Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

* 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.

Relations deteriorated after the Taliban took power in 1996.

Map of the situation in Afghanistan in late 1996 ; Ahmad Shah Massoud | Massoud ( red ), Abdul Rashid Dostum | Dostum ( green ) and Taliban ( yellow ) territories.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.

The Taliban seized Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on September 27, 1996, Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abdul Rashid Dostum, two former archnemesis, created the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban that were preparing offensives against the remaining areas under the control of Massoud and those under the control of Dostum.

From the Taliban conquest in 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri became a state within the Taliban state.

In 1996, a new movement known as the Taliban, rose to power, defeated most of the warlords and took over roughly 80 % of Afghanistan.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.

The Taliban seized Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri furthermore became a state within the Taliban state.

When the Taliban took power in 1996, all the warlords fled Kabul to the north or neighboring countries.

Najibullah lived in the United Nations headquarters in Kabul until 1996, when the Taliban took Kabul.

In 1996 Najibullah is said to have been castrated by the Taliban, and was dragged behind a truck in the streets of Kabul, before he was publicly hanged.

Seizing upon a power vacuum after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan after their invasion, the Taliban assumed the role of government from 1996 – 2001.

Once Air-chief Marshal Pervez Kureshi was retired, the most junior air marshal Muschaf Mir ( who worked with Musharraf in 1996 to assist ISI in Taliban matters ) was appointed to four-star rank as well as elevated as Chief of Air Staff.

* 1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.

The Taliban entered Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

From 1996 to 2001 the Al Qaeda of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri became a state within the Taliban state.

From the Taliban conquest of Kabul in September 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.

As the influential result of his position as the chief cartoon artist for Punch ( published 1841 – 1992, 1996 – 2002 ), John Tenniel, through satirical, often radical and at times vitriolic images of the world, for five decades was and remained Great Britain ’ s steadfast social witness to the sweeping national changes in that nation ’ s moment of political and social reform.

According to David Rosand in 1997, " The situation has been thrown into new critical confusion by Alessandro Ballarin's radical revision of the corpus ... exhibition catalogue, 1993, increasing it ... as well as Mauro Lucco .. book, 1996.

In 1996 they installed Abu Hamza al-Masri as imam of the mosque, which subsequently developed a reputation as a centre of radical Islamism in London.

Having run for the 1996 election on a radical independence platform and lost by a landslide, the DPP in May 1999 moderated its stance by issuing the " Resolution on the Future of Taiwan.

Michael Lind, in his 1996 publication Up From Conservatism, writes that, though American radical centrism is today a minority political philosophy, it was, in fact, the dominant political philosophy within the United States from the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt through Lyndon Johnson — a philosophy that was shared both by the presidents of that era and the majority of the American people.

Hanger was seen as one of the more radical members of the Reform Party, with these views culminating in March 1996 when he announced that he supported corporal punishment and had booked a trip to Singapore to investigate their use of caning in deterring crime.

* 1996 Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945 proposed a radical reassessment of post-Hitler European Jewry ; the picture of demographic decline, social disintegration, and cultural dissolution provoked considerable debate.

* Anne-Marie Cusac: Profile of a sex radical " Profile of a sex radical-lesbian, sadomasochist author Pat Califia ", The Progressive, October 1996.

In 1996, the Ford Ka was presented with its radical New Edge design.

* Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club revolves around the bizarre relationship between the mild-mannered protagonist and his radical, anti-consumerist, anarcho-primitivistic alternate personality.

He edited the anarchist publication Willful Disobedience, which was published from 1996 until 2005, and currently publishes a variety of anarchist, radical, surrealist and poetic pamphlets and booklets through his project, Venomous Butterfly Publication.

By late 1996, Jarrah started to become radical in his religious views.

She was instrumental in the federation's push for reform in 1996 and 1997, and helped forge a new majority on the AFL-CIO Executive Council which later adopted a radical change in the federation's immigrant policy in 2000.

A change in programming direction in 1995, together with the introduction of the highly successful Strawberry Alarm-clock saw it finally overtake 98FM, though 98FM would itself undergo a ( less radical ) relaunch, dropping the " Classic Hits " moniker, and poaching Chris Barry for a time. In April 1996 FM104 moved into the Number 1 slot in the Dublin market for the first time.

September 18, 1996, radical opinions regarding Diaoyu Islands ( as known in China, Senkaku Islands as known in Japan ) issue appeared on many BBSes across China.

Some have argued that the changes required are less radical than the move to MMP in 1996.

It originated in 1996 in Miami, Florida, and there are now many radical cheerleading squads in the United States as well as Canada and Europe.

He edited the anarchist publication Willful Disobedience, which was published from 1996 until 2005, and currently publishes a variety of anarchist, radical, surrealist and poetic pamphlets and booklets through his project, Venomous Butterfly Publication.

MacPhee graduated from Oberlin College in 1996 and spent eight years as an artist and activist in Chicago, Illinois where he established a distribution system called justseeds in order get more radical art projects out to the public.