese support to Mozambique aids in the end of the Mozambique Civil War.

1993:
Europe:
•	Mass killings occur in Croatia and Bosnia by Serbian military and militias. The government openly advocates the purge of non-Serbs in rhetoric not heard since WWII.
•	Bulgarian opportunists lead a coup in Macedonia and are violently put down. Anti-Bulgarian legislature lead to Bulgarian troops invading to protect ethnic Bulgarians. In the chaos, Bulgarian soldiers sack Skopje and the Macedonian government flees. Bulgaria begins their occupation of Macedonia. Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia aid the Bulgarians their occupation.
•	Poland and the Baltic states join NATO.
•	France violates NATO instructions to not intervene in the Yugoslav Wars by deploying peacekeepers to Bosnia. The Serb militias in Bosnia are disarmed. The Republika Srpska goes into exile to Yugoslavia.
•	 French troops liberate the besieged Sarajevo and provide support to Croatia.
•	A 1kt nuclear blast in Sarajevo kills 48,000 French soldiers, effectively ending their Balkan intervention. French and American probes link the blast to a Soviet made ZBV3 nuclear artillery shell fired from a Serbian artillery piece.
•	With no recognized Macedonian government, Bulgaria annexes the state and cedes Albanian populated areas in the west to Albania. A Macedon insurgency continues.
•	The European Union is formed with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.
Asia:
•	The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is proclaimed by the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and backed by Armenia. The US brokers a peace treaty with Azerbaijan recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as its own entity.
•	Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated by a LTTE suicide bombing.
•	Fighting continues between Russian and Georgian resistance.
•	Russian volunteers continue to spill into Kazakhstan. The nation is on the verge of civil war.
Middle East:
•	Saddam Hussein violently crushes the Shi’ite insurgency. Thousands of refugees flood into Iran.
•	Israel declares the “Israeli Security Zone” in Lebanon with the South Lebanon Army occupying the buffer zone.
Americas:
•	Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.
Africa:
•	UNITA wins the Angolan democratic elections but the MPLA refuses to give up power, reigniting the civil war.
•	The Rome General Peace Accords officially ends the Mozambique Civil War. FRELIMO stays in power with RENAMO accepting a multi-party system.
•	UN peacekeepers leave Somalia.

1994:
Europe:
•	France invokes Article 5 of NATO against Yugoslavia and Russia. The US, UK, and Belgium reject the proposal on the grounds that France illegally entered the Yugoslav Wars. France leaves the alliance. Germany holds a referendum and the people vote that the end of the Cold War makes NATO obsolete and they leave as well. Greece sides with France over the violence and increase in Balkan refugees.
•	Former Eastern Bloc nations halt their NATO joining process.
•	Norway, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal vote to dissolve NATO and reform the organization. The United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Iceland reject the proposal and continue under the NATO banner. The former states leave.
•	France, Germany, and Greece form the European Security Commission with Spain, Italy, and Denmark joining as observer members.
•	Kazakhstan returns their nuclear weapons to Moscow.
•	French junior officers in Bosnia rebel at orders to evacuate the country. Millions of small arms and other weapons are given to the Bosnian people to fight off the impending Serbian invasion.
•	Belarus sells their nuclear arsenal to Yugoslavia prompting the UN to vote on sanctions for both nations. Russia and China veto them.
•	Interpol issues arrest warrants for Slobodan Miloševic, Alexander Lukashenko, Radovan Karadžic, Ratko Mladic, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
•	Soldiers are deployed to all major French cities to put down riots against their military interventions.
•	Without NATO to intervene, Turkish citizens in Cyprus overwhelm UN peacekeepers in the buffer zone. Greece responds by invading Northern Cyprus. The Turkish Air Force intervenes and devastates most of the island. As of now fighting is contained to Cyprus.
•	Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo declare independence. Yugoslavia deploys thousands of soldiers accused of genocide and invades Albanian lands accused of supporting rebels.
•	Yugoslavia threatens to detonate another nuclear device in Croatia and Bosnia if a peaceful solution is not reached. Following the surrender of Bosniaks and Croats, thousands are murdered by Serbian soldiers and militias.
•	Nuclear terrorism becomes a reality when a nuclear device is detonated in the port of Marseilles on December 26th killing 5,000. Russia admits it originated from the old USSR stockpiles that have gone missing. They promise to aid in the apprehension of the criminals. France remains skeptical.
•	Earlier that day French counter-terrorism forces stormed Air France Flight 8969, which was hijacked in Algiers and landed in Marseilles on its way to crash into the Eiffel Tower. French GIGN are able to locate terrorist cells in Paris, Nantes, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Tolouse, Montpellier, and Rennes after a raid on mole Omar Nasiri's safehouse. The Armed Islamic Group takes responsibility for the terrorist attacks.
Asia:
•	Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release a sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing 7 and injuring 660.
•	A Pakistani raid on a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan puts the two countries at odds. ISI claims Lashkar-e-Taiba was attempting to buy a nuclear weapon from rogue sources.
•	Nursultan Nazarbayev is arrested by rebellious members of the Kazakh army. Soldiers storm the Presidential Palace and some factions of the coup even open fire on the Senate and Majilis after they call a meeting due to the political crisis. Leaders of the coup claim the President has not kept his promises since the Jeltoqsan that brought him to power. Gennady Kolbin, former First Secretary of the Kazakh SSR, is allowed to return and assumes the Presidency, promising stronger ties with Russia and a better economy.
•	A coup in Armenia replaces the government with nationalist Vazgen Sargsyan. He immediately declares war on Azerbaijan for control of Nagorno-Karabakh. Chemical weapon attacks on Azerbaijani civilians are reported.
Middle East:
•	French DGSE and the American CIA cooperate and reveal that Libya is now a nuclear nation.
Americas:
•	The Republican Party gains control of the House and Senate for the first time since 1954 in a landslide victory.
Africa:
•	UNITA captures the Angolan capital, Luanda, in a fierce battle.
•	Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This sparks the Rwandan Genocide which goes largely unnoticed by the West due to increase instability in Europe.
•	Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
•	Terrorist attacks across South Africa destabilize the nation. Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Pretoria are the sites of 2kt nuclear bombs, known as "suitcase nukes", in which 20,000 people are dead, injured, or missing. The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) claim responsibility for the attacks and several other white supremacist groups merge into the Afrikaner Resistance Movement.
•	Nelson Mandela is seriously injured in the attacks on Pretoria after the South African Defence Force stands down to allow an AWB raid on the President's house. Riots pop up all across the country with racial violence being the cause. Mandela finally succumbs to his wounds, plunging South Africa into full civil war.
•	American troops are deployed to Rwanda. Soldiers participate in rounding up Hutu war criminals. Many Americans feel this isn't America’s problem.
•	A cease-fire is reached between UNITA and MPLA.

1995:
Europe:
•	Two subway systems are bombed in Moscow, killing 400 plus. The attack is claimed by Chechen extremists and Soviet-Afghan War veteran, Osama bin Laden.
•	Turkish troops land in Cyprus, pushing Greek forces back. The Greek Army on Cyprus surrenders and a cease-fire is soon signed.
•	Jean-Marie Le Pen defeats Jacques Chirac in a close second round of voting, becoming President of France.
•	Tsar Simeon II steps down over political unrest. Three liberal parties seize power in Bulgaria promising elections that never come.
•	A second nuclear is detonated in France, this time in Tours. The Armed Islamic Group once again takes responsibility for the attack. Libya is believed to be behind the attacks.
•	Turkey rejoins NATO and allows American nuclear missiles to be deployed in their country.
•	Chemical weapons are used on Albanian civilians in Kosovo and Albania by Serbian forces.
•	Chechen terrorism rocks several Russian towns.
Asia:
•	Russia invades Azerbaijan, aiding Armenia. Azerbaijan is forced to cede all contested territory to Armenia. Baku houses a permanent Russian garrison.
•	Armenian irredentists begin an insurgency in eastern Turkey.
Middle East:
•	A relatively new faction arises in Afghanistan. The Taliban, an extreme Islamist Pashto group, overruns the capital.
•	Osama bin Laden promises the death of 10 million Russians and Serbs by the end of the millennium. He outlines the three Great Satans naming Russia, Yugoslavia, and Israel
•	Iran takes advantage of the sanctioned Iraqi military by invading.
•	The Badr Organization rises up against Saddam Hussein. They seize the city of Karbala and proclaim their intent to create a new Shia dominated Iraqi government.
•	Iraq reveals their nuclear capabilities after launching a nuclear strike on Tehran. The Ayatollah of Iran is killed in the nuclear onslaught. Without a functioning government the Iranian military surrenders as Iraq pushes inland and annexes Khuzestan.
Americas:
•	In Oklahoma City 168 people are killed by Timothy McVeigh.
•	President Bill Clinton is impeached for "making false statements" before Congress in regards to the US involvement in Rwanda. Despite being found guilty he survives his removal from office vote.
•	Mississippi joins the world in the 20th century by finally ratifying the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery.
•	OJ Simpson is acquitted of murder.
Africa:
•	The Angolan Civil War reignites after negotiations between the UNITA government and MPLA break down.
•	Somaliland is recognized by the People's Republic of China.
•	SADF troops take control of most of the Northern Cape after repelling an ANC assault. Another attack in Pretoria allows the military to push into the Free State.

1996:
Europe:
•	The Balkan Lynx is believed to be extinct due to human encroachment during the Yugoslav Wars.
•	Islamic terrorism in Istanbul causes instability in the government.
•	A group of Spetznaz soldiers led by General Konstantin Kobets enter the Vladimir Central Prison, Russia's largest prison. When they finally leave they have freed over a hundred military and political prisoners, including former Preisdent Boris Yeltsin. General Vladimir Toporov, is arrested by Colonel General Leonid Vasilyevich Kuznetsov of the Moscow Military District.
•	Soldiers loyal to Kobets launch their coup d'etat across the nation, capturing key cities. Odintsovo, Omutninsk, Kirov, Zagorsk, Berdsk, Smolensk (Ukraine), Murmansk, St Petersburg, Balkhash (Kazakhstan), Vladivostok, and Kamchatka are taken by the rebels.
•	Boris Yeltsin names Yekaterinburg the new temporary capital of Russia. He demands the Russian government surrender due to their actions which puts Russia and the world on the brink of annihilation.
•	Vladimir Zhirinovsky finds himself besieged in Moscow, which is still controlled by the government due to Vladimir Putin tasking the 7th Guards Airborne Division with dropping into the city. Spetznaz Alpha Group deploys into the city and pledges loyalty to Zhirinovsky.
•	The Second Russian Civil War continues to rage at the end of the year.
•	Greek forces in southern Cyprus violate the cease-fire by firing on Turkish troops along the border, reigniting the war.
•	Turkey faces an Islamic and Armenian insurrection as well as a war with Greece in Cyprus.
Asia:
•	A coup breaks out in Armenia by loyalists of Levon Ter-Petrosyan as well as the socialist bloc. The resulting civil war halts the Armenian conquest of Turkey.
•	South Ossetia and Abkhazia are formally annexed by Russia.
Middle East:
•	Russian nationalist forces loyal to Zhirinovsky steal dozens of chemical weapons and are reported to have used them on Taliban forces harboring bin Laden in Afghanistan. The Al-Qaeda leader is believed to have died.
•	Germany and France lead an air assault on Libya due to their support of Islamic terrorism. The Libyan military is defeated, leading to the populace to rise up.
•	Israel finds Iraq to be a serious threat to the region and launches a preemptive strike on them. Iraq's military capabilities are severely hindered and their oil wells destroyed. The Israeli Air Force gains supremacy and pounds Baghdad, slipping Saddam’s control on the country. The Shia majority areas rise up against him and take control of the south.
•	Russian Spetznaz are dropped into Tripoli and Baghdad, extracting Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. They bring them to the Russian military base in Tartus, Syria.
•	Libya's government falls apart. Soldiers loyal to Gaddafi in exile continue to hold much of the western country.
•	Sunni portions of Iraq stay under Saddam's loyalists but most of the country is not.
Americas:
•	Lamar Alexander wins the Republican candidacy. He chooses Richard Cheney as his running mate. Bill Clinton gets reelected by a very narrow majority.
•	West Coast rapper, Tupac Shakur, is shot to death on the Las Vegas strip outside of a Mike Tyson fight in front of hundreds of people. Murderer unknown.
•	Beast Wars first airs and becomes a milestone in the Transformers franchise through the use of CGI.
Africa:
•	Charles Taylor's army is defeated and the Liberian Civil War ends. He escapes to Sierra Leone.
•	The provisional government takes control of South Africa after the ANC collapses. They surrender and renounce violence. The IFP follows suit.
•	The Congo War begins after Rwanda invades and Mobutu is overthrown. The AFDL is backed by Rwanda, Uganda, and the MPLA in Angola. The UNITA government of Angola pledges support for the Mobutu regime. The Hutu rebels also join Zaire.

