Date 13/7/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Masood forces claimed to have shot down a Taliban helicopter in Samangan province on 12/7/99. Opposition sources in Peshawar told AIP that Taliban helicopter was shot down during fighting at Dara Souf in Samangan province. Sources also claimed that a key Taliban...

Date 24/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Three rockets fired by Taliban opposition forces landed near Khwaja Rawesh Airport in Kabul, causing no damage to the airport, a Taliban official said. Meanwhile, Taliban Information Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi in reply to a question about the arrest of their...

Date 24/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban jet aircrafts on the night between 23 and 24 June, 1999, struck Bagram Airport in north of Kabul, sources told AIP on 24 June, 1999. Sources said that two aircrafts bombed the airport garrison at about 7:30 pm (Afghanistan time). According to Taliban op...

Date 19/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least four person were killed as local people and Taliban administration intensified efforts to control the growing spread of fire broke out in Dera Pech area of Kunar province, 35 kilometer in south of Asadabad, officials and locals said. Deputy administrator of...

Date 16/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Huge fire erupted in forests of Darra Pech area, 30km south of Asadabad, center of Kunar province, engulfing at least five to ten square kilometers forest. According to the people of the area, it was a huge fire, they did not see in past. It is a major source o...

Date 15/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least two person were killed and three others were injured when some unknown persons fired rockets at Jalalabad city, reliable sources told AIP. Sources said three rockets were fired from east side, one of them hit Babaryan area and two other landed in surroundin...

Date 03/06/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said there was no opposition frontline in northern Afghanistan against Taliban government and no fighting was taking place across the country. A spokesman for Taliban in Kabul told AIP that they had destroyed all the centers of opposition forces in Bamyan,...

Date 02/06/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Fierce fighting continuing in Bal Khab area of Sar Pul province, north of Bamyan province, as Taliban attacked Bal Khab to fight the militia of Hizbul Wahdat, hiding in the mountainous parts. Taliban launched the attack, using horses for climbing hilltops where the...

Date 1/6/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Uzbekistan Foreign Minister on 1/6/99 called on Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar in Kandahar and discussed with him matters of mutual interests. Giving details about the meeting, Taliban spokesman Wakeel Ahmad Muttawakkil said the meeting lasted for 40 m...

Date 29/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): More than 3,000 ulema backed Taliban policies during a two-day seminar held in Kandahar on 27-5-99. The seminar was attended by thousands of people including Taliban officials and some ulema from Pakistan. Afghan Information Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi g...