Afghan Military Plane

An Afghan girl born aboard a US military plane as her family was fleeing Taliban rule was named Reach after the aircraft's code name, US military officials said Wednesday.

An Afghan woman gave birth to a baby girl on a US military plane shortly after arriving on an evacuation flight to Germany, the US Air Force tweeted on Sunday.

An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country's defence ministry said Monday, while neighbouring Tajikistan said over 100 Afghan soldiers had landed at one of its airports.

Germany on Sunday shuttered its embassy in Kabul and prepared to send A400M military transport planes to Afghanistan to evacuate as many Germans and local Afghan helpers as possible, after Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital.

India is considering whether to pay for repairs to grounded helicopters and transport planes from Afghanistan's air force, signalling a willingness to step up military assistance for Kabul that has irked Pakistan in the past.

From a childhood as a refugee, Captain Safia Ferozi is now flying a transport plane for Afghanistan's air force as the country's second female pilot, a sign of the efforts to bring more women into the armed forces.

A C-130 military transport plane crashed on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 people, including six US soldiers who were part of a NATO training and counter-terror mission supporting stretched Afghan troops.

Militants fired rockets into a US base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the US-led military coalition said on Tuesday.

An Afghan girl born aboard a US military plane as her family was fleeing Taliban rule was named Reach after the aircraft's code name, US military officials said Wednesday.

An Afghan woman gave birth to a baby girl on a US military plane shortly after arriving on an evacuation flight to Germany, the US Air Force tweeted on Sunday.

An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country's defence ministry said Monday, while neighbouring Tajikistan said over 100 Afghan soldiers had landed at one of its airports.

Germany on Sunday shuttered its embassy in Kabul and prepared to send A400M military transport planes to Afghanistan to evacuate as many Germans and local Afghan helpers as possible, after Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital.

India is considering whether to pay for repairs to grounded helicopters and transport planes from Afghanistan's air force, signalling a willingness to step up military assistance for Kabul that has irked Pakistan in the past.

From a childhood as a refugee, Captain Safia Ferozi is now flying a transport plane for Afghanistan's air force as the country's second female pilot, a sign of the efforts to bring more women into the armed forces.

A C-130 military transport plane crashed on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 people, including six US soldiers who were part of a NATO training and counter-terror mission supporting stretched Afghan troops.

Militants fired rockets into a US base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the US-led military coalition said on Tuesday.