The cops officers chief’s compound remained under attack, & food & ammunition have been briefly provide, Ashna stated. Some Afghan National Army reinforcements arrived via helicopter on Wednesday.
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By one account, a truck was off-loading butane cooking gas for customers stocking up on fuel for Christmas festivities. Local media reported higher death tolls, but the Red Cross team counted four bodies when it arrived.
In addition, nine Taliban men were killed and another wounded with a final survivor still resisting security forces, the ministry said.
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The spokesman for the Afghan army in Helmand, Guam Rasoul Zazai, said that Afghan military air strikes had also bombarded Taliban strongholds in Sangin overnight, killing 25 insurgents and wounding another 12. The commander killed within the offensive is taken in to account to be an in depth confidant of the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, officers stated.
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He said that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces had operated with around 60 eye-in-the-sky surveillance balloons in Sangin, allowing them to track the movements of groups of insurgents.
All but two of Helmand’s 14 districts are effectively controlled or heavily contested by the Taliban, who also recently came close to overrunning the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. “We are still strong”, the statement said.
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.
SIEGEL: The U.S. says it carried out two airstrikes against the Taliban in Sangin.
The US army conducted the air strikes on Wednesday to support Afghan forces mobilising reinforcements to relieve dozens of security forces holed up in the district centre.
“Sangin became fairly totemic for the British because of the number of soldiers lost”, he said.
“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.
He said plans to push back in Sangin had been in preparation for some time, but the government had to prioritize its military assets as the Taliban had been fighting across all corners of the country since the drawdown of the global combat mission past year. Are U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces doing anything else to support Afghan government forces in that area?
The British and United States intervention has fuelled the perception that foreign powers are increasingly being drawn back into the conflict as Afghan forces struggle to rein in the Taliban.
While NATO officials readily praise the courage and endurance of Afghan soldiers, a Pentagon report to Congress last week highlighted the overall shortcomings of the forces, which it said had serious problems with leadership.
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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”.
