The Minister of Defense Masoom Stanikzai told reporters on Wednesday that foreign militants are mainly fighting the Afghan security fores in Helmand province.
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“The Helmand battle is not easy because the province has a long border, is a core of opium production, and our enemies are well-equipped and deeply involved in the smuggling of drugs”, he said.
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Afghan planes also struck Taliban strongholds in Sangin, killing 25 insurgents and wounding another 12, said the Afghan army spokesman in Helmand, Guam Rasoul Zazai.
Sangin is an important prize for the Taliban.
However, Helmand’s deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, denied the claim.
“An hour later we recaptured that building and now we have it”, he tells The Associated Press.
Widespread reports of mass desertions, leadership confusion and bitter complaints from the frontline about units being left for months without reinforcements or adequate supplies have underlined the problems facing Afghan commanders. “They are helping make bombs and train suicide bombers”. It’s not that we are afraid of death, but we didn’t think that our brothers would leave us like this’.
And last weekend it flew out 10 soldiers to Helmand province to join a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force training and advising Afghan troops.
Global forces struggled for years to control the region and numerous British troops who died in Afghanistan were killed in Helmand.
December marks one year since North Atlantic Treaty Organisation handed over security operations to the Afghans.
A police officer with an Afghan army brigade said: “Support troops have been airdropped at a distance but all roads are blocked and in the militants’ control”.
The Sangin District is a key center of the Afghan opium trade, and hugely profitable for the Taliban because of that. They “had to fight alongside the bodies of their friends and the wounded soldiers”, said Ali Shah Khan, a tribal elder from Sangin.
“For that reason they would have not come with the intend to invade our country”, the statement said.
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.
A newly formed “steering committee” comprising officials from the four countries is expected to meet in the first week of January either in Kabul or Islamabad to discuss possible venue and terms for direct talks between Afghan government and Taliban officials.
“Sangin became fairly totemic for the British because of the number of soldiers lost”, he said.
The Afghan army would be collapsing a good deal faster if so much of the Taliban’s attention were not focused on fighting off the challenge from Islamic State.
Russian Federation has opposed the Taliban for more than a decade as a potential vehicle for terror and instability.
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US Army Colonel Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for Nato’s Resolute Support mission, said its priorities were to “train, advise, assist”.
