Taliban spokesman ZabiullahMujahid said insurgents had overrun the whole of Sangin, pinning down Afghan forces in a military base where trapped soldiers reported dire conditions.
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GOV. MIRZA KHAN, Helmand, Afghanistan (through interpreter): The district is completely under the control of the government security forces.
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Afghan forces backed by US air strikes pushed back a Taliban onslaught Thursday in a strategically important district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, officials said. “Parts of Sangin are under the Taliban control but not the police and military installations”, he said.
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The UK deployed additional forces to aid Afghan forces on Sangin.
“We are still fighting to push back the Taliban”.
The Afghan forces had some support from the United States of America, the spokesman for NATO’s Operation Resolute Support told CNN on Thurs.
A small contingent of British troops was sent to Helmand last weekend to provide support to embattled Afghan forces in the province. For example, up to a quarter of the army’s troops are “ghost soldiers” who only exist on paper, so that officers can draw their pay. “They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp”, the statement said.
And having made those mistakes, it was another mistake to pull nearly all the foreign troops out before the Afghan government’s army was up to holding the Taliban off. If, indeed, it can ever be brought up to that level. They have a mandate to “train, assist and advise” their Afghan counterparts, who are now effectively fighting a battle-hardened Taliban alone.
A violent battle has been underway across Helmand for months, a stronghold of Taliban and a major opium center.
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.
However, the crisis in Helmand has piled pressure on the government of President Ashraf Ghani, which was rocked by the fall of the northern city of Kunduz, seized by Taliban fighters.
A senior Afghan militant commander has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin held an unpublicised meeting with Taliban chief Akhtar Mansour to discuss possible Russian support for the insurgents. On Aug. 22, three American contractors with the RS base were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
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Fierce fighting has frequently happened in the last two years, between Afghanistan government troops and the Taliban fighters.
