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Al Jazeera podcasts.
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Well, the president of Cyprus has confirmed the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force based
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on the island has sustained minor damage in a drone strike.
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In Nicos, at Christo de Liedes, it says it struck the base in Nakaturi on Cyprus' southern
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It's located in British territory, and marks the first time the UK or EU territory has
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been impacted since the conflict began.
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He says authorities have been put on alert and confirmed the country has no intention
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of taking any military action or participating in any way.
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Several U.S. warplanes have crashed.
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That's according to Q8's Ministry of Defence.
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The Ministry says all the pilots are safe.
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So several U.S. warplanes have crashed.
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All the pilots are safe according to the Q8's.
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Let's now get to the Zemper's Ravi Hussain Doha.
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So Zeynert, tell us more about what you know of this.
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Well, this report of an F-15E U.S. fighter jet, a strike evil, crashing in Kuwait
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emerged about an hour or two ago.
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We saw images on social media of a spiraling aircraft with the back end of the jet on fire,
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smoke trailing, falling to the ground.
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Other social media footage showed that the two pilots in that aircraft seemed to have
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And later on, the ground were being assisted by locals being put into the back of a vehicle
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and transported away.
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They appeared to be safe and in good health.
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And there appears to be now another separate looking clip.
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Another video showing what appears to be another jet crashing in a different area.
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All of this is, of course, pending confirmation, but we can't at least see what seemed to
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be two different videos of U.S. fighter jets crashing in Kuwait.
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Now the cause is still unknown.
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The Kuwaiti Defense Ministry has said that it is coordinating with U.S. forces to investigate
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exactly what has happened according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense.
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It stated, as you said, several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, but the Kuwaitis
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did confirm their complete safety.
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The relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures whereby crews
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were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status.
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Now there is direct coordination going on with U.S. military on the ground and between
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the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense to exactly ascertain what the cause of these crashes were,
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but we can confirm that the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense has sent several crashes to
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We can tell you that of the social media footage we've observed, there appear to be at
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least two separate incidents at this moment.
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Coming up in the take, the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran and the information war, we break
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down what you need to know.
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That's the take by Al Jazeera.
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