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The Taliban have captured the crucial southern Afghan city of Sangin after a year-long battle. Afghan forces say they have made a tactical retreat from the centre of Sangin.

A spokesman for Helmand’s Governor confirmed the district police and governor’s headquarters are now in militant hands. Almost a quarter of British troops killed during the UK’s combat mission in Afghanistan died defending Sangin.

Hundreds of Afghan combatants have been killed there in recent fighting.

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