| 10/17/95 | Thousands of the inhabitants of the capital fled the city in the wake of a taliban militia attack. The fierce fighting between taliban and Rabbani forces around Kabul compelled hundreds of families to leave the city. Families shifted from Kabul to Jalalabad, capital of Nangahar province, and stayed in camps. Many refugees headed towards Pakistan. |
| 11/19/94 | Hekmatyar lay siege to Massoud and Rabbani in Kabul turning the city into rubble. |
| 12/1979 | Moscow turfs the socialist government and installs Babrak Karmal Soviet troops enter Afghanistan to prop up Karmal. |
| 1973 | King Zahir Shah is overthrown. |
| 1978 | Socialists under Hafizullah Amin tage a coup in Kabul. Moscow begins to send aid. |
| 1986 | Soviets install Najibullah as the 100,000 Soviet soldiers fight against seven U.S. backed rebel factions. |
| 1988 | Gorbachev announces Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| 2/15/97 | The last Soviet soldier leaves Afghanistan. |
| 4/15/92 | Najibullah leaves. Rebels beginning battle of Kabul as factions war for control. |
| 5/24/97 | General Malik Pahlawan turns against warlord Rashid Dostum opening the city to the taliban. The Uzbeks and Tajiks revolt when the taliban tries to disarm them. |
| 5/28/97 | Taliban forces retreat from Mazar-i-Sharif after losing 100 men in 18 hours of fighting. This marks the first retreat in the taliban's history. |
| 6/19/96 | Pakhtun leader Hekmatyar signs a peace pact with former enemy Rabbani becoming Prime Minister in Kabul. |
| 9/12/97 | Dostum returns to Mazar-i-Sharif after heaving fighting and looting. |
| 9/19/94 | The taliban emerges from the southern province of Kandahar. |
| 9/19/95 | The Pakistani embassy was set on fire in four places. At least 5000 Afghans marched on the embassy in protest of alleged Pakistani support for the Islamic taliban militia. |
| 9/27/96 | The taliban drive Massoud, Rabbiani and Hekmatyar out of Kabul exactly one year after their founding. |
| 02/15/89 | The last Soviet soldier leaves Afghanistan. |
| 04/15/89 | Najibullah leaves. Rebels beginning battle of Kabul as factions war for control. |
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