Afghan War Blog

Afghan Raid on Swedish NGO.  A military raid on a medical clinic in Wardak province, Afghanistan has resulted in the death of three people...

Borders Closing to Afghan Migrants. The country of Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants but will all...

Afghan Nation-Building A Bust. Doug Bandow thinks its time for a departure from Afghanistan. "Afghanistan is a bust. The Taliban i...

Flying the Flag. Troops overseas are counseled about flying the U.S. flag in combat zones. Typically, the directives state that the flag...

Logo of the NDS An examination of the story behind the resignation in early December 2015 of the chief of the Afghan National Directorat...

Climate Change in Afghanistan.  This past week the leaders of the world converged in Paris to attend the climate conference. President...

A paper recently published (Dec 2014) entitled "Russian Organizational Learning in the Context of Afghanistan and Chechnya Counterins...

Over the past two years Russia has been investing heavily in Afghanistan - restoring once-abandoned factories and funding new infrastructur...

The Afghan Taliban has freed a Russian contract helicopter pilot who was captured in eastern Logar province in April 2013. The pilot had f...

There are 13 non-Afghans still residing in the Parwan detention center adjacent to Bagram Air Field (BAF). One of them is a Russian who wil...

Russia has a high stake in how the Afghanistan war turns out. There is a large Muslim population in the Central Asian nations (the 'sta...