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Criminal Probe Launched Over $28 Million ‘Forest’ Uniforms For Afghan Troops

Vera Bergengruen, McClatchy Washington Bureau
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Afghan Deaths Soar To Highest On Record As US Weighs Sending More Troops

An Afghan National Army noncomissioned officer instructs his soldier to move during a clearance training drill at the Regional Military Training Center in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, March 8, 2017.

Criminal Probe Launched Over $28 Million ‘Forest’ Uniforms For Afghan Troops

Vera Bergengruen, McClatchy Washington Bureau

Afghan National Army Pvt. Zawail, a soldier with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, holds an AK-47 rifle he found while searching a compound for narcotics and insurgent materiel with U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, April 1, 2012.

Afghan Deaths Soar To Highest On Record As US Weighs Sending More Troops

Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg News