The police chief’s compound remained under attack, and food and ammunition were in short supply, Ashna said.
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Earlier, the Taliban said in a statement 150 soldiers had been killed after suicide attackers had entered the base and attacked worldwide forces and their Afghan allies. Wounded forces have been ferried out.
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U.S. aircraft carried out two attacks in Sangin, the district in southern Afghanistan overrun by Taliban fighters this week, officials said as the battle for the strategic province of Helmand continued.
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The commander killed within the offensive is taken in to account to be an in depth confidant of the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, officers stated.
The contingent, which an Afghan official said includes around 90 people, is on an “advisory” mission with London insisting they will not engage in combat. He told reporters the Afghan air force had conducted 160 combat and transport flights over Sangin in the past 48 hours.
“Sangin became fairly totemic for the British because of the number of soldiers lost”, he said. A Taliban spokesperson later said: “Sangin district has completely collapsed to the Taliban”.
The Islamists claim to have captured almost the entire district of Sangin after storming its frontlines on Sunday, tightening their grip on the southern Helmand province. The Taliban already held three Helmand districts as well as large parts of the rest of the province outside the main centres and control strategic roads, making it hard to reinforce and resupply security force units cut off by their advance.
If the group were to take Sangin, it would be a significant gain for the militants.
“This is probably the worst of the scenarios that the British had in 2013 and 2014”.
President Ghani further added that the policy of the Afghan government is clear and reiterated his last year’s remarks, saying that Afghanistan is engaged in an undeclared war with Pakistan during the past 14 years.
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.
However, Helmand’s deputy governor, Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, denied the claim.
“Sangin signifies another humiliating defeat for NATO-trained Afghan forces”, security analyst Mia Gul Waseeq told AFP.
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In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and their loved ones, and that the USA will continue to work jointly with Afghans to promote peace and stability in their country. “But it’s when they’re left to their own devices that they seem to struggle”.
