Afghanistan - "Substantial defeat for Taleban"

Compare this Telegraph report with how the BBC report on the war in Afghanistan.

The troops occupying the key district centres of Musa Qala, Sangin, Nowzad, Kajaki and Gereshk have brought relative quiet to the area after months of combat at levels unprecedented in recent British military history.

Given the intensity of engagements, casualty figures have been relatively low, with 14 servicemen killed in ground fighting. The Taliban have been hit hard: 250 have been killed in Sangin alone.

"The battle has been tough," said Brig Ed Butler, the commander of the UK Task Force in southern Afghanistan. "There is no doubt about that. The enemy has put up considerable resistance but I would judge that we have inflicted a tactical defeat on them."
Brig Butler said that in the first phase of the campaign, which began after British troops began deploying in April, the Taliban "threw themselves with real determination" against the district centres — administrative buildings that are symbols of the Afghan government's slender authority in the area.

"That strategy was unsuccessful," he said. "The fighters were determined but they were not professional. We inflicted a considerable number of casualties,"

Easy to see whose side the BBC is on, isn't it?