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| 1996 |
| | Expelled from Sudan, Osama bin Laden moves to Afghanistan where he builds training camps for al-Qaeda | |
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| 1996 |
| | The Taliban capture Kabul, driving out rival Afghan guerrilla groups | |
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| 1996 |
| | The Taliban hang ex-president Najibullah and his brother at Kabul's major traffic intersection | |
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| 1997 |
| | Thousands of Shia Muslims are massacred by the Taliban in Mazar-e-Sharif, in a brief spell before they are driven from the city | |
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| 1998 |
| | The Taliban recapture Mazar-e-Sharif, giving them control of 90% of Afghanistan | |
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| 1998 |
| | US cruise missiles attack al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical factory in Khartoum | |
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| 2001 |
| | Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is fatally wounded in an attack by two suicide bombers | |
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| 2001 |
| | US and UK forces launch military action against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan | |
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| 2001 |
| | The Northern Alliance, the army of the Afghan resistance to the Taliban, drives the Taliban from Kabul | |
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| 2001 |
| | A month after the fall of Kabul, the Northern Alliance drives the Taliban from their power base in Kandahar | |
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