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| 1993, Oct. 2 |
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| An international conference in Washington raised $3 billion in financial pledges to help Palestinian authorities establish self-rule in the occupied territories. | 1 |
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| 1994, Sept. 30 |
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| Six Persian Gulf nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council announced a lessening of the 46-year trade boycott of Israel. | 2 |
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| 1998, Aug. 8–11 |
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| In attempts to take the last 10 percent of Afghani territory from opposition forces, the Taliban government launched massive offensives in Mazar-e Sharif and Taloquan as fighting spread to many areas along the Uzbekistan border. Heavy fighting resumed on July 28, 1999, because the Taliban still did not have control over the entire country. | 3 |
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| Sept. 10 |
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| Iran sent some 200,000 troops to the Afghanistan border in response to the Aug. 8 killings of several Iranian diplomats, presumably by Taliban forces. | 4 |
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| Oct. 23 |
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| In a historic peace agreement, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Yasir Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan, and U.S. president Bill Clinton convened to sign the Wye River Peace Accords. The agreement established a preliminary plan for the gradual transfer of the West Bank to Palestinian control, and the freeing of some 750 Palestinian prisoners in the process. In exchange, the PNC agreed to remove clauses from the PLO charter that called for the destruction of Israel, and both sides agreed to halt the persistent violence that had plagued the region. | 5 |
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| Dec. 16–19 |
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| After a year of broken promises by Saddam Hussein to allow UN inspections teams into Iraqi weapons facilities, the U.S. and Britain began a bombing campaign that would last for the next two years, regularly attacking Iraq's missile factories, command centers, and airfields in order to continually thwart Iraqi attempts to build up arms supplies. Although the UN renamed its inspections team, now called UNMOVIC (United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission), Iraq continued to be noncompliant to its demands. | 6 |
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