Afghan War Blog

Call for Timely and Credible Elections. Donor nations from the international community are encouraged by the progress being made in i...

Political Crisis of NUG.  Murid Partaw, an academic writer and researcher, writes about the continuing political crisis of the Afghan ...

Ghani vs. the Strongmen.  President Ghani has met obstacle after obstacle in his efforts to establish an efficient, corruption free Afgh...

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

National ID Debate. President Ashraf Ghani is ready to roll out implementation of the national identification card for all Afghans. Ho...

Governor Atta Mohammad Noor Governor Atta Noor Saga.  The months-long stand-off continues in northern Afghanistan with the former g...

Governor Atta Mohammad Noor Governor Noor Hangs On. The governor of Balhk province has been dismissed by President Ghani but he ref...

IEC Decides to use Existing ID Cards . The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the existing National Identity Card (Tazkera) wou...

Mohaqiq Commends Fatimiyun Fighters. Iran has forced or induced Shia Afghans to fight in its Fatimiyun Brigade on behalf of the Syrian ...

Elections and Female Participation. A symposium, backed by the United Nations, was held in Mazar-e-Sharif to discuss ways to improve wo...

Reducing Voter Fraud. Elections in Afghanistan are continually held in low regard by the Afghan population and the international commun...

NATO and Afghan Elections. A recent news report carried remarks by the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Cornelius ...

Photo by GoA, Oct 23, 2017 Tillerson Visit. The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid an unexpected visit to Kabul on Monday, Octob...

Upcoming Afghan Elections. The parliamentary elections are coming up soon. Afghanistan is facing some significant technical proble...

Upcoming Afghan Elections. The parliamentary elections are coming up soon. Afghanistan is facing some significant technical proble...

"Worst Job on Earth". Evidently President has had better gigs. He recently said that being President of Afghanistan is not...

Decentralization Needed . A recent article proposes that a ". . . centralized political system in Afghanistan only intensifies t...

NUG Still Dysfunctional . The National Unity Government of Abdullah Abdullah and President Ghani is still mired in ethnic competition...

Dostum as a Hero? One writer, John Sjohom, presents an alternative view of one of Afghanistan's Vice Presidents - General Dostum . ...

Dostum Denied Landing at MeS?  News reports from Afghanistan seem to say that one of Afghanistan's two Vice Presidents tried to land a...