Tuesday 17 May 2016

Return of Afghanistan's 'ghost soldiers'

Afghanistan's 'ghost soldiers': thousands enlisted to fight Taliban don't exist | World news | The Guardian

US officials are equally concerned: in a report released on 30 April, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) claimed that, “neither the United States nor its Afghan allies know how many Afghan soldiers and police actually exist, how many are in fact available for duty, or, by extension, the true nature of their operational capabilities”.

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