John Sopko

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, former President Hamid Karzai, right, and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, left, watch the live broadcast of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar after the signing of a peace treaty at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan

The Afghan government and the US lost popular support over corruption in Afghanistan, investigator general says

Afghanistan

“Although we had predicted major problems … I think we were surprised, just like everybody else, at the speed to which the [Afghan] government and the military collapsed,” John Sopko, head of SIGAR, told The World.

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Global Scan

This man’s job is to account for the billions of US aid spent in Afghanistan

Global Politics