In August 2021, a video showing a Black Hawk moving around the Kandahar airport went viral. The helicopter now belonged to the Taliban. After the abrupt withdrawal of US and NATO forces from ...

George Glezmann, an American airline mechanic held by the Taliban since 2022, has been released, the State Department announced Thursday. “George Glezmann is free. George was wrongfully detained ...

The Taliban has released an American prisoner that was held by the militant group for over two years, in a deal struck by the Trump administration with the assistance of Qatari negotiators ...

“As the Taliban ... Hawk helicopters, two MD-530 light helicopters, two Mi-24 helicopter gunships, and one fixed-wing transport aircraft — all of which have since been observed flying ...

Members of the Taliban on Wednesday commemorated the third anniversary of the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan by parading through a former U.S. air base with American weapons and ...

Three years after overrunning Afghanistan, Taliban militants who now control ... shows two Soviet-origin Mil Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters flying in formation over the parade, along with at ...

Named after the Native American people of Oregon and Washington state ... strayed into Soviet airspace while on a training mission. The Soviets detected the helicopters on radar and scrambled a MiG-23 ...

Operating with no lights save for the faint green glow of night vision goggles and cockpit instrument panels, the two helicopters ... Taliban time to react, he ordered the entire force to fly ...

The team would also be dispatched to find any American aviators in case ... By early August, the helicopters had stopped flying. The Taliban were the closest they’d come to reclaiming control ...

necessary to keep the helicopters flying. Conversely, last year's attempt to fly an American UH-60 Black Hawk by the Taliban had an unsurprising outcome: The available evidence suggests that russia ...

B-35 bombers and Black Hawk helicopters, and other military equipment left behind? With the American-trained Afghan military and police forces swiftly overrun by the Taliban in the summer of 2021 ...

The decision infuriated U.S. lawmakers who felt the Pentagon should choose an American ... fly them. A decade later, neither Congress nor the Kremlin could have anticipated that those helicopters ...