Azerbaijan Plane Crashes in Afghanistan, 7 Dead

A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan says seven people were killed when a plane belonging to Silk Way Airlines of Azerbaijan crashed in the country's south. He said Thursday the plane had been carrying nine people when it crashed on take-off from Camp Dwyer, a military airport in Helmand province, a day earlier. He says two survivors were flown to Kandahar Airfield for treatment. The passengers are believed to be eastern European, the spokesman says. There was “no military...

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