1997:
Europe:
•	Despite Albania’s decades-long preparation for a Yugoslavian invasion, the country falls to Yugoslav troops after the government collapses to numerous pyramid schemes, bankrupting the populace.
•	The New Russian Navy sails out of port, taking with them the nuclear Typhoon-class submarines led by Captain Marko Ramius. XO Vasily Borodin is shot fighting ultranationalists and dies having never seen Montana.
•	In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult Balkan Lynx named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
•	Tony Blair is elected PM of the UK.
•	Vladimir Putin announces Zhirnovsky incapable of leading and declares himself President. A power struggle is beginning to be seen.
•	As the new President, Putin authorizes the tactical nuclear bombing of St Petersburg, destroying a large loyalist force.
•	Vladimir Makarov declares himself to be the third Vladimir in the Vladimir Triumvirate. He immediately goes rogue and takes with him "suitcase nukes" to spread chaos against Russia's enemies.
•	Nationalist forces liberate Moscow from the loyalist siege. President Vladimir Zhirnovsky is not found and presumed dead. The Triumvirate is dissolved by Putin who denounces Makarov. Makarov denounces Putin.
•	The UK intervenes on behalf of the loyalist “New Russia” faction and bombs numerous Russian nuclear sites. Task Force 141 is created by the British government to combat ultra-nationalist organizations around the world.
•	The US enforces a no-fly zone over Russia. President Bill Clinton’s approval rating plummets as Americans fear his foreign policy will bring about WWIII.
•	Turkey invades Cyprus a second time, pushing the Greek military off the island.
•	Greece faces an economic depression.
•	Islamic terrorism rocks Germany as Munich, Berlin, and Oldenburg suffer suicide bombers and shootings in a single day. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is killed in the Berlin bombing. President Roman Herzog declares emergency powers and places Germany under martial law.
•	A car bomb in Ankara kills several prominent politicians. The military is ordered to implement martial law. After several weeks the military deposes the government and installs two Generals as leaders.
•	New Russia rebels retreat east to Siberia, effectively splitting the country in half.
•	Saddam Hussein is found guilty of mass genocide and is sentenced to death. Muammar Gaddafi is found guilty of state terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.
Asia:
•	Fearing a Russian invasion, Pakistan invades Afghanistan and expels the Northern Alliance. They set up a friendly government in Islamabad. Critics call it de facto annexation.
•	Turkey and Armenia sign a cease-fire for their unofficial war. Civil war continues to rage in Armenia.
•	The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
•	The global economic depression from Europe leads to the collapse of the Japanese and South Korean economies. China begins to experience it as well.
Middle East:
•	The United Nations sets up the United Nations Transitional Authority of Iran government in Isfahan to peacefully transfer power to a new democratically elected government. Autonomous governments pop up in ethnic majority areas.
•	Sectarian violence continues in Iraq.
•	The newly formed, UN sanctioned, "Rainbow Six" SpecOps unit raids Tartus, Syria. They capture Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein and bring them to The Hague, Netherlands.
•	US forces land in Bandar Abbas, Iran to protect trade in the Persian Gulf.
•	The Republic of Libya is declared by the Free Libyan Army. Fighting continues with Gaddafi-loyalists and Islamists.
Americas:
•	Rapper Notorious B.I.G. is killed in Los Angeles.
•	Three separate terrorist attacks occur throughout the year in San Francisco, Oakland, and Atlanta. Two more are thwarted in Washington DC and New York City. At first Islamic terrorism is blamed but upon investigation it is revealed to be by right-wing militias in the US. Vladimir Makarov is suspected of selling explosive material to them.
•	The American economy also dips.
Africa:
•	The Congo War ends in Zaire with Rwandan-backed rebels taking power.
•	The APLA of South Africa agrees to a cease-fire with the military on the condition that free elections will be held soon.
•	America’s elite “Ghost Recon” raids an AWB stronghold in South Africa, seizing a “suitcase nuke” originating from Russia.

1998:
Europe:
•	Belarus merges with nationalist Russia forming the Federation of Free Russian Republics.
•	Saddam Hussein is executed for his war crimes. Muammar Gaddafi begins his life sentence.
•	The UK expands their war against ultra-nationalism in Russia by bombing nuclear sites in Yugoslavia.
•	An ultra-nationalist terrorist attack is foiled in The Hague. Experts suspect it is in response to Saddam’s execution and Gaddafi’s imprisonment.
•	Fighting once again resumes in Cyprus.
•	American Special Forces track Makarov to Latvia. The Ghost Recon unit fights across the capital, laying waste to Riga. Makarov escapes with most of his leadership.
•	Europe enters an oil drought.
Asia:
•	India tests a nuclear bomb. Pakistan responds by testing their own. The world is shocked and appalled that Pakistan would have nuclear weapons.
•	The Kargil War begins and ends with limited nuclear strikes on military centers in both countries. Pakistan loss in the Siachen region.
•	Kazakhstan's President is murdered when the army turns on him. Anarchy spreads to the countryside.
•	General Musharraf overthrows Pakistani President Malik Meraj Khalid due to his inability to protect their country.
•	China invades northern India in defense of Pakistan. Threats of Chinese nuclear retaliation force the Indian government to surrender.
•	Violence and anarchy overtake the Pakistani and Indian countryside as neither government holds solid control over their people.
Middle East:
•	President Clinton authorizes the invasion of Iraq. Baghdad falls in a week and the rest of the country follows suit.
•	Most Gaddafi loyalists surrender. Some of his sons are captured after a German airstrike stops their caravan from entering Niger illegally.
•	Muhammad, Saif al-Islam, Hannibal Muammar, an Ayesha are captured. Saif al-Arab is killed in the airstrike. Al-Saadi is captured by rebels who have reportedly tortured him to death.
•	Heavy fighting in Fallujah cause the Republican controlled Congress to ask the President to end the Iraqi War.
Americas:
•	Evidence of an extramarital affair surface for President Clinton. The nation doesn't seem to care.
•	Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
•	Oil prices skyrocket in the US forcing Congress to install rationing laws.
Africa:
•	Tauregs leave Libya and return home to Mali and Niger, starting an uprising.

1999:
Europe:
•	The Second Russian Civil War reaches a cease-fire. The nationalists hold the western half while the New Russians under Yeltsin hold the east half and the Black Sea Fleet.
•	The PKK launches a new campaign for Kurdish independence.
•	Scotland demands an independence referendum in response to UK economic uncertainty.
•	IRA terrorism resumes in Northern Ireland.
•	Arthur Scargill of the Socialist Labour Party wins a minority government after Lib Dems and Conservatives work together to push the Labour Party out. The length of this government is uncertain but many fear the British National Party may be able to swing the scales in the next election due to Nick Griffin's rise to power.
•	Vladimir Makarov organizes an attack on Russian forces in Kursk in retaliation for the cease-fire.
•	The new socialist government in the UK nationalizes the Scottish oil, fueling further calls for independence.
•	Turkey's Virtue Party, Islamist, assumes control after the military finally stands down. Turkish troops move back into Kurdistan but suffer defeats.
Asia:
•	Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and his Deputy.
•	Chinese Special Forces raid the town of McLeod Ganj, India which is home to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is captured with most of his government-in-exile. He is extracted and brought to Beijing where he faces treason and a slew of other crimes. World leaders condemn China.
•	Chinese troops continue to occupy large portions of India with the Indian government unable to stop it. De facto governments pop up across the country to oppose the Chinese. Large portions of the Indian military desert to fight on their own.
•	The Naxalite movement in eastern India uses the chaos to seize large swaths of land.
•	Maoists overthrow the Nepalese monarchy in a brutal coup.
•	North Korea shells South Korean troops on the DMZ.
•	North Korea reveals they have suffered an enormous famine and demands South Korea send them aid. South Korea is unable and tensions between the two rises.
•	China deploys troops to Tibet and Xinjiang to suppress riots.
•	Balochi rebels from Iran attack Pakistani forces.
•	The sovereignty of Macau is transferred from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China after 422 years of Portuguese rule.
•	Pro-democracy movements pop up around China. They are violently put down but continue to be a problem.
•	A new “Red Flag Movement” takes hold of several Communist Party leaders and Generals.
Middle East:
•	Turkish forces retreat from eastern Turkey. The PKK declares Kurdish independence.
•	An ultra-nationalist cell in Saudi Arabia sets off explosives in Mecca and Riyadh. The attacks lead to a revolt against the Saudi family for being unable to protect the Two Mosques and pilgrims.
•	Oil production to western countries grind to a halt due to Muslim protests against the attacks.
•	The South Lebanon Army is destroyed when Hezbollah targets a meeting, killing their leaders.
•	Israel responds by invading Lebanon, reaching Beirut. Syrian forces in Lebanon attack Israel, turning the battle into a full blown war. Israeli planes bomb and invade southern Syria.
•	A new Kahanist movement gains popularity in Israel called Kahane Nolad Mechadash (Kahane is Reborn). The Knesset does not bother to ban them.
•	Wahhabists take control of Medina. Hard-line Islamist movements pop up all across the Middle East, the largest being in Iraq and Syria.
•	Ba’athists are pushed out of Baghdad by US forces. They remain active in Sunni majority areas.
Americas:
•	The Panama Canal is returned to Panama.
•	The American government subsidizes alternative fuel cars. Most cars are expected to be hybrid or solely battery powered by 2005. Presidential Candidate George W. Bush instead calls for increase oil drilling in the US.
•	Militias continue to battle with the ATF and FBI across the country. The school shooting in Columbine leads to President Bill Clinton drafting an executive action banning militias and imposing strict gun laws. This comes into conflict with the Second Amendment and the Republican Congress vows to impeach Clinton again.
•	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is released in theaters. Still the worst thing to happen thus far.
Africa:
•	Violence continues in South Africa between the white-led military junta, the AWB, and ANC rebels.
•	Tuareg rebels reach Timbuktu and destroy UNESCO heritage sites.

