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Before the attack, 21 members of the coalition forces had been killed in Afghanistan this year, 15 of them Americans, according to the Web site iCasualties. That’s compared to 140,000 foreign troops at the peak of combat operations in 2011. It was the most deadly attack on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops since August. The militants are pressing their insurgency after the withdrawal of most worldwide forces previous year.
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The U.K. has 450 troops in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s training mission. They have a mandate to “train, assist and advise” their Afghan counterparts, who are now effectively fighting a battle-hardened Taliban alone.
Local officials in Helmand on Monday pleaded with the national government for reinforcements, saying that the district of Sangin remained largely under Taliban control after insurgents overran it on Sunday.
Recently Rasoulyar, Helmand’s deputy governor, wrote an open letter – which was also published on social media website Facebook – to the president and informed him about the overall security situation of the province.
As a fresh offensive was launched today by Iraqi armed forces – believed to be supported by RAF air strikes – to drive IS out of the key city of Ramadi, the peer said that “ringing our hands” will not defuse the Islamist threat.
The head of Helmand’s provincial council, Muhammad Kareem Atal, said around 65 per cent of Helmand is under Taliban control and warned that “every district” is seeing the government lose ground.
SAS and American special forces are involved in the battle to prevent Sangin in Helmand province falling to the Taliban.
Helmand, a major center of opium cultivation and a traditional Taliban heartland that British and American forces struggled for years to control, has been the scene of fierce fighting for months. The roads between the district and Lashkar Gah and other districts are closed.
“The Taliban are suffering from leadership chaos and the movement is fractured and it is not clear who is going to talk and which side is going to continue to fight”, said the official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Fighting was still underway Tuesday in Helmand.
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“Because if the people we were trying to free Afghanistan from are now able to just take it back within two years, that shows that something went badly wrong at the operational and strategic level”.
