Top updates: Iran, US race to find crew member of crashed American jet; one reported rescued

The Iranian and United States forces were on Saturday attempting to find a crew member from the first American fighter jet to be shot down inside Iran since the beginning of the conflict, AFP reported.

While Tehran said it had shot down the F-15 warplane, the news agency quoted US media as reporting that American special forces had rescued one of its two crew members.

The other crew member was still missing.

Additionally, Iran’s military said that it shot down a US A-10 ground attack aircraft in the Gulf.

Iran shooting down two American military aircraft marks an exceedingly rare assault for the US that has not happened in over 20 years, AP reported.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• On the loss of the F-15, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump had been briefed, AFP reported. Trump, meanwhile, told NBC that the loss of the fighter jet would not affect negotiations with Iran. “No, not at all,” he said. “No, it’s war.”
• A spokesperson for the Iranian military’s central operational command said that an American “hostile fighter jet in central Iranian airspace was struck and destroyed” by the advanced air defence system of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, AFP reported. “The jet was completely obliterated,” the spokesperson...

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