Afghan War Blog

Najibullah Gulabzoi writes about the nexus between drug trafficking in Afghanistan and the country's national security in "The Narc...

There is widespread agreement that the $7.6 billion effort to eradicate poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has failed. In fact, the problem...

A report issued in October 2104 states that after a decade of reconstruction and over $7 billion in counter narcotics efforts , poppy cult...

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published a new report on the opium poppy cultivation dynamics in Afghanistan. Th...

Poppy Field in Zabul - Photo  by SSG Brian Ferguson, DVIDS A recent report states that there is more poppy cultivation in Afghanistan n...

A defense official testified before Congress providing information on the counter-narcotics fight in Afghanistan. She outlined the achievem...

In the Sacramento Bee , Markos Kounalakis writes on the irony of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman , his role as a CIA officer in the mo...

A recent new report sheds light on the failure of the U.S. to counter the narcotics industry in Afghanistan . Read more in "U.S. has ...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published a report entitled Future U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts ...

At the end of 2014 U.S. and other NATO troops will depart Afghanistan - perhaps leaving a small number of troops behind to conduct Securit...

(Photo by SGT Chris McCullough) The U.S. Embassy and Afghanistan's Minister for Counter Narcotics recently (Feb 13) signed an agreem...

U.S. Government Provides Funding for Continuation of Key Rule of Law and Counternarcotics Programs in Afghanistan Deputy Foreign Minister ...