Afghanistan

The government of the United Kingdom has initiated a separate investigation into reports that members of the British military committed multiple extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2013.

At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, veterans of the Afghan War, some of whom were in tears, implored the government to acknowledge the mistakes made during the retreat and tackle the bureaucratic roadblocks that are keeping our allies from fleeing the Taliban’s retribution.

China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co inked an agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan to extract oil.

In late August 2021, the US completed its withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, ending a 20-year occupation.

A New Year’s Day bombing rocked the capital city of Kabul in Afghanistan: multiple casualties and deaths have been reported.

ASEEL began as Afghanistan’s version of Etsy, selling jewelry, leather shoes, and other crafts online to help Afghanistan’s artists make a living.

After 10 years SOFREP has seen a lot of changes, but the mission remains the same. News and information you can trust from veteran writers.

Many American veterans who used to work side-by-side with Afghan interpreters seek to get the latter away from the Taliban regime.

An explanation of our unforgivable dumping of Afghanistan after 20 years…

A year after the Taliban took over the capital city of Kabul, Afghan women remain struggling to maintain their rights.

For the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Zawahiri is dead. The world is a better place without him. If that is the case, what was he doing living in downtown Kabul, a city of almost four and a half million people?

I never knew the men who died on June 28th, 2005 as part of Operation Red Wings, but their loss still moved me greatly. At the time, it was the greatest one-day loss of life in the special operations community. It’s hard to fathom that was 17 years ago today.