Afghanistan

The July 2018 SIGAR report on Afghanistan was published on July 30, 2018 by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The Quarterly Report to the United States Congress is 288 pages long and covers a variety of topics about the […]

Security ‘Taliban Irreconcilables’. Messaging by the United States and NATO (ISAF and then Resolute Support) in the Afghan conflict over the past 17 years has been interesting. The terms, words, and phases used to describe the ever-increasing progress of the […]

Mid-summer is generally the halfway point for the fighting season; or at least approaching it. The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are reportedly (if you can take the word of the Resolute Support PR folks) pressing the Taliban […]

CPL Joseph Maciel was killed in Tarin Kowt district, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan from wounds sustained during an apparent insider attack. Maciel was assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Georgia. Task Force 1-28 Infantry is […]

The news coming out of Afghanistan remains bleak. The ‘feel good’ moment experienced when the Taliban and Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) didn’t fight each other for three days has passed. The government of Afghanistan had a unilateral […]

This Afghan conflict update provides the reader with recent news articles and stories about the long running war in Afghanistan. The surprise but very short ceasefire raised hopes for the Afghan population but this was quickly dashed when the Taliban […]

LTG Austin Miller, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 during his confirmation hearing for assignment as commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. LTG […]

The Taliban spring offensive is continuing in Afghanistan. The insurgents have threatened several provincial capitals over the past few months. In addition, they have captured (and sometimes still hold) many district centers. Although the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces […]

Read up on events of the past week that occurred in Afghanistan. Below are selected news articles on security, the Afghan National Defense Security Forces, NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, governance, politics, peace talks, development, and economy. Also provided are some […]

The SIGAR stabilization lessons learned report on Afghanistan was published on Thursday, May 24, 2018. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction examines the 17 year-long effort to help the Afghan government stabilize rural communities and to win […]

LTG Scott Miller will be the next Resolute Support commander in Afghanistan. According to a news report by The Wall Street Journal he will soon head to Afghanistan. He is currently, as a Lieutenant General, commanding the Joint Special Operations Command […]