Israel and PLO sign the Oslo II Accords The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, dubbed the Taba Agreement, took effect on this day in 1995. It divided Gaza and the West Bank into three areas and gave the Palestinians limited control over some of them. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed the Accord by which Palestinian elections were also proposed. Former Afghan President Was...
The Taliban Captured Afghanistan's Capital city, Kabul. During the third Afghan civil war from 1996-2001, the Taliban captured Kabul and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established on 27 September 1996. US and UK troops invaded Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: a period overlapping with the Afghan civil war that began in 1989, and with the war in Afghanistan that began in 1978. NASA...