2000:
Europe:
•	Arthur Scargill announces that he will begin removing the United Kingdom from NATO. The Lib Dems, Torries, and the Labour Party hold a vote of no confidence and eject the short lived Socialist government. A new election is held in May which sees the Conservatives take power after forming an alliance with the Lib Dems.
•	Nick Griffin’s BNP becomes the official opposition.
•	A statue of Vladimir Zhirnovsky as a mounted Cossack trampling on the skull Bill Clinton is erected in Moscow.
•	Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the West Russian Communist Party, as well as other members, is arrested for treason.
•	Ultranationalist forces take control of key towns in Armenia. Observers fear Vazgen Sargsyan may return to the country.
•	Fethullah Gülen returns to Turkey with the aid of certain members of the military. The Caliphate State Party props up an Islamic government with many flocking to their cause.
•	Protests by lorry drivers in the UK leads to a state of anarchy as hooligans and youths join and riot. Described as the “worst state of anarchy in British history since the fall of Rome”.
•	National Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Dugin is thought to have forged an alliance with terrorist Vladimir Makarov after Ultranationalist soldiers aid them in an attack on Verkhovna Rada, the Ukraine's Parliament building. Over a hundred are killed in the attack. President Leonid Kuchma has asked Vladimir Putin for military support.
•	A far radical right movement called GRECE, after the Nouvelle Droite teachings of Alain de Benoist, within the military takes control of France. A relatively young and unknown Colonel by the name of Remi Gervais leads the military junta. A purge takes part in France of almost all government offices and left-minded military members.
•	President Le Pen flees to Russia.
•	Scotland votes on independence in a referendum not recognized by the UK government
•	A cease-fire is called in Cyprus, again.
•	Serbia recognizes Slovenia’s independence, ending the Yugoslav Wars.
Asia:
•	Hua Guofeng assumes power in China in what many call a coup d'etat. Members of the Deng faction are arrested and tried with treason. The Red Flag Movement begins nationalizing all businesses in China and freezes foreign investments.
•	Power is devolved in China to the local level in many places. The easing of speech laws leads to a surge in anti-government rhetoric. American observers begin to call this the Chinese Perestroika and Glasnost. Students pour into Tiananmen Square, just over a decade after the 1989 protest.
•	Aman Tuleyev, leader of the East Russian Communist Party declares his intentions to run for President. That is, whenever Yeltsin allows elections.
•	Ultra-nationalists and New Russia soldiers fight in Kazakhstan, tearing the country apart.
•	Bo Xilai succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China. Massive political purges occur and thousands of Chinese civilians who spoke out against the regime are arrested and executed.
•	Naxalites and Nepalese Maoists form an alliance.
Middle East:
•	Large amounts of fighting erupt in the former Saudi Arabia. Shias in the east are repelling Royalist forces. Independent Wahhabists still control the Hejaz.
•	Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, sparking even more unrest with the Palestinian population.
•	Two Russian ships in Tartarus, Syria are destroyed by Islamic terrorists.
•	Iraqi Kurdistan declares independence and unifies with Kurdistan.
•	The Muslim Brotherhood supports protests that overthrow Hosni Mubarak.
•	Remnants of the South Lebanon Army take control of Beirut in what is now South Lebanon. Muslim and Druze Arabs move far north into what is left of Lebanon, based out of Tripoli.
Americas:
•	George W Bush receives the Republican endorsement for President. He chooses his brother Jeb as his Vice President. Al Gore announces he will run for President as a Democrat.
•	In a predawn raid, federal agents seize and shoot 6-year old Elián González.
•	Increasing numbers of Mexican citizens cross into the United States illegally. Border patrol and National Guard are overwhelmed.
•	The situation in Mexico gets worse, as their economic collapse was not stifled. In the Presidential elections the PRD-PT alliance wins overall, overthrowing 71 years of PRI rule. Mexico's political scene moves sharply left.
•	A month before the US Presidential elections Bill Clinton is impeached and removed from office. Al Gore is sworn in, just in time to face George W Bush in the election.
•	Exit polls predicted correctly, George W Bush is elected President of the United States with his brother Jeb Bush as his Vice President. At a whopping 338 to 199 it is a stark contrast to previous polls which showed them almost tied.
Africa:
•	The UN launches a peacekeeping force to South Africa. They uncover dozens of concentration camps filled with ANC and suspected anti-government black Africans. The AWB leads terrorist attacks again the UN.
•	The Second Congo War rages on with Uganda, Rwanda, and Angola fighting their respective rebels in the former country of Zaire.
•	Tuareg rebels seize control of northern Mali, declaring an independent Azawad. Azaouak is declared in Niger but later merges into a unified Azawad.

2001:
Europe:
•	Colonel Gervais announces that France will be renamed Gaul and will embrace its pagan roots. His reign lasts until February when he is assassinated by members of the Army.
•	French people protest demanding a return to democracy. The military is deployed across the country to squash protests. When images of firing squads shooting lined up civilians is revealed it causes a rift between the hardliners and those that sympathize with the protestors.
•	France enters a state of civil war when numerous members of the military mutiny and defect to the protestors. The Popular Front is established in the southwestern portion of France along the Pyrenees made up of defectors, centrists, socialists, communists, and minorities. In the Rhône-Alpes region the Patriot’s League, made up of hard-line Le Pen followers, begin fighting opposition.
•	Pim Fortuyn wins the Dutch election with the aid of newly popular Geert Wilders. Immigration to the Netherlands halts and mass deportations commences.
•	Spain's economy buckles under the pressure of oil prices, French sanctions, and a rising debt. Protests similar to France pop up along the country.
•	Silvio Berlusconi wins the Italian general election. People gather in Rome to protest the election saying it was rigged. It turns deadly when members of the Tricolour Flame show up and rumble with Communist supporters.
•	The occupation of Cyprus ends.
•	Certain members of the Ukrainian Parliament support unification with West Russia. The bill is blocked by those opposing it and the President. Pro-Russian protests halt business in Kiev.
•	Riding the wave of far-right movements, the Greek Golden Dawn party comes in second in the Greek national elections. Golden Dawn refuses to organize a coalition with the New Democracy Party, which came in third. The PA.SO.K. attempts to form a minority government but members of the Greek Volunteer Guard return from settled Albanian lands and lead a march on Athens, preventing them to do so.
•	British troops are deployed across the country. At least ten are killed with more than two dozen injured as riots increase. Many call for elections and a return to the Socialist government. Members of the BNP call it "Britain's Revolution".
•	Members of the North Ireland Assembly walk out of session when they cannot reach agreement between Nationalists and Unionists. During the recess the IRA detonates explosives, tearing down the Stormont Parliament Buildings. No one is reported killed or injured but it marks the significant loss of British control over North Ireland.
•	A second election in Greece fails to reach a majority. Runoff elections lead to the Golden Dawn party taking office. Socialist protests stop Athenian business for 7 weeks before police force them to leave.
•	Members of the Czech Republic’s government resign after protests turn deadly. Over 500 protestors are badly hurt and nearly 100 killed. Elections are called with Socialists expected to make large gains.
•	Ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine and Crimea hold a referendum where nearly 90% support unification with Russia. Days later the nationalist Russian military enters unopposed in what is called the “Russian Anschluss”.
•	East Russian (New Russia) ship Captains in the Black Sea Fleet refuse to surrender to the nationalist forces in the newly annexed Crimea. Fighting breaks out between the two and they lay waste to Sevastopol. Ultimately the Navy surrenders but not before scuttling a few auxiliary ships to block the harbor.
•	The Battle of Paris begins and ends when protestors are squashed by the superior French military.
•	Italian troops desert their posts as protests grow larger. Criminal organizations loot armories.
Asia:
•	The West Russian Air Force bombs Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Vazgen Sargsyan and his supporters declare themselves to be in control and begin removing pockets of resistance.
•	The US Seventh Fleet is put on high alert as China makes aggressive calls for Taiwan unification.
•	The PLA-N and US Navy engage in a two week long naval and air skirmish. The conflict is spared nuclear weapons but conventional attacks against US bases in South Korea, Okinawa, and the Philippines have damaged the American ability to project force. The Chinese Navy is all but destroyed and the government retreats from bombed Beijing. Kong Qingdong is assumed to be the new leader of the Communist Party of China.
•	North Korea invades South Korea and makes their way down to the southern tip of the peninsula. American forces arrive only after the war with China ends. The DPRK is repelled but not before laying waste to South Korea. Colonel James Mattis is recognized as a key leader in the war.
•	India and Pakistan are declared failed states. Local military warlords, Islamist groups, and socialists take over the majority of their countries.
•	Vietnam engages in border fighting with China.
•	Nationalist Russian troops enter Kazakhstan to protect the people from violence. The government is overthrown but they do not outright annex the nation, instead installing a provisional protectorate government.
•	Mallojula Koteswara Rao, also known as Kishenji, forms the People's Republic of India in the city of Ranchi. Soon after he meets with the Nepalese Prime Minister to strengthen their ties together.
•	Thailand’s military overthrows the democratically elected government and strips the monarch of power, relegating them to a ceremonial role. They crackdown on protests.
•	The New People's Army and Moro Islamic Liberation Front increase their attacks on the Filipino government.
•	General Guo Boxiong assumes control of the PRC, putting him at odds with self-declared Party Leader Kong Qingdong.
•	Cambodia becomes a failed state and the UN re-enters the country.
Middle East:
•	Fighting continues in Saudi Arabia. Government control non-existent.
•	Referendums are held in Iran to create a multi-ethnic federation titled the Republic of Iran. Each ethnic minority groups in Mazandaran, South Azerbaijan, and Gilan vote to have full autonomy.
•	Sectarian fighting flairs up in Iraq. Shia councils begin retributive executions of former Ba'athists and Sunnis. Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr leads the Sadr Movement against the government and Sunnis.
•	Al-Assad loses control over the majority of eastern Syria. They continue to hold onto Damascus and parts of Aleppo but the rest falls to rebels. Al-Qaeda forces are thought to be the largest opposition group.
•	A cease-fire is signed between the Syrian government and al-Qaeda rebels. Al-Qaeda is effectively in control of eastern Syria.
•	Ariel Sharon is elected Prime Minister of Israel; the National Union comes in close second and forms the shadow government. Notably, the Kahanists have risen in power. Yassar Arafat is killed in a shelling of Ramallah. The PLO declares him a martyr and shells Israeli cities.
•	The Caliph pronounces that all Muslims must show loyalty to the Caliph and only the Caliph. Turkish citizens rejoice under the prospect of a strengthened Turkey. The US evacuates as Islamists storm government buildings and force out secularists and Westerners.
•	King Abdullah II, under pressure from his advisers, decides to assert his claim over the Hejaz, his Hashemite birthright. Jordanian troops invade northern Arabia, defeating remnants of the Saudi military and tribes. They capture Medina and Mecca with heavy resistance.
•	The Muslim Brotherhood takes power in Egypt. Islamist laws are put immediately into power. Similarly, the Libyan branch of the Muslim Brotherhood assassinates their Prime Minister, leading to the Deputy PM, a MB member, taking office.
•	Hamas takes control of the Gaza Strip while Fatah moves all forces to the West Bank. Israel launches a one month war against Hamas.
Americas:
•	President Al Gore steps down as George W Bush takes the presidency. Al Gore is the shortest serving President since William Henry Harrison. He is also the second President to have never been elected.
•	President George W Bush announces the construction of the Southern Wall that will span the border of Mexico and be heavily guarded. Construction began immediately and is expected to be finished by 2003.
•	All Second Amendment restrictions created by President Clinton are overturned.
•	All restrictions on oil, natural gas, and coal drilling/mining in America are lifted. Environmentalists call it the greatest crime in the history of mankind. Gas prices drop.
•	Mexico's law and order begins to fall apart when workers refuse to work. Students join the protests.
•	Leftist armed groups in Colombia unite with FARC. A right-wing AUC begins atrocities against those sympathizing with guerrillas. The Colombian government remains unable to control the jungles.
•	An Anthrax scare sweeps the United States. Few die.
•	The PATRIOT Act goes into effect in the United States in the wake of right-wing militias still posing a problem.
•	US President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
•	Rwanda proposes the formation of an East African Federation to unify the economies and better coordinate the effort of troops in what is now being called the Great African War. States to be included in the merger would be Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Fails to gain momentum.
•	President Omar al-Bashir is accused of genocide in southern Sudan. Chemical weapons have been deployed on civilian targets.
•	South African police continue their rounding up of political opponents. Many fear that it is only a matter of time before apartheid is officially recognized again.
•	Famine and disease claims over a million lives in Africa.

