KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Spencer C. Duncan Make It Count Foundation is hosting its 12th annual 5k run/walk this Saturday. Spencer grew up in Olathe and was one of 30 servicemen killed in 2011 when the ...

FIERCE fighting raged in Afghanistan yesterday as Nato troops battled to recover the remains of the helicopter shot down with the loss of 38 lives. The dangerous “clean-up” mission came as Washington ...

LONDON — The U.K.’s Boeing CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter force is looking at how it will rebuild its “contingency capability” once combat operations in Afghanistan cease at the end of 2015. RAF ...

A silhouette of a stationary Chinook helicopter making a soft-landing stretches across the afternoon horizon just south of the Army Aviation Support Facility at Stead. The helicopter ferried troops ...

* Chinook contract failure leaves troops short on air power * Cost of unused helicopters set to top 500 million pounds * Shortages mean troops have to move by dangerous roads By Luke Baker LONDON, ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A Canadian Chinook helicopter was forced to make a hard landing near a remote village in Kandahar province today, bursting into flames and causing minor injuries to eight ...

Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, April 10, 2010: U.S. soldiers with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Afghan troops hug the ground as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter kicks up ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan children retrieved souvenir-sized pieces of a helicopter shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan where witnesses Thursday described seeing the chopper burst into ...

WASHINGTON — The Army says it has grounded its fleet of Chinook cargo helicopters after fuel leaks caused a "small number" of engine fires. Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Tuesday the Army has ...

Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 2010: U.S. soldiers are pelted by snow and debris as a Chinook helicopter lands to pick them up after a mission in Wardak province. Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 503rd ...

The fate of those on board the helicopter, which crashed near Asadabad in Kunar province, was not immediately known, the military said. A statement said the cause of the crash was unclear, as was the ...

A large U.S. military helicopter crashed Tuesday afternoon while carrying at least 16 American troops to reinforce a counterterrorism mission in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials confirmed. The fate ...