“It is both the government and the Taliban who are doing the killing”, Hamdard said.
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“Last night fresh forces arrived, they provided ammunitions and food to forces at the battalion and launched a counterattack”, Helmand senator Hashim Alokozai said.
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“They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp”. The helicopter left with four bodies and 15 injured soldiers.
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Eyewitnesses say some government forces are still fighting in the district centre but are cut off.
Pressure is building on Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as the Afghan army faces Taliban attacks in many parts of the country. It has ramped up its attacks this year, inflicting heavier casualties on Afghan security forces.
The provincial government, however, said the fighting continued in the key Helmand district, as Kabul had sent more reinforcements to the area. “We are also very anxious about villagers stuck inside their homes, roads are mined, bullets are flying all over people’s homes”, he said.
Political analyst Waheed Muzhda, formerly an official in the Taliban’s 1996-2001 administration, said the Taliban needed to sort out its leadership problems before it started talking about the peace process.
The United States military conducted two airstrikes “in the vicinity of Sangin”, according to the spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation mission in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Col. Mike Lawhorn.
Defence sources said that three such choppers have already been delivered to the Afghan government, which will boost its capability against Taliban terrorists.
“The white flag of the Islamic emirate is at full mast at the district now”.
Helmand is an important Taliban base as it produces most of the world’s opium, a crop that helps fund the insurgency. The Pentagon predicts the Taliban will continue to “find and exploit” vulnerability within the Afghan army, “making the security situation still fragile”.
Earlier, acting Defense Minister Masoom Stanekzai confirmed the reinforcements had arrived in Helamand. “It’s not that we are afraid of death, but we didn’t think that our brothers would leave us like this”. “We need more air strikes, more supplies”.
Richard Streatfield, a British officer who fought at Sangin, told the BBC: “It does make you wonder: was it worth it?” I am grateful I am alive with my family members.
All but two of Helmand’s 14 districts are effectively controlled or heavily contested by Taliban insurgents. Yet Washington now acknowledges that the Taliban, as in the siege of Sangin, are content to fight exclusively against fellow Afghans.
President Barack Obama in October announced that thousands of USA troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, backpedalling on previous plans to reduce the force and acknowledging that Afghan forces are not ready to stand alone.
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Akhtar Muhammad, a police commander in Sangin district said on Thursday that insurgents captured the area around the district governor’s compound overnight.
