Afghan War Blog

Slo w Progress in Badghis. Officials in this northwestern province of Afghanistan are warning that there will likely be public protests...

NGO Meeting in Kabul.   A meeting was held presided by the Afghan government with representatives from Non-Governmental Organizations t...

Fiber-Optic Line. The Afghan Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) says that a fiber optic cable line streaming an Internet connectio...

Lapis Lazuli Route.  A planned transit corridor is expected to play a significant role in the growth of Afghanistan's economy. Th...

TAPI: A Milestone in Country's Economic Development.  The start of the construction of the Afghanistan section of the Turkmenistan-...

Railway Corridor.  The Afghanistan National Railway Authority (ANRA) says that a report for the establishment of 880 klics of railway l...

Afghan Marble Mine in Herat (Photo by Melissa Skorka, ISAF CAAT, 2013) Afghan Mineral Development.  Afghanistan is reach in natural ...

Lessons Learned - Stability Opns in Afghanistan.  Charles Barham, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, continued service to his country by working...

Four Reforms Necessary for Afghanistan's Economy. According to one observer Afghanistan's economy will be able to stand on its own ...

It is estimated that the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of State (...

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

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a report based off a recent trip to Afghanistan. Read more in a press release dated Dec...

Insurgencies have root causes and in Afghanistan these root causes are easy to identify. One of the biggest is the vast divide between the ...

The business climate in Afghanistan is suffering with the prospect of ISAF departing in December 2014. The business community in Kabul is wo...

The United States rolled out the New Silk Road Strategy (NSRS) a few years back as one of the ways of filling the void of a diminished Unit...

Good News! Afghanistan is not the "most failed state" in the world; although it does come in on top ten. The country may be the...

With the election of President Ghani a new optimism is taking hold about Afghanistan's economy . Read more in "With New President, ...

A recent posting by Ajay Anil Cherian posted on International Policy Digest  (October 12, 2014) entitled "Rebuilding Afghanistan: The R...

Afghanistan has run out of money. The country will delay paying salaries to hundreds of thousands of civil servants because it does not ha...

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