Afghan War Blog

Photo from "Lisa Akbari Foundation" Facebook A U.S. aid worker was killed in Kabul by an Afghan man. Lisa Akbari, an Afghan-A...

Humanitarian aid organizations are looking hard at the viability of continuing aid projects in Afghanistan over the long term with the wit...

A US government report has revealed that the cost of reconstruction for Afghanistan has gone beyond the cost of the reconstruction of Euro...

A new book has been published called " The Pomegranate Peace " by Rashmee Roshan Lall. The novel is about the failure of the Uni...

Schoolhouse in MeS - photo SIGAR Jan 14 A schoolhouse being built in Afghanistan has turned into a glaring example of how an aid projec...

Congress has cut development aid to Afghanistan by 50%. In the massive spending bill signed into law the lawmakers provided $1.2 billion for...

The future of aid to Afghanistan is uncertain as U.S. troops continue their withdrawal. Without the protection that U.S. bases and troops pr...

The United Kingdom is striving to pay closer attention to where the aid dollars to Afghanistan end up. Corruption is a huge problem in Afgha...

A roundtable discussion was held in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 2012 about the continued need for international aid for Afghanistan in the ...

A blogger - who also works for an NGO in Helmand Province - provides his perspective on whether we should have Provincial Reconstruction Tea...

Oxfam, an international aid agency, has issued a report saying that aid used to further military objectives has a dangerous effect on aid wo...

There is lots going wrong in Afghanistan - one of which is the inability to get development to occur at a faster rate.  As a part of the cou...

A writer for McClatchy Newspapers reports that things are going well in Marjah, Afghanistan.  Of note is his description of how the economy...

President Karzai of Afghanistan has publicly stated that military and other international organizations that dispense aid in Afghanistan are...

A group of private citizens have developed a bold plan for revitalizing Afghan villages.  The group consists of some highly influential memb...

Non-government organizations (NGOs) who dispense aid and services throughout Afghanistan state that the security situation on the ground in ...

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, Arnold Fields, has stated that the U.S. has wasted or seen stolen by corrupt A...

President Karzai has determined that foreign private security firms must depart Afghanistan.  Unfortunately this will affect the amount of a...

A columnist explores the actions and activities of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Lashkar Gah - Helmand's provincial capita...