Afghan War Blog

The ISAF legal office has published an online update and Fact Sheet on the Bilateral Security Agreement and NATO SOFA as it applies to contr...

The upper house (Senate) of the Afghan parliament has approved the bilateral security agreement with the United States and the Status of Fo...

The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of Afghan parliament) voted its approval of the Bilateral Security Agreement and the NATO SOFA. The Afghan S...

The Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and the NATO Status of Forces Agreement will cover the military personnel who will work in Afghanist...

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has provided us with their observations on the Bilateral Security Agreement in an artic...

The Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was signed the day after President Ghani was inaugurated. You can read the text at the link below th...

Now that the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) is signed between Afghanistan and the United States (as well as the NATO Status of Forces...

There has been lots of conversation in the media about the Bilateral Security Agreement being signed (and, oh by the way, something calle...

Reports in the media state that the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) will be signed on Tuesday, September 30, 2014. This is good news for...

Now that the crook Karzai is on the way out (so long!) there seems to be great optimism that the newly-elected (sort of) President Ghani wil...

Now that the drama of the Afghan elections is concluded the next big step (from a U.S. perspective) will be to see the quick signing of the...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel commented on the lack of the Bilateral Security Agreement and the danger it poses for the future security a...

At a recent NATO meeting in Brussels leaders reissued warnings about the lack of a Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States and ...

President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to start developing plans for the "zero option". Read more in "Obama orders Pentagon...

Australia and Afghanistan are close to finalizing a bilateral security agreement between the two nations that will allow about 400 Austral...

President Obama had a phone conversation with President Karzai (the Mayor of Kabul) to impress upon him that time is running out for the sig...

The Taliban have been confidently proclaiming that they will be resurgent in the post-2014 era in Afghanistan. Their information operations ...

Most American officials and members of Congress are fed up with President Karzai. Many believe that we need to table the Bilateral Security ...

Peter Tomsen provides us with his insight on Karzai and his anti-American rhetoric. While we may feel that Karzai has left his senses others...

The rhetoric of Hamid Karzai has been muted. The U.S. politicians and military brass (of ISAF) have be preening up to Karzai for so long tha...