Afghan War Blog

News about Afghan SOF "Clear, Hold, and Build?"  The Afghan army - using its Commandos - has the "Clear" part o...

The Afghan National Army Special Operations Command (ANASOC) intends to create seven additional Mobile Strike Kandaks (MSK) in the nex...

The Afghan National Army (ANA) has some elite units that are able to conduct very complex operations against the insurgents. These uni...

The Taliban scored some initial successes in the opening rounds of the 2015 fighting season in Badakhshan where it overran some army and p...

This short 3 minute long video by NATO Channel (posted Feb 6, 2015) provides a glimpse of what it takes to be a member of the Afghan Com...

The U.S. Army Special Forces has been working with the Afghan Commando Kandaks for a number of years; ever since the first Commando Kanda...

The United States Marines and British troops have departed Camp Leatherneck and Camp Bastion. However, the Afghan National Army will remain ...

The Afghan National Army (ANA), like every other army in the world, has some very specialized elite units that conduct special operations....

Afghan National Army commandos from the 8th Special Operations Kandak conducted tactical training with Afghan National Security forces he...

Slovakia has been a firm ally of the ISAF forces in Afghanistan. The country recently sent more advisors in January 2014 to continue the a...

Some Afghan National Army units are better than others. This is true of almost all armies; there are the general "run of the mill...

More details have emerged on the recent insider attack by a suspected member of the Afghan Local Police that killed two U.S. servicemen and...

Commandos from 3rd Company, 7th Special Forces Kandak listen to OPORD briefing in Washer district, Helmand province. (photo by SGT Ben T...

The Afghan Air Force is finally getting there - sort of. Plagued with a late start, incompetence, corruption, poor leadership, drug smugglin...

Members of the Combined Joint Special Operations Force - Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A) and their Afghan National Army (ANA) counterparts (typically...

An instructor with the 8th Commando Kandak provides range commands during training. (U.S. Navy Photo by MCS 2nd Class Jacob Dillon) In...

The 1st Company of the 6th Commando Kandak , U.S. Special Forces, and other units conducted an operation in Wardak Province in Afghanistan. ...

KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces set out to provide security and assist the local population during a clearing o...

"CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan— A force of more than 100 Afghan National Army Special Forces, Commandos, U.S. Army Special Forces, and sol...

The Afghan Commando Kandaks are the elite units of the Afghan National Army (ANA).  Trained by U.S. Army Special Forces - these units are th...