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Roger Wicker: “The Afghan Government controls 57 percent of the country's districts. A year and a half ago, that figure was 72 percent.…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
The Afghan Government controls 57 percent of the country's districts. A year and a half ago, that figure was 72 percent. What happened?
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker questions the decline in Afghan government control over districts.

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