Date 15/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): At least 200 Taliban fighters entered the headquarters of Yakawlang district of Bamyan province without facing any remarkable resistance. According to AIP sources no fight took place between Taliban and opposition forces as most of fighters of the opposition forces...

Date 14/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Islamic militia of Taliban destroyed poppy fields, spread over hundred of acres, in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, official said. Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdulhai Mutmaen told AIP on telephone that poppy fields were destroyed in Khakrez district of Kand...

Date 14/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ahmad Shah Masood army fired rockets and artillery fire at Dawlat Shah area of Legham province last night. However, Taliban launched retaliation attack at dawn. According reports, Taliban had sent fresh troops to the battlefield as the fighting between Taliban and A...

Date 9/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): After a fierce gunbattle, Taliban managed to recapture Bamyan city in central Afghanistan, Taliban information minister said. Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghan information minister told AIP that it was short but fierce gunbattle in which Taliban succeeded in throwing aw...

Date 5/5/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): String of blasts in an ammunition depot at army garrison in Khair Khana area, north of Kabul, killed at least two persons and more than a dozen were injured, reports said. Sources said that the blasts continued for few hours with short intervals in which at least tw...

Date 01/05/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have issued directives to all the concerned people to write Afghan national language on all the signboards and billboards in order to preserve national integrity and sovereignty. Taliban Information Minister Mullah Amir Muttaqi told Afghan Islamic Press tha...

Date 27/4/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban opposition forces said 15 persons had been killed and 22 others had been injured in the Taliban airstrikes. A spokesman for Northern Alliance, Eng Tooryalai, told AIP on telephone that Taliban jet aircrafts bombed Panjsher, Jabalul Siraj, Charikar, Taluqan a...

Date 27/4/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban destroyed mountainous centers of their opposition forces in northern Afghanistan and the clean up operation would last for a day or two, reliable sources informed AIP. They said that Taliban destroyed opposition centers in Darzab, Lolash, Balkhab and Bal Cha...

Date 10/4/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Heavy gunfire was traded between Taliban and Hizbul Wahdat fighters in Yakawlang district of Bamyan province on 10-03-99, sources said. According to sources, Taliban launched a major offensive to clean up the district from their opposition men, who claim to have cap...

Date 2/3/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Anti-Taliban alliance for its council leadership has named former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani as its chief. Sources of the alliance told AIP in Peshawar that the council is comprised of forty members from six parties of the alliance and Burhanuddin Rabbani h...