Afghan War Blog

Afghanistan's Commandos.  There are about 11,000 Afghan soldiers assigned to the Afghan National Army Special Operations Command (A...

Video - ISIS and Money.  Watch a four-minute long video explaining how the Islamic State funds itself and how government and private-secto...

Book -  Playing to The Edge.    Michael V. Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency has...

MARSOC - Ten Years.  MARSOC is celebrating its ten year anniversary. Read an article about the Marine Special Operations Command in  ...

ANASF Trains ALP Recruit SOF and Helmand Province. The fight for Helmand province is still ongoing despite the end of the fighting seas...

Khost Protection Force & the CIA - Part 1. A regional counterterrorism pursuit team set up in Khost province by the CIA has been prob...

Central Intelligence Agency Pubs.  The CIA has declassified five important documents that are related to the 9/11 attacks. The documents p...

The former CIA station chief in Islamabad, Robert Grenier, discusses the time just after 9/11 when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. The video, ...

Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. has been selected to be the new Associate Director for Military Affairs at the Central Intellig...

"Five years ago, on a cold, gloomy December afternoon in the mountainous region of Khowst Province in southeastern Afghanistan, an al...

Shuja Nawaz , a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, writes an opinion about the CIA and the help it provid...

According to a 2009 CIA analysis (it was secret until released by WikiLeaks) raids, drones strikes, and other types of military operations a...

This blog post has nothing to do with Afghanistan but everything to do with how vulnerable members of the U.S. military and other governme...

In the battle against worldwide terrorism women of the United States are playing a major role. They are very visible in the military serv...

Eight Afghan soldiers belonging to the Khost Protection Force were killed during an engagement in eastern Afghanistan. The deaths were caus...

In the Sacramento Bee , Markos Kounalakis writes on the irony of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman , his role as a CIA officer in the mo...

A writer from the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), Kate Clark, has posted a passage on torture in some of Afghanistan's detention ce...

Plans are under consideration to put elite special operations forces under the control of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the ma...

With the recent news reports about the troop withdrawal soon to take place in Afghanistan (apparently before 2014) many have asked what the ...

Not everyone thinks that keeping special operations forces and a strong CIA element in Afghanistan past 2014 is a good idea.  Kate Clark, a ...