TIMELINE-Armed attacks and bombings in Maghreb states

(Reuters) - Sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry source said.

Here is a chronology of recent militant activity in north Africa.

May 16, 2003 - Suicide bombers set off at least five blasts in Casablanca, Morocco, hitting a Spanish restaurant, a five-star hotel and a Jewish community centre. Forty-five people are killed, including 12 bombers, and about 60 wounded.

June 13, 2004 - The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), Algeria's leading Islamic militant group which has ties to al Qaeda, declares war on foreign nationals and companies.

December 10, 2006 - A bus carrying foreign oil workers is bombed 10 km (6 miles) west of Algiers, killing the Algerian driver and a Lebanese worker. Nine others are wounded.

January 3, 2007 - A total of 14 gunmen are killed in clashes with security forces in and around Tunis on December 23 and January 3, rare serious breaches of security in a normally placid Tunisia.

February 13 - Seven bombs go off almost simultaneously in Algeria, killing six people east of the capital Algiers in an elaborate assault by suspected Islamist rebels.

March 4 - Three Algerians and a Russian are killed in a roadside attack southwest of Algiers on a bus carrying workers for a Russian gas pipeline construction company.

March 11 - A Moroccan blows himself up in a Casablanca Internet cafe, killing himself and wounding four people after a tussle with the owner of the cafe.