Afghan War Blog

In February 2018 Resolute Support pushed out some news releases and videos describing an increase in air strikes against insurgents in...

Afghanistan shares a narrow border with China. To the east of this border lies the province of Xinjiang or Uighuristan - where the Uighurs...

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 Uzbeks from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) have acquired a reputation as experienced bomb makers in Afghanistan and in Paki...

The insurgents continue to attack the Afghan police. One of the favorite types of attack is the use of suicide bombers - a tactic very diffi...

The level of insurgent activity in Kabul has increased during President Ghani's first month in office. Car bombs and rocket attacks are ...

A new book about insurgencies has been published. It is named Adapting to Win: How Insurgents Fight and Defeat Foreign States in War . The...

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has operated in northern Afghanistan, eastern Afghanistan, and northwestern Pakistan for a number ...

An Op-Ed by a Professor at the United States Army War College has been provided online that re-examines the role of counter-insurgents and...

A recent news report provides information on the secret fight between U.S. special operations forces and Chechen terrorists aligned with al ...

Dr. Seth Jones testified before the House Armed Services Committee on February 4, 2014 about the resurgence of Salafi-Jihadists. His testi...

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published a paper that examines "  . . . the structural factors driving anti-g...

The noted hawk and senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Joe Lieberman, told a GOP conference today that he believes th...

"Qazi Mohammad Amin Waqad is a former member of the Hizb-e-Islami leadership council, a party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Waqad was one...