Afghan War Blog

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

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

Afghanistan is entering the new year with a host of new challenges ; and they will be getting less help in meeting those challenges. The cab...

The Afghan "National Unity Government" is having trouble getting its Cabinet up and running. In the meantime deputy ministers are...

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has posted a video (2 hours November 29, 2014) of a National Seminar entitled "Ten...

The new president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, is taking more time than expected to form his cabinet. He is at odds with Abdullah Abdullah ...

The Afghan cabinet has yet to be named because of a power struggle between President Ghani and the Chief Executive Officer Abdullah. It has ...

The new leaders elected in Afghanistan have provided a glimpse of hope to the people of Kabul. President Ghani is bringing some sorely neede...

A commentator provides us with an update and analysis on how well the new Afghan government is doing and identifies challenges it is facing ...

The sub-governor of Kandahar, Abdul Qadim Patyal, was assassinated while he was attending a night class on Afghan literature. He embodied th...

A deputy provincial governor was killed in an attack in southern Kandahar while attending a university class. Read more in "Attacks Kil...

NATO TV has released (October 20, 2014) a video about the effort to modernize the Afghan Passport Office. The video depicts how Afghan cit...

There are many perspectives on the future of Afghanistan and the challenges that the new government faces. One such perspective is given to ...

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

D. Suba Chandran has identified four major challenges for the new president of Afghanistan. They are listed as "One Country, Two Execu...

It appears that President Ghani is making some very strong initial strides in establishing good governance in Afghanistan. He has made some...

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...

Secretary of State John Kerry seems optimistic about the future of Afghanistan. He says the resolution of the election crisis and the format...

There are three challenges facing the newly formed Afghan government (according to one observer). The first challenge is the question of leg...

According to one recent post online the National Unity Government (NUG) is ". . . a band-aid solution to deeper corruption and ethnic t...