Afghanistan

Reports from the ground in Afghanistan suggest the Taliban have grown in strength and increased strategic control over much of the nation.

The small red-lighted briefing tent smelled like gunpowder, a battery acid-like smell that burned your nostrils if you inhaled too deeply…

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.

This week on SOFREP: Biden’s military agenda, China’s saber rattling, and a first-hand account of the secret CIA mission to find bin Laden.

After just one week as Commander-in-Chief, Biden appears to be toying with plans to redistribute U.S. troops in the Middle East and Africa.

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

We’re so accustomed to historic moments being draped in ten-dollar words and big ideas. SecDef Lloyd Austin clearly doesn’t operate that way.

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.

This is your chance to catch up on all the news and SOFREP reports you probably missed this week, December 28th – January 3rd.

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?