2002:
Europe:
•	In a show trial, the officers of the Black Sea Fleet are found guilty of war crimes and publicly executed. The enlisted sailors are deported to East Russia unharmed.
•	Transnistria joins Russia.
•	Refugees from the Middle East and Turkey flood the Balkans. A joint Greek-Yugoslav invasion of Turkish East Thrace commences to set up a buffer zone. Refugees overwhelm the Caliphate capital in Edirne. The Caliph is killed amidst the fighting with his body missing. The sacred relics and other religious sites are also destroyed. A new Caliph takes power in Antalya and vows to fight the Western invaders.
•	Fethullah Gülen uses the instability as an opportunity to take power with military support in Ankara. Turkey is considered a failed state.
•	A referendum is held in North Ireland to restore the North Ireland Assembly. They vote overwhelmingly in favor.
•	Unrest in Britain dies down as the people become complacent with their hardships.
•	France's government retakes Brittany and moves into the hotbed of socialist France. Although the country is hardly pacified, the organized resistance is unable to fight off tanks and jets.
•	Ethnic Ukrainians fight an insurgency against the Russian occupying force in Donbass.
•	Greek troops continue to occupy East Thrace to prevent refugees from illegally entering Europe. Serbian troops grow tired of the standoff and raze Istanbul to the ground, committing crimes against humanity.
•	Prime Minister Fortuyn orders the deportation of Muslims under the banner of anti-terrorism and anti-Dutch-cultural enemies. He is assassinated later this year by Dutch citizen Volkert van der Graaf who believed the Prime Minister was using Muslims and immigrants as scapegoats. Geert Wilders takes over as acting Prime Minister.
•	Macedonians hold a referendum and vote for independence. Bulgaria agrees and Macedonia becomes a free nation again in 2003.
•	Veterans of the People's Militia and officers of the former Communist military lead an assault on government buildings. Demonstrators aid in blocking government forces from navigating Czech the city. By the end of the week the government is dissolved and a Council elects Vojtech Filip as President of the Czech Socialist Republic under a new Constitution. Riots are suppressed and by the end of the year the Communist party has regained control of the nation.
•	Spain faces a socialist insurgency as well as breakaway groups in Catalonia, Asturias, Valencia, and Basque.
•	Turkey decides not to retake Eastern Thrace, effectively ceding it to Greece.
Asia:
•	Elections in East Russia lead to Yeltsin's close victory over his Communist opponent. Opposition claims the election was rigged. A radical portion of the group goes rogue and promises to fight the government.
•	Indonesia becomes a hotspot for terrorism. Islamists looking to fight for Allah travel to nearby Philippines to engage in guerrilla warfare.
•	Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, names himself Caliph of the Eastern Caliphate. The world is shocked to see videos surface of him parading a captured nuclear missile through the roads of Waziristan.
•	Ahmadiyya Muslims and other reformist Muslims in Pakistan are executed for apostasy. Sunni Islam is declared the official religion.
•	Nguyen Huu Chanh, Prime Minister of Government of Free Vietnam, requests Vietnam to become democratic and let him return to run in elections. He is denied.
Middle East:
•	Jordanian King Abdullah II announces his new title as Caliph of the Islamic faith. He has yet to unify his two Kingdoms together. The move causes a rift in Islam. Rival Caliphates now exist in Turkey, Nigeria, Pakistan/Afghanistan, and Najd.
•	Reza Pahlavi returns to Iran and announces plans to run as Prime Minister.
•	Iraqi Fedayeen create an uneasy truce with the Sadrists to overthrow the American puppet government.
•	Dhimmitude is forced upon Coptic Christians in Egypt after Sunni Islam is declared the state religion. Foreign missionaries are simultaneously expelled.
Americas:
•	FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
•	President George W Bush promises a missile defense shield by the end of his term.
•	The film 8 Mile, loosely based on the life of American rapper Eminem, is released and wins an Academy Award for Best Song for "Lose Yourself".
•	American terrorists John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested after shooting many in the DC area using a sniper rifle in the trunk of a car.
•	President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.
Africa:
•	Sudan and Chad send troops to the Congo in response to Uganda and Rwanda gaining ground. Zimbabwe offers support to the DRC government as well.
•	Rhodesian mercenaries claim to have nuclear weapons and threaten to use them if the Zimbabwean government does not end its economic war against whites.
•	The Katanga, Kivu, and Ituri provinces of the Congo announce their autonomy from the government. Uganda and Rwanda show their support.
•	South Africa's military stamps out the last ANC stronghold. Refugees and rebels flee to Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique.
•	Southwestern Somalia secedes from Somalia after the Transitional National Government is formed.
•	Civil War breaks out in the Ivory Coast.
•	Angola's decades long civil war comes to an end after MPLA's leader is killed in combat near the border with the Congo. MPLA surrenders and becomes a political party.
•	Islamist groups in Somali start uniting in an effort to regain control of the country. Eritrea is accused of supporting them.
•	Aided by Tuareg weapons a new rebel group arises in Nigeria called Boko Haram. Its leader, Mohammed Yusuf, announces a new Borno Sultanate and a creation of a new Caliphate.

2003:
Europe:
•	King Juan Carlos I of Spain intervenes in the growing civil war by offering immediate reforms and independence referendums. Trade unions are reinstated and austerity is relaxed. Galicia, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia, Asturias, Basque, and Navarre hold votes with only Galicia not achieving independence. They all declare independence on May 1st with the exception of Navarre which waits until the 7th.
•	The new nations are: Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands form Paisos Catalans, a union of Catalan peoples. Republic of Navarre, Basque Country (Euskadi), Socialist Republic of Asturias.
•	Andalusia and Aragon do not hold referendums due to low turnout. Rebels continue to fight the government intent on implementing socialism.
•	Revolution spreads to Italy. The clashes between the right wing hooligans and socialist factions draw in the government. Acts of terrorism rattle the nation, reminiscent of the Years of Lead. Tricolour Flame becomes a militant organization.
•	Macedonia achieves their independence.
•	The Belgian government agrees to peacefully split between Wallonia and Flanders in 2006. Brussels becomes a shared capital between the two.
•	Denmark and Norway vote to rejoin NATO. Slovenia joins as well.
•	Unknown rebel leader, Odysseus, creates an international organization called Cordis Die. Agencies around the world ban the terrorist group calling it a new "al-Qaeda". It is based out of France and promises to free the world from capitalist oppression.
•	Ukrainian rebels are found with better Russian weaponry. Russia is possibly leading the rebels or even scarier, Makarov might have armed them.
•	Yugoslavia withdraws from Eastern Thrace.
•	Navarre and Basque agree to political federation vote between the two within the next year.
•	A botched raid by America’s Ghost Recon reveals Odysseus of Cordis Die is not located in France.
•	Movements for Cordis Die pop up in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, and Germany.
•	Government forces in France defect in large numbers to the Patriot’s League, tipping the war in their favor.
•	Geert Wilders is elected Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
Asia:
•	Baitullah Mehsud invades Pakistan proper with his Taliban army. He celebrates each victory in the cities he conquers by riding in a parade of mobile nuclear launchers he captured to show his might. His campaign is expected to move west to Balochistan or east to Kashmir, possibly reigniting war with India.
•	The Red Flag Movement under Hua Guafong set free the surviving Gang of Four and collaborators. They then ally with the Chinese New Left.
•	Naxalite rebels form the New Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (NRIM), a Maoist organization to unite the newly liberated nations. Nepal becomes the headquarters and India (Naxalite), Philippines (New People’s Army), China (Red Flag Movement), and Peru (Shining Path) join although most members do not fully control their country.
•	General Guo Boxiong and Bo Xilai are executed.
•	The Maoist Red Flag Movement assumes control of China. The Communist Party of China is abolished, replaced with the Red Flag Party. Hundreds of possible revisionists are killed.
•	American troops in North Korea face an intense insurgency like none seen before. Average citizens attack soldiers with anything, from firearms down to their bare hands.
•	UN troops enter North Korea to oversee peace.
Middle East:
•	Rez Pahlavi runs as is elected Prime Minister of Iran. He is backed by the American government.
•	The King of Bahrain is toppled. He brings his family to the United Kingdom.
•	Yemen faces an uprising due to Shia populations unhappy with the government and Southern secessionists.
•	Shia populations in eastern Arabia declare their own homeland.
•	Jordan annexes the Hejaz, becoming the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Hejaz. King Abdullah II names himself Caliph.
•	Egyptian President Mohammed Mahdi Akef centers the international Muslim Brotherhood organization in Cairo. Libyan and Gaza leaders agree to the plan but the Jordanian branch hesitates due to their lack of support to the new Caliph. Sudan refuses.
•	Jordanian soldiers make excursions into the desert, fighting Islamists and Shia rebels.
Americas:
•	Space Shuttle Columbia burns up on reentry, killing all on board.
•	The joint US-British missile defense system, THAAD, is still expected to be completed in 2008.
•	The FBI organizes a raid with the ATF, bringing down a large militia group in Texas. Over thirty are killed in the exchange, including two federal agents. President Bush boasts this to be one of the largest groups of domestic terrorists to be brought down. Over 7,000 firearms are seized in the raid.
•	A wall separating Mexico from the United States is completed.
Africa:
•	Neo-apartheid laws are implemented in South Africa.
•	A cease-fire is held in the Congo. Over a million are thought to have died indirectly from the conflict this year.
•	A nuclear detonation goes off in the Zimbabwe capital, killing thousands. The Rhodesian mercenaries claim another one will be used next year if an independent white homeland is not given to them.

2004:
Europe:
•	Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash. Serb media claims it was shot down by Albanian SAMs. Serbia takes advantage of the political instability and occupies the capital in order to hunt Albanian terrorists. President Slobodan Milosevic orders the dissolution of the Macedonian government, which is accused of now being infiltrated by Albanian spies. The majority of Albanian politicians are rounded up and deported to Romania, destroying relations between the two.
•	A riot breaks out in Italy when a Communist rally is attacked by Tricolour Flame supporters. The Red Brigade declares a resumption of hostilities.
•	Fighting intensifies between Spanish right-wing rebels and socialists, mostly from the separatist states. The government is all but ineffective.
•	Le Pen’s Patriot’s League is defeated and forced to retreat to Italy. The French military makes peace with the socialists shortly after.
•	Groundbreaking for the Vladimir Zhirinovsky Freedom Tower begins in Moscow.
•	National Vanguards, allied with the Tricolour Flame political party, create a militia that begins arresting socialist sympathizers. The government attempts to crack down but in two instances the police are defeated in battle.
•	Documented evidence of East Russia supplying Vladimir Makarov is delivered to the Interpol office in Warsaw, Poland. Vladimir Makarov personally delivers three captured East Russian security agents who admit to attempting to give him weapons. All three are then shot and Makarov surrenders himself into custody.
•	Communist reforms in France bring heavy criticism from the Officer corps of the French military as well as many moderate fighters from the past war. A resumption of fighting begins between the far-left and the right.
•	British automobiles convert to the electric car with only a third still running on petroleum.
Asia:
•	Mobile phones are banned in the occupied North Korean zone due to their involvement in the detonation of IEDs.
•	Kim Jong-Il is discovered hiding in a bunker in the Baekdu Mountain range, near where he claims to have been born. He is transferred to Seoul where he awaits trial.
•	Massive protests occur in Vladivostok, East Russia. Elections are demanded with many claiming the last one to have been illegitimate.
•	A rehabilitation program is set up in North Korea to help people adjust to the post-communist world.
•	The Eastern Caliphate demands the Jammu and Kashmir region from Pakistani and Indian soldiers. Nuclear war is threatened.
•	Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of West Russia is deported along with dozens of other party members to East Russia. He arrives in Perm to a grand parade and promises to lead the resurgent Communist movement.
•	India invades Jammu and Kashmir. Baitullah Mehsud fires a nuclear weapon at them, causing their retreat.
•	The Bengali Red Flag Movement initiates a rebellion in Dhaka. Islamists take advantage of the chaos.
•	Adjara Crisis: The Georgian government attempts to reassert control over the Adjaran Autonomous Republic, causing a conflict with leader Aslan Abashidze. Abashidze flees to Moscow and enlists the support of 145th Motor Rifle Division, located in Batumi, Adjara, to help regain the capital. This sparks a limited war resulting in Russia annexes the autonomous republic.
Middle East:
•	Battle of the Najd is deemed a success by Jordanian officers.
•	Former ministers of Caliph Abdullah II speak out against him saying he is in no way the legitimate ruler of Islam. This sparks minor protests around the country, especially in the Hejaz where his right to rule is already questioned.
•	The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1559, calling for the removal of all foreign troops from Lebanon and Syria. This measure is largely aimed at Israeli troops.
•	Greek troops retreat to the DMZ after taking Istanbul from Turkish Caliphate forces.
•	All Gulf States convene and agree to do what they can to end violence in Arabia.
Americas:
•	Terry Nichols is convicted for his involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing. A week later a domestic terrorist attack destroys a bus stop in downtown St Louis.
•	Several militiamen are arrested in Missouri in connection to the previous month's terrorist attack. Attack helicopters now patrol the Mexican border.
•	Former President Ronald Reagan dies. The world mourns the death of the greatest American President.
•	Dimebag Darrel dies. No one gives a shit.
•	High-speed rails are planned for the entire United States. Many claim this is Bush's version of Eisenhower's highway plan. It is expect to be completed in 2018 and will provide cheap public transportation and eliminate most long distance driving and commuting.
Africa:
•	The South African Civil War is declared over after the last ANC rebel leader lays down arms.
•	Fighting flares up in the Congo even after a cease-fire is declared.
•	Rwanda calls for a unified East Africa again. A vote in each country is scheduled for 2007.
•	Sudan's civil war continues with many hoping for a peace treaty by 2005.

