John Sopko

During an interview with NPR aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “Morning Edition,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko argued that there should be a special inspector general for Ukraine money like there was for Afghanistan and there are issues

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said on Thursday his agency has uncovered “some really horrific information about the problems with the U.N. operations in Afghanistan.”

During an interview with the “Fox News Rundown” podcast released on Wednesday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that he isn’t surprised that Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction John Sopko testified that he cannot guarantee American taxpayer money isn’t going to

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) reacted to testimony from Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction John Sopko that he can’t ensure American tax dollars aren’t funding

During a portion of an interview with the Fox News Channel aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “America Reports,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko discussed his report on the collapse of the country and said that the United

The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a government watchdog agency, revealed in a report published Tuesday that American taxpayers lost about $19 billion to “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Afghanistan in the past decade.

Members of the Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) — the country’s primary fighting unit against the Taliban — are partnering more with American and coalition forces instead of becoming independent, a U.S. government watchdog testified recently.

The U.S. goal of reinventing Afghanistan into a Western-style centralized democracy and a free-market economy from a tribal society that was unsuited for either by throwing billions of American-taxpayer dollars was doomed to fail, the Washington Post revealed Monday in a multi-series investigation.

The strength of the Afghan security forces stands at its “lowest level” in years, a U.S. watchdog agency revealed Thursday.

The United States military “disbanded” a United States-based Afghan pilot training program after over 40 percent of the trainees went absent without leave (AWOL).

The United States government has decided to either classify or do away with “almost every” metric for success or failure in Afghanistan, John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), revealed this week.

The United States must tackle the Taliban’s top source of funding in Afghanistan – deadly opium and its heroin derivative – whether there is a peace agreement or not, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko told Breitbart News on Thursday.

A potential U.S.-Taliban peace deal “will likely” fail to prevent Afghanistan from grappling with terrorists and descending into a “narco-state,” the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) a watchdog agency, declared in a new report issued Thursday.

The government of Afghanistan lost more territory to the Taliban in recent months, further plunging the number of districts under the control or influence of Kabul to unprecedented lows, a U.S. watchdog agency revealed in its latest report to Congress on Thursday.

The Trump administration is allegedly urging U.S.-backed Afghan forces to pull out of rural areas and focus on urban regions like the troubled capital of Kabul, home to a wave of attacks by the Taliban and its Islamic State rivals in recent months, the New York Times (NYT) reported over the weekend.

The U.S. has wasted at least $15 billion in taxpayer dollars on failed reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.

It is hard to argue that the U.S.-backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) lack the will to defend their country when they have incurred a historic number of fatalities in the past year, primarily at the hands of a resurgent Taliban, the most potent jihadist group in Afghanistan.

Not only has the U.S. government wasted $85 million to construct a major hotel and an apartment building in Afghanistan deemed abandoned and uninhabitable, American taxpayers are also footing the bill for security at the buildings, located near the U.S. Embassy, according to an Afghan reconstruction watchdog agency appointed by Congress.

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Washington and Kabul are clueless as to how many Afghan security troops “actually exist,” are available for duty, and whether they are truly capable of defending their own country, a top government watchdog tells Congress.

The Pentagon has “lost much of its ability” to monitor the effectiveness and capability of the Afghan security forces as the Taliban and other insurgents have stepped up their assaults, stresses the top watchdog for U.S.-funded nation-building projects in Afghanistan.

The U.S.-backed government of Afghanistan is turning to China for help in expanding the “extremely limited” capabilities of the Afghan Air Force (AAF).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. military fighting the war in Afghanistan, now in its 15th year, has been drawn into combat against a resilient Taliban a year after President Obama said American troops had ceased their combat mission in the country, reports a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provided inaccurate location data for at least 22 hospitals in the Afghanistan province of Kabul, placing the health facilities at risk of suffering the same deadly fate as the Doctors Without Borders medical center, according to a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.

Poor oversight of government contractors in Afghanistan paved the way for insurgents to plant roadside bombs under highways and embankments that ultimately killed and wounded U.S. troops, according to a congressional watchdog tasked with rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse in American taxpayer-funded projects to rebuild the war-torn country.

The Afghan national police and army forces are experiencing a decrease in their capability to fight the Taliban less than a year after they took the lead of combat operations from the U.S. military, reports a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.

The U.S. government has spent more than $1 billion in American taxpayer funds on programs to develop the rule of law in Afghanistan, including efforts to improve a judicial system that incorporates Islamic Sharia law, reports a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.