Afghan commanders have appealed for more North Atlantic Treaty Organisation support amid reports that government forces have lost control of the key strategic town of Sangin to the Taliban. Last weekend, the deputy governor of the province pleaded publicly with President Ashraf Ghani for military aid, writing in a Facebook post that his province was “standing on the brink”.
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that additional military forces have deployed to support Afghan National Defence and Security Force’s (ANSF) attempts to suppress the Taliban surge in Sangin, Helmand province.
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Details of the grim conditions for government troops pinned down in central Sangin emerged on Wednesday night as the embattled security forces struggled to maintain their last foothold in the Helmand town which came to symbolise Britain’s bloody struggle in Afghanistan. The Province borders Pakistan and has been cited as an important poppy-growing region for Taliban militants. According to Stuart Gordon, a Helmand expert, he told Britain’s Press Association news agency that Sangin held a special significance to the British as more than 100 British troops had been killed there.
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Afghan acting Defense Minister said on December 23 that reinforcements had been rushed to Sangin.
The Taliban, whose intensified war against Afghan forces has not slowed down with the colder season, have been besieging it for days and have almost completely run over the district.
He was responding to media reports suggesting the fall of Sangin district to the Taliban militants.
Fleeing residents reported Taliban executions of captured soldiers as the insurgents advanced on the district centre, compounding fears that the entire province was on the brink of a security collapse.
Responding to the defence minister’s claims, he said: “Those whose family – brothers and siblings and parents – are not fighting on the front, they always say the situation is not unsafe in the area…” It’s not that we are afraid of death, but we didn’t think that our brothers would leave us like this’.
The besieged collection of Afghan soldiers and police had little choice, they could surrender to the Taliban fighters who had swept into Sangin days earlier, or they would soon be killed.
Supply lines were cut, preventing ammunition and food from reaching government forces, and roads around the district center mined, officials have said.
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Monday was the deadliest day for American troops in Afghanistan since May 2013, when five were killed by a roadside bomb in the country’s south and two killed by an Afghan soldier in an insider attack in the west. Before Monday’s attack, the most recent American casualties in the country were on August 22, when three contractors were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