2005:
Europe:
•	Polish authorities block the transfer of Vladimir Makarov from Warsaw to The Hague. Interpol and the ICC object. The government of Poland looks to extradite him to West Russia where he faces immediate execution as opposed to trial.
•	All infrastructure and banks in France are nationalized, giving the government access to enormous resources. This proves to be the final straw, initiating a resumption of fighting in the civil war.
•	Spanish rebels lose ground in the south and Galicia. They hold strongly near the French border.
•	Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
•	Scotland and Northern Ireland hold independence votes that pass 50% but do not meet the 2/3 popular support requirement. Both aim to declare independence anyway.
•	Supporters of the Italian Tri-Colour Flame movement threaten to march on Rome. Socialist party members block off roads to the capital and burn down city blocks.
•	Battle of Rome: The Italian military faces combined assaults by right-wing insurgents and socialist guerrillas. Portions of the city are lost and pockets continue to be under siege.
•	The Vanguards get a hold of military weaponry and overrun old NATO Gladio bases, further enlarging their stock.
Asia:
•	Boris Yeltsin is shot once by a gunman. He is killed by bodyguards. Although Yeltsin survives he is deeply weakened and bedridden.
•	Gennady Zyuganov and other Communist leaders are arrested for an attack on the oil drills. They are held without trial despite a lack of evidence linking them to the attack. Protests erupt around the nation and call for the near death Yeltsin to step down so that elections can be held.
•	American bombers destroy nuclear sites in the Eastern Caliphate.
•	Chinese General Zhou commands the Bangladesh Red Flag Movement to victory in the countryside.
•	The Maoist Revincon becomes the largest alliance in Asia. Venezuela, Cuba, and Laos join as observers.
•	The 2005 Kashmir earthquake kills about 80,000 people. The aftermath prevents the Eastern Caliphate from invading Kashmir.
•	Kim Jong-Il's trial begins.
•	The Bhutan Tiger Force, the Maoist Party's armed wing, reignites armed conflict with the government.
•	Gennady Zyuganov calls on supporters from prison to rise up against the failing Yeltsin regime. They quickly take the Magadan Oblast and parts of Khabarovsk Krai. He escapes prison with almost all his officers and leads the Communist revolution in East Russia.
Middle East:
•	King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies in the hospital from pneumonia and a high fever. The Saudi claim to the throne is contested by his relatives in London.
•	Moqtada Sadr is elected President of Iraq. He denounces the United States and many fear he might cut off the oil soon.
•	Ba’athists wage war against the Sadrist government in Iraq.
Americas:
•	President George W Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President.
•	A refinery in Texas City, Texas is destroyed in an explosion. Domestic terrorism is blamed.
Africa:
•	A cease-fire is called in the Sudanese Civil War with a referendum to be held in 6 years on southern independence.
•	Boko Haram continues to move south and approaches the capital Abuja.
•	Sudan leaves the Congo leading to a vacuum effect. Ugandan troops fill the area and move south towards Kinshasa. Rwandan troops do the same and the DRC all but falls.
•	Joseph Kony's LRA enters southern Sudan and kills thousands of southern Sudanese.
•	Human rights groups claim another 2 million are killed in the fighting; the estimated number so far is close to 10 million+ dead. They urge the UN to create a peace deal.
•	Boko Haram reaches the Nigerian capital. After a week long struggle they capture the city. President Olusegun Obasanjo escapes to London. The south of the country remains in mixed government and Niger Delta rebel hands.
•	Somali Islamists form an alliance with another group thinking of joining next year. Many fear that this Islamic Courts Union could lead to an Islamist Somalia.
•	The Democratic Republic of the Congo agrees to implement Rwanda's demands. MPLA officers surrender to Angolan forces, Hutu militias are hunted down, unity government where rebels are paid in the national military, and greater autonomy for Katanga, Bas-Congo, North and South Kivu, Kasai, and the Ituri region. This effectively neuters the power of the Kinshasa government.
•	Civil War breaks out in Chad. Several rebel groups backed by neighboring Sudan attack government forces. This conflict is part of the greater Darfur Conflict.

2006:
Europe:
•	Yugoslav President, Slobodan Miloševic, passes away, causing a Constitutional crisis. Vojislav Šešelj is eventually nominated President by a committee of Serbian nationalists. Analysts wonder if the more radical president will distance himself from the moderate Vladimir Putin in West Russia or attempt to influence him.
•	Makarov is transferred to Moscow by Polish authorities despite the objection from the ICC and Interpol.
•	The Vanguards and the Italian government come to an agreement to end violence. A new position in government is created with the title of Vice President. The VP has the ability to call for dissolution of Parliament, dismiss ministers, and is not subject to approval from the Court of Ministers. This gives him powers slightly above the Prime Minister, the head of Parliament.
•	French troops shock the world when they cross the Pyrenees and invade Spain. Much to the shock of the French soldiers, most of the Spanish people do not exactly welcome the foreign troops. Italy sees this show of force and removes their embassy from France. Many leftists protest the government for openly giving amnesty to the Vanguards but denouncing socialists in France.
•	Recently elected Prime Minister David Cameron declares that the referendums in Scotland and Northern Ireland did not meet the 2/3 majority required for independence. Scotland agrees to stay but Northern Ireland is hit by intense violence. The IRA claims responsibility for over a dozen murders of British officials. The Ulster Defense Association resurfaces and open fighting occurs all across Ulster, centered mostly in Belfast. British troops are deployed and find themselves in urban combat. The British National Party gains a slight rise in support due to their strong anti-separatist platform. Nick Griffin, leader of the opposition, says he'll challenge David Cameron in the next election.
•	Supporters of Cordis Die take over an American embassy in Poland. They are driven out after Navy SEALs arrive.
•	Villages outside of Belfast fall to the IRA. Police and troops are unable to reclaim them.
•	The Italian Vice President, a member of the Vanguards dismisses several ministers and replaces them with allies.
•	Belgium postpones dissolution due to instability in the region.
•	Romania elects a eurosceptic majority in Parliament.
Asia:
•	Kim Jong-Il is found guilty by a Korean criminal court for crimes against humanity and is executed at the end of the year.
•	Remote villages fall to the Tiger Force in Bhutan.
•	North and South Korea agree to unification, although delayed by a few years.
•	India reclaims their breakaway provinces but faces a large al-Qaeda and Naxalite insurgency.
•	East Russia is invaded by West Russia in the largest show of force since the civil war. East Russian soldiers are targeted the same as Communists. Conventional as well as chemical attacks aid in them gaining ground quickly, but the winter slows them down.
•	The UN returns government control to Cambodia.
Middle East:
•	Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.
•	Hezbollah launches a coup in Lebanon, taking control of the northern of the two countries.
•	President Muqtada al-Sadr of Iraq stops supplying the United States with oil. This causes prices to rise.
Americas:
•	Evo Morales assumes the Presidency in Bolivia. They align with Venezuela.
•	Rafael Correa is expected to win the Ecuadorian election and assume office in 2007.
•	The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front wins a 54% majority in the El Salvador election. They quickly take power and move the nation left.
•	Mexican drug cartels, hurt by the wall separating Mexico from America, begin a campaign of violence against the state. Most of the northern country sees a large increase in violent crimes and murder. Warring cartels fight each other in the streets, trying to survive the hit on their operations. The Mexican government is about to buckle under the pressure.
•	In the midst of the chaos the Shining Path reclaims parts of the Peruvian jungle.
•	Large swaths of Mexican cities near the American border fall to drug cartels. The military is deployed but is unable to adapt to the unconventional fighting.
•	The ELN and FARC come to an agreement to work together. They launch an attack on Bogota, destroying government installations. They retreat with victory.
Africa:
•	An alliance of Islamist tribes called the Islamic Courts Union takes control of southern Somalia. Ethiopia ponders intervening.
•	Boko Haram captures almost the entirety of Nigeria and imposes Sharia law. Thousands are thought to have been killed in the genocide of Christians.
•	Ethiopia decides not to intervene in Somalia after not getting any support from the UN. The ICU captures Mogadishu and most of the country.
•	Tuareg fighters consider attacking the rest of Mali and Niger.

2007:
Europe:
•	IRA rebels use Strela 2 SAMs to take down an Airbus A320 and two Airbus A319's out of Belfast International on their way to London and other European cities. In total 383 are killed.
•	 BNP boss Nick Griffin persuades Labour and Socialist party leaders to agree on a vote of no confidence. The Conservative and LibDem coalition ends and elections are set for 2008. Labour and BNP are both expected to make huge gains.
•	All captured East Russian leaders are publicly executed. Gorbachev begs for US intervention, it doesn't come.
•	Makarov's private Ultranationalist Army aligns with the Putin regime and fights the Communist rebels. They execute entire villages and towns full of civilians if suspected of supporting the rebels.
•	Spain collapses after a final French assault. Spanish republicans, communists, and socialists meet with commanders of the French military. Asturias, Catalonia, and Basque heighten security in case of French invasion.
•	Cordis Die aids the Communist Party of Slovakia resurging and gaining a quarter of the seats in parliament.
•	The Treaty of Lisbon fails to pass. The European Union is more of a formality than a working organization.
Asia:
•	The final nail in the coffin of East Russia comes when President Boris Yeltsin dies from congestive heart failure. Rumors spread that on his deathbed his political cabinet refused him medical attention and cursed his name as "Rasputin".
•	Among the many captured when West Russian soldiers entered Vladivostok are Minister of the Gas Industry (and former Prime Minister) Viktor Chernomyrdin, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia Sergei Stepashin (while attempting to cross the border into China), former Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Kiriyenko, Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo, opposition leader Alexander Rutskoy, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
•	Bhutan's monarchy is violently overthrown by Tiger Force and foreign agents. Samteling Palace is overrun and the King and his family are killed in the process. The Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) establishes the People's Republic of Bhutan.
Middle East:
•	Sunni Islam religious and political leaders meet in Amman to discuss the future of their religion. Notably not invited are representatives from the Eastern Caliphate, Turkey, Sudan, Morocco, Boko Haram’s Borno Sultanate, Azawad (Tuareg), and al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Americas:
•	The Shining Path captures the city of Trujillo, the second largest city in Peru. American CIA agents capture photos indicating that General Tian Zhao is aiding them.
•	American troops are deployed to Mexico to crack down on drug cartels.
Africa:
•	East African nations overwhelmingly vote against unification.
•	Things spiral out of control with the capture of Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. Millions of weapons flood the populace leading the largest black market since the fall of the Soviet Union. Armed mercenaries and thugs cross into Algeria, Libya, and Chad committing untold atrocities.
•	Ethiopia requests UN assistance against the ICU, which has fully captured all of Somalia. The Battle of Puntland results in the autonomous state's collapse. Islamist forces engage Somaliland soldiers and are set on incorporating the nation by the end of the year. China deploys their Navy to Somaliland, preventing this.
•	The Central African War ends with the President promising to include the rebels in the government and paying them a hefty salary.
•	American special forces kill leaders of the Rhodesian mercenary group.
•	South Africa declares itself a nuclear power once again after detonating a nuke over the Indian Ocean.
•	Tuareg and Islamist forces enter Algeria and Burkina Faso, only miles away from the capital Ouagadougou.

