Original sentence: Tony Blair managed to persuade Bill Clinton to take a more active role in Kosovo in 1999, and UK forces assisted in the international coalition which attacked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001 after the regimes refusal to hand over Osama Bin Laden and expel Al Qaeda from the country in the aftermath of 9-11 notably the attack on The Pentagon and destruction of The World Trade Centre
Edited sentence: Tony Blair managed to persuade Bill Clinton to take a more active role in Kosovo in 1999, and UK forces assisted in the international coalition which attacked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001