Category: Afghanistan

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.

A report by the United States Department of Defense disclosed that approximately $7 billion in weapons, aircraft, and other military equipment were left in Afghanistan in the aftermath of Biden’s move to withdraw troops from the country.

US President Joe Biden calls for US Navy veteran and civil engineer Mark Frerichs to be released by Taliban-linked Haqqani network.

A pregnant Al Jazeera journalist has been offered refuge by the Taliban after she was denied re-entry to her home country, New Zealand.

In 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in Operation Neptune Spear in Pakistan. Here are some of the weird things they found in his compound.

The U.S. will be sending $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, but will it be able to get this aid past the Taliban which would see these resources as useful in consolidating its own hold over the country?