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Mr Dawood said that, over the past month, security forces in the district had sustained 365 casualties, both dead and injured.
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Carter said the attack served as a “painful reminder of the dangers our troops face everyday in Afghanistan”.
The Taliban took credit for the deadly attack.
At about 9 p.m. Sunday, Kabul was rocked by at least two loud bomb explosions in the heavily guarded diplomatic zone that also includes North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military facilities.
However, an SAS unit of around 30 British soldiers that previously backed American special forces and the Afghans will also be deployed, the Times has reported, which signals that our troops may play a more active role.
In the year since the global drawdown, the Taliban insurgency has intensified.
Security has worsened across the country as the Taliban test the mettle of Afghan security forces following the end of the worldwide combat mission previous year.
He said the Afghan police were holding out against Taliban fighters who had surrounded their compound and the district governor’s building in Sangin but roads into the town were completely controlled by the Taliban.
A Defense Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters that the team would not be engaged in fighting.
Helmand is an important base for the Taliban, as it is home to most of the world’s opium trade, which they use to fund their conflict.
The United Nations has said that control of around a quarter of all Afghan districts is now “contested” between state forces and Taliban militants.
British forces saw intensive fighting there at the height of the war in 2006 and 2007.
Keeping control of the centre of Sangin will not be easy for the Taliban, but resentment of government troops is high following military operations which locals say wrought unwarranted destruction.
“He said his forces have had no food for the last few days and he has fatalities and casualties lying all around”, he told Sky News.
In recent months, Afghan security forces have been overwhelmed by a series of militant offensives revealing the government’s vulnerability when it doesn’t have substantial foreign firepower to support it. A Pentagon report released this month found that insurgents are improving their ability to “find and exploit” Afghan government vulnerabilities. According to the Associated Press (AP), the attack was the deadliest assault on global forces since August.
When asked if that could work, Prof Semple said: “I think it is very clear to me that the Taliban do not have a solution for Afghanistan”.
The expected winter lull in fighting has not yet taken place in the warmer southern provinces.
The Afghans were also sending reinforcements to Helmand on Tuesday, officials said.
In February, the then Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the success of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) – which he said was leading 97 per cent of operations – was a “significant achievement”.
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Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk. “What was good is the Afghan forces continued to go back and take that back over”.
