Although the United States military’s role in Afghanistan effectively ended in August 2021, the Government’s fraud watchdog for operations in Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan ...

After 9/11, the Bush Administration as well, as both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, knew we would be in Afghanistan for a long time. The United States has since maintained a significant ...

The U.S. government has funneled more than $1.1 billion in taxpayer dollars into Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021 with minimal oversight or accountability ...

Congress appropriated about $144.7 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction from 2002 to 2021, but the U.S. failed to transform the country into a democracy, in part because of corrupt allies and the ...

The Special Investigator for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released the latest quarterly report to Congress, reminding us again of the costly irrelevancy this office has become. The SIGAR was ...

In July 2021, less than two months before Americans would bear witness to the end of the United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan in the chaotic withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport, ...

Members of the 495th Expeditionary Intelligence Squadron configure a satellite at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, on Nov. 23, 2011. (Senior Airman Corey Hook/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Special ...

The United States sometimes seems grimly determined to not learn the lessons of war. It took years to develop an honest assessment of the failures from the strategic bombing effort in World War II.

A $99 million Afghan road-building project funded by U.S. taxpayers has been scrapped, according to a report that details how American military personnel were bribed with Rolex watches in exchange for ...