When Afghanistans President Ashraf Ghani took office, he ushered in a period of hope for the countrys traumatized and war-weary people that decades of violence would soon end.
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A small unit of Danish soldiers, who for years fought in Helmand alongside the British and Americans, have also arrived at the former Camp Bastion, Col Jens Lønborg from the Danish army told Danish newspaper Politiken.
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“If Sangin falls, much of the north of Helmand is very much under Taliban control”, he said.
“U.S. forces conducted two strikes in Sangin district, Helmand Province, December 23, against threats to the force”, U.S. Army Colonel Michael Lawhorn said.
Speaking to reporters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Stanekzai said that the country’s overstretched security forces need the global military coalition’s help, especially air support, which would help reduce casualties.
Gaining control of the town is important to the Taliban as it sits on crucial smuggling routes for drugs and arms which helps fund it.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military advisers, including around 10 British troops, have been deployed to support Afghan forces battling to hold the town.
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The deadliest attack in Afghanistan since 2013 killed six US troops on Monday, including a family man from Long Island, New York; a South Texan; a New York City police detective; a Georgia high school and college athlete; an expectant father from Philadelphia; and a major from suburban Minneapolis with ties to the military’s LGBT community.
And on Wednesday, the Taliban claimed to have captured the district of Gulistan in Farah, a remote western province, but governer Asif Nang said the claim was “baseless”.
However, General Abdul Wodud, a senior army commander, said a joint Afghan and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation operation backed by air support had driven the Taliban back from central areas, killing 60 Taliban fighters and wounding 40.
Afghan forces have been trying to recapture the area from the Taliban, who claim to control the district. It’s not that we are afraid of death, but we didn’t think that our brothers would leave us like this’.
Districts across Helmand have been threatened by the Taliban in recent months.
The war in Helmand, seen as the epicentre of the expanding insurgency, underscores worsening security in Afghanistan a year after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formally ended its combat operations.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday released the identities of the troops killed in the attack.
A security official in Islamabad told AFP Tuesday that Pakistan army chief Raheel Sharif would travel to Kabul in the coming days, in what appears to be a renewed push to jumpstart talks.
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Attempts to airdrop food to the defenders were unsuccessful until an air strike, believed to been carried out by Afghan air forces, temporarily dislodged Taliban positions and allowed supplies to get through, according to officials.
