Afghanistan

Shuja Rabbani

I am the smart 'n sexy future President of #Afghanistan from #Australia. Can YOU handle me? Vote-4-me bitches, I'm worth it! Every single bit of it!
105,657 followers |

AfghanPolicy

Former Permanent Representative to the OSCE & IAEA. Working hard to bring peace to #Afghanistan.
84,270 followers |

Richard Engel

@NBCNews Chief Foreign Correspondent
66,270 followers |

ISAF

Committed to the security, reconstruction and extension of governance in Afghanistan. RT/follow does not necessarily mean endorsement.
28,036 followers |

Greg Mortenson

Central Asia Institute co-founder / Three Cups of Tea & Stones Into Schools co-author / Let's Educate Girls & Change The World
22,829 followers |

U.S. Central Command

Official Twitter for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM): News and updates about our military members. Questions? Comments? (Following does not mean endorsement.)
19,117 followers |

AfPak Channel

Tweeting analysis of the news about all things AfPak from my perch @newamerica and @FP_Magazine. RT/follow is not necessarily endorsement!
18,092 followers |

Major Paul Smyth

Brit-PR/Strat Comm/Masscomms- author 'Blogging from the Battlefield' - RIFLES TA Major in MOG(V) - CIPR Chartered PR Practitioner - Views entirely personal
17,757 followers |

Michael Yon

Michael Yon is an author, columnist and war correspondent. Currently in Afghanistan.
17,320 followers |

USForces Afghanistan

USFOR-A's mission is to defeat terrorist networks & insurgents by developing effective governance & building ANSF. RT/follow does not mean endorsement.
15,643 followers |

Declan Walsh

New York Times Pakistan correspondent
14,826 followers |

UKForcesAfghanistan

The official UK Forces Twitter site run jointly from Helmand in Afghanistan and London.
12,773 followers |

Afghanistan News

Afghanistan News from TRCBNews.com - Local News from Afghanistan
11,461 followers |

Atia Abawi

Reporting for NBC News
11,309 followers |

U.S. Embassy Kabul

10,696 followers |

At War

New York Times reporting on U.S. military engagements abroad, combatants on the fault lines and civilians caught in the middle.
10,446 followers |

Nick Schifrin

ABC News correspondent in London. Former correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. RT does not necessarily mean endorsement.
9,752 followers |

Khaled Hosseini

Writer, Biologist and Doctor.
7,851 followers |

mostafa ahmedi

alemara1.com Is The official website of islamic emirat of afghanistan
7,270 followers |

Christine Fair

Assistant Professor of South Asian pol-mil affairs at Georgetown. Views are my own-especially if they are twisted. Awaiting your anonymous, ad hominem attacks.
7,265 followers |

Erin Cunningham

@GlobalPost Senior Correspondent for the Middle East & North Africa. Based in Cairo, Egypt with dispatches from the region. Not endorsing, just (re)tweeting.
7,137 followers |

Rhodes News

Retired Army, Iraq War vet. Tea Party conservative. Reporting news you won't likely see on Fox.
6,930 followers |

joshuafoust

Fellow at the American Security Project, Writer for PBS & The Atlantic. Opinions be mine alone, yar.
6,715 followers |

TOLOnews

TOLOnews is Afghanistan's first 24-hours news and current affairs television network.
6,458 followers |

HQ ARRC

Public Affairs Team in HQ ARRC. Follow on Facebook; http://tiny.cc/4i3bu
6,431 followers |

Mustafa Kazemi

War Reporter. Audacious & Audacious. •• me@combatjournalist.me •• http://combatjournalist.me/
5,872 followers |

Bilal Sarwary

BBC Reporter. Views R mine,not BBC's. Thinking about all Afghans who get up each morning &dont V the option of just walking away from it all. Middlebury Alum.
5,841 followers |

Reuters India S.Asia

South Asia news from Reuters India
5,800 followers |

Virginia M Moncrieff

Journalist. Correspondent. Tea drinker. Turning small talk into medium talk.
5,791 followers |

Pajhwok Afghan News

Nationwide news agency covering Afghanistan with staff of 125+
5,665 followers |

Saad Mohseni

A Director of the MOBY Group. With operations in Central/South Asia and the Middle East, MOBY is one of the region's most dynamic media groups.
5,319 followers |

Abdulqahar Balkhi

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, News, Interviews, Analysis, Statements...
5,148 followers |

Jerome Starkey

Journalist Photographer Adventurer
5,136 followers |

AAN Afghanistan

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN): independent Kabul-based policy research organisation - retweet does not imply endorsement
4,979 followers |

