World
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International
8/27/2023 2:12:49 PM
More than 600 firefighters, including reinforcements from several European countries, backed by a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters were battling three persistent major wildfires in Greece Sunday, two of which have been raging for days.
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World
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International
7/31/2023 10:34:29 AM
The Australian army helicopter that crashed Friday during a multinational exercise hit the water with a “catastrophic impact” and there is no chance its four crew members survived, officials said Monday.
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Egypt
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Defence
7/23/2023 8:23:40 PM
The Egyptian Armed Forces announced on Sunday that they are preparing to send three Chinook helicopters to Greece to help in fighting forest fires.
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World
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Region
6/13/2023 9:53:08 AM
A helicopter accident in northeastern Syria over the weekend left 22 American service members injured, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 3:18:53 PM
A Tunisian army helicopter with four people on board is missing and feared crashed hours after vanishing from radar screens, the defense ministry said on Thursday.
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World
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International
5/21/2023 4:48:45 PM
Two pilots were killed Sunday when a US-made military helicopter crashed in the north of Afghanistan, the country's defence ministry said.
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World
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Region
4/28/2023 6:26:03 PM
Masked Iranian navy commandos conducted a helicopter-borne raid to seize a U.S.-bound oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, footage aired by Iran's state television showed Friday.
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World
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Region
4/17/2023 12:32:40 PM
A US helicopter raid on Monday targeted a senior Islamic State group leader in Syria suspected of plotting attacks in Europe and the Middle East, US Central Command said.
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World
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International
3/30/2023 3:55:01 PM
Nine people were killed in a crash involving two Army Black Hawk helicopters in Kentucky, a military spokesperson said.
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World
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Region
3/17/2023 7:04:17 PM
A top commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces was among nine fighters killed when two helicopters crashed in Iraq earlier this week, the group said on Friday.
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World
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Region
3/16/2023 2:16:15 PM
Several people, including militants belonging to an outlawed Kurdish insurgency group, were killed in a mysterious helicopter crash in northern Iraq, according to a statement from the Iraqi Kurdish-run counterterrorism service on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/27/2023 8:49:53 PM
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry took a helicopter tour on Monday of one of the areas that were worst hit by the 6 February earthquake in Turkey.
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World
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Region
2/19/2023 11:05:53 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a helicopter tour Sunday of one of the provinces worst-affected by the Feb. 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria and pledged a further $100 million in aid to help the region.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/21/2023 3:47:54 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an emotional meeting Saturday morning with the families of those who died in a helicopter crash earlier this week.
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World
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Region
1/19/2023 9:34:33 PM
American and Syrian Kurdish forces detained a militant from the Islamic State group following a helicopter raid in eastern Syria, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement Thursday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/18/2023 3:58:35 PM
Foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid has expressed Egypt’s condolences to Ukraine over the death of the country's interior minister and a number of other top officials in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/18/2023 10:43:27 AM
A helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb Wednesday killed 18 people, including Ukraine's interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said.
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World
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International
1/5/2023 6:54:54 PM
Prince Harry has acknowledged killing 25 people during his time as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, British media reported Thursday, quoting a soon-to-be-published autobiography.
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World
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International
12/19/2022 10:31:08 AM
Thai military frigates and helicopters were on Monday searching for 31 sailors after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others having been hauled from choppy waters.
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World
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Region
12/11/2022 6:28:58 PM
American forces on Sunday killed two Islamic State militants in eastern Syria in a helicopter raid, US Central Command said in a statement.
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