Reports by human rights monitoring organizations and missions are “contrary to internationally accepted fact-finding methodologies” The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s foreign ministry 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.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it was "insane" that reports about the Afghanistan reconstruction effort were released to the public.

An American aid project in Afghanistan that was billed as the world’s biggest program ever designed purely for female empowerment has been a failure and a waste of taxpayers’ money, the head of a government watchdog agency has charged.