Matthieu Aikins

I report from Afghanistan for magazines like Harper's, the Atlantic, GQ, Wired and others. Interested in new media/journalism and Af-Pak-Iran.
4,828 followers |

Natalie Righton

Journalist / Correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Writing for Dutch newspaper @Volkskrant - Based in Kabul.
4,824 followers |

Hassan Abbas

Professor at National Defense University in Washington, DC (Ctr); Senior Advisor at Asia Society - All views are my own.
4,629 followers |

Bill Roggio

Editor of The Long War Journal & Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
4,490 followers |

Myra MacDonald

Reuters journalist, South Asia specialist and author of Heights of Madness, a book on the Siachen war.
4,465 followers |

Afghanistan Info

This account is not affiliated with Afghanistan.
4,331 followers |

Rethink Afghanistan

ReThink Afghanistan, Congressional Hearings Now While There's Still Time. Watch Robert Greenwald's Full Length Documentary Online at rethinkafghanistan.com
4,174 followers |

Mujib Mashal

Journalist, most recently with @AJEnglish, travelling in Afghanistan | http://about.me/mujibmashal
3,968 followers |

Ahmad Shuja

Director, @FdnForAfghan. Assistant editor at Iran Times. Contributor to @UNDispatch. Lover of a good poem. Opinions are mine alone. RTs≠endorsement.
3,832 followers |

Kabul Pressistan

Kabul Pressistan has grown from a simple fixing/translation service into a comprehensive one-stop shop, offering a wide range of media services:Front Line Club
3,795 followers |

AfghanNews

News about Afghanistan and Afghan matters
3,745 followers |

sepoy

a historian, a blogger, and a frumious bandersnatch.
3,724 followers |

Barbara Starr

CNN Pentagon Correspondent
3,699 followers |

Alex Strick v L

Writer/Researcher based in Kandahar working on PhD and book projects
3,696 followers |

Josh Mull

Journalist and Commentator on politics, international relations, media and democracy. As seen on @SmallWorldNews @Polizeros @Firedoglake @HuffPo @EANewsfeed
3,634 followers |

Anand Gopal

I'm a writer covering Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya and other hot spots. Currently working on a book on the Afghan war, to be published by Henry Holt and Co.
3,467 followers |

Bette Dam

Kabul-based journalist for Global Post **** Author book about Karzai (expected this summer)
3,359 followers |

Jonathan Boone

Kabul refugee turned Pakistan correspondent, for The Guardian.
3,286 followers |

Anders Sømme Hammer

journalist i Afghanistan siden 2007, tidvis løshund for aviser og NRK. har skrevet boken Drømmekrigen. holder på med dokumentarer.
3,254 followers |

Miles Amoore

The Sunday Times correspondent in Afghanistan
3,231 followers |

Matthew Green

Soon to cover Pakistan and Afghanistan for Reuters. Author of The Wizard of The Nile: the hunt for Africa's most wanted. email matthew.green.ft@gmail.com
3,196 followers |

Reuters

2,998 followers |

Dion Nissenbaum

Kabul-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
2,986 followers |

Matthew Rosenberg

Afghanistan guy at The New York Times. Find me on twitter or at matthew.rosenberg (AT) nytimes.com
2,902 followers |

Naufal Sanaullah

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. - Bertrand Russell
2,896 followers |

Kim Barker

ProPublica reporter, covering campaign finance; former South Asia correspondent, Chicago Tribune. From Pakistan to PAC-istan.
2,856 followers |

Registan.net

All Central Asia, All the Time
2,827 followers |

Thesiger & Company

Current Intelligence from research and advisory firm Thesiger & Company
2,789 followers |

The Long War Journal

2,784 followers |

Paul Clammer

Travel writer and guidebook author. Currently writing a guidebook to Haiti, to be published by Bradt Guides in November 2012
2,741 followers |

Mark Sedwill

The UK's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
2,583 followers |

thomas_wiegold

MilBlogging auf Deutsch
2,572 followers |

Stephen Grey

Special Correspondent for Reuters. Author of Operation Snakebite, Ghost Plane. (This stuff is personal; and all the usual caveats).
2,445 followers |

Afghanistan Today

Afghanistan Today presents journalism made in Afghanistan by local journalists. Afghanistan Today covers the other story.
2,415 followers |

Wazhma

An Afghan from Afghanistan struggling for a hopeful new face of my motherland.
2,305 followers |

