Clips
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How Helmand became a battle zone Duration: 04:54
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Captain James Young describes how British sniper teams spread fear amongst the Taliban. Duration: 01:22
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Regimental Sgt-Major Glenn Snazle describes fighting the Taliban in Helmand’s ‘Green Zone’ Duration: 02:51
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British soldiers mount a heli-borne assault in Zaborabad to grow the area under their control. Duration: 01:51
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BBC Three: Our War
BBC Three marks the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan with a series telling the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the young soldiers themselves.
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BBC News: New footage reveals plight of first troops in Helmand
Watch previously unseen footage, to be broadcast in the BBC documentary series Our War, showing how the first major deployment of British troops sent to Helmand Province in 2006 was almost overrun.
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BBC Two: Afghanistan: War without End?
In the first of three programmes to mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war.
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Memorial to soldiers killed defending the Kajaki Dam
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View of the Helmand valley from Kajaki
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Mark Urban at the Kajaki Dam
Kajaki Dam where the turbine components that British soldiers delivered two years ago lies rusting in the open
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Mark Urban with the US Marines in Helmand
Credits
- Series Producer
- Leo Telling
- Reporter
- Mark Urban
- Producer
- Ian Bremner
- Executive Producer
- Darren Kemp
