Sky News has analysed the key locations in the group's recent advance to show how Lashkar Gah fell.
By 3 August, the conflict had become so fierce in Lashkar Gah that Afghan forces told all remaining civilians to leave.Lashkar Gah has a totemic value to the British Armed Forces because it was the location of their headquarters for operations in Helmand between 2006 and 2014.
For soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, time at Lashkar Gah was so much more comfortable than Camp Bastion or one of the forward operating bases that it became known affectionately by troops as"Lash Vegas".
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