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The US was doomed in Afghanistan and will repeat mistakes if it doesn't learn from them, top watchdog warns
"Don't believe what you're told by the generals ... or people in the administration saying we're ne…
Christopher Woody  Â
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The US military created an illusion of success in Afghanistan by handling tasks it was supposed to train Afghan troops to do, report says
A new US government watchdog report details how the US and Afghanistan failed to build and develop …
Jake Epstein  Â
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The US totally failed to stop the drug trade in Afghanistan, but the Taliban found a better way to cash in
Opium is Afghanistan's largest cash crop, but drug trafficking isn't the only, or even the biggest,…
Christopher Woody  Â
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The Afghan military was made up of 'ghost' soldiers who didn't actually exist, and that's why it collapsed so rapidly: ex-finance minister
The US government was warned for years about "ghost" soldiers in Afghanistan, or fake troops create…
John Haltiwanger  Â
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Exclusive: Afghan government officials helped smugglers sneak almost $1 billion in cash and gold out of Afghanistan as the US-backed government neared collapse, documents show
Afghanistan corruption was so bad that $884 million was smuggled out as Ashraf Ghani's government n…
Mattathias Schwartz,Edris Lut…  Â
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With the US gone, Afghanistan's air force has to rely on Zoom calls to learn how to fix its aircraft
Time is running out for US personnel in Afghanistan, which has made Zoom calls necessary to give Af…
Benjamin Brimelow  Â
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'We actually won the war we needed to fight': Trump's pick for ambassador to Afghanistan on why it's time to get out
"The future of Afghanistan needs to be determined by Afghans," William Ruger, Trump's nominee to be…
Christopher Woody  Â
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More US contractors have died in Afghanistan than US troops - but the Pentagon doesn't keep track
"This is an estimate of all US contractors killed in the various war zones based, yes, on DOL repor…
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes  Â
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Former interpreter says 'vast majority of Afghans' view Taliban as 'lesser of two evils' compared to the US
A former interpreter said the US mistook the Afghan countryside for a "theater of war" as opposed t…
John Haltiwanger  Â
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The war in Afghanistan looks bleak as the government loses more control and Afghan security force casualties rise
The local head of police and the intelligence chief were both killed in the attack. The governor wa…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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Trump says it's 'insane' that watchdog reports about Afghanistan are released to the public: 'The public means the enemy'
Its findings include $86 million spent over seven years to develop a counternarcotics plane that "m…
Christopher Woody  Â
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The Army wants to send its newest units worldwide, but the top watchdog in Afghanistan says it's struggling to find enough troops to do the job
"We are looking at options, and the priority right now is where we have combat operations going on,…
Christopher Woody  Â
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Mike Flynn's blunt interview with staffers kicked off the investigation into bombshell Afghanistan report
Flynn would continue to make disparaging remarks about the Obama administration. He was later tappe…
David Choi  Â
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Some of the most important gains made in Afghanistan are slipping away
"Support for equal representation of men and women in political leadership positions has declined, …
Christopher Woody  Â
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Biden has finally found a country the US can rebuild
Biden's $2 billion infrastructure plan would be welcome after two decades and billions of dollars s…
Daniel DePetris, Defense Prio…  Â
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As the US moves towards troop withdrawal, the fate of Afghanistan may rest in the hands of these soldiers
But the training mission has struggled to recruit and maintain the number of forces the nation will…
Caitlin Foster  Â
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The Air Force released new videos of A-10 Warthogs striking Taliban drug labs - and it shows why the US strategy is a game of 'whack-a-mole'
"Mattis offered few details about the Taliban outreach and it was unclear whether the latest reconc…
Daniel Brown  Â
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Alleged rape, torture, murder and corruption by Afghan leaders that the US ignored was a 'big factor' in the country's fall, human rights expert says
US officials have mostly seen abuses as an "obstacle" rather than "an essential component of addres…
Ryan Pickrell  Â
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The Air Force just released a bunch of crazy photos of A-10 Warthogs over Afghanistan
The A-10s were deployed in late January to Kandahar Air Base as part of a new campaign announced in…
Daniel Brown  Â
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Top US officials knew the Afghanistan war was unwinnable and 'lied' - costing $1 trillion and 2,351 American lives
Over the past 18 years of war, US officials have repeatedly insisted that the US is making progress…