Afghan War Blog

The holiday season is upon us and the Afghan War Blog  will be taking a break from posting articles on its blog and sending out the Afgh...

Australian advisor with his Afghan counterpart Training for Child Sex Abuse in Afghanistan. US troops will soon be receiving training...

The Annotated Bibliography for Resolute Support has been updated and posted. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) missio...

The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan has signed and put into force a Child Protection Policy. The initiative codifies a number of meas...

"The Nation State and Afghanistan". Paolo Cotta Ramusino, a professor at the University of Milan (Italy) presented the content...

In every military there is a huge amount of terms, acronyms, phrases, and words that are unrecognizable to the non-military members of s...

The Afghan National Army Special Operations Command (ANASOC) intends to create seven additional Mobile Strike Kandaks (MSK) in the nex...

The Afghan War News Site Map lists all the web pages on the website - almost 300 pages. The pages are hyperlinked and are grouped by cat...

Shoulder Patch of Afghan Border Police (ABP) Elements of the Afghan Border Police (ABP) are moving from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) ...

IEC Decides to use Existing ID Cards . The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the existing National Identity Card (Tazkera) wou...

NATO's SEL Visits GCPSU.  The Command Senior Enlisted Leader for Allied Command Operations at NATO visited the Afghan General Comma...

Afghan Air Force A-29 Take-off and Landing ,  DVIDS, December 4, 2017, (3 mins). www.dvidshub.net/video/570408/afghan-air-force-29 Ai...

Gender-Based Violence. In Afghanistan gender-based violence is pervasive but activists see a change in the wind. Read more by Tadamichi...

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Photo - A member of the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) takes part in a training exercise at Fort Benning, Georgia in prep...

455th AEW Plays Key Role.  The 455th Air Expeditionary Wing has been playing a key role in the combined operations against Taliban reve...

"The Nation State and Afghanistan". Paolo Cotta Ramusino, a professor at the University of Milan (Italy) presented the content...

ASSF Seize 1,000 lbs of Explosives.  According to a NATO Special Operations Component Command - Afghanistan (NSOCC-A) Afghan Special Se...

Mohaqiq Commends Fatimiyun Fighters. Iran has forced or induced Shia Afghans to fight in its Fatimiyun Brigade on behalf of the Syrian ...

Photo Credit: Shoulder patch of the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Herat province, Afghanistan. The training center was established...

Mentoring at the Afghan Officers Academy ,  Resolute Support YouTube.com, November 24, 2017. A British Army officer describes his job A...

MUDH and Corruption. The Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) appears to be making some gains in decreasing corruption wit...

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...

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

Photo: ANA Soldiers from the 215th Corps conduct CASEVAC training at the Helmand Regional Military Training Center (RMTC) on Camp Shorab...

The Afghan security forces launched a major offensive against drug traffickers and their opium refining laboratories this past week. Th...

"The Nation State and Afghanistan". Paolo Cotta Ramusino, a professor at the University of Milan (Italy) presented the content...

Elections and Female Participation. A symposium, backed by the United Nations, was held in Mazar-e-Sharif to discuss ways to improve wo...

Photo Credit. An instructor from the Afghan National Army Special Forces (ANASF) provides instruction to a member of the Afghan Local Po...

First Afghan Black Hawk Pilots soon to Graduate,   Resolute Support Hqs, posted on YouTube.com, on November 16, 2017. (2-min video expl...

The UK Experience in the Afghan Counter Narcotics Mission. In a very informative article, David Mansfield - a Senior Fellow at the Lon...

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...

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

The Asia Foundation conducts an annual survey of the Afghan population and publishes a report on its findings in the fall of each year. T...

Training Program for Afghan UH-60 Pilots Explained. The first batch of the Afghan UH-60 pilots are almost finished with the first stage...

HIMARS firing in Afghanistan in support of ground troops. (Photo by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean Furey) Mari...