Amie Ferris-Rotman

Journalist, Kabul. Tweets about Afghanistan, sometimes Russia and the North Caucasus. The views expressed here are my own, not Reuters.
2,161 followers |

Heidi Vogt

AP Afghanistan correspondent. Also following Africa, and good storytelling anywhere.
2,136 followers |

Massoud Hossaini

I have born in a wrong place, Afghanistan, grow up in a wrong place, Iran, living in a wtong place, kabul. Let's see what will happend.
2,117 followers |

paul mcleary

Reporter for Defense News, in the swampy wastes of Washington DC.
2,058 followers |

afghanmagazine.com

First progressive online Afghan digest since 1997
2,050 followers |

M. ASHRAF HAIDARI

2,039 followers |

Sir William Patey

1,970 followers |

Peter ter Velde

Journalist en schrijver
1,946 followers |

Christian Bleuer

Central Asia and Afghanistan links. I prefer not to engage in debates/discussions. Send me an email instead.
1,923 followers |

AkherAlAkhbar

مع تسارع الأحداث في الوطن العربي والشرق الأوسط، فإن هذا التطبيق يبقيك على اطلاع كامل بكل ما هو جديد في هذه المنطقة
1,913 followers |

Joe Sterling

CNN Wire news editor. Temple U. grad. Focused on international news, particularly the Middle East, Pennsylvania, politics, human rights and sports
1,869 followers |

KMIC

Official Twitter page for the Kandahar Media &Information Center and helps you increase your understanding about Kandahar. We are growing fast, time is ours'
1,863 followers |

Felix Kuehn

Writer/Researcher co-author of An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan 1970-2010 retweet isn't necessarily an endorsement.
1,856 followers |

Habib Khan Totakhil

Proud Afghan, Journalist Employed by The Wall Street Journal-- A Patriot & Poet, Addicted to Music, Part time cricketer -- Tweets are all mine!
1,819 followers |

Subel (नट 'नेपाली')

Wire journalist in Afghanistan; photography & long-form. Interest: idea & thought, politics, media, technology, religion, sex, gender, pop culture, (no) border.
1,790 followers |

Hadi Hairan

A secular #Afghanistan is the ONLY solution!
1,763 followers |

Ehsanullah Amiri

Current Affairs Producer & Researcher for @TOLOnews, Afghanistan's Top 24 Hours News Network. Views are mine. RTs aren't endorsement.
1,737 followers |

Sediq Sediqqi

This is the official Twitter Account of The Spokesperson to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs
1,709 followers |

Lotfullah Najafizada

Head of Current Affairs, TOLONews -- Afghanistan's first 24 hour news channel.
1,698 followers |

El Snarkistani

Married way out of my league. Opinions mine, unless I'm retweeting. Then they're yours.
1,649 followers |

AREU

An independent research organisation based in Kabul, AREU conducts high-quality research that informs and influences policy and practice. RT ≠ endorsement.
1,634 followers |

James Gordon Meek

Writer, reporter, artist, musician, filmmaker, adventurer, terrorism investigator. Retweets are okay. My tweets are my own, not official statements.
1,598 followers |

Abbas Daiyar

Member of Editorial Board at Daily Outlook Afghanistan, op-ed contributor. Sharing Af-Pak links. Views are personal.
1,511 followers |

Laura

A new Afghanistan blog that's arriving on 7/30/11 featuring news, charity info, and a forum. I leave for Afghanistan on 7/30/11 to do research.
1,475 followers |

Afghanistan Wire

A newswire from Kabul, Afghanistan
1,450 followers |

Removed from Reality

In 2009, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion mobilized & deployed to Afghanistan. This documentary film follows their lives -- Removed from Reality.
1,430 followers |

Rahim Kanani

Writer, Interviewer, Advocate, Strategist, & Entrepreneur for Global Social Change
1,423 followers |

Afghan Children

Education by Entertainment and Cultural Activities MMCC AECC Afghanistan Educational Children Circus & Mobile Mini Circus for Children Kabul
1,390 followers |

Sharifullah Sahak

Journalist, working for The New York Times in Kabul, Tweeting about #Afghanistan war and progress
1,382 followers |

Simon Klingert

Freelance journalist/ photographer reporting on wars and conflicts. RT ≠ endorsement. About: http://flavors.me/simon_klingert#_
1,375 followers |

Nick Turse

Journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of Tomdispatch.com.
1,364 followers |

Afghan Voice Int.

