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July 31: A Polish Land Forces Mi-24V Hind attack helicopter was destroyed, on route to Ghazni from Kabul it was hit by heavy machine gun fire and forced to make a hard landing. [136] July 20: A British Royal Air Force GR4 Tornado fighter jet crashed at Kandahar air base during takeoff at 7:20 a.m. The two pilots were injured after ejecting from ...
The United States blamed Pakistan's government, mainly Pakistani Army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy network as the masterminds behind the attack. [8] U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, told Radio Pakistan that "The attack that took place in Kabul a few days ago, that was the work of the Haqqani network. There is ...
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
As the joint American/Afghan force pushed through the difficult terrain under fire, they reportedly called in airstrikes from AC-130 gunships, F-16 fighter jets, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, and drones. Due to conditions early in the raid, the second assault force was diverted to a backup landing zone.
The attack comes just days after the Taliban’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Haqqani, was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. The senior member of the powerful Haqqani ...
Thousands of Afghans flooded the airport and swarmed the large C-17 airlift planes as the Taliban seizes control of the country. VIDEO: US military helicopters chase away crowds of panicked ...
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On 3 August 1995, a Taliban air force MiG-21 aircraft forced the Russian aircraft to land at Kandahar. [1] [4] Negotiations between the Russian government and the Taliban to free the men stalled for over a year and efforts by U.S. senator Hank Brown to mediate between the two parties broke down over a prisoner exchange. [2]