Afghan War Blog

Recent news reports reveal that General Dunford, the commander of ISAF, has recommended that the troop levels to remain in Afghanistan pos...

A Taliban spokesman recently stated that the Taliban control much of the Afghan countryside and that foreign troops were scared to leave the...

The New York Times has published an opinion piece by Graeme Smith entitled "Grabbing the Wolf's Tail" . The writer provides h...

M. Farshid Hakinyar, the Founding Director of the Afghanistan Organization for Strategic Studies in Kabul has wrote a piece that looks at th...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has published an "Expert Roundup" entitled the "Prospects for Afghanistan in 2014...

The Afghans have a lot to be worried about. The year 2014 brings a lot of uncertainty about the elections, economy, security, Bilateral Secu...

The World Bank has published a comprehensive document entitled "Afghanistan in Transition" . The book explores the ramifications...

The year 2012 has seen some ups and downs in Afghanistan. Corruption still is a huge problem, the Taliban have not gone away (and unfortunat...

Reportedly there is now a "schedule" for the phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next 20 months. According ...

The Afghan presidential elections are just over one year away - to take place on April 5, 2014. The good news is that Karzai goes away. The...

General Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently provided his views on how Afghanistan will look in 2014. He stated tha...

In a very short but concise piece Andrew Exum , a fellow at the Center for a New American Security , writes about what our endgame in Afghan...

Nipa Banerjee teaches international development at the University of Ottawa and spent three years in Afghanistan as the head of Canada's...