Chronology.

The article reports on several developments in the Middle East, from January 16 to April 15, 2006. In the Arab-Israeli conflict, a suicide bomber blew himself up, including 30 victims in a shopping center in Tel Aviv, on January 19. In Central Asia and the Caucasus, millions of people in Georgia went without heat for the third day after blasts destroyed a Russian pipeline, on January 24. In January 17, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas confirmed not to consider for reelection in 2009.