Afghan War Blog

The Afghan security forces launched a major offensive against drug traffickers and their opium refining laboratories this past week. Th...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has issued a new report about drugs in Afghanistan dated October 2016. Contributors ...

Opium Makes a Comeback.  2015 say a 19 percent decrease in opium production in Afghanistan due (not to government eradication efforts) fun...

Opium, Corruption, and Govt: A Smoothly Run Machine.  Most government functions in Afghanistan simply do not work well. Whether it is the ...

Camp Phoenix - Now Drug Rehab Center.  Afghanistan has a serious drug addiction problem. Many of its addicts go to Kabul to seek cheap dru...

Flying the Flag. Troops overseas are counseled about flying the U.S. flag in combat zones. Typically, the directives state that the flag...

$43 Million Gas Station Built by DoD in Afghanistan. The Task Force for Stability and Business Operations (TFBSO) built a compressed na...

A recent news report says that attempts to eradicate opium in Afghanistan merely helped the Taliban. The article contends that more than ...

It is springtime in Afghanistan - which means a lot of things - but to the U.S. military stationed in that country it means the start of ...

Despite the investment of over $8 billion by the United States to try and combat the drug trade in Afghanistan - drug trafficking is at a...

A recent report for the United Nations Security Council states that the Taliban are now engaging more and more in drug trafficking and crim...

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

A news article provides background information on the huge drug addiction problem in Afghanistan. High unemployment, drugs that are easily ...

Afghanistan's judicial system is a farce . We are once again confronted with another example of how corrupt the Afghan police and judici...

Most experts would agree on the statement that the Western war on drugs in Afghanistan has been a failure. According to the United Nations O...

In 2014 Afghanistan produced 90% of the world's supply of opium . The drug trade is an integral part of Afghanistan's economy and th...

The fight against the drug trade in Afghanistan , although expensive, has been futile. The opium economy undercuts progress in security, rul...

An entrepreneur from the United Kingdom is on a mission to replace poppy cultivation with pomegranates . It appears that his program is havi...

A short (5 mins) video about the drug addicts in Afghanistan entitled "Redeeming Afghan addicts" , posted by NATO Channel on YouTu...

A columnist examines the history of the drug war in Afghanistan and concludes that billions of dollars were spent with no progress in combat...