NATO helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; 2 injured
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Afghan men inspect a damaged wedding hall that was the site of a bombing in Samangan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July, 14, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 23 people including a prominent warlord-turned-politician and three Afghan security force officials, in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation's ethnic factions, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Jawed Dehsabzi)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a police officer graduation ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. President Hamid Karzai is trying to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban, but he warned insurgents on Tuesday that their attacks on civilians would not be forgotten by the Afghan people. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, shakes hand with a police officer during a graduation ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. President Hamid Karzai is trying to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban, but he warned insurgents on Tuesday that their attacks on civilians would not be forgotten by the Afghan people. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
KABUL (AP) — NATO says one of its helicopters has crashed in western Afghanistan, injuring two troops serving with the U.S.-led military coalition.
No other information was disclosed about Wednesday's crash in the relatively peaceful west. The crash is under investigation.
Separately, NATO reported that a service member was killed Tuesday during an insurgent attack in the south. Insurgents are trying to regain territory they've lost during the past two years when tens of thousands of coalition and Afghan forces routed them from their strongholds in the south.
The trooper's nationality has not yet been released.
So far this year, 238 coalition service members have been killed in Afghanistan, including at least 172 Americans.
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