Three U.S. fighter jets went down Sunday night over Kuwait in what U.S. Central Command called an “apparent friendly fire incident” amid active combat in which all six crew members safely ejected, while the Middle East conflict sharply escalated Monday. Iran’s retaliatory salvos continued against Persian Gulf states, and Hezbollah responded to the killing of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei with rocket and drone attacks on Israel, prompting Israeli strikes in the suburbs of Beirut and other Lebanese strongholds of the group. Now in its third day after the surprise U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran, the conflict reached European Union soil, with the U.K. reporting a drone attack on its military base in Cyprus. Three U.S. service members have been killed during the conflict, the military said Sunday, and President Donald Trump said “there will likely be more” as the U.S. assault on Iran is set to continue for “four to five weeks.”
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