Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed: “The Sangin district centres, its police headquarters and other establishments were under continued attacks of the Mujahideen and today with God’s grace the district was fully captured by the mujahideen”.
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“We need help, we can’t hold them for much longer”, Zamarai said.
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Helmand district governor Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar told the BBC the Afghan National Army (ANA) was “now taking the fight to the Taliban”.
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Masoom Stanekzai said on Wednesday fighting in the Sangin district of Helmand is continuing as army and police arrive to help security forces who have been pinned down for days.
In a besieged army base in the embattled district of Sangin, an Afghan soldier described a dire situation, saying a handful of Afghan troops inside were fighting to the last, trying to keep the Taliban out. The town is an important poppy-growing area and sits on lucrative transport routes for drugs and weapons.
Almost 14 years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was disbanded in December 2014 to be replaced by a follow-on NATO-led mission called Resolute Support, which was launched on January 1, 2015 to provide “further training, advice and assistance for the Afghan security forces and institutions”, according to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The attack was the deadliest on United States forces in Afghanistan this year.
Sangin residents also denied that the district had at any stage fallen to the Taliban.
Helmand abuts the Pakistani border, which makes it easy for the Taliban to resupply from its strongholds in Pakistan and maintain a steady stream of fighters.
Taliban militants have been tightening noose to overrun Sangin district and cut the supply line for troops in provincial capital Lashkar Gah, 555 km south of the national capital Kabul.
The Afghans are on their own now, and they will be lucky if they end up back under the rule of the Taliban rather than in the clutches of Islamic State. He said 12 members of the same family were killed by a roadside bomb as they were driving out of the district earlier this week, and rocket fire had landed on a house killing 17 people, including 10 children.
And having made those mistakes, it was another mistake to pull nearly all the foreign troops out before the Afghan government’s army was up to holding the Taliban off.
“We see the above obstacles created in front of peace as an intentional effort to sabotage the peace process and consider these steps the main cause of the protraction of war in our beloved homeland”, the Taliban statement said. The Pentagon warned last week of deteriorating security in Afghanistan and assessed the performance of Afghan security forces as “uneven and mixed”.
The expected winter lull in fighting has not yet taken place in the warmer southern provinces. With the insurgents gaining momentum, negotiations seem unlikely anytime soon, and even the traditionally optimistic Pentagon says things could get worse in 2016.
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After announcing in July that its longtime spiritual leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, had been dead for two years, the Taliban saw a nasty internal fight over his successor.
