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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“I was injured in fighting with armed Taliban in Sangin district six days ago and was taken out by helicopter from the area on Thursday”, Border Police Force officer Abdul Wahab told Xinhua.
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“As we’ve seen in Kunduz, the Afghan forces are incapable of tackling the insurgency on their own”, said Omar Hamid, an analyst at the security consulting firm IHS. The U.K. has 450 troops in Afghanistan as part of NATO’s training mission. Lord Dannat, former head of the British Army, says the area was secure when it was handed over. Two Afghan national army tanks had been hit by improvised explosive devices and another had been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, and so had turned back, Shah said.
UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has insisted combat troops would not return to Afghanistan – where 456 British troops died – “under any circumstances”.
The war in Helmand, blighted by a huge opium harvest that helps fund the insurgency, underscores worsening security across Afghanistan a year after North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formally ended its combat operations.
The British and United States intervention has fuelled the perception that foreign powers are increasingly being drawn back into the conflict as Afghan forces struggle to rein in the Taliban.
“If Sangin falls, this fire will burn in more places beyond Sangin”, Mr Alokozay warned. “Sangin is a major center of drugs processing and drugs shipping”, according to Gordon.
The Taliban already held three Helmand districts as well as large parts of the rest of the province outside the main centres and control key strategic roads, making it hard to reinforce and resupply security force units cut off by their advance.
But just one year later, many Afghans now believe the Taliban are winning the war as British troops deploy to the southern Helmand to help beleaguered Afghan troops regain control of a strategically important district in the poppy-producing province.
“This is probably the worst of the scenarios that the British had in 2013 and 2014”.
This district lies in the south of the country, an area that was traditionally the center or the heartland of the Taliban.
Acting defence minister Masoom Stanekzai said 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 addition to the airstrikes, Afghan officials conducted air drops of food and ammunition for government forces and civilians on the ground in Sangin.
The US has carried out two air strikes in support of Afghan forces today.
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“They’re fine as long as they’re being assisted and they’re being provided air cover and things like that by Western forces”.
