US Loses Track of Arms Given to Afghan Security Forces

A new U.S. government report says the military has not effectively kept track of the light weapons it supplied to Afghanistan’s army and police. According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, an independent watchdog group, the failure creates a danger that small arms such as machine guns will fall into the hands of insurgents. Its report found multiple databases maintained by the U.S. government missing information or with duplicate entries for weapons...

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