Missing US fighter jet airman found, Iran holds Strait of Hormuz talks

US airman recovered from Iran

US President Donald Trump says the American service member who was missing since Iran shot down a fighter jet has been found in a rescue involving "dozens of aircrafts."

The crew member had been missing since Friday, when Iran downed a US F-15E Strike Eagle. A second crew member was rescued earlier.

Trump wrote that the aviator is injured but "will be just fine," adding that he took refuge "in the treacherous mountains of Iran."

Several aircraft were destroyed in the south of Iran's Isfahan province during the US mission to find a stranded airman, Iranian military officials said on Sunday.

"Additional investigations by experts on the ground revealed that two C-130 military transport planes and two Black Hawk helicopters of the US army were destroyed by our forces," the spokesperson of the unified command of Iranian armed forces said.

Iran's military said a US operation to rescue the missing airman had been "completely foiled", hours after President Donald Trump announced the crew member had been recovered in a "daring" operation.

Earlier, Trump warned Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline. 

Iran hold Strait of Hormuz talks with Oman

Oman and Iran have held talks at the deputy foreign minister level to discuss options for ensuring the smooth transit of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, Oman's Foreign Ministry wrote on X on Sunday.

The talks come after an Iranian official said on Thursday that Iran was drafting a protocol with Oman to monitor traffic in the strait through which around a fifth of global oil supplies travel. 

Iraeli strikes in Lebanon kills family of six

The Israeli military said it had begun striking Lebanon's capital Beirut to take out "Hezbollah infrastructure sites".

Shortly after, an AFP photographer in Beirut saw a missile hit a building and Israeli warplanes flying at low over the city. Lebanese state media said a building in south Beirut was hit.

Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli warship off the Lebanese coast with a cruise missile, the first such claim by the group since the start of the war. The Israeli military said it was "not aware" of the attack. 

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed seven people including a family of six, a source from the Lebanese civil defence told AFP.

The family had been waiting for a relative to pick them up in Kfar Hatta, a town around 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the border that Israel had ordered to be evacuated. 

Iran Guards killed

US-Israeli strikes killed five fighters with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the northwestern Ardabil province, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Guards as saying. 

Abu Dhabi plant ablaze

Authorities in Abu Dhabi said they were battling fires at a petrochemical facility caused by falling debris, as Iran pressed an aerial campaign against its Gulf neighbours.

The emirate's media office said work at the plant had been suspended to allow the damage to be assessed, but there were no reports of injuries.