Afghan War Blog

General John Nicholson has completed two years as the commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. He took on a chall...

The Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom's Sentinel Quarterly Report to the United States Congress has been published. I...

Daniel Coats, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress on February 13, 2018 where he provided a worldwide t...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has issued its Quarterly Report to Congress. The report covers the...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released its quarterly report to Congress on October 30, 2016....

Northern Afghanistan at Risk.  Over the past few years the security situation in northern Afghanistan has slowly deteriorated. This area u...

The Department of Defense has published its semi-annual report on the current situation in Afghanistan. The report, entitled Enhancing Sec...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released its July 2015 Quarterly Report to Congress. Some key f...

The Office of Inspector General for the DoD has published a new report entitled Equipping and Training Afghan Security Forces,  DoDIG-2015-1...

Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) has wrote a report entitled Transition in Afghanistan: L...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published its quarterly report to Congress . This latest report is ...

Anthony H. Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), has authored a report on Afghanistan entitled Transiti...

The Center for a New American Security, an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, has released a recently published (January 8...

An author, observer of Afghanistan, and co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) - Martine van Bijlert - provides us with a rev...

Franz-Stefan Gady , an Associate Editor with The Diplomat,  provides us with his assessment of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). ...

The Center for Strategic & International Studies has published a report (17 Nov 2014) entitled "Afghan Forces on the Edge of Trans...

The "Afghanistan Index" by Brookings tracks the progress and security in a post-9/11 Afghanistan. The document is updated every mo...

The Congressional Research Service has issued a report (CRS RL30588) entitled Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Po...

LTG Joe Anderson , the commander of the ISAF Joint Command (IJC) - now shut down, provides a last minute informal assessment of the Afghan N...

Jason Campbell, a researcher for the RAND Corporation, recently finished a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan. He has wrote several pieces on ...