Sharp decline in size of Afghan security forces, says new U.S. report

The U.S. government’s Afghan watchdog agency, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has updated Congress on the situation in that country. Here are the key findings in the latest report:
— USFOR-A reported that the actual assigned strength of the ANDSF as of January 2018 was 296,409, which includes 165,622 ANA and 130,787 ANP personnel. These figures represent a sharp decline in strength from the same period last year: the ANA saw a 4,818-person decrease, and