Helicopter Raids

As a row erupted over the TMC's claim of a "raid" by income tax officials targeting a helicopter used by Abhishek Banerjee, I-T department sources claimed on Sunday that there was no enforcement action such as search or survey.

The Trinamool Congress on Sunday said its general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's helicopter was raided by Income Tax officials in Kolkata's Behala flying club.

The United States military on Saturday announced that it conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria that yielded the capture of a top ISIS official identified as Batar.

US coalition forces said they captured a senior Islamic State group bomb maker in a pre-dawn raid Thursday that, witnesses said, saw troops in helicopters swoop down on an isolated house in rebel-held northwestern Syria.

U.S. forces rehearsed the helicopter raid over and over, hoping to capture Islamic State's leader on the third floor of a residential building in a Syrian town on the Turkish border, where he was holed up with his family.

It started with eight helicopters flying low in the dark across hostile territory. It ended two hours later with one of the most wanted men in the world cornered by US soldiers, then blowing himself up.

The US ambassador to Iraq has denied reports that the United States has been carrying out helicopter raids against ISIS militants in northern Iraq.

Syrian government helicopters and warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes overnight on a northern town controlled by the Islamic State group, killing at least 21 people, activists said on Sunday.

Ukraine's new Western-backed leaders vowed on Wednesday to stick by their unilateral ceasefire and pursue peace talks despite the downing by pro-Russian militia of an army helicopter in the strife-torn separatist east.

Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, cleaving the fronts of apartment buildings and killing at least 27 people, activists said.

Chinese authorities have deployed helicopters, speedboats and paramilitary police in a massive raid on a single southern village notorious for illegal drugs production.

Former Air Chief SP Tyagi has been accused of corruption and conspiracy by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and his house in Delhi was raided this morning in a search for evidence that he accepted kickbacks to ensure a deal for 12 helicopters was bagged by AgustaWestland (AW), an Anglo-Italian venture.

US commanders of the raid on Osama bin Laden considered a more down-to-earth way of entering his compound than swooping in by helicopter, a report said today.

Pakistan has returned the wreckage of a US helicopter used in the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden early this month, a Pentagon spokesman said today.     "The wreckage of the helicopter destroyed in the bin Laden operation was returned over the weekend and is now back in the United States," Colonel Dave Lapan told AFP.&...

Pakistan has hinted that all-weather friend China wants a peek at the US' secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a media report.ABC news reported Pakistani officials are interested in studying the remains of helicopter and they suggested that the Chinese are interested as wel...

As a row erupted over the TMC's claim of a "raid" by income tax officials targeting a helicopter used by Abhishek Banerjee, I-T department sources claimed on Sunday that there was no enforcement action such as search or survey.

The Trinamool Congress on Sunday said its general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's helicopter was raided by Income Tax officials in Kolkata's Behala flying club.

The United States military on Saturday announced that it conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria that yielded the capture of a top ISIS official identified as Batar.

US coalition forces said they captured a senior Islamic State group bomb maker in a pre-dawn raid Thursday that, witnesses said, saw troops in helicopters swoop down on an isolated house in rebel-held northwestern Syria.

U.S. forces rehearsed the helicopter raid over and over, hoping to capture Islamic State's leader on the third floor of a residential building in a Syrian town on the Turkish border, where he was holed up with his family.

It started with eight helicopters flying low in the dark across hostile territory. It ended two hours later with one of the most wanted men in the world cornered by US soldiers, then blowing himself up.

The US ambassador to Iraq has denied reports that the United States has been carrying out helicopter raids against ISIS militants in northern Iraq.

Syrian government helicopters and warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes overnight on a northern town controlled by the Islamic State group, killing at least 21 people, activists said on Sunday.

Ukraine's new Western-backed leaders vowed on Wednesday to stick by their unilateral ceasefire and pursue peace talks despite the downing by pro-Russian militia of an army helicopter in the strife-torn separatist east.

Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held neighbourhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, cleaving the fronts of apartment buildings and killing at least 27 people, activists said.

Chinese authorities have deployed helicopters, speedboats and paramilitary police in a massive raid on a single southern village notorious for illegal drugs production.

Former Air Chief SP Tyagi has been accused of corruption and conspiracy by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and his house in Delhi was raided this morning in a search for evidence that he accepted kickbacks to ensure a deal for 12 helicopters was bagged by AgustaWestland (AW), an Anglo-Italian venture.

US commanders of the raid on Osama bin Laden considered a more down-to-earth way of entering his compound than swooping in by helicopter, a report said today.

Pakistan has returned the wreckage of a US helicopter used in the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden early this month, a Pentagon spokesman said today.     "The wreckage of the helicopter destroyed in the bin Laden operation was returned over the weekend and is now back in the United States," Colonel Dave Lapan told AFP.&...

Pakistan has hinted that all-weather friend China wants a peek at the US' secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a media report.ABC news reported Pakistani officials are interested in studying the remains of helicopter and they suggested that the Chinese are interested as wel...