{"id":68845,"date":"2026-03-12T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/rescue-effort-under-way-as-us-military-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:58:04","slug":"rescue-effort-under-way-as-us-military-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/rescue-effort-under-way-as-us-military-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue effort under way as US military refueling plane crashes in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Central Command officials say \u2018incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/12\/iran-war-live-updates-oil-trump-middle-east-crisis-israel-lebanon-iraq-latest-news\">Middle East live blog \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/israel-us-iran-war-cost\">Pentagon tells lawmakers Iran war costs top $11.3bn \u2013 but true price unknown<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A US military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident US Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if there were casualties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/us-military-aircraft-iraq-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Central Command officials say \u2018incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury\u2019 Middle East live blog \u2013 latest updates Pentagon tells lawmakers Iran war costs top $11.3bn \u2013 but true price unknown A US military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident US Central Command said involved another aircraft &#8230; <a title=\"Rescue effort under way as US military refueling plane crashes in Iraq\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/rescue-effort-under-way-as-us-military-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rescue effort under way as US military refueling plane crashes in Iraq\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}