Afghan War Blog

Life in Kabul Amid the Violence. Taliban attacks and bombings within the city of Kabul have increased significantly and the population is c...

On June 4, 2015 the International Crisis Group released a report entitled "The Future of the Afghan Local Police" . The report w...

A United Nations sponsored report has found that Afghanistan government officials who headed up an organization that provided oversight of...

Headquarters, Department of the Army has released Police Intelligence Operations , ATP 3-39.20, April 2015. This manual could be valuable to...

The Council of the European Union has extended the mandate of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan until December 31, 2016 - fo...

Terry Gould, an investigative reporter from Canada, has wrote a book entitled "Worth Dying For" . The book is about a unit of th...

Kabul has seen a string of high-profile attacks in the past two weeks. It is apparent that the Taliban are ignoring the traditional end of f...

The insurgents continue to attack the Afghan police. One of the favorite types of attack is the use of suicide bombers - a tactic very diffi...

Kandahar is much safer now than several years ago. At one time the Taliban reigned supreme in the streets. But an Afghan police official (so...

A major part of the professionalization of the Afghan National Police (ANP) is due in part to the European Union Police Mission in Afghani...

There are a lot of countries providing advisors to Afghanistan. India is one of them. Shakti Devi, is a female police inspector from India ...

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is responsible for administering the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA). A r...

Photo LTJG Bryan Mitchell Jan 2014 Members of the Kentucky National Guard are training Afghan Soldiers at Camp Marmal in Regional Comm...

There has been a rash of flat tires in Kabul. Turns out it is the Afghan police enforcing a parking ban against parking on the street. Read ...

A staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor took note of the New York Times article on the non-payment of some 150,000 Afghan polic...

Almost 500 police cadets returned from a six-month long training program a the Sivas Police Training Centre for Afghanistan (SPTC-A) in Turk...

A look at how corruption works in the traffic department is indicative of the problem of corruption at large in Afghan society. Corruption...

Police mentors from Task Force Centurion have developed strong mentor-mentee relationships while working on a Police Advisory Team or PAT. W...

The Afghan Democratic Policing Project (ADPP) is being implemented by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) with US $4.5 mi...

"AUSTRALIAN police in Afghanistan have helped compile secret intelligence files on insurgent leaders later targeted in capture-or-kill ...