The Afghan army rushed more soldiers to Sangin, and officials said Thursday that Afghan forces carried out an overnight airdrop of supplies and ammunition to soldiers who were pinned down inside an army barracks.
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Qari Yusuf Ahmadi who claims to speak for the Taliban said the outfit has inflicted casualties on the security forces in Sangin and other parts of the province.
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Sangin is an important prize for the Taliban as it sits on crucial smuggling routes for drugs, arms and other contraband which fund the insurgency.
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“Clearance operations are under way and the foothold of the security forces has been expanding each day over the last three days”, Faisal said.
Fighting around the town has escalated in the past week, and by Wednesday the militants said they had captured all of Sangin, pinning down government troops in an army barracks. For several years, the British and American forces were the ones who have taken position of Sangin to ward off the Taliban.
Afghan commanders have appealed for more North Atlantic Treaty Organisation support amid reports that government forces have lost control of the key strategic town of Sangin to the Taliban.
Afghan forces had been trying to recapture the area, while the Taliban claimed control of.
“They [Taliban] put a lot of fighters a lot of weapons in Helmand province that is right in the border with Pakistan and most of the fighters and weapons come across the border, there is nothing that stops them”. He said the district governor’s headquarters, very often the final outpost standing when districts are considered to have been captured, had simply been relocated.
The strategically important district in the southern province of Helmand has been besieged by the Taliban for weeks.
Although much attention has been focused on Sangin, fierce fighting has been underway across much of Helmand, a traditional stronghold of the Taliban and a major centre for opium that U.S. and British troops fought for years to control.
“Our message to the British government and people is before attacking Afghanistan is to read the history of your forefather’s (sic), and you should have learnt from their repeated defeat in Afghanistan, ” they said.
“We will continue to work together to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan, just as we will not relent in our mission to counter the threat of terrorism that plagues the region”.
The Taliban issued a statement saying that foreign forces were directly involved in the fighting in Sangin and accusing them of carrying out airstrikes on residential areas.
The troops, the British Ministry of Defence said in a statement, were “part of the UK’s ongoing contribution to NATO’s Resolute Support Mission”, the training, advisory, assistance and counterterror mission in Afghanistan.
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President Barack Obama in October announced that thousands of United States troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, acknowledging that Afghan forces are not ready to stand alone.
