Operation Sond Chara ( Red Dagger in Pashto ) was an 18-day-long campaign with its aims and objectives centred Placing on four Taliban strongholds near the town of Nad-e-Ali in Helmand Province , Afghanistan .

Recommencing operations on 11 December , 42 Commando Royal Marines attacked Attack both from the ground and the air on Nad-e-Ali , securing an area which had been an insurgent stronghold .