Afghan War Blog

A member of the Afghan High Peace Council, Maulvi Qalamuddin, provided an interview that gives some insight on the possible path that future...

The Afghan insurgent group known as Hizb-i-Islami wants to ensure it has a seat at the negotiation table that will attempt to settle the Afg...

Afghan women are apprehensive about the prospects of the Taliban becoming part of the government as a result of negotiations conducted by th...

Afghan women are alarmed about the possibility of a return by the Taliban as a result of either negotiations or victory after 2014.  The wom...

The Afghanistan Analysts Network has published a document about theories on conflict resolution and how to apply it to Afghanistan. "...

A recent news article states that the Taliban may be willing to break with al Qaeda and conduct negotiations for a peace settlement. Read mo...

A columnist writes that we have lost the war and it is time to negotiate for peace.  Read his critique of the Afgahan War in "Afghanist...

A interesting article by Ahmed Rashid has been posted on The New York Review of Books website on how to end the war in Afghanistan.  Rashid...

The WikiLeaks documents are providing some insight behind the talks with the Taliban.  It would appear that in public Karzai is trying to wo...

The U.S. military has been saying that the relentless pace of surgical drone strikes, Special Forces night raids, and conventional forces su...

The Afghan government is in secret talks with the leadership of the Taliban .  There is great speculation about the motives of Karzai for do...

There are reports that the Afghan government is in talks with the Taliban in an effort to come to an agreement for the end of the war.  Read...