Members of Vilayat Dagestan , part of Umarov 's Caucasus Emirate took Action credit for the attack Attack on 19 January .

The Granada War Hostile_encounter ( ) was a series of military campaigns Military_operation between 1482 and 1491 , during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs ( ) Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon , against the Nasrid dynasty 's Emirate of Granada .

On January 2 , 1492 , Muhammad XII of Granada ( King Boabdil ) surrendered Surrendering the Emirate of Granada , the city of Granada , and the Alhambra palace to the Castilian forces Hostile_encounter .

The Emirate of Granada had been the last Muslim state in Iberia for more than two centuries by the time of the Granada War Hostile_encounter .

The fortified town of Gibraltar had been held Hold by Castile since 1309 , when it had been seized Conquering from the Moorish Emirate of Granada .

The Emirate of Granada sent Sending an army to relieve Cure the city , but it was defeated Conquering beside the Río Palmones .

The insurgency Change_of_leadership in the North Caucasus is a low-level armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between Russia and militants associated Collaboration with the Caucasus Emirate and , since June 2015 , Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) groups .

Fighting Hostile_encounter with al-Qaeda escalated Cause_change_of_strength during the course of the 2011 Yemeni revolution , with Jihadists seizing Hold most of the Abyan Governorate and declaring Expressing_publicly it an Emirate at the close of March .

The siege Besieging followed years of intermittent conflict Violence between the Christian kingdoms of Spain and the Moorish Emirate of Granada , which was supported Supporting by the Marinid sultanate of Morocco .

This article covers the Afghan history between the Taliban 's conquest Conquering of Kabul and their establishing Creating of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996 , and the U.S. and U.K. invasion Attack of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001 : a period that was part of the Afghan civil war that had started Process_start in 1989 , and also part of the war ( in wider sense ) in Afghanistan that had started Process_start in 1978 .

The Islamic State of Afghanistan government remained Presence the recognized government of Afghanistan of most of the international community , the Taliban 's Islamic Emirate however received Receiving recognition Judgment_communication from Saudi Arabia , Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates .