Attack becomes defence in Helmand :

Just a few hours earlier their Helmand camp had been attacked by mortars and rockets, but now they were preparing to take the fight back to the Taleban.
The notorious "green zone" of trees and fields is just a few hundred metres from forward operating base Inkerman in the Helmand river valley, but it's where the insurgents fight from.
The mission was using darkness to push deep into their territory and then strike at first light.
They expected to meet heavy resistance, but they couldn't have predicted that their well-planned offensive would turn into a race back to camp within hours.
It's been a hot, dusty and already bloody summer for the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment.
Their base is a northern buffer to stop attacks on Sangin - an important town where a fragile bubble of security has been created to try and win people over by improving their lives.