The US Army conducted air strikes on Wednesday to bolster the Afghan forces mobilising reinforcements to relieve dozens of security forces holed up in the district centre. The way we are fighting today, I think you can not compare with any of those forces.
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“They recaptured the district and police headquarters and the wounded were evacuated”.
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Taliban claim to have captured almost the entire district of Sangin after storming its frontlines last Sunday, tightening their grip on the southern Helmand province.
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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.
Months of fighting also disrupted life of local people.
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.
Sangin has seen more than 100 British troops losing their lives during the decade long combat mission in Afghanistan.
US President Barack Obama announced in October that thousands of US troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, keeping the current force of 9,800 troops, amid a surge in Taliban attacks.
The Taliban statement listed barriers to peace negotiations, including United Nations sanctions on individual Taliban figures which were extended this week, and the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan, with specific mention of the British troops that arrived in Helmand on Wednesday to provide support for Afghan forces battling in Sangin.
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.
Operations were slowed Thursday as insurgents began taking shelter in civilian homes, he said.
Acting Defense Minister Masoom Stanekzai admits the fighting in Helmand has been “difficult” but says the problems that have emerged are the natural result of handing over security to local forces that still needed development. “In only one year, we took over responsibility”, he told a news conference in Kabul this week. Deserters who are not reported so that officials can pocket their salaries. But at least two air strikes have been carried out this week.
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He said that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces had operated with around 60 eye-in-the-sky surveillance balloons in Sangin, allowing them to track the movements of groups of insurgents.
