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Lax U.N. oversight of the international fund to pay Afghan National Police salaries has contributed to the diversion of up to $200 million by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry for questionable practices, according to a U.S. watchdog agency. (AP Photo)
Politics

Up to $200 million missing after lax UN oversight of Afghan police: Watchdog

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In August 2011, investigators got a memo recommending canceling the towers, but the they were built anyway. (iStock)
National Security

State Department spent millions on six towers nobody wants in Afghanistan

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Corruption still huge in Afghanistan: SIGAR

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Farmers slice open the green poppy bulbs, full raw opium, the main ingredient in heroin, on a poppy field in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghans headed to ‘narco-criminal state’

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On Aug. 8, a bipartisan letter signed by Congressional leaders expressed

Inspectors in Afghanistan face ‘obstructionism’ from U.S. officials

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Afghan officials can't account for $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to their country's military and security forces, according to the Pentagon's inspector general. (iStock image)
Foreign Policy

Billions in U.S. aid can’t be accounted for by Afghan officials

Mark Tapscott -
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Smoke rises from a building which Taliban fighters used for cover during clashes with government troops, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 17. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
National Security

How the U.S. ended up giving weapons to the Taliban

Kelly Cohen -
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Soybeans being processed in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan (Photo: SIGAR)

The U.S. spent $35 million trying to grow this crop in Afghanistan

Kelly Cohen -
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The Gereshk Cold and Dry Storage Facility in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (Photo: SIGAR)

U.S. spent another $3m on an unused building in this country

Kelly Cohen -
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Fire consumes an arch-span building at Afghan National Army Brigade Camp Sayar in Afghanistan in 2012. The incident report on the fire said the building, which was 85 percent complete, burned in 30 minutes. (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via SIGAR)
National Security

Another $1.5 billion that may go up in smoke in Afghanistan

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