Overview
- U.S. officials say special operations forces recovered the missing F-15E crewman in southwest Iran, with President Trump announcing Sunday the colonel is alive but wounded.
- Reporting by U.S. outlets says SEAL Team 6 led the extraction after CIA assets helped locate the airman hiding in a mountain crevasse, while U.S. attack jets pushed back nearby Iranian convoys.
- The rescued aviator was flown to Kuwait for care, and Trump said the rescuers took no American casualties during the operation.
- Iran’s military says it foiled the mission and destroyed U.S. aircraft, with state-linked media showing wreckage and Tasnim reporting five Iranians killed, claims Washington has not verified.
- Officials expect more details Monday from the White House, as unresolved questions over any U.S. equipment losses and the death toll linger in a wider regional war that now includes strikes on Gulf infrastructure.