The Afghan government could not survive after the withdrawal of US troops. The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said.

More than 5,100 casualties were inflicted among the Americans, Afghans, and allies working on U.S.-funded reconstructions programs in Afghanistan, according to the first-ever official count.

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) suffered approximately 5% more casualties between 1 June and 31 August 2019 than during the same period the previous year, John Sopko, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), said in his latest quarterly report released on 31 October.

John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has outlined some of the problems associated with the equipping and training of Afghan security forces. Sopko, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, on Monday, pointed out the following:

A program to train Afghan attack pilots in the United States has been disbanded after nearly half of the airmen went AWOL in Texas. 

The U.S. military is no longer tracking how many districts in Afghanistan are controlled by the Afghan government and what territory is under Taliban control, a Pentagon watchdog said Wednesday.