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The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan’s military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. Already, the U.S. has spent nearly $89 billion over the last 20 years to build, equip and train Afghan forces.
Yet America’s own government watchdog says oversight of the money has been poor, hundreds of millions of dollars have been misspent and corruption is rife in the security apparatus.
Monitoring where the future funding goes will become virtually impossible after Aug. 31, when the last coalition troops leave. Here is a look at some of the issues:
Extent of Taliban ‘Control’ in Afghanistan Fluctuates By Hollie McKay | July 27, 2021 | 6:24pm EDT
Mullah Misbah, Taliban commander in Ghazni province. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – As the U.S. military leaves Afghanistan and what has been dubbed the “forever war,” there is little doubt the Taliban has retaken territory – but precisely how much is a mosaic that alters by the day.
“What the Taliban has done is take control of contested districts; that is how they have flipped the switch,” said Bill Roggio, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) senior fellow and editor of its Long War Journal. “In many cases, the Taliban was pre-positioned to take these districts.”
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The withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan represent a major shift for post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy, which has been dominated for two decades by fights against terrorist groups based in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The Pentagon’s new military blueprint calls for U.S. forces to prepare to fight traditional state rivals, particularly Russia and China.
Despite the new American role, the president stressed that the U.S. will continue to battle remnants of the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. The terrorist group no longer holds significant territory but still has many thousands of trained fighters in its ranks. ISIS recently claimed responsibility for a bombing in Baghdad that killed 35.