More Than 1,000 Extra Marines To Be Deployed in Afghanistan

The United States will send additional than 1,000 further Marines to Afghanistan this month to try to harden development in the south previous to horde reductions begin in July, American military official said Thursday.

The bulk of the forces will be sent to Helmand region, where 20,000 Marines have made gains against the Taliban other than where fighting remains strong in insurgent strongholds like Sangin. American commander are under pressure to quell the aggression and sustain their gains in the first six months of 2011, when the White House will tax whether a troop add to for the nearly decade-old war is working.

bureaucrat at the Florida-based United States Central Command, which has liability for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said that the Marines were being sent to take advantage of what is usually a winter hiatus for the Taliban and to try to set situation for the fighting season that begins in the spring.


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Britain Hands Over to U.S. in Deadly Afghan District

Britain takes out the last of its Royal Marines from the aggressive Sangin District in northern Helmand Province on Monday, handing organize in that Taliban stronghold to American troops.

More than 100 British soldiers died in Sangin, nearly a third of that country’s wounded since 2001.

British, Afghan and American military officials are firmed it was a routine battleground turning round, but the Afghan protection minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, told the BBC in an question on Monday that American troops were better equipped and better skilled than British ones.

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