NOTE: This page is no longer being updated as of April 2013.
- Commentary from Non-Afghans
- Blogs by Journalists about Afghanistan
- Blogs by Afghan Diaspora/Expats
- Blogs by Afghans in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan Military Blogs
- Internationals (NGO, Security, etc.) in Afghanistan
- News Posting Blogs
- Secondary Focus on Afghanistan
- “Inactive” Blogs
1. Commentary from Non-Afghans (frequent blog posts)
- Abu Muqawama
- Afghan Notebook
- Afghan Outsider
- Afghan Wire
- Afghanistan and Central Asia
- Afghanistan Analysts Network
- Afghanistan-Blog (DE)
- Afghanistan Headlines Examiner
- Afghanistan on my mind
- Afghanistan Refocused
- Afghanopoly
- AfPak Channel
- All things Counter Terrorism
- ASG Blog
- Brave New Films
- Brave New Wave
- Canada-Afghanistan Blog
- Captain’s Journal
- CATO @ Liberty
- Community Supported Film
- Conversation with Afghanistan
- The Cost of War
- Crime-Conflict Nexus
- Daily Kos
- Daniel Esser
- A Different Place
- Dispatches from the Field
- Enduring America
- Essential Field Guides
- Fabius Maximus
- Fear of Beauty
- Felix Kuehn
- Finish What Job?
- FREE rad!cals
- Get Afghanistan Right
- Ghosts of Alexander
- Hamsters on the Titanic
- Impolitical
- Ink Spots
- Intelcenter (Italiano)
- Jihadica
- John Scott Rafoss
- Milnews.ca Blog
- Le blogue Monde (FR)
- The Majlis
- My State Failure Blog
- Nihili (FR)
- Notes From Paradise
- Oldlenin’s Blog (DE)
- On War and Words
- Out of Central Asia Now
- OPFOR
- Passport
- Permissible Arms
- Steven Pressfield
- Progressive Realist
- Registan
- Rethink Afghanistan
- al Sahwa
- Salon
- Simon Shercliff
- SIPRI
- StopWar.ca
- Terry Glavin
- Think Tank
- Thinking Strategically
- Tim Mathews
- Travels with Shiloh
- VetVoice
- Unambiguously Ambidextrous
- Vital Concerns for the World
- Rugs of War
- World Focus
- Yale Afghanistan Forum
- 2010 election blog
2. Blogs by Journalists about Afghanistan
- National Post
- Tom Blackwell
- War is Boring
- Sky Reporter
- Circling the Lion’s Den
- Tashakor (Italiano)
- Michael Yon
- At War
- Reuters
- The Pickett Lens
- True/Slant
- Posted
- Afghanistan Crossroads
- Checkpoint Kabul
- Ann Marlowe
- Mark Urban
- Afghanistan Blog (DE)
- Ann Marlowe
- Afghan Journal
- Al Jazeera Blog
- Afghan Countdown
- Cabul Correspondent
3. Blogs by Afghan Diaspora/Expats
- Panjshir in the Mirror of Civilization
- Homayun
- Mobarez Academician
- Digital Caravan
- Afghan Connections
- Afghan Magazine
- Voice of Afghanistan
- Khalil Nouri
- Nushin Arbabzadah
- The Lost Flaneur
- Zohra Saed
- Afghanistan Study Group
- Shafie Ayar
- An Afghan Mom’s Journey
4. Blogs by Afghans in Afghanistan
- Afghan Lord
- Sanjar Qiam (Half English)
- The Unheard Voice
- Rejuvenation of an Afghan Soul
- Hazaristan Times
- The University Campus
- Afghan Penlog
- Kabul Perspective
- Abdulhadi Hairan
- Hamesha
- Human Rights in Afghanistan
- Basir Seerat
- Fusion
- Towards the Light
- A Writer from Kabul
- Afghanistan Analysis
- Noorjahan Akbar
- Afghan Policy
- In the Pursuit of Future
- Jalalagood
- Random notes from Afghanistan
- In Between
- A Kid with Great Ambition
5. Afghanistan Military Blogs
