Afghan border police on patrol with U.S. Marines

Government presence in the largely empty desert south of the district centre all the way to the Pakistan border some 80 km (50 miles) distant has always been either poor or non-existent, said Captain John Moder of the U.S. Marines.His men's mission, he said, was to secure a perimeter around the town, which had been captured by the Taliban,

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