Overview
- The U.S. confirmed a combat jet was shot down over Iran Friday, and rescue teams recovered one pilot while a second remains missing as Iranian media touted a bounty and reported an unverified capture.
- The Wall Street Journal reported a second U.S. warplane, an A-10, was also downed by Iranian fire outside Iranian airspace, with the pilot recovered, which U.S. officials have not yet confirmed publicly.
- U.S. special-operations aircraft, including an MC-130 and HH-60 Pave Hawks, carried out a combat search-and-rescue inside Iran, and Israeli strikes in the area were paused during the hunt according to multiple outlets.
- In Lebanon, a rocket hit Italy’s UNIFIL base at Shama this week causing minor damage, following other attacks that killed or wounded Indonesian peacekeepers and intensified debate over the mission’s future.
- U.S. intelligence says Iran retains thousands of drones and missiles and many launchers that can threaten shipping near the Strait of Hormuz, while the Pentagon now counts 365 U.S. wounded and 13 killed in the campaign.