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Latest reports from southern Afghanistan suggest that Sangin district in Helmand province is now almost entirely under Taliban control after days of fierce fighting.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that the Taliban controlled the district headquarters and police station.

The Taliban say their fighters have seized the entire district.

However, the defence ministry said fighting is "ongoing" and that reinforcements had been sent.

Eyewitnesses say some Afghan forces are still fighting in the district centre, but are cut off from reinforcements.

Sangin was a major centre of Nato's involvement in Afghanistan.

Helmand province has been a major centre of the Taliban insurgency with important supply routes for the opium trade.

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All this fighting is really stupid :/
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When I was stationed in Afghanistan, I heard some people talk about the province. I was in Kandahar Province
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conmaster550 wrote When I was stationed in Afghanistan, I heard some people talk about the province. I was in Kandahar Province


I had a friend stationed at Helmand province for a 6 months, he says it was the closet to place to hell without being burned
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M_U_F_C wrote
conmaster550 wrote When I was stationed in Afghanistan, I heard some people talk about the province. I was in Kandahar Province


I had a friend stationed at Helmand province for a 6 months, he says it was the closet to place to hell without being burned
Kandahar was hell man, I wasn't in Helmand. But Kandahar was intense, i got into about a dozen very heavy firefights but for the most part. They'd shoot at us and run off. I did a 9 month rotation.
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