The turmoil in Helmand, the deadliest province for British and U.S. forces in Afghanistan over the past decade, underscores a rapidly unravelling security situation in Afghanistan mandating a refocus for global troops still stationed in the country.
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“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. The Taliban are seeking to re-establish their hard-line Islamist regime after being toppled by U.S.-led military intervention in 2001.
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Earlier this week, a suicide bomber attacked a joint Afghan-NATO convoy near Bagram airbase near Kabul, killing six foreign soldiers and wounding three others.
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Helmand is an important Taliban base as it produces most of the world’s opium, a crop that helps fund the insurgency. Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen, 36, of Plymouth, Minn.; Staff Sgt. Michael A. Cinco, 28, of Mercedes, Texas; Staff Sgt. Peter W. Taub, 30, of Philadelphia; Staff Sgt. Chester J. McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Ga.; Technical Sgt. Joseph G. Lemm, 45, of New York City; and Staff Sgt. Louis M. Bonacasa, 31, of Coram, N.Y.
A breakaway faction appointed another leader – Mullah Mohammed Rasool – and vowed to push on with their fight against the Afghan state.
In recent days, the Taliban assault has threatened to overrun Sangin, a major poppy-growing area in Helmand, raising alarm that Afghan forces were too overstretched to fend off the insurgency.
The Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police forces killed a number of Taliban fighters and their commander in Thursday’s military operation, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry told CNN.
Q: What’s wrong with the Afghan government?
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. Key government posts, including the minister of defense, have not been permanently filled. And peace talks are now a pretty distant prospect. “We hope they will make further progress today”. “That means more fighting and more harm to the civilian population”.
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Munir also spoke on the success of the recently concluded “Heart of Asia” conference and talked about the Tripartiate agreement with India and Afghanistan. The BBC, in fact, quoted a Taliban spokesperson saying that newly appointed leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour had not been appointed “by all Taliban”, going against Sharia law. “Right now the Taliban might be politically fragmented, but militarily they are more powerful”.
