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Video - Mercy Corps. Learn how Mercy Corps provides economic opportunity for Afghan women in this short 5-min long video.  www.youtub...

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Six months ago I temporarily suspended publication of the "Afghan War Blog Weekly Newsletter" due to other work commitments and a...

Map of Kunduz Province A year ago the Taliban took control of the capital of Kunduz province . Even though the Taliban were outnumbered ...

Photo: PO Matthew Leistikow ALP rifle training, Jan 2013 The Afghan Local Police (also referred to as the ALP) have a mixed record in A...

General John Allen (retired) once said that "Corruption is the existential strategic threat to Afghanistan". The former Intern...

ANA Soldiers Exiting AAF Chopper (photo from GoIRA video) An inspirational video pushed out by the Afghan government on September 21, 2...

General John Nicholson recently conducted a press conference with reporters in Washington, D.C. Nicholson is the current commander of Res...

Helmand Province still at Risk.  A war correspondent takes us on a journey to Lashkar Gar, the provincial capital of Helmand province in ...

SIGAR Quarterly Report. Four times a year the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction issues a report on the Afghan conf...

Afghan's Lacking Air Support? One freelance journalist based in Afghanistan who writes on security and military issues, Franz J. Ma...

It appears that the Government of Afghanistan and the Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) insurgent group have reached an agreement to stop fig...

You can receive the  Afghan War Blog Weekly Newsletter  by email. It should arrive in your e-mail inbox at 0500 U.S. East coast time or just...

Unfortunately there will be a temporary break in posting on the Afghan War News Blog  and in the publishing of the Afghan War Blog Weekl...

Welcome to the  Afghan War Blog Weekly Newsletter . Articles are posted online on the blog and sent out via email newsletter on Sunday morni...

AAF A-29s to MeS.  According to Afghan press accounts the Afghan Air Force has posted two A-29 Super Tucano Light Attack Aircraft to the...

Paper - The Afghan National Army After ISAF. The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published an 18-page paper (March ...

3,000 or 1,000 ISIS in Afghanistan?  Most analysts say that the Islamic State has about 3,000 fighters in Afghanistan. Mostly in Nangarhar...

Taliban Reluctant to Join Peace Talks. Despite lots of optimism by the U.S. State Department (publicly at least) and the Afghan governmen...

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

Afghan Migrants.  Many refugees from Afghanistan are making their way (via people smugglers) across Iran into Turkey where they hope to ei...

Helmand Province - District by District.  The fight for Helmand province over the past decade has been one of the most costly for both the...

U.S. Defense Spending Woes.  A recent news story by Matthew Gault examines the national defense stance of the presidential candidates ...

Dar-ul-Aman Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan MoU Signed with Indonesia.  The Foreign Ministers of Indonesia and Afghanistan signed a Memoran...

Italian Female Soldier (DVIDS) New Issue -  PRISM.   The Center for Complex Operations of the National Defense University (NDU) has po...

Afghanistan's Commandos.  There are about 11,000 Afghan soldiers assigned to the Afghan National Army Special Operations Command (A...