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US-led coalition helicopter fighting ISIS crashes in Iraq |
2023-07-29 |
[Iraq News] A helicopter belonging to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Iraq crashed Thursday, an Iraqi security official said, after what the coalition described as an "in-flight mishap". "There were no coalition casualties nor damage to coalition or civilian infrastructure. The coalition aircraft was damaged," the coalition said in a statement, adding that the incident occurred at 12:15 pm (0915 GMT). A security official in Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdistan region told AFP the helicopter crashed due to a "technical problem" near al-Gwair, a town about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Erbil. The official confirmed that the two crew members escaped unharmed. |
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