Afghan War Blog

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

Kunduz CIVCAS Event. An airstrike took place during the recent attack on a Taliban position in Kunduz city where two American Special...

High-Level al-Qaeda Killed in NE Afghanistan?   Defense Department reports indicate that a high-level al-Qaeda leader may have been rec...

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) a U.S. airstrike (probably an unmanned drone) killed 15 civili...

Gen Austin - Spinning the Narrative.  The commander of U.S. Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, says that Afghan military is making pro...

2015 was a bad year for civilians in Afghanistan. The numbers were very discouraging - with an increase in the number of deaths and inju...

Fatal Guesswork and Human Error. The international press continues to carry stories and analysis on the U.S. Air Force's AC-130 attac...

Special Operations AC-130 Gunship A report by the U.S. military on the aerial attack by a Special Operations AC-130 gunship on a  Doctor...

Reports indicate that Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has moved its personnel from Kunduz City - closing down its medical facility. An unfo...

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz was apparently bombed by the U.S. Air Force on Friday causing extensive damage to t...

The Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) has published an extensive study of the deaths caused by the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and...

The latest report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) shows a continued high rate of civilian casualties fo...

An observer of the Afghan conflict writes about the increase in violence in Afghanistan - pointing to the departure of international combat...

"COIN is Population-Centric. The development of a proper COIN approach starts with the acceptance of the people as important to COIN op...

News reports indicate that six members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have been arrested in the wake of the civilian casualties from the ...

Afghanistan's civilians are bearing the brunt of the war. While ISAF is strident in their message that the Afghan National Security Forc...

According to a recent report by the United Nations civilian casualties have rose abut 24% by mid-year 2014 over the first six months of 2013...

The United Nations has released a new report that states civilian casualties in the Afghan War rose by 14 per cent in the last year (2013...

Once again Karzai is demanding that U.S. airstrikes end and that military operations cease. Karzai keeps pounding away at the United States ...

The United Nations has stated that the Afghan civilian death toll has climbed in 2013. It says that the 2013 toll is 10% higher than in 2012...