Afghan War Blog

The international community (NATO, donor nations, United Nations, etc.) has been pushing the Afghan government and senior officers at th...

The European Union Police (EUPOL) is backing (that would be money) a campaign by the Afghan government to make the ANP police code of con...

Five New PCoPs. President Ghani has appointed five new Provincial Chiefs of Police. They will assumes posts in Laghman, Nooristan, Ghani, B...

The Department of Defense Inspector General's office has published a 100-page report entitled Assessment of U.S. and Coalition Effo...

A very interesting and revealing news article about the Afghan National Police (ANP) in Baraki Barak district , Logar province. The author...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released a report criticizing the oversight on the pay and perso...

Rotary wing air evacuation training was recently conducted for members of the Afghan Border Police (ABP) and the Afghan National Police (A...

The outgoing head of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) had some insightful comments about the current state of sec...

A news account details the life of an Afghan specialist in defusing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He works for the Afghan police i...

The Provincial Chief of Police (PCoP) for Kandahar has authorized his forces to respond to insurgent attacks from across the Afghan-Pakista...

A unit of the French RAID has been training and advising elements of the Afghan National Police (ANP). RAID is short for Recherche Assistan...

Millions of dollars are missing from an Afghan police trust fund that is used to pay Afghanistan's police force. The United Nations agen...

Along with the rest of ISAF the Australians have pulled many of their troops out of Afghanistan. However, there still are some working on ...

It appears the over 150,000 police in Afghanistan have not been paid since November 2013 - with some not receiving money since October. The ...

A video has been released by DVIDS which features a SFAAT from the Hawaiian National Guard deployed in Afghanistan assisting the ANP in cou...

A recent story in The New York Times provides insight into the corrupt police of Kabul, Afghanistan and the inefficiencies found in a soci...

With the departure of over 100,000 troops from Afghanistan taking place in 2014 special forces units from a variety of countries will take o...

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has found that most Afghan...

An article has been published depicting the life of one member of the Afghan National Police (ANP).  Interesting look at the motivations of ...

The CNA Strategic Studies research group has published a report entitled "Police Mentoring in Afghanistan 2007-2009" .  The report...