KABUL, Afghanistan - Up to 40 U.S. soldiers streamed out of a CH-47 Chinook in an air assault on a Taliban position in southern Afghanistan shortly before the helicopter crashed, officials said Thursday. Five Americans, a Briton and a Canadian were killed.
The Chinook's plunge late Wednesday came on the first day of a new joint NATO-Afghan operation to force Taliban fighters out of the northern part of Helmand province.
NATO said troops who went to the crash site were ambushed by enemy fighters, and the unit called in an airstrike. The U.S. military said "a large number of insurgents" were killed.
Maj. John Thomas, a spokesman for NATO's International Security …
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