Afghan War Blog

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a new report dated April 17, 2015 entitled "Equipping a...

Operation Zulfiqar is now complete. The Afghan government claims that the Taliban have suffered huge losses and much of Helmand province ...

ISAF HQs (now Resolute Support) had unexpectedly classified data about the Afghan National Security  Forces (ANSF) that for over a decade h...

The Afghan Army lost more than 20,000 fighters last year largely because of desertions, discharges and deaths in combat. It also saw a signi...

Resolute Support Headquarters has issued a news release on February 28, 2015 entitled Afghan National Defense and Security Forces Operationa...

The Center for a New American Security, an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, has released a recently published (January 8...

The weeks long fight in Dangam district , Kunar province is continuing. Dangam district is a forested valley located adjacent to the Pakista...

On November 18, 2014, Dr. Antonio Giustozzi, delivered a public lecture and then answered questions during the follow-on discussion about th...

A German newspaper Deutsche Welle  has posted (Dec 3, 2014) an interview with Jason H. Campbell about his recent fact-finding trip to Afgha...

Jason Campbell, a researcher for the RAND Corporation, recently finished a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan. He has wrote several pieces on ...

A top United States military commander in Afghanistan says that the casualties suffered by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are no...

The commander of the ISAF Joint Command , sometimes called IJC for short, provided an update on the Afghan War in a teleconference with Pent...

Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army officers rarely get the chance to travel. Very few are offered the opportunity to travel t...

As the United States and its allies in Afghanistan continue to withdraw the Afghan National Security Forces or ANSF is finding itself havin...

In what is painfully obvious to most observers of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) is that fact that the ANSF can conduct cleari...

Brigadier Ben Barry , a senior fellow on land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), states that the Taliban f...

At a NATO conference many of the leading officials of NATO have again pointed out the need for continued training of the Afghan forces. The ...

LTG Mark Milley, the commander of ISAF Joint Command (IJC), says that the Taliban is losing most of the firefights with the Afghan National ...

During a press conference on March 26, 2012 Gen. John Allen briefed reporters on the situation in Afghanistan. Read a news account of the br...

The proposed defense budget will drastically reduce the amount of money spent on training and equipping the Afghan National Security Forces...