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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Afghan offensive clearing out Taliban: military AFP - Tuesday, February 16 Send IM Story Print Afghan offensive clearing out Taliban: military Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: War On Terror MARJAH, Afghanistan (AFP) - – Afghanistan's military said US-led forces had almost taken control of a key Taliban bastion as a major offensive entered its fourth day Tuesday, but troops were running into pockets of resistance from militant sniper fire and bombs. The assault on the militant stronghold of Marjah is the first major test of US President Barack Obama's strategy to crush an eight-year insurgency and one of the biggest since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban regime. A top Afghan commander claimed the Taliban had left the area but US Marines reported slow progress as they inched their way through poppy fields near Marjah, bullets whistling overhead as sniffer dogs hunted for bombs. US Marines are leading 15,000 US, NATO and Afghan troops in Operation Mushtarak ("Together" in Dari), a ground and air offensive aimed at clearing the Taliban from one of the world's biggest opium-producing areas. "All of the areas of Marjah and Nad Ali have been taken by combined forces. They are under our control, almost all Nad Ali and Marjah," said General Aminullah Patiani, the senior Afghan commander in Operation Mushtarak. Facts: Marjah - heartland of the Taliban "The Taliban have left the areas but th e threat from IEDs remains," he told AFP in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah, referring to improvised explosive devices, the biggest killer of foreign troops in Afghanistan. On Monday, NATO said five civilians were accidentally killed in an air strike in the neighbouring province of Kandahar, the day after 12 people were killed when two NATO rockets missed their target and hit a house in Nad Ali. Two NATO soldiers have been killed in Mushtarak, while another five British and American soldiers have died elsewhere in southern Afghanistan since the assault was launched on Saturday. US Marine spokesman Captain Abe Sipe said Monday that fighting was continuing in certain areas of Marjah and noted "a couple of difficult areas where the Marines have met stiff resistance." An AFP photographer on the outskirts of Marjah said troops had advanced slowly, coming under Taliban fire and hunting for bombs, as they sought to reassure residents that they were in the area to stay. Scene: On the ground with the Marines Obama has ordered the deployment of more than 50,000 US troops to Afghanistan since taking office in January 2009, with the final reinforcements due to bring to 150,000 the total number of US and NATO-led troops in the country by August. Western commanders say Mushtarak is a show of force designed to implement counter-insurgency tactics drawn up by the top commander US General Stanley McChrystal to push out militants and pave the way for Afghan sovereignty. "The operation has to create an environment in which governance and development can be established," said the spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Brigadier General Eric Tremblay. "It's not supposed to be a show of strength militarily. We have said all along it's not necessarily about killing them (the insurgents) but if they are fighting ISAF and Afghan forces they will be killed. Afghan officials, who have their troops fighting side-by-side with the foreign troops for the first time, say they have a government-in-waiting ready to sweep in and prevent the return of the Taliban. Related article: Objectives of the Afghan operation "This a very challenging operation... it is going to take time for us to persuade the locals that they should be accepting the Afghan government," the head of Britain's armed forces, Jock Stirrup, told the BBC. "In about 12 months, we will be able to look back and say that this whole operation has been successful." Afghan Defence Minister Rahim Wardak called on the Taliban to take up an offer from President Hamid Karzai of jobs and a return to civilian life. Related article: Troops fight for hearts and minds in Afghan assault "I want to call on all Afghan Taliban, the ones who are besieged or maybe hiding... put down your arms and join our reconciliation programme, take part with us in the rebuilding of our country," he said. Limiting civilian casualties is key to winning hearts and minds in the operation against a Taliban force estimated at up to 1,000 fighters. But NATO on Sunday acknowledged responsibility for the deaths of 12 Afghans when two rockets missed their target and landed on a compound as troops came under fire in Nad Ali. Interior Minister Hanif Atmar said three Taliban and nine civilians were killed and that three foreign fighters were among those captured. Another five Afghan civilians were killed Monday in an air strike in Kandahar, but NATO said the casualties were accidental and unrelated to Operation Mushtarak. Civilian casualties are an incendiary issue among Afghans, who often blame them on the presence of foreign soldiers despite the fact that most are caused by Taliban attacks, according to the United Nations. 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