Helicopter Crashes in Colombian Drug War, Kills 20
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A U.S.-made helicopter on ananti-drugs mission crashed in the Colombian jungle on Thursday,killing all 20 Colombian soldiers aboard, the army said.
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BOGOTA -- Leftist rebels, in a struggle for control of a jungle river used for cocaine trafficking, fired rockets into a Colombian marine post early yesterday, killing at least 14 marines and wounding 25, the Colombian navy commander said.
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A U.S. helicopter with 10 people on board crashed near the Banda Aceh airport Monday while on a tsunami-relief operation, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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A helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 16 people on board, including at least two American civilians, officials said Thursday.
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A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters overhead spotted a fire they had set
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U.S. warplanes unleashed devastating airstrikes on a suspected hideout where operatives from an al-Qaida-linked group were meeting Monday, and hospital officials said 20 people died.
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The U.S. military said 20 insurgents, including two women, were killed in a raid and subsequent airstrike Friday on a predominantly Sunni village northwest of Baghdad, but local officials alleged the dead were civilians &#151; including eight children.
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All the 24 people who were in a helicopter which crashed in Nepal have been killed,  officials say.
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CARACAS : A military airplane crashed in a mountainous region in northeastern Venezuela killing all 25 passengers, a spokesman for the air rescue service told AFP.
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A helicopter on a wildfire mission crashed in the Payette National Forest, killing the pilot and all three forest workers aboard, authorities said.
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A military plane crashed in the mountains near Caracas, killing all 16 persons on board, including two high-ranking military officers, officials said.
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The Iraqi Red Crescent ambulance that was hit in the US airstrike in Fallujah. . At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded when US warplanes struck Fallujah yesterday.
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All 24 people on board a helicopter   chartered by conservation group WWF in Nepal were killed after   the aircraft crashed two days ago, an airport official said on   Monday.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Eight Russian soldiers and police were killed by rebels in Chechnya within a 24-hour period, and a military helicopter crashed on a flight out of the region, killing two of the three crew members aboard, officials said.
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A military plane crashes in a mountainous area of Venezuela, killing 16 people.
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Two helicopters sent by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez landed in Colombia Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.
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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.