{"id":68887,"date":"2026-03-13T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/four-crew-confirmed-dead-after-us-military-plane-crash-in-iraq-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:58:27","slug":"four-crew-confirmed-dead-after-us-military-plane-crash-in-iraq-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/four-crew-confirmed-dead-after-us-military-plane-crash-in-iraq-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Four crew confirmed dead after US military plane crash in Iraq | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts continue for two crew members, while US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian oil at sea. Plus, how China and the US see each other online<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the six crew members onboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/us-military-aircraft-iraq-crash\">a US military refuelling plane that crashed<\/a> in western Iraq on Thursday were killed, the US military has said. Rescue efforts were continuing for the remaining two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are people reporting from Tehran?<\/strong> A former political prisoner has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/12\/tehran-diary-dark-and-bitter-the-terror-of-life-under-us-bombardment\">told the Guardian<\/a> about the terror of daily life under US and Israeli bombardment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do we know about the war\u2019s economic cost? <\/strong>The Pentagon told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/israel-us-iran-war-cost\">lawmakers that its costs already exceeded $11.3bn<\/a> in the first six days \u2013 but two sources said the costs is likely far greater.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/13\/first-thing-crew-deaths-us-military-plane-crash-iraq\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue efforts continue for two crew members, while US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian oil at sea. Plus, how China and the US see each other online \u2022 Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Four of the six crew members onboard a US military refuelling plane that crashed &#8230; <a title=\"Four crew confirmed dead after US military plane crash in Iraq | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/four-crew-confirmed-dead-after-us-military-plane-crash-in-iraq-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Four crew confirmed dead after US military plane crash in Iraq | First Thing\">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-68887","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\/68887","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=68887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}