Congress
Investigations by the committees of jurisdiction.
U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee (Majority)
Willful Blindness: An Assessment of the Biden-Harris Administration's Withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Chaos That Followed
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Ranking Member)
Left Behind: A Brief Assessment of the Biden Administration's Strategic Failures during the Afghanistan Evacuation
Executive branch
The government's reviews of its own conduct.
U.S. Department of State
After-Action Review on Afghanistan (Ambassador Daniel Smith; covers January 2020 to August 2021)
White House / National Security Council
Summary of the Afghanistan After-Action Reviews (U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan)
U.S. Central Command (Department of Defense)
Abbey Gate Supplemental Review Findings (August 26, 2021 attack)
Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
Special Report: Lessons Learned From the Audit of DoD Support for the Relocation of Afghan Nationals (DODIG-2022-114)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Operation Allies Welcome: Afghan Evacuee Report
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)
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed (SIGAR 23-16-IP)
Afghanistan War Commission
First Interim Report to Congress
Afghanistan War Commission
Second Interim Report to Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
Reports, audits, inspections, and lessons-learned (official reading room)
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.