Afghan War Blog

China has some security concerns about it western region of Xinjiang. Muslim extremists have been very active in this area and in some ins...

Afghanistan is a nation with many refugees. Some live within the country and others in bordering countries - for the most part Iran and Pa...

Below the surface of Afghan society and politics lie the ever-present ethnic divisions that could fracture the Afghan government and securit...

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has published a document entitled " Gulf War and Health: Volume 9 - Long-Term Effec...

Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) is emerging in Afghanistan as an alternative fuel source for motorized vehicles in Afghanistan. LPG conversion...

An instructor at the Peace Support Operations Training Centre (PSOTC) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina provides us with an essay that str...

At a recent gathering at The Stimson Center in Washington, DC the former commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),...

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Southern Afghanistan recently saw some snowy weather. Snow will affect military operations - changing or cancelling various types of activ...

Reports indicate that Afghanistan's High Peace Council will meet with Taliban officials in Dubai to discuss the prospects for peace t...

Areas of northern Afghanistan now considered "no go" areas. With the pullout of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...

The major line of communication (road) between Kabul and Kandahar is Highway 1. Over the past ten years major efforts were made to hard-pave...

Mortuary Affairs is not a job for everyone. However it is one that has to be done and it is important to friends and family of the deceased...

A short story online about a dog handler and his dog Spike. Provides you a little information about the life of a couple that work and live ...

There are still over one million refugees living in Pakistan that fled the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Many have become accustomed to ...

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One of the casualties of the 'zero option' (no troops left in Afghanistan after December 2014) will be the lack of a base from whi...

Dahla Dam, Kandahar, Afghanistan Afghanistan is full of stories about development projects that didn't get completed or that didn...

A Canadian correspondent, Scott Taylor, writes about his experience with Guardian Angels in Afghanistan. Guardian Angels are employed to pro...

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

An ex-Canadian brigadier-general, now a senior official with a Canadian security firm conducting business in Afghanistan, has been released ...

A contributor to the Geopolitical Monitor , Marc Simms, provides his comments on what he thinks post-2014 Afghanistan looks like in a recent...

The Afghan parliament recently passed a law concerning criminal legislation that penalizes women of Afghanistan. The new criminal procedur...

President Hamid Karzai's strange behavior has generated a lot of uncertainty and confusion. His refusal to sign the Bilateral Security A...

The U.S. Department of State has issued an updated Travel Warning for Afghanistan dated February 20, 2014. The security threat to all U.S...

A couple of O-6 level Marine Corps officers assigned to ISAF have been nominated for promotion for their first star. Colonel William Jurney ...

It seems that the U.S. State Department isn't the only organization having problems processing visas for Afghan interpreters. Evidentl...

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The Army has released a new field manual that deals with Cyber Warfare. FM 3-38,  Cyber Electromagnetic Activities  dated February 2014 ha...

All echelons of units that deploy to Afghanistan have a Tactical Operations Center (TOC) where they track the daily operations and activi...

USAID had a solicitation for photographer services within Afghanistan to take high-quality photos of development work under the oversight of...

The Taliban have been confidently proclaiming that they will be resurgent in the post-2014 era in Afghanistan. Their information operations ...

It appears that Afghanistan is reviewing the cases of seven more detainees to determine if they should be tried by the Afghan judicial syste...

The Army chief of staff has announced some general officer assignments in a recent press release. A few of the assignments concern general o...

A Soviet journalist who covered many years of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan spent much of the final year observing and reporting on t...

The Afghan government recently released 65 dangerous insurgents from detention. This was done despite over-whelming evidence that the detain...

The Karzai regime has been continuing and increasing its verbal attacks against the United States. At risk is the continued presence of U.S....

SGT Julieanne Morse recently completed a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2013 as an Army photographer. She spent a lot of time traveling - ...

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been getting hammered by reports by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan R...

President Hamid Karzai has been increasing the volume in registering his discontent with the United States and the lack of respect the US ha...

The 65 detainees released by the Afghan government were hardened Taliban fighters - some who were directly responsible for the death of U.S....

An interesting and informative piece on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Michael Kugelman. While the White House continues its story-...

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One of the more successful programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is it's Office of Transition Ini...

The Afghan High Peace Council has released a statement saying that the United States is a source of insecurity in Afghanistan and that th...

The release of 65 detainees from the high-security Bagram detention facility has strained relations between the Afghan government and the U...

The Insider Threat or green-on-blue attacks is still a huge concern for NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan. While 2012 saw the most green-...

As the United States and its allies in Afghanistan continue to withdraw the Afghan National Security Forces or ANSF is finding itself havin...

A news report says that more Mi-17s are heading to the Afghan Air Force . Read "Afghan Army Service to receive More Mi-17 Helicopters t...

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