Afghan War Blog

Corruption in Afghanistan. Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Afghanistan as the 4th most corru...

Remembering Afghan Elections of 2009.  An American military officer assigned to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) at Forward Operat...

Vice President Dostum Dostum on the Outs? It appears that Abdul Rashid Dostum is not happy with the National Unity Government (NUG). H...

RoL and Terrorist Detention Decree. "A recent decree by President Ghani on how to deal with terrorist crimes has introduced the pros...

Corruption.  Sarah Chayes, a long-time resident of Afghanistan, is interviewed about her thoughts of corruption and how it ties to insurge...

Parliamentary Elections.  Foreign donors are becoming frustrated with Afghanistan's failure to set a date for  parliamentary elections...

The Afghan parliamentary elections are just around the corner. A recent survey shows that 92% of Afghans feel there is a need for electoral...

Thomas Ruttig , a long-term observer of all things Afghanistan and co-founder of the Afghan Analysts Network (AAN), provides his comments on...

The international community can look back at 2014 and say that the Afghans had a democratic transition from one Afghan leader to another thr...

A report by European Union election observers states that widespread fraud took place during the Afghan presidential elections . It says th...

The European Union Election Assessment Team (EUEAT) has issued its final report on the presidential election held on 5 April 2014 and the...

Sam Schneider, who at one time was the online editor for Tolo News , has posted an article on the South Asian Channel (Foreign Policy)  on...

Jordan Olmstead has wrote a piece entitled "Will AfPak Democracy Survive?" posted on The South Asia Channel  of Foreign Policy on...

An observer and analyst of events in South Asia, Sharif Azami, has posted a post mortem on the Afghan election. He makes some great observat...

There are lots of commentators and observers remarking on the recent Afghan elections and the National Unity Government (NUG) that president...

Despite the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) not releasing the results of the extremely fraudulent Afghan presidential run off elect...

Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief now that the election results have been released (well, sort of released) and a "national unity ...

The recent election in Afghanistan (well, . . . not so recent) has many observers commenting on the future prospects of Afghanistan. Some pe...

The international community forked over millions of dollars to enable the election to take place.There was more than a financial cost to the...

A noted author and correspondent with a great deal of expertise in Afghanistan has commented on the current situation in Afghanistan. The au...