TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan rebels are demanding that Algeria return Moammar Gadhafi's wife and three of his children for trial after they fled, raising tensions between the neighboring countries.

Algeria's decision to host members of the Gadhafi clan is an “aggressive act against the Libyan people's wish,” said Mahmoud Shammam, information minister in the rebel government.

Safiya Gadhafi, her daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed entered Algeria on Monday, while Gadhafi and several other sons remain at large. In Washington, the Obama administration said it had no indication that Gadhafi himself has left the country. Rebels also said Gadhafi son Khamis, was likely killed last week in a battle south of Tripoli, rebels said.

“We are determined to arrest and try the whole Gadhafi family, including Gadhafi himself,” Shammam said late Monday night. “We'd like to see those people coming back to Libya.”

KABUL, Afghanistan — August has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, where international forces have started to go home and let Afghan forces take charge.A record 66 U.S. troops have died so far this month, eclipsing the 65 killed in July 2010, according to a tally by The Associated Press.This month's death toll soared when 30 Americans — most of them elite Navy SEALs — were killed in a helicopter crash Aug. 6. They were aboard a Chinook shot down as it was flying in to help Army Rangers who had come under fire in Wardak province. It was the single deadliest incident of war being waged by Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces and insurgents.Also, 23 Americans died this month in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in southern Afghanistan, the main focus of Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces.