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The U.S. military says six service members were killed in a plane crash in Iraq, as Iran's continued attacks on Gulf states keep oil prices high.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. was going to be hitting Iran "very hard ​over the next week", shortly after issuing a partial 30-day waiver for purchases of sanctioned Russian oil, hoping to ease prices fuelled by the U.

A U.S. military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident U.S. Central Command said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. In a statement,

The U.S. Central Command said that two aircraft were involved in the incident, with one crashing and the other landing safely.

An American military aerial refueling tanker that was involved in the U.S. military operation in Iran crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News. The U.S. military later confirmed that a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker went down.

The US Central Command says rescue efforts are under way after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq.

Israeli strikes sent smoke over central Beirut, just yards from government buildings, and triggered air‑defense systems across Tehran. Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, vowed to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz and avenge “the blood of the martyrs.