British Forces Hand Over Sangin To U.S. Marines

The British Royal Marines have transferred control of Helmand province's Sangin district in Afghanistan to the U.S. Marine Corps, Agence France-Presse reports.

The handover of the district was announced in July. British forces arrived in the area in 2006, and suffered about a third of their war dead in the district.

British troops will be redeployed into central Helmand, Defense Minister Liam Fox said.

The Taliban called the move the "start of the British forces' defeat in...