The U.S. military has lost $360 million intended for combat and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan to the Taliban, criminals and local leaders during nearly a decade on the ground there.

A task force assembled last year by Gen. David Petraeus, then the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan and now the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, tallied the diversion of funds as part of a broader assessment of the war effort, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, after obtaining details of the report.

Putting a dollar figure on the widely acknowledged difficulties that the United States and its partners have had in battling corruption, Task Force 2010 worked to untangle the ties among companies, their subcontractors, and the insurgents and criminals - ‘malign actors