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This article is about current war in Afghanistan and looks how soldiers fight against the Taliban not only in Helmand also in other parts of the country.

President Obama has announced today that he is sending another 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Critics argue that President Obama is playing a dangerous game. It seems to me that the war in Afghanistan is far from over, even if President Obama sends another 50,000 more troops to Afghanistan. I have been watching several documentaries in recent days that show the shocking reality of the war in Afghanistan.

In one of the documentaries, an American soldiers who is currently fighting in Afghanistan against the Taliban argues, that the war in Afghanistan is difficult because it is a country that is surrounded by mountains and hills and the Taliban and Al-Qaeda know the country better than them. It is a fact that most of the Taliban are former fighters, who fought against the Russians in the 1980s and 90s.

The Taliban have been engaged in fighting in wars for the past three decades. The Taliban in Afghanistan are fighting against the Americans and the Nato forces, who are considered as invaders, therefore they are supported by local villagers in different parts of Afghanistan. To understand the war in Afghanistan, we have to look at following videos, which has been filmed by a British journalist Ross Kamp. In the video he is filming every single moment of the current war in Afghanistan’s most dangerous and volatile Helmand province, where British troops are station.

Helmand is also famous for cultivating and supplying opium to the world. Helmand is not the only place to fight the Nato forces. According to The Guardian newspaper, John D McHugh’s unique film which is available to watch on the guardian website shows the fighting between the Taliban and American soldiers in the Konar province. The Guardian argues that Americans are losing the war in Afghanistan. You can be the judge of the war in Afghanistan by watching the recent video filmed by John D McHugh’s on the guardian website at www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan.