'The elders have asked for a fitness centre?: paratroopers in northern Nad-e-Ali say that, because they patrol more frequently, locals are beginning to offer more information Photo: Heathcliff O'MalleyWar In Afghanistan: A 'Breeze Of change' Blows In Helmand -- The Telegraph
As British troops spend their 10th Christmas in Afghanistan, Thomas Harding reports on growing signs of success in the fight against the insurgency.
On Christmas Day, as on every other day this year, British troops stepped out to patrol central Helmand's pleasant, Provence-like countryside of tree-lined paths and streams – fortified on this occasion by turkey and the traditional Christmas shot of "gunfire" (whisky and tea).
This is the 10th Christmas that UK forces have spent looking out on to Afghanistan's seemingly untamed landscape. But while no one is clamouring to say it – there have been too many false dawns – there is a feeling in the air that, as yet another year of the campaign comes to a close, a corner has been turned.
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