Afghan War Blog

The U.S. and other nations provided lots of funding for the construction of roads throughout Afghanistan. The improvement of the ring roa...

On Thursday, September 29th, Ambassador Richard Olson (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan) presented his views about Afg...

Mes Aynak is one of Central Asia's largest Buddhist ruins. It is located about a 90 minute drive south-east of Kabul in the hills of L...

Geospatial Analysis and Reconstruction in Afghanistan. As international troops and observers pull out of Afghanistan and concentrate thei...

MEC Releases Statement on Foreign Assistance. The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) released ...

The Small Wars Journal  has posted an informative paper by Jeff Goodson about the socioeconomic development part of the overall military ...

SIGAR and Health Facilities.  The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Oversight is questioning USAID's database for healthcare fa...

One of the more successful development programs of the Afghan War was the use of Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP). Unfor...

During an inspection SIGAR found one active business in the $7.8 million Shorandam Industrial Park in Kandahar. It was originally planned ...

John Hopkins University will be hosting a panel discussion entitled "Sounding the Bell: Opening the Market to Private Sector Investme...

Pakistani and Indian press reports about the results of the March 15th TAPI pipeline meeting suggest a breakthrough has been achieved that...

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published "The A to Z Guide to Assistance in Afghanistan 2015" . This is...

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline promises to bring economic growth and increased prosperity to the four countr...

"Members of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been critical of the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) initiative in Afghanis...

Everyone acknowledges that the Afghan economy, despite some bright spots here or there, is in trouble. Foreign investment is stalled and Afg...

William Bryd, a development economist and senior expert on Afghanistan at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has wrote an article (...

It is easy to be pessimistic about Afghanistan . We have spent tons of money and many of our military members have lost their lives or suffe...

Finland devoted large amounts of money, time and effort to the Coalition mission in Afghanistan. Much of the Finnish work was done in north...

The CASA-1000 project is an ambitious venture - supported by the United States - to have Central Asian countries export surplus electricity...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) - John Sopko - has called America's development effort in Afghanist...