2008:
Europe:
•	Russia stages the largest naval exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union in the Bay of Biscay. The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, along with 11 support vessels and 47 long-range bomber aircraft, practices strike tactics off the coast of France and Spain, and test-launches nuclear-capable missiles in foreign waters.
•	The people of Britain go to the polls for one of the most important elections in history. The Conservative Party is expected to lose the most seats with the Socialists and BNP gaining the most. In the first round of voting completed no single party has a majority. The BNP succeeds in getting the most votes out of any party. Second comes in the Liberal Democrats who proved to be a sane counterpart to their Torrie allies in the last coalition who failed to accomplish their goals. In third place is the Socialist Party's alliance, backed by Irish, Scottish, and Welsh separatists. A runoff election is forced after no parties can agree on a coalition since no two together could form a majority, resulting in a hung parliament.
•	The second election in March changes little in the grand scheme of things. No single party has enough for a majority and the Queen considers swearing in a minority government if two parties form a stable coalition. The LibDems and Torries form a coalition with only 32% of the support. The Labour and Socialist parties attempt a coalition at the same time with 31% of votes. The BNP holds 33% but is denied the minority government by the Queen because she does not believe it would be a stable one. Nick Clegg is sworn in as Prime Minister amid enormous riots overtaking London.
•	Italy's parliament votes against joining the BCO, including many members of The Right Coalition not in the Vanguards.
•	French troops evacuate Spain without setting up a proper government. The vacuum leads to anarchy and former government members retake most of the country. Thousands die in the ensuing chaos.
Asia:
•	The Sri Lankan government backs out of the cease-fire with LTTE forces. An offensive begins and by June they've made more advances than in the past 25 years against the Tigers.
•	Ultranationalist, Vladimir Radchenko, retakes all former East Russian lands. He is rumored to be considered for a post in the Vladimir Triumvirate.
Middle East:
•	Tartus reopens as a major Russian naval base in Syria.
•	Sectarian violence kills 300 in Iraq. President Sadr uses threatening rhetoric when referring to the Kurdish state.
•	Commander Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, leader of the Iraqi Ba'athist Party in exile, calls on Ba'athists to retake the region. He is believed to be living in the Caucasus under Russian protection.
•	Shalom Dov Wolpo calls for the creation of a State of Judea in the event that Israel leaves the West Bank like they did Gaza.
Americas:
•	A motorcycle gang named SAMCRO in Charming, California is arrested for running guns for the IRA.
•	President Bush announces the completion of the Strategic Defense Initiative system. Using a combination of satellites, low orbit missile platforms, ground based intercepting missiles, and air based interception. This system eliminates the threat of nuclear attack from any ICBM with near perfect accuracy over the US and UK.
•	The Democratic National Convention chooses Howard Dean to represent this party. He chooses Dennis Kucinich as his running mate.
•	Shortly after the heated Republican National Convention begins. President George W Bush is the main speaker and endorses his brother Jeb Bush. As delegates begin voting the tally goes back and forth for hours. Many fear it will divide the Republican Party which has gained unprecedented support around the country not seen since Reagan. The votes finally come in, Jeb Bush with 1193 votes, Pat Buchanan with 1170, Ron Paul with 16, and 1 absent vote. Jeb Bush is nominated to be the Republican candidate. Pat Buchanan admits defeat and promises not to run as third party. Jeb Bush picks Mike Huckabee as his running mate.
•	The US Presidential election kicks off. Republican Candidate Jeb Bush wins 385 votes against Dean's 153, carrying all states but California, Washington, Oregon, DC, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and Hawaii.
•	FARC rebels move into neighboring Ecuador. Colombian soldiers attack targets on the other side of the border. Ecuador calls it an “act of war”.
Africa:
•	The RUF and NPFL successfully overthrow the Sierra Leone government. Freetown is sacked in a brutal battle. Liberia, who has been curtailing international law by selling Sierra Leone's diamonds, loses their illegal business.
•	Months later the NPFL, led by Charles Taylor, reenters Liberia. He denounces the governments of Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast, two former allies, for oppression of the Muslim populations, which he now claims to be part of. His Tuareg allies agree to aid him when they meet.
•	Battle of N'Djamena: Chadian rebels attack the capital and after four days of fighting they capture the city. President Idriss Déby escapes with most of his military and cabinet to Moundou. He claims if France was able to send troops then the city could have been saved.
•	Burkina Faso's capital falls to Tuareg and Nigerian advances. Algeria is able to stall their push.
•	Following negotiations, President Robert Mugabe and opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara sign a power-sharing deal, making Tsvangirai the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

2009:
Europe:
•	With the growing popularity of Twitter and Facebook the international group Cordis Die grows.
•	Communist positions in northern Russia finally collapse. Hundreds of holdouts remain around the country as this insurgency will take years to end.
•	Serbia holds a conference in Belgrade aiming to expand the BCO. Parties from across Europe attend, including the French National Front. Marine Le Pen, Jean-Marie's daughter, represents the party and in a gesture of reconciliation she and Vojislav Šešelj hug on stage. This cements an alliance to retake France, Italy, and Spain.
•	Upon returning from Belgrade Luca Romagnoli gives the Italian Parliament a final vote on joining the BCO and preparing for the inevitable war with France. The MPs discuss it and refuse to be bullied into submission. National Vanguards then storm the building and arrest all who refuse to support the move. Around the country Vanguard soldiers take over government positions.
•	Hackers get into the government computers and reveal all known left wing party members including those suspected of being communist rebels. Retributive killings sweep the nation. Fighting and resistance continues into the summer but Rome is secured by the Vanguards.
•	General Ivan Radek of the Russian Army promises to reclaim Central Asia. The Vladimir Triumvirate refuses to comment.
•	Marine Le Pen begins building an army of French exiles in Italy, organized by the BCO.
•	Right wing populist rebels, nicknamed Falangists by leftists, are given weapons from the BCO to fight off the communists. The break-away nations in the north condemn the move, so does the Spanish government in exile in Portugal.
•	British opposition to the war grows in London, forcing Parliament to consider negotiations. Prime Minister Nick Clegg promises that if the war does not change to their favor by the end of the year he will begin negotiations with the people of Northern Ireland.
•	The SLP-Labour alliance threatens a vote of no confidence against the LibDem-Torrie minority government due to the destruction cause by the war. Nick Clegg discusses with them the possibility of a negotiation to end hostilities. The Labour party breaks their alliance due to their opposition to breaking apart the UK. With the support of 47% of Parliament (and the rest being neutral, BNP, and Labour), the government ceases operations outside of Belfast until negotiations with Northern Ireland can be met.
•	Labour MPs leave the party after Gordon Brown denounces independence of Scotland and Northern Ireland. They leave and form the Centrist Labour Party (Centrists).
•	The English Defense League is formed and terrorizes England's minorities.
•	Blackwater is hired by the US government to train the newly formed Democratic Front of Spain. They are ant-fascist and anti-socialist. They aid the Spanish Army in taking Madrid.
•	Vanguard units are integrated into the Italian Army. They then crack down on leftist positions.
Asia:
•	The Sri Lanka Civil War comes to an end with the death of Tamil leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
•	Speculative drilling in the South China Sea lead to China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei all claiming parts or all of the Spratly Islands.
•	Despite the unification date nearing, there are still some insurgents fighting in North Korea.
•	A Russian oil tanker is boarded near the Straits of Malacca. All crew members are taken hostage and executed by Islamist pirates.
•	Japan warns of China's increasing strength in the first island chain.
•	General Radek forces the Kazakh puppet government to cede sovereignty to Russia.
Middle East:
•	Ba'athists and Gaddafi forces request BCO aid to retake their countries.
•	An attempted coup by the Ba'athist Party fails and they retreat to Tikrit.
Americas:
•	Spring Break Massacre: 273 college students are killed in an attack on Cancun resorts during spring break. Mexican Cartels attack and slaughter them in retaliation for American support to the government.
•	US Marines conduct the largest evacuation since Saigon in 1975. Lima falls months after the Shining Path made their way to the city.
•	The Popular Revolutionary Army of Mexico aligns with the Maoist ideology and grows in size.
•	The FBI and ATFE crack down on IRA supporters in the USA.
•	Mexico is considered to be a failed state.
Africa:
•	The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
•	The President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup d'état, following a month of rallies in Antananarivo. The military appoints opposition leader Andry Rajoelina as the new president.
•	Khamis and Mutassim Gaddafi land in Sirte with the aid of Russian warships. Gaddafi loyalists retake the city shortly after. Across the southern end of the country a mix of Tuareg mercenaries and loyalists gain ground rapidly. Bani Walid rises up against the Muslim Brotherhood government.
•	Afonso Dhlakama of RENAMO reignites the Mozambique Civil War after claims that FRELIMO is doing nothing about the economic hardships. Angola and South Africa give tacit support.
•	Kagame evades an assassination attempt against him.

2010:
Global:
•	Computers are crippled around the world by Cordis Die supporters. This is just when home computers and wireless internet begin to catch on.
•	Website Wikileaks begins leaking information on various world powers. US involvement in Blackwater killing Spanish civilians, British support to the French socialists early in the civil war, China's assassination attempts on Paul Kagame, and Russia's support of Makarov during his terrorist days become headline news.
•	Many link Cordis Die to Wikileaks and their goal to take down governments.
Europe:
•	INTERPOL agent Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales, along with their infant firstborn son, from an Irish terrorist group called Ulster Liberation Army (ULA) during a kidnapping attempt on the Mall.
•	The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia. His twin brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski accuses Russia of being behind it, especially Makarov. He wins the election in June and closes all diplomacy with Russia while moving troops to the border in anticipation of an attack.
•	Vladimir Putin announces the two new parties in the Triumvirate being Vladimir Makarov and Alexander Lukashenko, former President of Belarus. Generals Vladimir Radchenko and Ivan Radek express their displeasure citing their military contributions over the past few years while Lukashenko has been in hiding for over a decade. Radchenko cites that Lukashenko's name isn't even Vladimir.
•	King Juan Carlos of Spain is assassinated in Lisbon. The assassin is revealed to be a Spanish soldier trained in Yugoslavia.
•	Prime Minister Clegg agrees with the IRA to a 2-year transition period where they will leave Northern Ireland. In return Northern Irish Protestants areas are to have semi-autonomy, the IRA will disarm, and the Republic of Ireland will take up the responsibility for paying for natural gas. Plenty celebrate but plenty also protest. Effigies of Clegg are burned around London. Nick Griffin pushes over a desk and is physically restrained while attempting to assault the Prime Minister in Parliament. MPs from all parties leave theirs and form new ones. The largest parties in the UK stand in order: BNP, Torrie, LibDem, Socialist Labour, Labour, Torrie Union, Centrist Labour, SNP, and various others.
•	The French government disbands half its military for disloyalty. Marine Le Pen decides to take advantage of the situation and orders her army to cross the Alps and says "Le sort en est jeté."
•	Large portions of France fall to the Reclamation and Freedom forces. Thousands of refugees use makeshift boats to escape to England where the number of French escapees has become a problem. Belgium and Germany attempt to close their borders.
•	Russia sets off an international crisis when they invade Poland. Days after the attack other nations in Europe flock to join NATO. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, Finland, Hungary, the Spanish government in exile, and the Polish government in exile join.
•	The majority of Poland's government is captured including President Jaroslaw Kaczynski, his entire cabinet, 290 National Assembly deputies, 80 Senators, and all but a few high ranking military officers. They are brought to Katyn, near where the historical massacre and the plane crash took place. Russian soldiers loyal to Makarov are to have allegedly murdered them all.
•	American aid to the Spanish government helps Felipe legitimize himself as King of Spain but many become disillusioned to a monarch hiding in Lisbon.
•	Red Brigades in Italy prepare to go underground as the military is able to push them back of their strongholds.
•	Russian nuclear facilities experience unknown glitches, rendering their arsenal unusable for short periods of time. Russian intelligence suspects a foreign power is behind the computer hacking.
Asia:
•	Despite small attacks around the nation, Korea becomes officially unified.
•	Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid fierce rioting, sparking a sociopolitical crisis. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is placed at the head of an interim government as the opposition seizes control. Former President Askar Akayev calls on Russia to send forces and overthrow the government for him.
•	The Russian Navy is deployed to the Straits of Malacca to conduct anti-piracy missions.
•	Russian Spetznaz overthrows the Kyrgyz government and places Akayev back in power.
Middle East:
•	The United States and the United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen due to the ongoing security threat by Islamists.
•	Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.
•	Civil war breaks out in Yemen. The government, supported by Jordan, faces Sunni Islamist, Shia Houthis, and South Yemen separatist opposition.
•	The Ba'athists are defeated in the Battle of Tikrit. Commander Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri is shot and wounded. Although he survives, his position to win Iraq is nearly diminished.
Americas:
•	A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince.
•	The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline. People blame Jeb Bush.
•	Tian Zhao arrives in Mexico after leaving Peru. Pictures surface of him commanding a Popular Revolutionary Army unit.
•	The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.
•	The Peruvian government is unable to destroy the former military, which has now taken the role of jungle guerrillas.
Africa:
•	Boko Haram captures dozens of Dutch Shell employees and beheads them. Oil production in Nigeria ceases.
•	Rwandan President Paul Kagame says goodbye to his wife Jeannette as he walks out of his house. He sips his coffee and is handed a newspaper by his driver. He sits down in his car and they drive off. Mr. Kagame asks his driver why the limousine seemed to be a lot closer to the ground than normal, he responded that he had no idea and assumed the suspension might be going. As they drove by a playground a group of Hutu and Tutsi children played and they ran to the fences to wave at Mr. Kagame, he waved back. That is when 6,500 pounds of explosives distributed throughout the limousine detonated and took out the entire city block.
•	Hutus are targeted by Tutsis for the assassination of Paul Kagame. They deny responsibility but clash with them in a second civil war. Violence spreads into the Congo.
•	James Kabarebe is sworn in as president of Rwanda and rallies the nation to hunt down Hutus in and outside the country.
•	Gaddafi forces take Benghazi, Tripoli, and Brega.

