Afghan War Blog

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After a series of attacks for the past several months and a month-long siege the northern provincial capital of Kunduz fell to Taliban fig...

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz was apparently bombed by the U.S. Air Force on Friday causing extensive damage to t...

C-130J in Afghanistan ( Photo by AFCENT Oct 2013) A U.S. Air Force C-130J cargo plane crashed on very early on Friday morning in Jalala...

U.S. Struggles to Build AAF.  Rod Nordland of the NYT details the problems the U.S. has in building the  Afghan Air Force  (AAF). ( The ...

SFC Martland Speaks Out. SFC Charles Martland is being involuntarily separated from the Army for beating up an Afghan Local Police (ALP) co...

The September 2015 CSTC-A Dividend$ newsletter is out. A one-page PDF providing information on three topics. The Afghan Airfield Econo...

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

"Why Troops Must Stay in Afghanistan". Max Boot faults the Obama administration for a surge that lasted an insufficient amou...

EU Rep: Defeating ISIS in Afghanistan. Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin, the Special Representative of the European Union in Afghanistan...

New SF Facebook Page. The U.S. Army's 1st Special Forces Command has redesigned its Facebook page.  www.facebook.com/SFCommand H...

OPM Breach, the CIA, and China.  According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper the ". . . CIA  pulled a number of offi...

Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens.  Media sources are reporting that Taliban fighters are mounting an offensive in Badakhshan province. U....

Corruption.  Sarah Chayes, a long-time resident of Afghanistan, is interviewed about her thoughts of corruption and how it ties to insurge...

Saffron Pipeline.  A bunch of Afghan veterans (who are also Harvard grads) are making it easier for  Afghan farmers to export Saffron . ( ...

  Info War with ISIS. It appears that the Islamic State is eating the State Department's lunch when it comes to the information opera...

New Book on Lessons Learned. Richard D. Hooker, Jr. and Joseph J. Collins have edited a book entitled Lessons Encountered: Learning From ...

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

"The Resolute Support Mission Gender Advisor office is linked to UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which guides daily coalition in...

"These are not the drones you are looking for."

The refugees of Syria have gained international attention and worldwide support yet Afghan interpreters who loyally aided American milita...

Resolute Support Annotated Bibliography Updated. The AWN RS Bibliography has been updated as of 1 October. Over 200 pages of links to w...

You can receive the  Afghan War News Weekly Newsletter  by email. It should arrive in your e-mail inbox at 5:00 a.m. U.S. East coast time or...

Unfortunately there will be no "Afghan War News Weekly Newsletter" for the next couple of weeks. I am on the road traveling on a ...

Film footage has been released depicting the exploits of an A-10 Fighter Squadron in Afghanistan during the fighting season of 2014. Th...

General John Campbell is the commander of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan . He started out as the Commander of the Internatio...

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

Resolute Support HQs is publishing short videos, called Resolute Support Update,   on a periodic basis to disseminate information about ...

A plan to pay the Afghan Local Police or ALP in Kapisa province by electronic transfer is working out well (at least according to Resolu...

This paper compares the ". . . accounts of different conflicts in India and South Asia, it delineates two ideal types of counterinsu...

Paper - "Afghanistan: Back to the Brink". Prem Mahadevan of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) provides us his view of wher...

Susan Rice & Pakistan. U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Pakistani leaders during a visit to the country a few weeks...