The fighting killed a local commander named Mullah Nasir, a confidant of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
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The Afghan forces had some support from the United States, the spokesman for NATO’s Operation Resolute Support told CNN on Thursday.
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KABUL-The Afghan government Wednesday rushed reinforcements to Helmand after Taliban militants captured large swaths of a strategic opium-producing district, prompting the first British troop deployment to the troubled province in 14 months.
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Britain has sent a small contingent of soldiers to Helmand as advisers under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation mandate.
Provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said the situation had improved since the beginning of the week but heavy fighting was continuing. They were deployed to Camp Shorabak, on the site of Camp Bastion, the former British Army headquarters in Afghanistan, the ministry said. The U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation have around 13,000 troops in the country, a lot of them operating under the training mandate.
As the trapped and exhausted troops listened to the ultimatum, around them lay the bodies of comrades who had died in the fighting and whose bodies could not be buried or removed.
Two U.S. troops and an Afghan also were wounded in the attack, in the deadliest day for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since May 2013.
But the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan when his vehicle was caught in a suicide blast in 2006 has said nothing can justify sending more troops to Helmand.
“I was here and I’m still here”, said Shamsullah Sahrayee, a tribal elder in Sangin.
It was strategically important because it linked Lashkar Gah, the Helmand capital, to districts in the north, he said.
However, Afghan officials deny the claims and say that they have pushed back the militants and regained control over the district.
Taliban fighters have finally captured the centre of a Helmand town where 106 British soldiers lost their lives in four years of fighting.
“This is probably the worst of the scenarios that the British had in 2013 and 2014”. At the same time, according to a report to the US Congress, government forces will face massed attacks against checkpoints, expanded Taliban control over rural areas, and attacks on weakened provisional police.
Supply lines were cut, preventing ammunition and food from reaching government forces, and roads around the district centre mined, officials have said.
The crisis in Helmand has piled pressure on the government of President Ashraf Ghani, following the fall of the northern city of Kunduz in September, which Taliban fighters seized and held for several days.
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Afghan forces have struggled to contain the insurgency since overseas troops stood down combat operations past year.