Latest articles on www.afghanvoice.com
1,300 followers |

Julius Cavendish

Writes about intrigue, tumult, war & the lives of ordinary people caught up in world events for TIME, the Indy, CSM, The Times & others. Views my own etc etc
1,181 followers |

Leslie Knott

Filmmaker and photog in Afghanistan. Covering everything from Afghan Cricket to Afghan women in prison
1,174 followers |

Neil Bhatiya

Policy Associate, The Century Foundation (@tcfdotorg) Foreign policy/national security. Opinions entirely mine. Marist '06 GWU '09 neilbhatiya [at] gmail.com
1,159 followers |

Gen Salangi

Police Chief of Kabul
1,136 followers |

Orzala

A Human Rights & Civil Society Activist...in search of truth leading to change...Currently Phd Candidate at SOAS,aiming to learn from locals/ also a YWF & YGL
1,123 followers |

Kevin Frayer

I am the AP's Chief Photographer for South Asia based in Delhi. If I could play guitar like Duane Allman or climb big mountains I might just sell my cameras....
1,119 followers |

Courtney Body

Journalist in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1,117 followers |

Ayesha Wolasmal

Freelance journalist. Int.politics. Af-Pak-Ind-Chi-MiddleE- you name it and i'll claim it. Fashion+food. Weakness for wars!
1,087 followers |

Vets for Afghanistan

Veterans and supporters dedicated to the idea that war should not be the only legacy we leave behind in Afghanistan.
1,076 followers |

Alive in Afghanistan

News from Afghans, to You. Alive in Afghanistan is an indent media project made possible by a partnership between @SmallWorldNews and @Pajhwok
990 followers |

Nick

US Army Civil Affairs Officer. From New Orleans. Afghanistan/173rd ABN vet. Interests: Conflict, strategy, development/aid, languages, classical music & travel.
979 followers |

Ruth Owen

Tech - Internet Gems - Music - War - So-called journalism. All opinions and views my own.
972 followers |

John Wendle

Freelance reporter for TIME and photographer for Polaris Images
972 followers |

Joël van Houdt

independent photojournalist based in Kabul
947 followers |

Ashley Jackson

Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute. Views my own, etc.
926 followers |

Gandhara

Tweets based on reporting by @RFERL journalists in Pakistan (@Mashaalradio) and Afghanistan (@RadioAzadi).
911 followers |

Ahmad Mukhtar

Kabul Based journalist, Works with foreign media , Tweeting about #Afghanistan's war Views are my own.
903 followers |

Martin O'Donnell

US-Afghan Women's Council communication consultant, Georgetown University student, US Army Public Affairs officer, & former NATO strategic communication officer
880 followers |

Tom A. Peter

Tom is a journalist currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan.
871 followers |

Aleem Agha

Producer ABC News Kabul. Views are mine not ABC's
835 followers |

Derrick Crowe

Brave New Foundation political director. Hates Afghanistan War. Thinks Jesus meant what he said. Wears hat Breitbart doesn't appreciate. http://bit.ly/gXyELF
818 followers |

Chai Sabz

Student. Blogger. Contributor to NewMatilda & OutlookAfghanistan http://bit.ly/i4ThdU
817 followers |

Thomas W Willard

Busted up old airborne Ranger, recovering academic, high tech reject and burned out aid worker with special love for Afghanistan
813 followers |

Gregory Julian

Col. Gregory Julian is the public affairs officer for U.S. Forces - Afghanistan, commanded by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and headquartered in Kabul.
811 followers |

Nick Fielding

Journalist and writer. See my blog Circling the Lion's Den.
807 followers |

Democracy Internat'l

Democracy International, Inc. (DI) works on democracy and governance programs worldwide for the U.S. Agency for International Development and other partners.
806 followers |

Transitionland

International development worker. UN Dispatch Afghanistan blogger. The views I express are my own. http://transitionland.wordpress.com
769 followers |

Azad Pashtun

753 followers |

Tony Prudori

Watches/shares Canadian mil/security news and a bit of Taliban propaganda; loves to bake bread (not with a machine)
742 followers |

Sean Maroney

International Broadcaster for the Voice of America / Occasionally Cover the Pentagon / Former VOA Islamabad Bureau Chief (Disclaimer: RTs ≠ endorsement)
727 followers |

Akmal Dawi

Journalist, writer
719 followers |

Malalai Joya

Malalai Joya is an Afghan political leader and activist for women's rights, human rights, democracy and peace. This account is maintained by supporters.
713 followers |

Building Markets

Check out the @BuildingMrkets Afghanistan Supplier Directory. We're looking for advertisers starting 1 June. Buy local, Build Afghanistan.
712 followers |

