[3] As part of its legislative mandate, SIGAR tracks the status of U.S. funds appropriated, obligated, and disbursed for reconstruction activities in Afghanistan in its quarterly report.

These funds have been allocated into four major areas: The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction was created with the enactment of Public Law 110-181 when President George W. Bush signed H.R.

He came to SIGAR from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., where he had been a partner since 2009.

Sopko's government experience includes over twenty years on Capitol Hill, where he held key positions in both the Senate and House of Representatives.

SIGAR, and its reports, findings and information have also been widely discussed and distributed on Capitol Hill, the US Congress and with U.S. policymakers, by the Washington, D.C.–based Afghanistan Foundation, a non-profit public policy research organization (NGO).

[11] After the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, and the US troop withdrawal from that country, SIGAR investigated the root causes of the collapse of the Afghan government and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), releasing a pair of reports that recounted each failure: In April 2023, SIGAR told the Congress that they can't assure American aid to Afghanistan is not currently being used to fund the Taliban government.

SIGAR's Special Projects team was created to examine emerging issues and deliver prompt, actionable reports to federal agencies and the Congress.

Special Project's reports cover a wide range of programs and activities and the office is made up of auditors, analysts, investigators, lawyers, subject-matter experts and other specialists who can quickly and jointly apply their expertise to emerging problems and questions.

[16] Under its enabling legislation, SIGAR coordinates with and receives the cooperation of the following organizations while conducting oversight of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan: SIGAR and the inspectors general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, Defense Department, and Department of State have jointly developed and agreed to a strategic plan for oversight of the roughly $104 billion in U.S. funds appropriated for Afghanistan reconstruction.