U.S. chopper crash kills 8 in Afghanistan
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Eight U.S. soldiers were killed and 14 injured when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous, snow-covered area of southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Seven NATO soldiers died when their Chinook helicopter crashed on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, the site of some of the heaviest recent fighting between Western forces and the Taliban.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber set off explosives outside the office of a U.S.-owned security company in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing eight people, including two Americans, a government and company official said.
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Taliban fire may have brought down a military helicopter in which seven NATO soldiers were killed, alliance officials said, while in a separate incident 16 policemen died in a Taliban ambush.
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A U.S. Marine transport helicopter crashed in flames Wednesday in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S. military said. It was the sixth U.S. aircraft reported lost in less than three weeks and the latest sign of growing problems with aviation in Iraq.
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KABUL  - Three US military personnel and three American civilian crew members were killed when their plane crashed at the weekend in central Afghanistan, the US military said.
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It has been confirmed by the US Military that seven soldiers from Fort Hood were killed this morning in a helicopter crash. The UH-60 Black Hawk crashed just south of Waco in heavy fog.
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BAGHDAD -- A U S Marine transport helicopter crashed in flames yesterday in a field northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people aboard, the U S military said. It was the fifth U S aircraft lost in less than three weeks and the latest sign of growing problems with aviation in Iraq.
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Coalition forces backed by U.S. aircraft killed eight al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents on Wednesday during a raid that also left two Iraqi women dead, the U.S. military said.
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A helicopter of the U.S.-led coalition force crashed in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the coalition said, but did not say if there were any casualties.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Eight US soldiers involved in efforts to defeat extremist Taliban militants in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash as authorities reported the killings of seven Afghans in new unrest.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A U.S.-made helicopter on an  anti-drugs mission crashed in the Colombian jungle on Thursday,  killing all 20 Colombian soldiers aboard, the army said.
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A US Army Black Hawk helicopter clipped wires supporting a TV tower and crashed in foggy weather in central Texas on Monday, killing all seven soldiers on board, witnesses and military officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Up to 40 US soldiers streamed out of a CH-47 Chinook in an air assault on a Taliban position in southern Afghanistan shortly before the helicopter crashed, officials said yesterday, killing five Americans, a Briton, and a Canadian.
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Taliban fighters downed a NATO military helicopter which crashed in Afghanistan, the militant group said in a statement on the Internet on Thursday.