Afghan War Blog

News about Afghan SOF "Clear, Hold, and Build?"  The Afghan army - using its Commandos - has the "Clear" part o...

Taliban Ideology. The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) is highly respected for its detailed reporting on the situation in Afghanistan....

A breakaway Taliban faction is being helped by the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS). The NDS is Afghanistan's version...

Since the announcement that Mullah Omar had died in a Pakistani hospital and the drone killing of his successor in May 2016 the Taliban h...

Opium, Corruption, and Govt: A Smoothly Run Machine.  Most government functions in Afghanistan simply do not work well. Whether it is the ...

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

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor Afghan Taliban Leader Injured (or Killed)?  Initial reports from mid-week suggest that Afghan Taliban leader Mulla...

Counter-IED Capabilities Need Investments.  Over the last few years the U.S. military has attempted, unsuccessfully, to put Afghanistan ...

ISIS versus Taliban. Folks are looking at the competition between the Taliban and the Islamic State and hoping (some are predicting) that...

The new head of the Taliban - Mullah Akhtar Muhammand Mansour - is profiled by Joseph Goldstein in The New York Times (Oct 4, 2015) in th...

The Taliban have launched a major offensive in the past few weeks to make significant gains in northern Afghanistan. The Taliban has seiz...

A writer, Vikrma Sood, has posted his views about the struggle for leadership of the Taliban, how Pakistan continues to support the variou...

Leadership Struggles. Mullah Akhtar Muhammaad Mansour is still consolidating his power with the Taliban's organization. However, a fello...

An insurgent targeted a convoy with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) in Kabul on Saturday, August 22nd. Twelve people wer...

Life under the Taliban rule for the few years that they ran Afghanistan was extremely harsh. Recent proclamations by the Taliban would indic...

The death of Mullah Omar and the emergence of the Islamic State has changed the insurgent (terrorist) landscape in Afghanistan. The Taliban ...

New Taliban Leader. Shortly after the death of Mullah Omar the Taliban leadership appointed their new leader - Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Man...

Periodically reports reach us about the death of the reclusive Mullah Mohammed Omar . Mullah Omar is (or was) considered by many as the lead...

"The Taliban was toppled in Afghanistan in 2001 for harboring al-Qaeda, but it has not been defeated. With an estimated core of up to ...

Heavy fighting has been taking place in Kunduz province the past few days. Thousands of families are reported to be displaced due to the f...