Afghan War Blog

Kabul's Mobile Library. A bus converted into a reading room for children is traveling the streets of the capital city. Read "...

Every once in a while we take a look at the news reporting by the U.S. Department of Defense on Afghanistan by looking at their DoD News Re...

An Afghan newspaper is in hot water for publishing an article that offended religious leaders and government officials in Afghanistan. Evide...

If you think that the U.S. media has stopped covering Afghanistan then you are spot on. Every day when I compile my Afghan War News Newslett...

More news snippets include: some members of Afghanistan's upper house (Meshrano Jirga) are demanding that election commission officials ...

ALP Member graduates from 3-week training course.   (Photo PO 2CL Jon Rasmussen CJSOTF-A Media Opns Center) 8 Afghan Local Police Ki...

Afghan National Army Special Forces (ANSF) preparing to conduct weapons training.  (Photo by PO1 David Frech). Here are some items of...

An ANASF instructor teaches tactics to a member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP). (Photo MC1 Leistkow, CJSOTF-A Media Opns Center) Her...

During a Pentagon briefing on February 8, 2012 LTG Scarparrotti of ISAF explained his (DoD and ISAF's view) of the recent news article p...

General Petraeus released a statement saying that the past year yielded progress in Afghanistan but that the coming year will be a tough one...

A coalition spokesman recently detailed the progress that military forces have made in Afghanistan against the Taliban. During the same time...

A recent news article in the Seattle PI states that the U.S. troop surge has bought some time in the Afghan War but that victory is still a ...

"ABC News announced the launch of a special series on the war in Afghanistan, "Afghanistan: Can We Win? " The series starts o...