Afghan War Blog

In the past few months there have been several initiatives for peace in Afghanistan. First there was the 'Taliban letter' to th...

President Ghani proposed a detailed peace package to the Taliban during the Kabul Process meeting. His offer follows the Taliban's...

Peace Is In The Air.  A few weeks back the Taliban addressed a letter to the people of the United States to open up peace talks. Thi...

Peace with Honor? Lawrence Freedman, a professor of war studies at King's College London, provides his perspective of victory and d...

The government of Afghanistan convened the first meeting of the "Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation" on June 6, ...

Renewed Calls for Peace Talks.  Recent territorial gains by the Taliban have caused many observers to conclude that there will not be a mi...

A peace deal was signed between the Afghan government and the Hezb-e Islami (led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar). The HIG has been relatively dorm...

It appears that the Government of Afghanistan and the Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) insurgent group have reached an agreement to stop fig...

Taliban Reluctant to Join Peace Talks. Despite lots of optimism by the U.S. State Department (publicly at least) and the Afghan governmen...

HPC Chief Appointed. News reports say that Sayed Ahmad Gailani has been appointed as the new Chief of the Afghan High Peace Council. Dep...

High Peace Council Leadership.  President Ghani has decided to  appoint new leaders  for the  High Peace Council  (HPC). He indicated that...

Intel Chief Not Thinking Peace. "The latest U.S. intelligence assessment is skeptical about prospects for political reconciliation i...

The third meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States was held on Saturday...

Afghan High Peace Council. The organization set up by the Afghan government to coordinate the reconciliation and reintegration of the Tal...

On Monday, January 11th, the countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, United States and China gathered to discuss negotiations for future peace...

January 11th Peace Talks.  Multi-state peace talks including the nations of China, U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan are scheduled for Januar...

Another effort to revive the peaces talks for the Afghan conflict is now underway. President Ghani (Afghanistan) and Prime Minister Sharif...

"These are not the drones you are looking for."

Susan Rice & Pakistan. U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Pakistani leaders during a visit to the country a few weeks...

At one point in late July it seemed that some concrete steps towards peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban were being ...