A local Taliban commander and 50 fighters have been killed in overnight fighting in Sangin in Helmand province, the Afghan interior ministry says, according to BBC News.
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The Taliban already held three Helmand districts as well as large parts of the rest of the province outside the main centers and control key strategic roads, making it hard to reinforce and resupply security force units cut off by their advance.
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Almost a quarter of all British troops who died in Afghanistan were killed in the town. They were deployed to Camp Shorabak, on the site of Camp Bastion, the former British Army headquarters in Afghanistan, the ministry said.
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“Since the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation drawdown previous year, the Taliban have gone from strength to strength”.
“An hour later we recaptured that building and now we have it”, he said.
“Sangin became fairly totemic for the British because of the number of soldiers lost”, he said.
US President Barack Obama announced in October that thousands of US troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, keeping the current force of 9,800 troops, amid a surge in Taliban attacks.
“Rumors about Lashkar Gah (falling to the Taliban) are totally baseless because we don’t have fear of losing the districts, so there is no fear of losing the center”, Abdullah said.
“This is an issue that has to be clear in the negotiating process”, Muzhda said.
In a separate incident in neighbouring Helmand province, where the Taliban has been increasing pressure for weeks, insurgents captured the district of Khanishin, a major control point for drug smuggling routes through the south. Fourteen policemen were killed and 11others wounded, provincial council chief Karim Atal said.
The Taliban statement regarding the British troops deployment said that before entering Afghanistan “they should have studied the history of their ancestors and should have learned a lesson from the repeated defeat”.
“This is probably the worst of the scenarios that the British had in 2013 and 2014”.
He warned that all of Helmand could fall to the Taliban if the President didn’t take action.
“Generally, the government, and the parliament, judicial power, we all are working together unitedly, unanimously towards the peace talks and peace process”, said Khalid Pashtoon, member, Afghan National Assembly.
“The problem is where the Afghan forces have to fend for themselves”, he said.
Omar Hamid, head of Asia-Pacific country risk at IHS, told CNN that in Sangin, and before that in Kunduz, the Afghan government forces struggled to put up a fight against the Taliban without foreign backup.
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“They’re fine as long as they’re being assisted and they’re being provided air cover and things like that by Western forces”.
