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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S.
and Israel have struck over 15,000 targets in Iran in nearly two weeks of war there.
Hegseth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen.
Dan Cain, spoke at a news conference at the Pentagon a short time ago.
Cain confirmed a report issued earlier by U.S.
Central Command that a U.S.
military refueling plane has gone down in western Iraq, killing four American service members.
The incident occurred over friendly territory in western Iraq
while the crew was on a combat mission.
And again, was not the result, as CENTCOM has said, was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
We're still treating this as an active rescue and recovery operation.
As CENTCOM announced this morning, four airmen have been recovered, and the Air Force and U.S.
Central Command will provide updates as information becomes available.
Two other crew members have not been accounted for yet.
The Defense Secretary says that the new Iranian Supreme Leader,
Mujtaba Khamenei, is believed to be wounded and likely disfigured.
The United Kingdom's Defense Secretary says Iranian drone tactics bear the hallmark of Russian help.
British forces based in Iraq helped shoot down some Iranian drones yesterday.
as NPR's Lorne Frayer reports from London.