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Featured in Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

By Oct 22, 2020
News

The US lost $19 billion in Afghanistan to waste, fraud, and abuse over a decade

The U.S. government lost approximately $19 billion in taxpayer dollars to waste, fraud, and abuse in Afghanistan between 2009 and...
By Aug 3, 2020
News

The US still doesn’t know how many Afghan security forces actually exist, surprising no one

In other news, water is wet
By Feb 3, 2020
News

Afghan security forces averaged one insider attack every 4 days in the closing months of 2019, new data shows

Afghan National Defense and Security Forces personnel carried out 33 insider attacks during the fourth quarter of 2019, resulting in...
By Feb 2, 2020
News

Taliban attacks in Afghanistan are at their highest level in a decade

The Taliban launched more attacks across Afghanistan in during the last three months of 2019 than during the same period...
By Jan 15, 2020
News

US government officials are encouraged to lie about progress in Afghanistan, special inspector general says

'You create from the bottom up an incentive because of short time frames – we're there for six months, nine...
By Aug 1, 2019
News

Afghanistan’s security forces lost 42,000 troops in the last year in a crackdown on ‘ghost soldiers’

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said in a report that ANDSF personnel size had gone down by...
By Jul 30, 2019
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The Army’s much-hyped advise-and-assist brigade couldn’t find enough soldiers to actually advise and assist, SIGAR chief says

According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the U.S. Army's 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade that had a...
By Apr 25, 2019
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Almost every US metric for the war in Afghanistan ‘is now classified or nonexistent,’ so obviously things are going swimmingly

So, how goes the never-ending war in Afghanistan? According to United States's top government oversight authority there, well, we don't...
By Jul 31, 2018
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Finally, The US Ekes Out A Win In Afghanistan After 2 Dismal Years

Finally, a bright spot amid 17 years of war in Afghanistan: insurgent control of the country has started to diminish...
By Jun 6, 2018
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Afghanistan Leaders Are Still Corrupt As Hell, Unsurprising New Report Says

New efforts to stamp out corruption among Afghan government officials and extricate the U.S. military from Afghanistan are going, well,...