President Donald Trump revealed details about the rescue mission of a US airman downed in Iran during a White House press conference on Monday, 6 April. When Trump asked General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, how many personnel were involved, Caine replied, “I’d love to keep that a secret.” Trump responded, “I’ll keep it a secret,” but then added that “it was hundreds and hundreds of these people.” US forces launched a rescue mission to recover an airman stranded behind enemy lines after Iran shot down his fighter jet, officials said on Sunday. The airman rescued by special operations forces, who Trump said was a colonel, was the weapons-systems officer on the downed F-15.

EXCLUSIVE: The president speaks to The Independent as search-and-rescue efforts continue after the shooting-down of an American fighter over Iran

Two days after Donald Trump declared that Tehran was nearly defeated, the US was still trying to locate one of the crew members of an F-15E who had to eject over Iran. Meanwhile,…

Both crew members from the American fighter jet shot down by Iranian forces on Friday were rescued.

It comes after a frantic search-and-rescue operation.

U.S. rescues injured airman after F-15 downed in Iran, marking a critical moment in ongoing conflict, officials say.

According to the US president, the serviceman was injured

The war, now in its sixth week, intensely escalated after Iran shot down two US military planes on Friday. According to US officials, one missing service member has been rescued;…

Desperate race to find F-15 crew member involved hundreds of troops while airman sought cover in mountainous territory

Trump says the officers were rescued "deep in Enemy Territory" in mountainous terrain.

Il presidente Donald Trump ha annunciato che l’esercito americano ha tratto in salvo il pilota abbattuto venerdì in Iran, parlando di «una delle più audaci operazioni della storia»

CAIRO/WASHINGTON: The US rescued an airman missing from one of two warplanes downed in Iran, two US officials said, as President Donald Trump and Israel stepped up pressure on…

TEHRAN: Iran’s military said on Sunday that the US operation to rescue a missing airman from a downed American fighter jet used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan province.…

The second of two U.S. pilots downed over Iran has been found in a successful search-and-rescue raid, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

Donald Trump will claim rescue as a triumph but 48-hour drama should be a caution against launching ground operation

The rescue could impact how Trump views a ground operation to take Kharg Island or to seize enriched uranium sites.

The operation to extract him from the ground in hostile territory was hugely complex and involved multiple US government agencies.

The rescued U.S. weapons specialist was the second of two crew members on an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that Iran said had been hit by its air defenses.

The U.S. military plucked the downed fighter jet's pilot from behind enemy lines before rescuing a second service member hiding in the mountains.

The airman was rescued Sunday in the mountains of Iran.

WASHINGTON: The rescue had unfolded with near-perfect precision. Under cover of darkness, US commandos slipped deep into Iran, undetected, scaled a 7,000-foot ridge and pulled a…