Afghan soldiers and police, with the aid of thousands of foreign military advisers, are struggling to hold off a resurgent insurgency led by the Taliban, as well as other groups.
As of November, the government could only claim to control or influence 57 percent of Afghanistan’s 407 districts, according to US military estimates released by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), in a quarterly report to the US Congress. That represents a 15 percent decrease in territory held compared with the same time in 2015, the agency said.
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Afghan govt controls less than 60% of country - US watchdog
01 February 2017
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The Afghan government controls less than 60 percent of the country, a US watchdog agency reported Wednesday, after security forces retreated from many strongholds last year.
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