The Taliban.
saddam hussein was removed from power.
Manuel Noriega was removed from Panama and convicted of drug trafficking.
The Taliban, a Muslim fundamentalist group, took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996 and ruled until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion drove it off from power.
From 1990 to 2001, but they did not control all of the country for the entire time. The US-backed Northern Alliance (aka the United Front in Afghanistan) already controlled a very large area of the northern part of Afghanistan before the Taliban was finally removed removed from power.
1. Operation Desert Storm (Removing Iraq from Kuwait) occurred in January-February 1991 (lasted about 45 days). 2. Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) occurred in October 2001; a result of 9/11. 3. Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) occurred in 2003; removing Hussain from power.
How has power changed hands in Afghanistan since the 1990s?
the taliban were removed from power and al qaeda was severly weakened <-- novanet
Manuel Noriega was removed from power during the invasion of 1989 because he was a dictator. Once detained, he was also charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.
Gorbachev was removed from power in 1991.
As it currently stands, there are two major problems. The first one is that the current Afghan army is certainly not ready to handle a Taliban re-invasion from Waziristan (northwest Pakistan) and needs more time to prepare a strong resistance to this form of Jihadism. The second one is that the US government has repeatedly undercut the mission that the US soldiers are allowed to perform in order to modernize, Westernize, and develop Afghanistan so that it can have a strong economy and a strong military.As a result, the US military in Afghanistan is in more-or-less a holding pattern. They are making no serious improvements to Afghanistan in order to make the country really ready for a Taliban re-invasion, so keeping the US troops there is simply delaying this eventual war. The question is whether or not you find it easier to have a slow attrition of US troops in Afghanistan, but a maintenance of the status quo, or you find it better to withdraw the US, have Afghanistan become a quagmire where Islamists and Jihadist will have a new base of power (similar to the situation in Iraq).
The Taliban have risen, fallen, and then risen again in the past 15 years. The Islamist movement rose to power in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s, ruled the country in the late 90s, and fell to the US-led invasion in 2001.
Superior strategy and tactics, and continuous ruthless use of military power to achieve the desired result - repulse of the Persian invasion.