Operations were slowed Thursday as insurgents began taking shelter in civilian homes, he said.
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The turmoil in Helmand, the deadliest province for British and USA forces in Afghanistan over the past decade, underscores a rapidly unravelling security situation in Afghanistan.
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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.
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Caption + Afghan National Army soldiers guard at a checkpoint on the way to the Sangin district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.
The UK Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that British troops had been deployed to the province to support local forces after the Afghan Defence Minister called for a desperate global support and air cover.
“The Taliban have made big advances in Helmand province in summer and into the winter and the offensive is increasing”, he said.
“US forces conducted two strikes in Sangin”, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation spokesman said in a brief statement.
The Afghan government and Taliban held their first face-to-face talks in the tourist resort of Murree in June.
Fighting around the town has escalated in the past week, and by Wednesday the militants said they had captured all of Sangin, pinning down government troops in an army barracks.
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”.
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.
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.
Nsto headquarters in Kabul confirmed that the air strikes had taken place but gave no details.
“It was significant because of the routes it controlled and it was a very significant part of the resourcing of the political economy of Helmand, because it is a major center of drugs processing and drugs shipping”, said Gordon.
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But the loss of Sangin, which British and United States forces fought for years to control, would also be a heavy blow for Western powers backing the Kabul government, now fighting alone since global forces ended combat operations last year.