Tom Popyk

personal twitter for int'l corro Tom Popyk, contributor to @globalnational, @cbsradio, etc. All posts are mine alone, not clients. RT not endorsement.
693 followers |

Mike Boettcher

Full Time Embedded ABC Reporter In Afghanistan. Covering Osama Bin Laden death from Kabul.
677 followers |

Vikash Yadav

I'm a political science professor...I work on issues of sovereignty, security and identity in South Asia.
667 followers |

DI Kabul

Democracy International Election Observation Mission for the Afghan parliamentary elections 2010
653 followers |

Manyaar

از نظر انسان ها سگها حیوانات اند با وفا و مفید ولی از نظر گرگ ها سگ ها گرگ های بودند که تن به برده گی دادند. ارنستو چه گوارا
603 followers |

Christine

Back in DC after spending over a year in Afghanistan. Consultant. Policy student.
599 followers |

FEFA Afghanistan

The Free and Fair Election Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) is Afghanistan's largest domestic election observer.
549 followers |

Liz Vallette

Non-profit management professional | afghanophile | OIF veteran | taco truck connoisseur | houstonian
536 followers |

Kathy Gannon

529 followers |

Jalalagood

Social change&social justice activist.citizen journo.geek.Life in pause mode trying to create my place in the world. Blogger: http://www.jalalagood.com/
512 followers |

Caroline Wadhams

Caroline Wadhams is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she focuses on Afghanistan and Pakistan. The views expressed here are her own.
478 followers |

Nasim Fekrat

Blogging and twitting about Afghanistan and the Middle East. Interning with @TheNESACenter at NDU. My blogs are: www.fekrat.org www.kabuli.org
468 followers |

Erfan Afghan

We are building Afghanistan by fulfilling their hydrocarbon needs, and fighting insurgency by developing businesses and creating job opportunities.
464 followers |

Help the Cause

101 ways you can help the Afghan people and support our troops! All proceeds go to the nonprofit organizations and projects featured in the book.
432 followers |

Afghan Art

415 followers |

Abdul Rashid Dostum

Afghanistan National Army Chief of Staff for the Commander-In-Chief & Founder of National Islamic Movement party of Afghanistan.
401 followers |

Sarah-J Cunningham

Determined and curious. Leaving behind everything that meant home and exploring a new found love. The Middle East. Seeking beauty in all forms.
389 followers |

Tara Cheung

afghanistan is what i'm all about. self educated.
365 followers |

Mohsin Jamal

Former Afghan News journalist & now International news in-charge at Maiwand Radio & TV, student & blogger.
343 followers |

Afghan Women Mission

Afghan Womens Mission works closely w/ RAWA to support health & educational programs for Afghan women. www.rawa.org
341 followers |

AfghanMania

AfghanMania.com - The largest Afghan Online Community
320 followers |

Jesse McConnell

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
226 followers |

Abaceen Nasimi

MA in Law & Diplomacy Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
192 followers |

Hasibullah Riaz

158 followers |

surgar news

Surgar newspaper providing Afghan Hot Issues , News ,pashto news, Living Style,pictures,afghanistan articles etc.. http://www.surgar.net/english/
144 followers |

Carlotta Gall

133 followers |

Aoumiushi

A burnt out aid worker in northern Afghanistan who discovered Twittering as a good media for venting.
124 followers |

MoStFab

Web- and Majaristani-based author, involved in a mixture of Security Studies/IR Theory and day-to-day analysis of developments in Afghanistan and elsewhere
124 followers |

The Bayat Foundation

The Bayat Foundation works with our NGO in Kabul to improve the quality of life for people across Afghanistan through empowerment and development.
118 followers |

afghanistan

108 followers |

Pamir 303

102 followers |

Yama Rahimi

365 days in a year. A film a day, keeps the troubles away!
100 followers |

lucy martens

41 followers |

Tawfiq Karimi

Director of Business Development at Capitalize International in Washington, DC
40 followers |

Gaurav Lekh Raj

Come from the Afghan Hindus of Afghanistan hailing from Kandahar from my fathers side, from my mothers side we r JAT Sikhs.Involved in complex logistics to AFG
29 followers |

khan

Monitoring US-led CIA-funded Jihad against Soviet forces, then Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, then 9/11 and subsequent war on Terrorism since 201.
24 followers |

Rebuild Afghanistan

Your opportunity to help rebuild Afghanistan
17 followers |

Hamid Hussain Saidi

14 followers |

S Yaqub Ibrahimi

6 followers |

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