Foreign Aid

Federal officials have paid millions for reconstruction work in Afghanistan to five subcontractors with ties to enemy groups. (AP File)

Reforms sought to keep U.S. funds from going to terrorist-linked contractors

Michal Conger · July 24, 2013 4:00 am

The Promoting Gender Equality in National Priority Programs project is intended to build on the U.S. Agency for International Development's previous efforts in promoting Afghan women over the past decade. (AP File)

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Afghan women to receive grant from USAID

Ashe Schow · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday by addressing the United Nations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

16-year-old Pakistani girl is a brave heart the Taliban tried to kill

Cal Thomas · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama has nominated Michael A. Carroll as inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development, an appointment that would fill a nearly two-year vacancy. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

President Obama nominates USAID IG, but many watchdog vacancies remain unfilled

Michal Conger · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

$3 million for an Afghan school building that was never finished

Michal Conger · July 17, 2013 4:00 am

Multiple inspector general reports criticize U.S. Agency for International Development foreign aid programs for chronic waste, fraud and mismanagement. (AP Photo)

U.S. Agency for International Development projects rife with mismanagement, lax oversight, IGs say

Michal Conger · July 13, 2013 4:00 am

Millions spent by the State Department in grants to foreign agencies for Afghan reconstruction were never audited. (AP File)

Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Afghan aid given without audits

Michal Conger · July 10, 2013 4:00 am

Opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi shout slogans and wave national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, July 2. (Amr Nabil/AP)

Islamists are not ready for democracy, may never be

Cal Thomas · July 9, 2013 4:00 am

More than $100 million in State Department grants to foreign organizations for reconstruction work in Afghanistan has never been audited. (Photo: Thinkstock)

State Department hands out millions in grants that are never audited

Washington Examiner · July 9, 2013 4:00 am

White House rejects calls to cut off aid to Egypt

Beltway Confidential

White House rejects calls to cut off aid to Egypt

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2013 4:00 am

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that lawmakers would review future aid to the Egyptian government as the situation became clearer. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Patrick Leahy: U.S. law requires pulling foreign aid to Egypt because of military coup

Joel Gehrke · July 3, 2013 4:00 am

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Afghan officials improperly fining U.S. contractors, harming war effort

Michal Conger · July 2, 2013 4:00 am