2011:
Global:
•	INTERPOL releases a list of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, led by Vladimir Makarov the Antichrist, naming Vladimir Putin, Imran Zakhaev, Vladimir Radchenko, and Ivan Radek. They then go on to list Vojislav Šešelj as the "Whore of Babylon" with the Seven Headed Beast of Radovan Karadžic, Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadžic, Milan Babic, Milan Martic, Momcilo Perišic, Milan Lukic, and Dragomir Miloševic. The lists are condemned by even Western nations as being "provocative".
•	Cordis Die releases emails between world leaders revealing BNP’s Nick Griffin has been offering political support to Yugoslavia’s Vojislav Šešelj and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The revelation tanks support for the BNP and threatens to swing the vote back to Labour.
Europe:
•	Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya.
•	France collapses when the Freedom Group merges with Le Pen's much stronger Reclamation Forces. They capture Paris and soon the rest of the country falls.
•	Russia and NATO leaders, USA and UK, agree to terms on Poland. The Russian Army evacuates Poland and NATO ties are severed. The fallout is enormous with Poland descending into utter chaos. Without any form of government there is a power struggle between surviving members of the political parties. Law and Justice forms the Right Bloc while the Civic Platform forms the Centrist Bloc. A third Left Bloc is formed from united leftists, socialists, and anarchist opportunists. The military eventually takes over and suspends all political parties and the constitution. Cordis Die moves their operations to Poland.
•	Former French leaders Arlette Laguiller and Olivier Besancenot are killed. The former executed by firing squad and the latter in combat outside of Paris in his hometown Levallois-Perret.
•	Polish Civil War: Fighting erupts between the military government and the suppressed political parties.
•	A midnight hour deal between the BNP and newly popular UKIP secures the elections for their coalition. The Clegg government falls apart and a new election is scheduled for November, two months before Northern Ireland is set to gain independence in their vote to join the Republic of Ireland. Issues of this election include Northern Irish independence, Scottish National Party gaining enough seats to declare their own declaration of independence, Poland's security, and the influx of South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants who have risen to 45% of London's population.
•	Nick Griffin is arrested for collusion with the enemy. Nick Clegg has charges brought against him and is also ineligible to run in the next Parliamentary elections.
•	In a poll, 70% of British citizens have no faith in their government and consider not even voting due to the increase in parties.
•	The election results come in, shockingly with UKIP and BNP winning outright. They promise to work with the Torries and LibDems against the Labour and Socialist parties. Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister and his first action is to invalidate the independence votes and withdraw troops from Poland.
•	The last Caliph of Turkey passes away and they are unable to find a successor. A military coup ends the Caliph government.
•	France, Italy, and Greece leave the European Union in favor of becoming full members of the Belgrade Cooperation Organization.
Asia:
•	Fighting continues in the Afghan-Pakistani region now known as the Eastern Caliphate.
•	Tensions between India and China rise due to China’s overt support for Naxalite rebels and the communist rebellion in Bangladesh.
•	Japan rewrites their constitution to support the need for a national military to defend themselves against a resurging China and Russia.
•	China begins land reclamation in the South China Sea with the purpose to build permanent structures on the former reefs.
Middle East:
•	Russia breaks international law by attacking the Iraqi government in support of Ba’athist forces.
•	Russian Spetznaz raid the Iraqi Presidential Palace shortly after a bomb destroys their parliament building. President al-Sadr is evacuated in time and flies to Iran to take refuge.
•	Israel’s Mossad is believed to be behind a computer virus that took down Russian nuclear facilities in 2010.
•	Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating terror attacks.
•	The US government signs a deal with the Iranian president ending the occupation and evacuation of US troops within the next 5 years.
•	Israel's Iron Dome project is completed, protecting the country from rocket attacks.
•	After a 10-year cease-fire the Syrian Civil War reignites. The al-Assad regime fights to regain their country.
Americas:
•	Cordis Die takes down the power in Kingston, Jamaica. Overnight the city riots and turns into a warzone until the lights come back on.
•	Communist rebels led by General Tian Zhao from southern Mexico engage cartels in the north of the country.
•	Anti-communist forces take control of eastern Peru.
•	Peru-Chile War 2011: Angered by Peru's flagrant actions to the stability of South America, Chile invades southern Peru. The war lasts 3 weeks before a peace is brokered by Argentina, who had been supporting Chile. Peru’s Shining Path government flees to the countryside.
•	Former government officials return to Lima. The majority of the country is still in shambles.
•	Operation Fast and Furious: An ATF gunwalking scandal erupts when it is revealed the government gave weapons to Mexican cartels to locate them for arrest. The plan obviously backfires and only 35% are recovered.
•	Congressman Ron Paul introduces an impeachment of President Jeb Bush. It fails.
•	Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October. The US State Department pins its creation on Cordis Die.
•	INTERPOL issues an arrest warrant for Hugo Chavez after it is revealed that he is supporting FARC rebels in Colombia.
Africa:
•	The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to London after 23 years in power.
•	Rwandan troops enter the Congo and engage Hutu populations as well as government forces due to their support of China, who is considered to be responsible for the assassination of Kagame. Uganda responds by also invading to prevent Rwandan influence from expanding.
•	Mahamat Nouri and recently defected Abdelwahid Aboud Mackaye leave the Chadian government after they deem it a Sudanese puppet to their Chinese masters. They attempt to enlist the help of the Tuaregs and Libyans to help take back Chad.
•	The US State Department names the Tuareg Rebellion as the greatest threat to world security due to their highly mobile force that does not acknowledge innocents or borders.
•	Kabila is unable to fight off the Rwandan and Ugandan troops. The DRC is on the verge of crumbling.
•	South Sudan secedes from Sudan after a successful independence referendum. Civil war breaks out afterward.

2012:
Global:
•	A series of terrorist attacks are directed against Russian diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland, United States, and the United Kingdom. In the US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to an online trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims. Among the dead is Russian ambassador Soda Popinski in Benghazi, Libya.
•	A satellite comes into orbit over Earth and sends out a frequency that shuts down all electronics in Compton, California. The satellite disappears and riots last for a day.
Europe:
•	The UK pulls out of the European Union.
•	Unified IRA groups announce the creation of the Republic of Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland refuses to recognize them in an act of neutrality. Terrorist attacks mar the celebrations.
•	Russia signs non-aggression pacts with the Baltic States and Finland.
•	The leftist-led Czech Republic recognizes the Polish left bloc as the only government of Poland. Russia swiftly recognizes the right bloc with the USA recognizing what is now known as the central bloc, made up of former government politicians.
•	Socialist rebels set fire to the L’ouvre, damaging dozens of priceless works of art.
•	Right wing rebels in Spain gain control of most of the country. Socialist rebels evacuate to the socialist breakaway republics. King Felipe recognizes the right wing rebels as the sole government of Spain, securing his place in the event they win.
•	Russian and Serbian troops enter France and Italy to fight what is left of the socialist rebels.
Asia:
•	Border skirmishes flair up between Vietnam and China over China’s increased naval presence in the region.
•	Cordis Die sets up a base in Cambodia.
Middle East:
•	President Yasir Al-Fulani of Arabia is executed on television by Commander Khaled Al-Asad. Al-Asad quickly aligns the new junta with the BCO and prepares for war with the American backed forces.
•	The IDF launches a raid into the Gaza Strip looking to target Hamas leadership. It fails to kill the intended HVT's but they successfully kill 20% of the prisoners they recently let go.
•	Caliph Abdullah of Jordan announces the full invasion of Arabia to curb Al-Asad's army from growing.
•	Khaled Al-Asad detonates a nuclear weapon in Riyadh, destroying the remaining infrastructure of the al-Fulani government and Jordanian invaders.
Americas:
•	Acapulco falls to the Mexican rebels led by Chinese General Tian Zhao. Rebels allegedly strolled into a military base and forced the garrison’s commander to surrender.
•	US Presidential Election 2012: Incumbent President Jeb Bush defeats Hillary Clinton, wife of former President Bill Clinton who was impeached years earlier. In third place came Ron Paul who carried no states but 13% of the popular vote.
•	Christmas Massacre: Days before Christmas Eve the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was the site of a terrorist attack. Five armed men of Hispanic features walked into the airport and opened fire, killing indiscriminately. Three planes full of passengers are destroyed by explosives. The attack claims the lives of nearly 500 civilians and two dozen police. One gunman is found dead and is identified as a known Sinaloa Cartel member.
•	Popular support for President Bush plummets and anti-Mexican violence skyrockets. Militias along the Mexican border begin targeting immigrants, especially in Texas.
•	President Bush orders Blackwater to guard all US oil fields in Mexico. News media uses this to wreck President Bush's credibility after the Dallas attack.
•	Drug Cartels blow a hole in the American wall. Bush doubles the number of soldiers patrolling the wall.
Africa:
•	The Tuaregs invade Chad, capturing the capital and installing Mahamat Nouri as President. Sudan fears they are next.
•	The Islamic Courts Union declares another cease-fire with Somaliland, moving back to pre-war borders.
•	Backed by a fleet of Mi-24 Hind gunships, the Rhodesian mercenary group (now known as the New Rhodesian Army), launches an attack on the Presidential Palace in Harare. Robert Mugabe is captured and executed. Hundreds of right-wing whites from around the world are thought to be among the NRA’s ranks. Makarov is indicated to have supplied them with weaponry.
•	The CIA releases a report that the New Rhodesian Army is still in control of a nuclear weapon.
•	A cease-fire takes place in the Congo with Rwanda and Uganda agreeing to halt their advance.