- UK Operations in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan Without a Clue
- Afghanistan Blog
- Miserable Donuts
- Bill and Bob’s Excellent Afghanistan Adventure
- Combined Arms Center
- flit
- Highland Sailor
- Defense of the Realm
- A Major’s Perspective
- On Location
- Afghanistan My Last Tour
- Embedded in Afghanistan
- Field Notes
- The Quatto Zone
- My thoughts
- A World of Troubles
- Helmand Blog
- There’s sand in my…
- Time to Wonder
- Your experience may vary
- USA/USMC COIN Center blog
- Reflections from Dr. Jack
- ISAF – Afghan Hands
- PRT Kunar
- Victory Through Logistics
- Frontline Bloggers
- Rajiv Srinivasan
- 270 Days in Afghanistan
- Dr. JB Anderson
- 30 days Through Afghanistan
- Livin in Harm’s Way
- My View; Our Mission
- Memorandum for Record
- Helmand Blog
- A World of Troubles
- Afghan Quest
- Shoulder to Shoulder
- Five Star Foxhole
- FaST SurgeonRockin in the Fourth World
- Daily Gingerbread
- Afghanistan Tour 2010
- 15-Month Adventure
- Sean Linnane
- DOD Live
- Afghanistan Deployment Journal
6. Internationals (NGO, Security, etc.) in Afghanistan
- Afghan Connections
- Lettere da Kabul
- Harry Rud
- Zen and the Art of Peacekeeping
- Writer’s Musings
- Free Range International
- Feral Jundi
- Where Liz is at
- PARSA
- Adventures in Jalalabad
- Water Flows
- Afghan Womens Writing Project
- Captain Cat’s Diaries
- Afghanistan Midwifery Project
- Knights of Afghanistan
- Kandahar Diary
- Sarah Fane
- Una Moore
- Dr Karen
- Transitionland
- UN Dispatch
- Dry Mouth
- Dispatches From Conflict
- AREU
- Jalalagood
7. News Posting Blogs
- Afghani Blog
- The True Story
- Afghan Development News
- Paropamisus
- Ismaili Mail
- Milnews.ca
- Afghan Conflict Monitor
- Stopwar.ca
- Amatu Al-Jabbaar
- Pakhtunkhwa Times
- Urdu-Pashtu Media Blog
8. Secondary Focus on Afghanistan
- The Agonist
- American Footprints
- Civil Military Relations
- Dinner Table Donts
- Ismaili Mail
- The Jawa Report
- Bloodthirsty Liberal
- Juan Cole
- Clear Path International
- Postpolitical
- Huffington Post
- Red Jenny
- Security Dilemmas
- The Fourth Rail
- The Seminal
- Winter Patriot
- The Fanonite
- World Security Institute blog
- Biztonságpolitika és terrorizmus
- The Strategist
- To be or not to be?
- North Shore Journal
- Peace like a River
- And so it goes…
- Matthew Good
- Mideast Youth
- Laila’s Dog
- Munaeem
- Hodja’s Blog
- Law Hawk
- Casualty Monitor
- Kings of War
- MK’s Views
- NATO…..Heroes or Criminals?
- Celestial Junk
- Security Management Initiative
- Moghuls in America
- Misfire!
- Adam Curtis
- Crooks and Liars
- Daniel R. DePetris
- PCR Project
- Low Intensity Conflict Review
9. “Inactive” Blogs
All categories of inactive or rarely/seldom updated blogs, as well as blogs that no longer focus on Afghanistan.
- Channel 4 (UK)
- The Rumi
- Mirror (UK)
- Daily KOS
- Pamela Varkony
- Travel’s with Shiloh
- Jason Burke
- Kabulog
- Golistan
- Salaam Afghanistan
- Pass the Roti
- Still Life
- Panjsher
- Afghan Journal
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Bruce’s Deployment
- My Scribbles
- Afghan Journalism
- Afghanistan Online
- Simran
- War in the Sandbox
- Where’s Dara?
