The cops officers chief’s compound remained under attack, & food & ammunition have been briefly provide, Ashna stated. Wounded forces were ferried out.
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Record Christmas Eve warmth for eastern US
It will still be unseasonably warm, and there is the potential for strong storms with that frontal passage. Through 1 p.m., Washington, D.C. had already reached 70 degrees , passing the record high of 69 from 1933.
On Monday, Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said Afghan Army commandoes and special forces had arrived in Sangin to push a counter-offensive.
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Today’s warm front moves back south toward us as a cold front and that will spread additional rain and some thunder into the area. A weaker system with some showers to our south on Wednesday takes us down into the 30s as we end 2015 and start 2016.
Pakistan facilitated the first round of direct peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban group in Islamabad this year but the second round of the talks scheduled in July failed with the disclosure of the death of Taliban founder and supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
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Government officials today denied reports that Sangin was on the brink of falling to the Taliban, saying that reinforcements were trying to relieve dozens of security forces holed up in the district centre.
If the group were to take Sangin, it would be a significant gain for the militants.
The Taliban statement regarding the British troops deployment said that before entering Afghanistan “they should have studied the history of their ancestors and should have learned a lesson from the repeated defeat”.
“An hour later we recaptured that building and now we have it”, he told The Associated Press.
A fertile region that is a key location in Afghanistan’s poppy trade, Sangin lies in the south of the country in an area that has traditionally been a Taliban heartland. The Taliban already held three Helmand districts as well as large parts of the rest of the province outside the main centres and control strategic roads, making it hard to reinforce and resupply security force units cut off by their advance.
He conceded that many important districts in Helmand had been under prolonged Taliban attack, including Khanshin on the Pakistan border and Marjah, and that the provincial capital Lashkar Gah had also been targeted by the insurgents.
Caption + Afghan National Army soldiers guard at a checkpoint on the way to the Sangin district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.
“This is probably the worst of the scenarios that the British had in 2013 and 2014”.
He warned that all of Helmand could fall to the Taliban if the President didn’t take action.
Political analyst Waheed Muzhda, formerly an official in the Taliban’s 1996-2001 administration, said the Taliban needed to sort out its leadership problems before it started talking about the peace process.
GOV. MIRZA KHAN, Helmand, Afghanistan (through interpreter): The district is completely under the control of the government security forces.
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The crisis in Sangin has demonstrated the weakness of the Afghan central government. “But it’s when they’re left to their own devices that they seem to struggle”.
