Afghan War Blog

The eyes of the world are focused on the Taliban's recent success in taking and holding (for only a few days) the first provincial c...

The Taliban have launched a major offensive in the past few weeks to make significant gains in northern Afghanistan. The Taliban has seiz...

German forces in Afghanistan have recently contracted for civilian contract air with Basta Holdings Corp . The contract has an initial d...

Areas of northern Afghanistan now considered "no go" areas. With the pullout of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...

Task Force Reaper has concluded its mission in Regional Command North . The members of the unit served a long deployment performing a div...

Advisors conducting the Security Force Assistance mission in the border town of Hairitan, Afghanistan are impressed with the progress bei...

The security situation in northern Afghanistan - also referred to as RC-North is looking quite good according to the EUCOM Commander - Adm...

The 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team currently stationed in Germany will soon deploy to northern Afghanistan.  It will replace the 1st Br...

An oil development contract has been awarded to a local Afghan firm for an area in northern Afghanistan that is near the Afghanistan / Turkm...

Segments of the media continue to post stories of abuse by militia groups operating in the north of Afghanistan.  The target of their critic...

"PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan—The Taliban's influence in northern Afghanistan has expanded in recent months from a few hotspots to muc...

A recent posting by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) questions the support of militias in northern Afghanistan by U.S. Army Special F...