Afghanistan’s acting defence minister says reinforcements have been rushed to a besieged southern district threatened for days with takeover by Taliban fighters.
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Other reports suggested that government forces were still fighting in the centre of Sangin but were cut off from any help.
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For several years, the British and American forces were the ones who have taken position of Sangin to ward off the Taliban.
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Sangin is a key district in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a strategically important fertile poppy-growing area. As well as providing revenue, gaining control of the town would allow the insurgents to block important army supply and access routes.
“I am confident that we will not lose Sangin”, said Rasoolyar, just days after he warned that Helmand province was at grave risk of falling to the Taliban.
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This week North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military advisers have been sent to Helmand, but no foreign troops will participate in combat operations on the ground.
Despite billions of dollars in aid and thousands of deaths among global forces, the capacity of Afghan security forces to stand alone has been called into question by the Helmand fighting as well as by earlier episodes such as the fall of Kunduz, which the Taliban captured briefly in September.
By Wednesday, the Taliban had captured all but two of its districts, forcing the USA and the United Kingdom to send in extra forces to assist the Afghan army amid criticism of a lack of air support from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
The troops, the British Ministry of Defence said in a statement, were “part of the UK’s ongoing contribution to NATO’s Resolute Support Mission”, the training, advisory, assistance and counterterror mission in Afghanistan. They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp.
“An hour later we recaptured that building and now we have it”, claimed Akhtar Muhammad, a police commander in Sangin district.
The announcement in July that the Taliban founder and leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been dead for more than two years saw the group pull out of a dialogue process after only one meeting in Pakistan between representatives of each side.
“The problem is where the Afghan forces have to fend for themselves”, he said.
A Taliban statement said that before “interfering” in Afghanistan, Britain should have ‘studied their ancestor’s history, to learn from it. If they learned lessons from their repeated defeats in Afghanistan, they wouldn’t come to invade us.
It was in December a year ago that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation handed over the security operations in Sangin to the Afghans. More than 100 British soldiers died in Sangin.
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USA and British special forces have reportedly been dispatched in the province to help Afghan security forces battle the Taliban.
