US plane crashes in Afghanistan

JALALABAD, Afghanistan: A US military transport plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing 11 people including six Nato soldiers in a fresh setback after the emboldened Taliban briefly seized the city of Kunduz.

The Taliban’s offensive in the northern provincial capital, their biggest tactical success since 2001, marks a blow for Afghanistan’s Nato-trained forces, who have largely been fighting on their own since December.

Nato said it was still investigating the cause of Friday’s crash of a C-130 military transport plane near Jalalabad in the east of the country.

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