The British and American government are once again putting boots on the ground in Afghanistan’s notorious Helmand province as the Afghan army struggles to contain a resurgent Taliban.
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Fighting raged between Taliban and Afghan forces in Helmand’s Sangin district, where an official said the district’s army base was the only area that had not fallen to the Taliban.
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“The military is in position and the operation is ongoing”, Stanekzai told a news conference in Kabul, adding that reinforcements had arrived in the province to relieve troops in Sangin.
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Districts across Helmand have been threatened by the Taliban in recent months. But just one year later, many Afghans now believe the Taliban are winning the war as British troops deploy to the southern Helmand to help beleaguered Afghan troops regain control of a strategically important district in the poppy-producing province.
Afghanistan’s security forces are taking on the Taliban alone, following the end of the worldwide combat mission a year ago.
Stanekzai pleaded for patience, saying Afghan forces were fighting without the extensive array of tactical “enablers” from close air support and helicopters to surveillance assets that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops had used when they were involved.
Taliban fighters, sometimes working with other insurgent groups like the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, have managed to overrun many districts across the country this year, and also staged a three-day takeover of the major northern city of Kunduz. “It is a young army, it needs maturity”, he said. They rarely hold territory for more than a few hours or days, but the impact on the morale of Afghan forces, and people, is substantial. Although the combat mission ended previous year, around 9,800 US troops and nearly 4,000 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces remain in Afghanistan. “They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp”.
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Supply lines were cut, preventing ammunition and food from reaching government forces, and roads around the district center mined, officials have said. “The Kabul administration can not protect themselves without foreigners and the nation does not accept that”, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for Taliban, said in a statement On Sunday, the province’s deputy governor issued a highly unusual public plea via Facebook, warning that Helmand would fall unless immediate action were taken and urging Ghani, who visited Azerbaijan on Tuesday, to come to the province to see for himself. The head of Helmand’s provincial council, Muhammad Kareem Atal, said about 65 percent of Helmand is now under Taliban control. On Wednesday, a spokesman said insurgents had captured the district of Gulistan in Farah, a remote western province that, like Helmand, is a major centre of opium cultivation.