2013:
Global:
•	Cordis Die claims responsibility for a coordinated cyber attack that partially drains the Three Gorges and Hoover Dam. Luckily they were recovered before any serious damage could be done.
Europe:
•	A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.
•	Two bombs explode at the Moscow Marathon in Moscow, Russia. Three people are killed and 264 are injured. The suspects are Chechen rebels.
•	Baron Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister, passes away. Her dying words were "Fuck the unions..."
•	A rogue imam of a mosque in France organizes a lynch mob which targets scores of French citizens in Communist held areas. President Le Pen calls it terrorism and promises justice for the attacks. An estimated five women are stoned to death for promiscuity and at least a dozen men beheaded for sodomy.
•	Fighting between right-wing citizens and the leftist government breaks out in small cities throughout Poland. The rebels begin detonating charges on bridges, separating the eastern portion of the country along the Narew and Vistula Rivers.
•	Unable to control the Turkish population in Eastern Thrace, Greece evacuates. Like the rest of Turkey, Eastern Thrace becomes lawless.
•	Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen converts to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and adopts the name Nicholas III, becoming the successor to the defunct Russian throne.
Asia:
•	The Philippines takes China to international court over their “9-dashed line” claim over the Spratly Islands.
Middle East:
•	Khaled Al-Asad marches his forces west and promises a new dawn for the people of Arabia. Distribution of oil revenue, adherence to Islam, and western practices being banned is promised. Most of all he says he will unite the Arab people. Clashes begin with Jordanian troops near the Hejaz.
•	Reporters enter Turkey for the first time in about a decade. The conditions that the people live under are considered to be some of the worst in the world. Government patrols shoot at civilians who dare walk out in the streets at night.
•	Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is killed in a rocket shortly after Jordanian forces leave for the Nejd. Shia and Southern separatists gain ground and begin fighting.
•	Israel begins leaving the West Bank and handing over control to the new State of Judea under Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo. The move angers just about everyone in the world. The United Nations refuses to recognize the country.
•	Russian planes bomb Iraqi military sites in support of al-Douri’s Ba’athist troops.
Americas:
•	President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela passes away from cancer given to him by the United States. Nicolás Maduro succeeds him.
•	Militias around the United States form armed communes.
•	Heriberto Lazcano, leader of Los Zetas absorbs the Gulf Cartel and seeks to take control of Mexico. In response the Sinaloa Cartel forms the Federation of Cartels with the remaining major cartels minus La Familia.
•	Mexico is declared a failed state due to the majority of the country being out of their control.
•	Chaos continues in Zimbabwe where mercenaries flock to the area. Reports of massacres continue to come in where Rhodesian expatriates gun down surrendered Zimbabwean soldiers in the streets.
•	President Bush announces plans for the Freedom Star low-orbit space station. It will permanently house three battalions of US Marines capable of deploying anywhere in there world within 90-minutes. The station is set to be operational in 2020.
Africa:
•	A famine is expected to wipe out 10% of Africa in the next 5 years.
•	Kabila negotiates a Ugandan withdrawal. Rwanda agrees to leave by 2015.
•	Black Zimbabweans are massacred after a plane is shot down leaving the capital in retaliation for Air Rhodesia Flight 825. Mimicking the original attack, the Rhodesian mercs offer supplies to the few survivors but then murdered them.
•	Algeria caves under pressure from the Tuaregs and agrees to let them migrate through their southern regions.
•	Tuareg rebels, nicknamed The Horde by western media, invade Sudan through the Darfur region. Despite religious differences, the animist and Christian communities of Darfur welcome the Tuaregs.
•	RENAMO launches a year-long guerilla engagement against the Mozambique government, nearly bringing it to its knees. Fighting becomes a regular occurrence in the capital.
•	Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood is arrested by the military due to their rhetoric over sending troops into Libya to fight the BCO.

2014:
Global:
•	Robotic warfare is approved by several nations to eventually replace human soldiers. Drones have become more commonplace.
•	China test fires an anti-satellite ballistic missile in response to the American Freedom Star space station.
•	Many nations consider leaving the Outer Space Treaty which bars nuclear and weapons of mass destruction from being deployed in outer space.
Europe:
•	Without warning, Vladimir Makarov leaves Russia with Generals Vladimir Radchenko, Ivan Radek, and former mentor Imran Zakhaev. They take with them several nuclear weapons and the Ultra-Nationalist Army, Makarov's personal death squad. They set up operations in eastern Poland and threaten nuclear annihilation to the West if they do not leave Poland and Eastern Europe.
•	The last socialist army surrenders to the Spanish right-wing. A month later they begin the invasion of the breakaway socialist republics. King Felipe returns to Madrid.
•	Spain decides against joining the BCO despite the enormous aid given to them. This decision is made due to Portugal remaining in NATO and not wanting an arms race along their borders.
•	Facing the deadline from Makarov the US agrees to pull out their remaining troops from Poland.
•	Fighting between the Polish left and right continue. Makarov extends his war into the Czech Republic. Cordis Die evacuates from their stronghold.
•	Fighting erupts along the border of Russian Donbass and Ukraine.
Asia:
•	China unveils their new drone fleet in hopes it’ll one day rival the US.
•	Multiple communist holdouts in Siberia and near central Asia surrender.
Middle East:
•	Khaled Al-Asad wins a tremendous victory over tribal leaders and the Jordanians. He forces them out into the Hejaz and declares the Democratic Republic of Arabia.
•	Battle-hardened Islamists from Syria enter Iraq to take advantage of the sectarian violence.
•	Fallujah, Iraq falls to the al-Qaeda group the Islamic State of Iraq. Months later Mosul falls to Islamists from Syria.
•	The Iraqi Ba’athist Party changes allegiance from Russia to the newly declared Islamic State. The Islamic State led by Abu Bakr al-Badghdadi claims all of Iraq and Syria to be the starting point of his new Caliphate.
•	Boko Haram of the Borno Sultante, the Tuaregs of Azawad and the conquered Saharan, the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia, and the Eastern Caliphate all pledge allegiance to Caliph al-Baghdadi. Terrorist groups in eastern Libya, Yemen, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, Aceh of Indonesia, and Chechnya also join the group.
Americas:
•	Congressional elections keep the Republican Party in the majority. Senator Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Jim DeMint, and former Congressmen Ron Paul and Allen West split from the Republicans and join the Libertarian Party. This move is in response to what they see as “Clinton-Bush” policies that have governed the nation for nearly 24 years.
•	Communists launch an attack on Mexico City, retreating shortly after.
•	The US government invests heavily in the Tacitus Corporation to fund research in robotics and directed energy weapon systems.
Africa:
•	The final rebel holdout of Misrata in captured in Libya. Mutassim Gaddafi is proclaimed President of the State of Libya by his followers with his brother Khamis his right-hand man. Fighting continues in the east which is still under the former Muslim Brotherhood government and Islamic terrorist control.
•	A former Russian submarine owned by Makarov’s Ultranationalists launches strikes on Tuareg forces in Sudan. They’re forced to retreat back to Azawad.
•	Civil war breaks out in Chad without the Tuareg fighters backing up the Mahamat Nouri government.

2015:
Global:
•	Within months of each other, Russia and the US announce ballistic missile defense shields labeled Space-Land-Air-Missile Shield (SLAMS) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense-Extended Range (THAAD-ER) respectively. Small scale testing proves them to be capable of destroying 90% of missile strikes. Both are expected to be operational in 2020.
•	China is noticeably absent from the global ABM arms race.
Europe:
•	Polish rebels led by Makarov and his Ultranationalists recapture Warsaw in a bloody battle.
•	A biological agent is used against Ultranationalist troops in the Czech Republic by Cordis Die. It spreads quickly through hundreds of soldiers, making them incredibly ill and contagious. Makarov orders all exposed to be executed.
•	The Italian Civil War ends after the Vanguard faction suppresses the final socialist rebellion in Naples.
•	Terror attacks in Paris and Belgium are committed by the Islamic State.
Asia:
•	Al-Qaeda of India attacks a hotel in Mumbai killing 136 civilians.
•	China completes construction of military bases in the South China Sea. The US increases Navy patrols in the area.
Middle East:
•	Fearing Russia gaining exclusive rights to oil in the Arabian Peninsula the US launches airstrikes on nationalist strongholds. General al-Asad is killed when his convoy is hit. The Democratic Republic of Arabia collapses overnight.
•	Islamic State allied rebels grow exponentially in the void of Arabia. Former nationalists, Jordanians, and Islamists are pitted in a three-way war.
•	Houthi rebels capture the Yemeni capital.
•	Cordis Die takes advantage of the chaos in Yemen and sets up a base of operations in the country.
•	The Islamic State invades Kurdistan and Kurdish areas in Syria. Fighting spills over into Turkey.
•	Russia deploys troops to Damascus and Aleppo to fight the Islamic State and other rebels.
•	The US deploys a carrier to the Persian Gulf to launch airstrikes on Islamic State forces in Iraq.
Americas:
•	Businessman Donald Trump condemns President Jeb Bush for not securing America’s borders. The wall is considered ineffective and obsolete. Trump announces his candidacy for President through the Republican Party and promises to deploy American troops to Mexico to stop the cartels and communists.
•	Haiti’s presidential election is disputed and results in months of violence.
Africa:
•	Benghazi falls to the Islamic State. The Muslim Brotherhood government collapses and most members join the Islamic State.
•	General Haftar launches Operation Dignity to reclaim Libya from Islamists. The Gaddafi government funds his militia despite not being allied to him.
•	RENAMO takes control of Mozambique. FRELIMO moves to the outskirts of cities and continues the civil war.

2016:
Global:
•	A joint British-American project named Directed Energy Air Defense (DEAD) to succeed the recently announced THAAD-ER system. Using large, concentrated bursts of energy from lasers the DEAD system is expected to protect host nations from 99% of missiles, planes, and drones. Russia is unable to announce a counterpart.
•	Israel joins the anti-ballistic missile arms race with David’s Sling to replace the Iron Dome by 2018 and Iron Beam, a laser defense system, in 2025.
•	Also announced is Iron Spade, a geo-seismic or tectonic weapon capable of destroying underground tunnels from the surface. Korea and the US collaborate with Israel on the project.
Europe:
•	BCO troops in France declare victory in the nearly 20 years of unrest that marred the country.
•	Russian Ultranationalist and businessman, Boris Vorshevsky, is installed as President of Poland by Makarov. Alexei Borodin, another associate takes control of Prague as the Ultranationalists purge socialists in the Czech Republic.
•	Spanish troops capture all but the Catalonian and Basque breakaway republics.
•	Thirteen French soldiers are kidnapped in Marseille after protests between the Muslim and French population. All thirteen are beheaded by the Union of Islamic Jihad in France.
•	Millions of Arab and Central Asian refugees migrate to Europe. The still liberal governments of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway take in the majority of them. The BCO and Eurosceptic governments do their best to force them out.
•	Border skirmishes between Russia and Ukraine continue.
•	Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party of Austria wins the election and moves the country closer to the Eurosceptics in the BCO.
Asia:
•	The Khorasan wing of the Islamic State invades Balochistan.
•	The Philippines wins their court case against China in the South China Sea. Recently elected Filipino president, Rodrigo Duterte, downplays the victory as he strengthens ties with China at the behest of the US.
•	Violent crackdowns against drug users sweep across the Philippines. Over twenty thousand are expected to be dead from extra-judicial killings.
Middle East:
•	US troops are deployed to Iraq defend Baghdad from the Islamic State. Basra, Kirkuk, and Erbil are the only free cities.
•	The Islamic State captures all of Syria but Aleppo, Tartus, Idlib, and Damascus. Fighting continues between them and the government with their Russian allies.
•	The Islamic State of Arabia captures Jeddah and poised to capture Mecca and Medina.
•	The December offensive forces Jordan to evacuate Arabia. The Islamic State captures the two holy mosques and destroys countless artifacts. Thousands are executed.
Americas:
•	The government of Mexico collapses after politicians evacuate the capital. Communist rebels under General Tian Zhao capture Mexico City. Many officers in the military defect to Los Zetas and Sinaloa-led Federation of Cartels. La Familia joins the Sinaloa Cartel.
•	Many more Mexican soldiers attempt to illegally cross into the US, attacking sections of the wall.
•	Venezuela enters a state of civil war after their economic collapse leads to massive riots. The NRIM-backed government fights protesters that seek to overthrow the socialist government.
•	Anti-Islamic violence spreads throughout South America.
•	The US Presidential debate hits an unprecedented turn during the primaries. Senator Ted Cruz and party favorite George P. Bush face off against business mogul Donald Trump while Congressman Chuck Schumer competes against Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. Senator Bernie Sanders and former Congressman Ron Paul run independently in the Socialist American and Libertarian parties. Donald Trump and Schumer win their party primaries.
•	In a landslide victory Donald Trump is elected President. Typically blue states were split between Schumer and Sanders while a few faithless electors vote for Ron Paul.
Africa:
•	Harare, Zimbabwe falls to the Rhodesian mercenaries who rename it Salisbury, the former Rhodesian title.
•	The Tuareg execute Charles Taylor for not adhering to Islam. Boko Haram and the Tuareg invade Liberia to annex the nation into the Islamic State.