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Accountability

How the withdrawal was reviewed, and who answered for it

The official record of how the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. This page gathers the government's own investigations, after-action reviews, and oversight reports in one place. Each entry links to the official source and to an archived copy, so the record stays reachable even if an agency takes a document down.

Congress

Investigations by the committees of jurisdiction.

Executive branch

The government's reviews of its own conduct.

Independent oversight

The inspector general and the congressionally chartered commission.

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Why the Afghan Government Collapsed (SIGAR 23-05-IP) Evaluation report · November 2022
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed (SIGAR 23-16-IP) Evaluation report · February 2023
Afghanistan War Commission First Interim Report to Congress Interim report · August 2024
Afghanistan War Commission Second Interim Report to Congress Interim report · August 2025
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Reports, audits, inspections, and lessons-learned (official reading room) Series index · Series
About these links. Every report links to its official government host and to an archived snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The Afghanistan War Commission's final report to Congress is forthcoming; its interim reports are listed above. If you know of an official accountability report we have missed, tell us at afghanevac.org/contact.