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Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed the helicopter "crash landed", and acknowledged the death of three crew members. [ 14 ] March 18 : A Mi-17 helicopter of the Afghan Army was shot down by a local anti-taliban militia led by ethnic warlord Abdul Ghani Alipur [ 15 ] in the Behsud district of Maidan Wardak .
November 9, 2007 – Five US Army soldiers and one Marine were killed when their footpatrol was attacked by direct fire from enemy forces in Aranas, Afghanistan. The soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Vicenza, Italy.
An additional 19 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 3 unspecified non-combat-related deaths, 3 suicide deaths, 2 in a helicopter crash, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots and 1 death from an illness.
A major offensive, the primary objective of which was to quell the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan Operation Mountain Viper: 30 August 2003: September 2003: The mountains of the Dey Chopan District, Zabul province: Sought to uncover Taliban rebels. Deaths included 124 militants, five Afghan Army personnel and one US soldier Operation ...
This is the first rotation to Afghanistan for one of the U.S. Army's new Stryker brigades and includes the following units: 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment; 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment; 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment—Forward Operating Base Wolverine, Zabul province [5] 3rd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment (3-17th ...
Operation Enduring Freedom referred to the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan. [16] [17] The codename was also used for counter-terrorism operations in other countries targeting Al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban, such as OEF-Philippines, OEF-Trans Sahara, and possibly in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, [18] primarily through government funding vehicles.
The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: قوای هوایی افغانستان), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, [1] was the aerial warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in April 1992.
United States and NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations, alongside Afghan National Army forces, continued against the Taliban through 2008.. On April 27, President Karzai escaped another attempt on his life: gunmen opened fire during a military parade celebrating the nation's victory and liberation from the eight-year occupation of the Soviet Union.