{"id":27723,"date":"2017-09-29T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/29\/marines-help-afghans-to-clear-key-district-in-helmand-province\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:01:21","slug":"marines-help-afghans-to-clear-key-district-in-helmand-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/09\/29\/marines-help-afghans-to-clear-key-district-in-helmand-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines help Afghans to clear key district in Helmand province"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have been retaking areas in Helmand province, Afghanistan, from Taliban insurgents since Sept. 23, Marine Corps officials from Task Force Southwest announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey cleared north to south, all the way back to Lashkar Gah, which was huge. It really went past our expectations\u2026. they followed that up with local clearing operations around Gereshk as well, continuously putting the enemy on their heels,\u201d U.S. Marine Capt. John Quail, an adviser with Task Force Southwest, said in a press release.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lashkar Gah \u2014 the provincial capital of Helmand province \u2014 is one of the few areas in Helmand province that has not fallen to Taliban control since the drawdown of international forces in 2014. The town of Gereshk is roughly 65 kilometers by road from Lashkar Gah, and along the Helmand River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019ve made substantial progress,\u201d Quail said. \u201cThey cleared the Yakchal area, which has historically had high levels of enemy presence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highway 1 connects Gereshk and Lashkar Gah. In between those points, the Yakchal area has been a hotbed of Taliban insurgents since 2009, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-afghanistan-highway\/bloody-summer-for-british-troops-in-taliban-country-idUSTRE54E1CZ20090515\">Reuters report<\/a> from that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the clearing operations, Afghan forces destroyed 15 facilities used to manufacture improvised explosive devices, Afghan National Army Brig. Gen. Mohammed Ghani said in the press release.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were able to clear the villages, and the enemy sustained a lot of casualties. They were completely demoralized,\u201d Ghani said. \u201cWe were really successful in our first plan, and are preparing to complete our second.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roughly 300 Marines of Task Force Southwest train, advise and assist key leaders within the Afghan National Army and the National Police in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines advise their Afghan counterparts at the corps and brigade level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are right here with them doing it every step of the way,\u201d Quail said. \u201cWhich is very important, and we\u2019ve already seen a lot of benefits just by being out here with them.\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helmand Province is still a key outpost for Taliban insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["flashpoints"],"primary_category":"flashpoints"}}},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3297],"class_list":["post-27723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashpoints","category-news"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"AMVLIBHLUJCDZBWSSOAFRJDMXE","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/2017\/09\/29\/marines-help-afghans-to-clear-key-district-in-helmand-province\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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