Editing 2006 (section)

== Events ==
*January 4 - [[Ariel Sharon]], Prime Minister of Israel, suffers a stroke that leaves him in a permanent comatose state. [[Ehud Olmert]] is named acting prime minister.
*January 25 - [[Hamas]] wins the Palestinian legislative election, taking 74 out of 132 seats.
*January 30 - [[Jennifer San Marco|Goleta postal facility shootings]]
*February 22 - Beginning of the Iraqi Civil War.
*March 17 - [[Tsui Po-ko]] is killed in a police ambush.
*March 25 - [[Kyle Aaron Huff|Capitol Hill massacre]]
*March 29 - [[Charles Taylor]] is captured while trying to sneak into Cameroon. He is subsequently extradited to Sierra Leone.
*April 28 - [[Hope Rippey]] is released from prison.
*June 6 - The [[Islamic Courts Union]] is founded to serve a rival administration to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.
*June 7 -  [[Al-Qaeda]] in Iraq leader [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]] is killed near Baqubah while attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse when two United States Air Force F-16 jets dropped guided bombs on the safe-house, killing him and five other people.
*July 14 - Peace talks between Uganda and the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] begin at a summit in Juba, South Sudan.
*July 28 - [[Alan García]] is elected President of Peru for the second time.
*August 5 - The [[United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia]] are dissolved.
*September - U.S. Congressman [[Mark Foley]] is embroiled in a scandal involving [[Pederasty|inappropriate text messages sent to teenage boys]].
*September 13 - [[Kimveer Gill|Dawson College shooting]]
*September 22 - [[Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik|Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart]]
*October 2 - [[Charles Carl Roberts|West Nickel Mines School shooting]]
*November 20 - [[Sebastian Bosse|Emsdetten school shooting]]
*December 3 - [[Frank Bainimarama]] leads a successful coup and manages to seize power in Fiji.
*December 11 - The [[International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust]] is held in Tehran, Iran.
*December 21 - [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]] is named President of Turkmenistan following the death of [[Saparmurat Niyazov]].
*December 30 - [[Saddam Hussein]] is found guilty of [[genocide]] and mass [[murder]] and is hanged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]], his former closest advisor, is subsequently named the new Regional Secretary of the Iraqi [[Ba'ath Party]].