lands and Armenia proper. 1991: United Somali Congress topples regime of military dictator Siad Barre. The national military forces disband and form regional militias as part of Somali Civil War. 1991: Algerian Civil War begins after Islamic party Islamic Salvation Front (Front Islamique du Salut (FIS)), which opposed state planning and supported state implementation of sharia laws, wins substantial majority of first stage of parliamentary elections. A military coup takes place and the FIS is banned and leaders imprisoned. The war would last until 2002. 1992: The 400-year-old Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India is destroyed by Hindu extremists, sparking widespread religious rioting across India. 1992: United Nations Forces, mainly Americans, enter Somalia. 1993: Oslo I Accord between Israel and PLO signed. 1994: Jordan becomes the second of Israel's Arab neighbors to recognize Israel. 1994: First war between Russia and Chechen Republic begins. 1995: Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by right-wing orthodox Jew over Oslo Accord. 1996: Taliban forces seize control of most of Afghanistan and declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. 1996: After leading his Welfare Party to a surprise victory in the 1995 general elections, Necmettin Erbakan becomes the first pro-Islamic Prime Minister of modern Turkey. 1996: Al Jazeera Satellite Channel with loan from the Emir of Qatar launches Arab language satellite news service. 1998: Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic to have the nuclear power as it successfully conducted five nuclear tests on May 28. 1998: Amidst growing criticism of his economic policies, longtime Indonesian leader General Suharto resigns after over thirty years in power. 1998: Former deputy prime minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim, a vocal critic of prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of sodomy. 1998: Bombing of US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam engineered by Al-Qaeda. 1999: Kargil war breaks out between Pakistan and India. Pakistan's Army loses possession of the peaks that it had occupied as part of Operation Badr in Indian-administered Kashmir. Jockeying for strategic peaks follow after fighting officially ends in late-July 1999, with Indians gaining control of a number of features on the Pakistani side of the LoC viz Point 5310, Point 5070, Anzbari feature, amongst others. 1999: Death of Jordan's King Hussein. King Hussein's son Abdullah is declared king of Jordan. 1999: Indonesia relinquishes control of East Timor, which is granted independence under a UN-sponsored act of self-determination. 1999: General Pervez Musharraf seizes control