US helicopter comes down in Iraq
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US marines launch a search and rescue operation after a helicopter full of troops crashes in western Iraq.
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A Marine helicopter made a hard landing Monday in a remote desert area of Anbar province, injuring 18 people, the third U.S. aircraft to go down in the insurgent stronghold in two weeks.
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A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said &#151; the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top U.S. general conceded that insurgent ground fire has become more effective.
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A coalition helicopter went down in southeastern Afghanistan early Sunday after reporting an engine failure, according to a statement issued by the coalition headquarters in Bagram.
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A militant group in Iraq has posted a video that shows what it says is an American helicopter being shot down.
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BAGHDAD -- The US command has ordered changes in flight operations after four helicopters were shot down in the last two weeks, the chief military spokesman said yesterday, acknowledging for the first time that the aircraft were lost to hostile fire.
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HADITHA, Iraq  - One Marine was killed and three servicemen were missing after a U.S. transport helicopter with 16 people on board made an emergency landing on water in western Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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US forces are reportedly coming under sustained fire in Fallujah as two American military helicopters were forced to land near the city while their crews were rescued.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A U.S. helicopter was shot down  over Falluja on Tuesday as U.S.-led forces were pressing home  an offensive on the rebel-held city.
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HADITHA, Iraq  - Four U.S. troops were killed in Iraq on Sunday when a Marine Corps helicopter with 16 people aboard suffered mechanical failure and made an emergency landing in a lake, the military said on Monday.
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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.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 7 -- A U.S. military transport helicopter, capable of carrying up to 25 people, crashed Wednesday northwest of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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The U.S. military confirmed on Wednesday that a transport helicopter had come down near Baghdad but declined comment on any casualties.
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A helicopter which crash-landed north near Baghdad was shot down, the military says.
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All seven U.S. troops aboard a military helicopter were killed when it crashed near Baghdad on Wednesday, the fifth such aircraft to be lost in Iraq in less than three weeks, a U.S. defense official said.
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BAGHDAD -- A military helicopter crashed during a sandstorm in western Iraq yesterday, killing 30 US Marines and a sailor, while insurgents killed six more American troops in the single deadliest day for the United States since the war began nearly two years ago.
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BAGHDAD -- US helicopters targeting insurgents mistakenly killed at least five allied Kurdish militiamen in the northern city of Mosul early yesterday. The military also reported three more American soldiers killed in combat, pushing the US death toll to 33 in the first eight days of the month.