Complex sentence: Apart from fighting, he worked as a journalist for the Arabic-language Al Ettihad news during the Soviet-Afghan war and was Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from 1998 to 2001 during the latter years of the Taliban's reign.
Split into simpler sentences: Apart from fighting, he worked as a journalist for the Arabic-language "Al Ettihad" news during the Soviet-Afghan war. He was the bureau chief of "Al Jazeera" in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from 1998 to 2001 during the latter years of the Taliban's reign.