Rescue efforts are ongoing, officials said, after the KC-135 tanker was involved in an apparent accident with another KC-135.

Heavy exchanges of drone and missile strikes dealt destruction across the Middle East on Friday as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran approached the two-week mark.

A Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker spotted flying over the Netherlands from the U.S. to Tel Aviv to support the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran on March 2, 2026. A Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker spotted flying over the Netherlands from the U.

An American military refueling plane taking part in the operation against Iran has crashed in Iraq and rescue efforts are underway

Striking a defiant tone in his first public statement since succeeding his father, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, he promised to avenge “the blood of the martyrs.”

A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. In a statement,

Meanwhile, explosions are heard in Iran's capital Tehran after Israel says it is launching another "wide-scale wave of strikes".

The U.S. military said Thursday that a KC-135 military refueling plane was lost while flying over Iraq in an incident that was "not due to hostile or enemy fire." The U.S. Central Command said in a statement that the incident involved two aircraft and occurred in friendly airspace.