Afghan War Blog

Political Crisis of NUG.  Murid Partaw, an academic writer and researcher, writes about the continuing political crisis of the Afghan ...

Fiber-Optic Line. The Afghan Ministry of Communication and IT (MCIT) says that a fiber optic cable line streaming an Internet connectio...

More Signal Resources Needed for Increase in Troops.  The South Asia Strategy outlined by the Department of Defense over the past sever...

Book Review - Blindsided by the Taliban.  Steve Leonard, a former senior military strategist and now a writer on national security, ...

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President Ghani proposed a detailed peace package to the Taliban during the Kabul Process meeting. His offer follows the Taliban's...

Peace Is In The Air.  A few weeks back the Taliban addressed a letter to the people of the United States to open up peace talks. Thi...

207th Corps - Afghan National Army Reporting on the 'Train, Advise, and Assist' Mission.  The renewed emphasis and modest i...

The JCISFA Quarterly is now posted online. This February 2018 issue by the Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance ...

General John Nicholson has completed two years as the commander of NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. He took on a chall...

General Nicholson's Report Card.  General John Nicholson has been in command of NATO's Resolute Support Mission for two years -...

German advisor from TAAC-North conducting JTAC training. (Photo RS HQs, July 2017) UN: More ATACs. The United Nations recently said ...

Ghani vs. the Strongmen.  President Ghani has met obstacle after obstacle in his efforts to establish an efficient, corruption free Afgh...

Lapis Lazuli Route.  A planned transit corridor is expected to play a significant role in the growth of Afghanistan's economy. Th...

The Panhandle of Afghanistan. The origins of the Wakhan Corridor located in the remote province of Badakhshan can be traced to "Th...

Conversation on Afghanistan and Counterterrorism.   General (ret) Stan McChrystal and former Secretary of State John Kerry discuss A...

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Achin District, Nangarhar Province Franz Marty, an independent journalist based in Kabul, examines a recent friendly fire / insider ...

A member of an Agricultural Development Team (ADT) from the Kansas Army National Guard talks with an Afghan farmer. (Photo U.S. Army) ...

Members of the TAAC-West Police Advisor Team (PAT) train female police in Herat province. (photo by RS HQs, 10 July 2017). Reporting o...

ANDSF Logistics is Key? Daniel Goure, a national security commentator, says that "An effective logistics enterprise is the key t...

ANP conduct training in Bamyan province (March 2012). Origins of the AAF. The Afghan Air Force has been around for a long ...

Corruption in Afghanistan. Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Afghanistan as the 4th most corru...

TAPI: A Milestone in Country's Economic Development.  The start of the construction of the Afghanistan section of the Turkmenistan-...

Preparing for the Future: First Afghans Graduate NATO Course,   Resolute Support, February 20, 2018. Members of the ANDSF graduate from ...

ISKP and Wood Smuggling. The Islamic State Khorasan Province finances (in part) its operations in eastern Afghanistan by smuggling wood...

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The Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom's Sentinel Quarterly Report to the United States Congress has been published. I...

Daniel Coats, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, testified before Congress on February 13, 2018 where he provided a worldwide t...

A U.S. medical advisors discusses medical evacuation procedures with Afghan counterpart in OCC-R South (RS photo) Reporting on the ...

Time Running Out for Afghanistan.  Mike Gallagher, a Marine veteran and U.S. Congressman, provides his perspective on the Afghan confl...