Afghanistan Watchdog to Investigate Unanswered Questions

Afghanistan Watchdog to Investigate Unanswered Questions
Afghan security personnel gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 13, 2019. Rahmat Gul/file/AP Photo
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What happened to the weapons, fuel, drones, planes, and other resources the United States provided to the now-defunct Afghanistan government? What happened to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police officers who abandoned their posts? What happened to the Afghan women and girls, and the others who supported the failed nation-building project?

Those are just a few of the questions that Special Inspector General for the Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko intends to investigate before his office closes in about a year, he said on Sept. 14.