Junaid: Rumors are flying that Pakistan's arrests of Taliban leaders may signal secret negotiations

In the past eight years, the United States has allocated $51 billion to rebuild and stabilize Afghanistan. But tracking that money sometimes seems as challenging as finding the leaders of the Taliban.

Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, tells the Huffington Post Investigative Fund that the kind of waste that occurred with reconstruction funds in Iraq could also be happening in Afghanistan.

The U.S. governments plan to rapidly grow the ranks of Afghan police officers has run into a shortage of instructors and training camps, prompting U.S. and NATO officials to cut basic training for Afghan recruits from eight weeks to six.