Afghan War Blog

Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum (former warlord, communist, anti-communist, government minister, general, powerbroker, mujihadeen, etc...

Governor Atta Mohammad Noor, the Provincial Governor (PGov) of Balkh province has been in his position for over ten years when he was firs...

The international organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has been threatened by a strongman from northern Afghanistan. The Gove...

The Human Rights Watch organization has released a report entitled "Today We Shall All Die: Afghanistan's Strongmen and the Legacy ...

General Raziq , the Provincial Chief of Police (PCoP) of Kandahar province is also the "King of Kandahar". He is one of the most p...

An Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) investigation has found that Ghor province in western Afghanistan is in the grip of about...

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 recent article provides us with an alternative and "kinder" view of warlords in Afghanistan . The author refers to the interac...

Here is an interesting story about a female Afghan warlord - Commander Pigeon. Read "My Terrifying Night With Afghanistan's Only Fe...

There are eleven presidential candidates in the Afghan elections for president to be held this April. Among the presidential and their vice-...

The newly arrived ISAF Joint Command (IJC) commander LTG Joseph Anderson was recently photographed with a 'colorful' personality ...

 A recent online post provides us with pictures and a brief bio of the prime movers in the upcoming April 2014 presidential elections that ...

A former warlord, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf , could very well be the next president of Afghanistan after the April 2014 Afghan election s. He ...

An assassination attempt by a suicide bomber against the warlord Ismail Khan failed. This is not the first time that the 'elder states...

Abdul Raziq has been described in various ways.  Some refer to him as a warlord and others think of him as a patriotic Afghan fighter.  The ...

Australians are questioning its armed forces involvement with a warlord called Matiullah Khan in Afghanistan.  Read more in "Cultural n...

A Senate report is highly critical of the management of the money that the U.S. military exercises control over for the payment of security ...

A war correspondent, Rajiv Chandresekarar of The Washington Post , has provided us with a somewhat complimentary view of a corrupt Colonel i...