Afghan War Blog

More Visas for Interpreters.  A U.S. Senate committee has approved 4,000 more Visas for Afghans who worked for the U.S. military as inte...

Afghan Migrants.  Many refugees from Afghanistan are making their way (via people smugglers) across Iran into Turkey where they hope to ei...

Pakistan Harboring Taliban Leaders?  It would seem this is true based on recent statements by Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's advisor for fo...

Borders Closing to Afghan Migrants. The country of Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants but will all...

Afghan Refugees. Afghanistan is once again experiencing a huge departure of its citizens. Many are seeking to escape the ongoing (and inc...

Interpreters Betrayed. When American troops conducted combat operations in Afghanistan their link to the Afghan population was the Afghan i...

$43 Million Gas Station Built by DoD in Afghanistan. The Task Force for Stability and Business Operations (TFBSO) built a compressed na...

The refugees of Syria have gained international attention and worldwide support yet Afghan interpreters who loyally aided American milita...

The United States Department of Stat e failed miserably over the last decade in 'taking care' of its  Afghan interpreters  (den...

The Afghan interpreters that tried to get a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) over the past several years got screwed over (until 2014) by the U...

A former U.S. Army Soldier talks to CNN about the thousands of Iraqi and Afghan linguists who helped U.S. troops and have since been forgott...

The U.S. Department of State has updated their website with information about the Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans who were employed by/o...

The United States has some unfinished business to attend to in regards to Afghanistan. That is the fair treatment of the many Afghan interpr...

Afghan interpreters are a key part of the Coalition's success in Afghanistan. It is difficult to conduct combat operations, civil affai...

An Afghan interpreter who spent years working for the U.S. military and who's life was threatened by the Taliban has started a new life...

Captain Robert Newson, a Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) officer has penned an article about "doing the right thing" for our Afghan...

An organization calling itself "No One Left Behind" has been established to assist Iraqi and Afghan interpreters . The mission of...

Afghan interpreters , who risked their lives to assist the U.S. military, are finding it difficult to get to the United States on a visa. Tw...

For the last several years the blame for the poor implementation of the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Afghan interpreters  can easily...

Congress will be making an important decision in the next month or so about Afghan interpreters . The interpreters served as the eyes and ea...