Category: Afghanistan

“As a result of a mine in a mosque, 30 terrorist Taliban, including six foreign nationals who were professional mine-makers, were killed,”

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid warned that the insurgents “will definitely return to war” if Washington “rejects this deal.”

It was a mission gone bad, the kind where heroes die and are later written about, and some Hollywood profiteer makes a killing on the movie.

The rise in violence carried out by the Taliban — including more targeted killings — has prompted an examination of the Afghan peace deal.

Among the two dozen young men at the training course, a few stood out immediately. It’s always that way; Your gut is your only compass.

Massoud Atal, a helicopter pilot with the Afghan National Army, was gunned down in Kandahar by Taliban assassins in a targeted killing.

The Public Uprising Forces is a group of militiamen fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, but will they always be allies of the government?

I think we probably would have had a little different outcome in Afghanistan if we would have done … what we are doing now,” Miller said.

In his latest book, Bing West, takes a deep look at our efforts in Afghanistan and why our nation-building approach was fundamentally flawed.

A Brown University report suggests that more Afghan civilians were killed in 2019 than any year since 2001 due to relaxed Rules of Engagement.

General Don Bolduc served ten tours in Afghanistan from 2001-2013. In this SOFREP exclusive, he exposes nine missteps that cost us the war.

Naiem Asadi is the Afghan Air Force’s top attack helicopter pilot. Now, he and his family will undoubtedly face retribution from the Taliban.