Middle East crisis live: US and Iranian forces race to recover missing pilot from downed jet; Israel bombards Beirut | US-Israel war on Iran

Hello and welcome to our ongoing live coverage of the US-Israeli war against Iran and its impact on the region, the world, and the global economy.

Iranian and American forces were racing each other early Saturday to rescue the crew of the first U.S. warplane to crash into Iran since the start of the war.

While Tehran said it shot down the F-15 fighter jet, US media reported that American special forces rescued one of the two crew members, while the other was still missing.

Iranian authorities have appealed to people living in the country’s rugged southwestern part to call the jet crew after state television broadcast images of what they said were fragmented wreckage.

While the Iranian army said that it also shot down a US A-10 ground attack plane in the Gulf, US media reported that the pilot was rescued.

US Central Command did not immediately comment on the F-15 loss, but the White House said: Donald Trump “information given”

The US president told NBC that the loss of the F-15 would not affect negotiations with Iran, saying: “No, not at all. No, this is a war.”

Meanwhile, new attacks hit Israel, Iran, Lebanon and the Gulf countries; Large explosions were also reported to have shaken northern Tehran. Israel said it had launched a wave of attacks in the Iranian capital, alongside parallel attacks in Beirut.

Strikes by all parties are increasingly targeting economic and industrial areas, raising fears of a wider disruption in global energy supplies.

Here are the other main news developments:

• According to the news of Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, citing an unnamed source, Tehran rejected the US proposal for a 48-hour ceasefire. There is no statement from the USA yet. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran had officially informed mediators that it did not want to meet with US officials in Islamabad in the coming days.

• UN force in Lebanon says three peacekeepers injured in explosion at one of their positionsTwo serious, the third such incident in a week.

• Israeli fire kills man in Syria’s Quneitra province Syrian state media said it was near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the south. Sanaa agency stated that the man was killed in an attack by an “Israeli tank”, while state television reported that a car was targeted.

• An Egyptian citizen died and four others were injured in a fire at a gas complex in Abu Dhabi. The government media office said the attack was caused by falling debris from a foiled attack. It was stated that two of the four injured people were Egyptian and the others were Pakistani.

• Trump asks lawmakers to approve $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027 As the United States faces the rising costs of its war Iranian and increasing global security commitments. The proposal would increase Pentagon spending by more than 40 percent in a single year; This is the sharpest increase since World War II.

• US embassy in Lebanon says Iran and allied groups may target universities in the countryIt is where Tehran-backed Hezbollah is at war with Israel and where Israeli troops are carrying out ground attacks.

• Three tankers, one of which belonged to a Japanese company, passed through the Strait of Hormuz Hugging a rare passageway near Oman’s coast, maritime traffic data was shown on Friday.
  With agencies