NATO: Helicopter down in Afghanistan
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NATO said one of its helicopters went down in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, and a Taliban spokesman claimed the militant group had shot it down.
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Three British NATO troops were killed in an apparent &quot;friendly fire&quot; incident in Afghanistan when US jets dropped a bomb on them during fighting with the Taliban, officials said Friday.
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The NATO force in Afghanistan does not have enough troops or equipment to secure advances made against Taliban insurgents and to guarantee a successful end to its mission, a lawmakers' report concluded on Friday.
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A NATO aircraft crashed Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing 14 British servicemen, but the alliance said there was no indication hostile fire was involved.
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Seven NATO troops died when their Chinook helicopter crashed on Wednesday in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, NATO officials said.
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A search is under way for a civilian helicopter that went missing in bad weather on Saturday while ferrying supplies for foreign forces in southern Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Engine failure brought down a UN helicopter sent to collect ballot boxes from northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring no one but causing a new glitch in efforts to tally the results of the country's landmark presidential election.
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Despite the loss of a NATO Chinook helicopter this week with seven servicemen aboard, a British-led thrust to drive the Taliban from strongholds in Helmand province is yielding success, Western military officials said on Friday.
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A helicopter from the U.S.-led coalition force in Afghanistan crashed on Sunday after reporting engine failure, the coalition said, without giving information on any casualties.
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A NATO helicopter on a night mission crashed late yesterday in southern Afghanistan, killing all seven service members aboard in what officials believe was a coordinated attack in an area known for aggressive Taliban fighting.
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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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A U.N. helicopter flying to retrieve ballot boxes after Afghanistan's landmark election was forced to crash-land in a remote snow-covered corner of the country on Tuesday, officials said.
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NATO said one of its helicopters crashed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, and a Taliban spokesman claimed the militant group had shot it down
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed yesterday in widespread violence.
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A helicopter from Afghanistan's U.S.-led coalition force crashed on Sunday after reporting an engine failure, the coalition said, but it did not say if there were any casualties.
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A coalition helicopter has crashed in southeastern Afghanistan early on Sunday after reporting engine failure, the US-led coalition said in a statement.
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The U.S. military said a transport helicopter had come down near Baghdad on Wednesday, the fifth helicopter to be lost in Iraq in three weeks.