Afghan War Blog

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has issued a new report about drugs in Afghanistan dated October 2016. Contributors ...

EU Providing 12 Million Euros.  Afghanistan faces a critical humanitarian crisis as a result of the intensifying conflict. The European...

With the departure of international troops from Farah province the Taliban and other insurgent and criminal groups are consolidating their ...

In the Sacramento Bee , Markos Kounalakis writes on the irony of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman , his role as a CIA officer in the mo...

Military leaders have cautioned that the drug trade in Afghanistan has grown in the past few years and threatens the stability and securit...

At the end of 2014 U.S. and other NATO troops will depart Afghanistan - perhaps leaving a small number of troops behind to conduct Securit...

The export of opium from Afghanistan to Central Asia, Europe and other locations has reached an all-time high in 2013. There is no reason to...

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has grown for the third straight year and Afghanistan is now the number one producer of opium crops ...

(Photo by SGT Chris McCullough) The U.S. Embassy and Afghanistan's Minister for Counter Narcotics recently (Feb 13) signed an agreem...

There is a renewed effort to stop the cultivation of poppies in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan.  Read more in "Afghan-Canadian gove...

The anti-drug campaign in Afghanistan is not making progress.  In fact, the situation has gotten worse.  Coalition forces are focusing on fi...