An update of developments from the Middle East war.
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The war erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed supreme leader Ali Khamenei, triggering retaliation that spread the conflict throughout the Middle East, convulsing the global economy and impacting millions of people worldwide.
Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
Iranian and American forces raced each other Saturday to recover a crew member from the first US fighter jet to go down inside Iran since the start of the war.
Tehran said it had shot down the F-15 warplane and US media reported United States special forces had rescued one of its two crew members, with the other was still missing.
Iran's military also said it downed a US A-10 ground attack aircraft in the Gulf, with US media saying the pilot of that plane was rescued.
An Indian-flagged tanker carrying LPG has safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz, India's government said on Saturday.
Following US-Israel military strikes, Iran has effectively halted maritime traffic in the key waterway which is a critical route for global crude oil and gas.
Israel army issues an evacuation warning to residents of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre
A US-Israeli strike on Saturday hit a trade terminal on the Iran-Iraq border, killing one person, Iranian media reported.
"At 11:00 am, the commercial terminal of the Shalamcheh border crossing in the southwestern city of Khorramshahr was targeted in an air attack by American and Zionist enemies," Mehr news agency said, citing Khuzestan province deputy governor Valiollah Hayati.
A US-Israeli strike on Saturday hit a cement plant in southern Iran, media reported, adding that operations were not interrupted.
"The American-Zionist attack against the cement plant of Bandar Khamir did not leave any casualties," said Tasnim news agency, quoting Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of the southern Hormozgan province.
A hospital in the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre was damaged by Israeli airstrikes on nearby buildings that wounded 11 people, the health ministry said on Saturday.
Iranian state media said a US-Israeli attack hit near the country's Bushehr nuclear power plant killed one of the site's guards but did not damage the facility.
Iranian media citing a regional official said a US-Israeli attack hit a petrochemical hub in the southwestern port city of Mahshahr, wounding five people.
Deputy governor for Khuzestan province, Valiollah Hayati, told the Fars news agency that three companies in the zone were hit, adding that it was unknown yet if there were any deaths.
An attack killed a fighter in the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq, near the Syria border, the former paramilitary coalition said, blaming a US-Israeli strike.
The PMF -- now part of Iraq's regular army but containing pro-Iran factions -- has been repeatedly targeted since the outbreak of war on February 28.
A second Turkish-flagged ship has crossed the Strait of Hormuz, Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said.
Uralogl said there were 15 ships belonging to Turkish shipowners waiting to pass through the strait when the war started. "Two of these 15 made the crossing," he said.
Iran executed two men convicted of membership in a banned opposition group and carrying out actions aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic.
The executions were the latest in a series targeting the banned People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), after four other group members were executed earlier in the week.
Shrapnel from intercepted drones injured four people in Bahrain, authorities said. Separately, two buildings in Dubai were hit by debris, including one housing the US cloud computing firm Oracle, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said.
Several blasts shook northern Tehran, an AFP journalist heard, as the Middle East war neared its sixth week.
The blasts occurred at about 7:30 am (0400 GMT) and were accompanied by a loud sound from above as if coming from a drone, said AFP's correspondent in the Iranian capital
The Israeli military said it had hit "Hezbollah infrastructure sites" in Lebanon's capital Beirut.
An AFP journalist heard two loud explosions in the city within a half-hour period early Saturday and saw smoke billowing from one of them.
Local media reported two airstrikes on the southern suburbs.
Indonesia slammed as "unacceptable" an explosion that wounded three of its UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, just days after three other Indonesians were killed in separate explosions.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the blast occurred inside a UN facility near El Adeisse on Friday.
Indonesia's government said "these events underscore the urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces amid an increasingly dangerous conflict situation".
The Israeli army said its air defences responded to missiles fired from Iran, which medics reported wounded one person.
Israel's emergency services said a 45‑year‑old man was treated for minor injuries from glass shrapnel in the central city of Bnei Brak.
Iran's military says it has downed a second US military jet in the Gulf, according to state media.
There was no immediate confirmation or denial from Washington. US media said the pilot was rescued.
State media in Syria said Israeli fire killed a man in Quneitra province in the country's south near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The SANA agency said the man had been killed in an attack by "an Israeli tank", while state television said a car was targeted.
AFP