Afghan War Blog

The Afghan National Army (ANA) has had trouble meeting the expectations of the international community in recruiting women into its ranks . ...

International Women's Day.  The world recognized the annual International Women's Day this past week. All the major players provided...

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

The ban on prohibiting women in combat roles is set to expire in January 2016. Many supporters of fully integrating women in combat roles ...

Peace through Education? A Boston-based filmmaker, Beth Murphy, describes her project to film a project about girls education in Afghanista...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in conjunction with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Hu...

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) will be hosting a panel discussion on  "Advancing Global Gender Equalit...

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) will be hosting a panel discussion on "Advancing Global Gender Equality...

The Afghanistan Human Rights & Democracy Organization (AHRDO) has published a report entitled Women in the Eyes of Men: Tackling the s...

A new personnel directive, DA Directive 2015-08, signed by the U.S. Army directs more than 4,100 'enabler' positions to be open to w...

Sunday, March 8th, 2015 was celebrated around the world as International Women's Day (IWD) . Afghanistan had its share of speeches and e...

March 8th is International Women's Day . Things have improved dramatically for women in Afghanistan. Women are members of parliament, ...

For those who feel that they are lacking in gender equality awareness (and in the spirit of today being International Women's Day) w...

Rula Ghani , the wife of President Ghani and Afghanistan's First Lady, has been stepping out into the spotlight recently. In February ...

One of the most provocative legacies of the Western presence in Afghanistan has been the funding and establishment of women's shelters ....

One diplomat says "It's the absurdity of  imposing our liberal Western beliefs" when describing the insistence of ANSF recruit...

Some British military figures have condemned the move to allow women to fight on the front line as a "politically-correct mistake"...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has issued a report entitled Afghan Women:  Comprehensive Assessments N...

This article (Dec 15, 2014) provided by IRIN - a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - describes the obst...

Women do not usually ride bicycles in Afghanistan. However, a small women's group is changing that. The meet once a week to ride bikes ...