Afghan War Blog

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

ANASF prepare for wpns training Attack on Spanish Embassy Guesthouse. Some more fidelity on the attack on Friday, December 11th. The g...

Gen Votel to CENTCOM?.  The Internet continues to spread the word that the current USSOCOM commander is on the short list to succeed Gener...

Khost Protection Force & the CIA - Part 1. A regional counterterrorism pursuit team set up in Khost province by the CIA has been prob...

Green Beret Officer Retires After Cleared of Wrongdoing. A decorated Special Forces officer who was investigated by the Army for whistleb...

Two western captives, one American and one Italian held in Pakistan by al Qaeda, were killed in a drone strike by the United States in Ja...

The Obama administration has faced some harsh questioning on its hostage policy. For years the United States position has been that it won...

This blog post has nothing to do with Afghanistan but everything to do with how vulnerable members of the U.S. military and other governme...

A German aid worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan more than two years ago has been freed in Afghanistan. The details are slim but you can re...

US Special Forces are actively pursuing the group that kidnapped the British aid worker - Linda Norgrove.  Read more in "US forces hunt...

More information on the failed Linda Norgrove rescue operation has come out.  Read "Linda Norgrove: US Navy SEAL faces disciplinary ac...

The botched attempt to rescue the British aid worker, Linda Norgrove, has dominated the British press the last few days.  The death of the N...

A rescue attempt by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan to save a British aid worker from captivity has gone off badly.  The rescu...