Afghan War Blog

Uruzgan Governor Pleads for Australian Help.  The province where the Australian training and reconstruction effort in Afghanistan was center...

Nangarhar Province: A ISIS Enclave.  The Islamic State attempted to set up base areas in several provinces within Afghanistan; but it...

3,000 or 1,000 ISIS in Afghanistan?  Most analysts say that the Islamic State has about 3,000 fighters in Afghanistan. Mostly in Nangarhar...

Cyber Campaign Against ISIS.  This past Monday the DoD revealed that the military has launched a cyber campaign against the Islamic State ...

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

Early Islamic State in Kunar. Unknown to many there was a modern ideological and political predecessor to today's self-anointed Islam...

Fighters Against ISIS. The world's attention is captured by the Islamic State's brutality and ability to carry out attacks throug...

State Dept Overhaul & ISIS.  Senior U.S. officials have revealed details on the changes to the State Department's counter-terroris...

Taliban Attacks on Media. The Taliban attack on the employees of the Tolo TV network in Afghanistan is a shocker to Afghan journalists th...

ISIS - "An Existential Threat". The Islamic State is attempting to establish footholds in a number of countries - in addition t...

Map of Tajikistan - CIA Tajikistan's Downward Spiral.  Afghanistan shares a border area with Tajikistan in the northeast and this po...

"Once again the Obama administration is revising its programs to counter and defeat the self-styled Islamic State, particularly on th...

Map of Uzbekistan (CIA)  "The 2015 fall of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Central Asian jihadi movement that has long...

The Islamic State has replaced the Taliban in Nangarhar province as the number threat to residents and the government security forces. The...

VSO, Gant, Water, Crops, and COIN. One writer, Doyle Quiggle, manages to combine a variety of topics (although related) into an essay on ...

The Afghan Taliban have released a detailed report about their recent fight against Central Asian militants loyal to the Islamic State (I...

ISIS in Afghanistan. It has been less than two years when the Islamic State (call it ISIS, ISIL, whatever) took control of parts of Iraq ...

The Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi talks about his journey into ISIS-held territory for his Frontline documentary: ISIS in Afghanis...

ISIS expands in Nangarhar Province. Recent reports indicate that the Islamic State has become entrenched in several districts in Nangarha...

ISIS versus Taliban. Folks are looking at the competition between the Taliban and the Islamic State and hoping (some are predicting) that...