- Letters from Afghanistan
- Midwife in Kabul
- Sharon Jumper
- Flora’s Afghan Diary
- Life in the Field
- Afghan Voice
- Human Right’s Watch Election Blog
- …from Afghanistan
- Going Down Range
- Afghanidan
- Coward in Kabul
- Peace Corps Afghan Journal
- Yoga Kabul
- MillerJ.com
- Askar gu-Raiz
- Thru Afghan Eyes
- In Afghanistan
- …In Afghanistan
- PhDiva
- Graham Thomson
- Scott Kesterson
- …From Afghanistan
- Salaam Afghanistan
- WSU Afghanistan
- International Medical Corps Blog
- Northern Nevada Newswire Blog
- PSPA 417 Afghanistan
- The FOBit in Afghanistan
- Relief International Afghanistan
- Thoughts From Afghanistan
- Mission: Afghanistan
- Trainer in Afghanistan
- Greetings from Afghanistan
- The Road to the Horizon
- Travel Blog Afghanistan
- Blogs of War
- Truth and Consequences
- Taliban Country
- …and Afghanistan
- Anti-War Blog
- Rebuilding Afghanistan
- Andisha
- Coming Back to Kabul
- Royal Blue
- Gary goes to Afghanistan
- PSPA 417
- GWOT dot US
- Trip in Afghanistan
- Casa Suescun
- Task Force Phoenix 5
- Fortunate Son
- Sgt Dub
- Strong Ideas
- Afghanistan JAG
- Sharing Means Caring
- Trainer in Afghanistan
- Relief International
- Living in Afghanistan
- Working in Afghanistan
- Walking the Walk?
- CARE
- BZ-Blog aus Afghanistan
- Dans le meilleur des mondes possibles (English)
- Online Jihad
- Afghan Canon
- Kabul Journal
- Rebuilding in Progess?
- Marc Herold
- Afghan Watch
- My Afghanistan Experience
- Bob Everdeen
- Elizabeth Matthews
- AFSC Afghanistan
- Josh and Carrie in Afghanistan
- Ramses
- The Vine
- Medieval Afghanistan
- My Scribbles
- David Axe
- Michael Fumento
- Le Blog de Gauhar
- FCO Afghanistan
- Ian Bach
- Afghanistan Watch
- Afghanistanica
- Future Makers
- Afghan Warrior
- Home in Kabul
- Ron’s Trip to Afghanistan
- A JAG in Afghanistan
- Operation Soccer Chopper
- Warhammer in Afghanistan
- In The Shadow of the Mountain
- A Soldier’s Mind
- War in the Sandbox
- Afghan Wire
- Jean MacKenzie
- Vaughan Smith
- Liz Peverly
- Mivpiv in Kabul
- Frida’s Notebook
- Clear Path International
- See broadly, feel deeply
- Postings from Afghanistan
- Galloping Beaver
- Ignoble Savagery
- Informed Comment on Global Affairs
- Noblesse Oblige
- Long Warrior
- Yellowhammering Afghanistan
- Third Time’s a Charm
- Staying in Touch
- 48th Combat Support Hospital
- Two Brothers, Two Countries, One Army
- Army 2.0
- Learning to Love the Suck
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Need to fix a war torn place?
- Mountains of our Mind
- Dave Kasten
- Jengnameh
- Vikash Yadav
- The Seeker
- Global Voices – Afghanistan
- Foreign Policy Blog
- Untold Stories
- In this world
- This way to the other side
- Seeker is the Finder
- Murtaza Wardak
- Safrang
- Afghan Blog
- Exploring the Heart of Asia
- Afghan Corner
- Mohammad Amin Wahidi
- Learn Pashto Blog
- Kabul Journal (Half English)
- Afghan Citizen
- Balkh: The Land of Civilization
- Afghan Photos
- Patronus Analytical
- Briandot
- Russian-Afghan Forum (Ru)
- Security Crank
- Chronicles of Butters
- Kickin’ Thru the Sand
- My trip to BAF
- Conversations in the Desert
- To the Rock Pile and Back Again
- Aaron
- Afghani Kush
- Afghan Advisor
- A Year in the Sandbox
- Deployed Teacher
- Afghanistan Shrugged
- Complex Topics
- Richard’s Deployment to Afghanistan
- John D McHugh
- McHugh @ The Guardian
- Kabul Diary
- Greetings from Afghanistan
- The Stupidest Man on Earth
- Assignment Afghanistan
- Alex Strick van Linschoten
- Afghan Desk
- Where is Kilroy?
- Battlefield Tourist
- Anup Kuphle
- Felix and Alex
- Witness: Kandahar
- Gretchen Peters
- The Global Californian
- Housefly
- Frida’s Notebook
- Portraits of Afghanistan
- Andrea in Afghanistan
- A Year in Afghanistan