The Afghan government has sent reinforcements to the district to help besieged forces but the defence minister called for worldwide support and air cover.
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Insurgents have been fighting for control of Sangin for nearly a month, though the battle intensified a week ago as government reinforcements failed to arrive and Afghan security forces were pinned down inside an army base.
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He said Afghanistan’s embattled security forces need global military help, especially air support, which would help reduce casualties.
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Sangin is a key district in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a strategically important fertile poppy-growing area.
Afghan government forces had been “thinly spread” over the whole country, he said, and had been trying their best to hold all areas.
But at least one SAS unit of around 30 soldiers were backing American special forces and the Afghan National Army to retake Sangin, in northern Helmand.
Sangin residents have been fleeing as the fighting worsened.
Ian Wright, whose son Gary was killed when his vehicle was caught in a suicide blast in Lashkar Gah in 2006, said: “I am totally opposed to troops back on the ground in Afghanistan, whatever roles they are carrying out”.
According to Afghan media the necessary goods and ammunition have been dropped to forces through planes who gaining an upper hand against Taliban insurgents now.
He said plans to push back in Sangin had been in preparation for some time, but the government had to prioritize its military assets as the Taliban had been fighting across all corners of the country since the drawdown of the global combat mission previous year.
Afghanistan’s acting Defence Minister Masoum Stanikzai described the situation in Helmand as “manageable” and said fresh support troops had been sent in to help those trapped.
The other three killed were all U.S. Air Force staff sergeants who served with Vorderbruggen in the OIS – Michael Cinco, 28, of Mercedes, Texas; Peter Taub, 30, of Philadelphia; and Chester McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Georgia, the Air Force said.
The commander killed in the offensive is considered to be a close confidant of the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, officials said.
The defense secretary noted that on each stop of his visit last week to Afghanistan – which included stops on Bagram and Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad – he saw US and Afghan troops working side-by-side.
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. Both took place before midnight.
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“This is an issue that has to be clear in the negotiating process”, Muzhda said.
