Afghan district retaken from Taliban

Afghan police withdrew from the area saying they were staging a tactical retreat,but also complained that requests for reinforcements from foreign forces had been ignored. ISAF said on Monday that it was carrying out air attacks on insurgent positions.

In July last year,some 300 Taliban militants seized the same district headquarters before being pushed back by Afghan and international troops. The Taliban managed to hold the district for three days then.

In October 2009,Taliban insurgents killed eight American soldiers after storming another remote outpost in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province.

Since the withdrawal of foreign troops from Kamdesh and Barg-i-Matal districts,Afghan police say the area has been under immense threat from insurgents infiltrating from Pakistan.