February 13 - America's public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden, is reported missing by his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan.
May
May 9 - The Taliban movement says that its forces have retaken the key central town of Bamyan from the opposition alliance.
June
June 20 - The Red Cross pulls non-essential foreign staff out of Afghanistan after 10 of its workers were beaten.
July
July 6 - U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes financial and commercial sanctions on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement because of its support of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama Bin Laden.[1]
July 19 - The U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asia,
Karl Inderfurth, tells
Taliban Information Minister Mullah
Amir Khan Muttaqi that the U.S. would be forced to take further actions if
Osama bin Laden is not brought to justice.
July 19 - The
Six plus Two Group on Afghanistan adopted the
Tashkent Declaration, in which the members pledged not to provide arms to any party in the Afghan conflict and not to allow the use of their territory for such purpose.[2]
July 28 - Thousands of Taliban fighters launch an offensive to crush Ahmad Shah Masood, the last hurdle between the Islamic militia and control of the whole of Afghanistan. This July Offensive was condemned in an October Presidential Statement of the UN Security Council. The UN Secretary General specifically pointed out that the offensive was reinforced by thousands of recruits from religious schools in Pakistan.[3]
August
August 1 - Taliban fighters seize opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood's key Bagram airbase in an offensive to establish total dominance of Afghanistan; anti-Taliban fighters recapture the airbase on August 5.
Late September - The Taliban issued a decree calling for a one-third reduction in the cultivation of opium over the 1999–2000 season, a 50% reduction of cultivation in some districts in Nangarhar, and a complete ban on cultivation on the lands owned by the Taliban itself.[4] In
July 2000, the Taliban would move further, instituting a total opium cultivation ban.
October 27 - Mullah
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil is named foreign minister in the Taliban government, replacing Mullah Mohammad Hassan. Mullah Abdul Razzaq is made interior minister, replacing Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, who is appointed as governor of the western province of
Herat.
October 29 - Saudi-born terrorism suspect
Osama bin Laden is reported to have sought safe passage from the Taliban's Afghanistan to an unknown country.
November
November 14 - UN sanctions against Afghanistan under
Resolution 1267 go into force, imposed for not handing over Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden.
February 13 - America's public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden, is reported missing by his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan.
May
May 9 - The Taliban movement says that its forces have retaken the key central town of Bamyan from the opposition alliance.
June
June 20 - The Red Cross pulls non-essential foreign staff out of Afghanistan after 10 of its workers were beaten.
July
July 6 - U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes financial and commercial sanctions on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement because of its support of Saudi terrorism suspect Osama Bin Laden.[1]
July 19 - The U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asia,
Karl Inderfurth, tells
Taliban Information Minister Mullah
Amir Khan Muttaqi that the U.S. would be forced to take further actions if
Osama bin Laden is not brought to justice.
July 19 - The
Six plus Two Group on Afghanistan adopted the
Tashkent Declaration, in which the members pledged not to provide arms to any party in the Afghan conflict and not to allow the use of their territory for such purpose.[2]
July 28 - Thousands of Taliban fighters launch an offensive to crush Ahmad Shah Masood, the last hurdle between the Islamic militia and control of the whole of Afghanistan. This July Offensive was condemned in an October Presidential Statement of the UN Security Council. The UN Secretary General specifically pointed out that the offensive was reinforced by thousands of recruits from religious schools in Pakistan.[3]
August
August 1 - Taliban fighters seize opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood's key Bagram airbase in an offensive to establish total dominance of Afghanistan; anti-Taliban fighters recapture the airbase on August 5.
Late September - The Taliban issued a decree calling for a one-third reduction in the cultivation of opium over the 1999–2000 season, a 50% reduction of cultivation in some districts in Nangarhar, and a complete ban on cultivation on the lands owned by the Taliban itself.[4] In
July 2000, the Taliban would move further, instituting a total opium cultivation ban.
October 27 - Mullah
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil is named foreign minister in the Taliban government, replacing Mullah Mohammad Hassan. Mullah Abdul Razzaq is made interior minister, replacing Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, who is appointed as governor of the western province of
Herat.
October 29 - Saudi-born terrorism suspect
Osama bin Laden is reported to have sought safe passage from the Taliban's Afghanistan to an unknown country.
November
November 14 - UN sanctions against Afghanistan under
Resolution 1267 go into force, imposed for not handing over Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden.