Afghanistan's ex-finance minister has blamed the government's fall on corrupt officials who invented "ghost soldiers" and took payments from the Taliban. Khalid Payenda told the BBC that most of ...

The Afghan government should ... claiming the salaries of troops who simply didn't exist - so called "ghost soldiers". In its latest report to the US Congress, the Special Inspector General ...

An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan ...

Soldiers who were part of British special forces working in Afghanistan have told a public inquiry of their concerns that Afghans who posed no threat had been murdered in raids against suspected ...

As early as 2015, I informed Congress that corrupt Afghan officials were listing ghost soldiers and police officers on rosters and pocketing the salaries. Important information for measuring the ...