“US forces conducted two strikes in Sangin on December 23 against threats to the force”, a spokesman for the military coalition said.
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Government forces, with the help of United States air strikes, have been trying to recapture the area from the Taliban, who say they are in control of the district.
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“We are still fighting to push back the Taliban”. “The Taliban are in control of the district”, a source said. “There is intelligence failure, lack of coordination, huge corruption in terms of selling fuel, ghost troops and much else”, he said.
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The Taliban published a statement where they said that before entering Afghanistan, the British should have studied the history of their ancestors and should have learned a lesson from the repeated defeat.
>The 19th-century British army and the 20th-century Russian army could both have told them: it has always been easy to invade Afghanistan, but it has always been hard for foreign troops to stay there more than a couple of years.
“They were defeated even after the presence of thousands of troops and the same will happen with these few hundred troops, this means nothing else but a shameful humiliation for them”.
Government forces have complained bitterly of inadequate supplies and reinforcements and little of the air power that backed up North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces when they fought in the region.
“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.
No further details have been given regarding the agenda of Gen. Sharif’s visit to Kabul, however it is expected talks will be held on the Afghan peace process with the Taliban group.
But Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed insurgents had overrun the entire district, pinning down Afghan forces in a military base where trapped soldiers reported dire conditions.
The northern city of Kunduz briefly fell to the Taliban in late September – the biggest victory for the group in 14 years of war.
On Monday, a Taliban suicide-bomber on a motorcycle managed to kill six American soldiers who were patrolling the perimeter of Bagram air base near Kabul.
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.
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SUNE ENGEL RASMUSSEN: Fighting has gone back and forth, and on Wednesday night local time, the Taliban managed to seize control of the government compound for four to five hours.
