Another 6 servicemen killed:
A US military refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Friday during an ongoing mission, according to United States Central Command (CENTCOM). The aircraft involved was a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker operated by the United States Air Force
Updated Mar 13, 2026, 05:20 IST
A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury, with rescue operations underway. The refueling aircraft, built by Boeing, costs about $39.6 million and has served as a core aerial tanker for over six decades
CENTCOM said the incident occurred in friendly airspace during a mission linked to Operation Epic Fury. Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One aircraft went down in western Iraq, while the second aircraft landed safely.
The Kuwait drone attack that killed 6 servicemen:
But the three U.S. military officials questioned the assertion that the building was adequately fortified. They told CBS News the operations center was a triple-wide trailer made into an office space — a common setup at U.S. bases abroad.
The trailer’s only fortifications were T-walls, which are steel-reinforced concrete barriers that can range in height from 6 to 12 feet tall, used to protect military personnel from explosions, rocket attacks and shrapnel, the military officials said.
But T-walls could not protect the facility from an overhead strike. Two officials told CBS News that the strike appeared to hit dead-center on top of the building.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-strike-kuwait-officials-question-fortifications/
Minab school:
The Times has identified the weapon seen in the new video as a Tomahawk cruise missile, a weapon that neither the Israeli military nor the Iranian military has. Dozens of Tomahawks have been launched by U.S. navy warships into Iran since February 28th, when the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran began. US Central Command said a video it released of several Tomahawks being launched from navy ships was filmed February 28th, the day the Iranian base and school were hit.
General Dan Caine, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, said at a news conference Wednesday that US forces were carrying out strikes in southern Iran at the time the naval base and school were hit. A map he presented showed that an area including Minab, which is near the Strait of Hormuz, had been targeted by strikes in the first 100 hours of the operation, although it did not explicitly identify the town.
“Along the southern axis, the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group has continued to provide pressure from the sea along the southeastern side of the coast and has been attriting naval capability all along the strait,” the general said.
It is not the only time that Caine has acknowledged the role Tomahawk missiles played in the early hours of the war.
“The first shooters at sea were Tomahawks unleashed by the United States navy,” he said in a briefing to reporters at the Pentagon on March 2nd, as the navy “began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran.
Outdated intelligence and AI’s role
Investigations suggest the strike relied on outdated targeting data, possibly derived from old Iranian maps and processed by AI tools like Anthropic’s Claude alongside Palantir’s Maven Smart System. While the Pentagon emphasised human error over direct AI fault, experts noted AI failed to flag outdated data or recognise clear indicators of a school. This raises concerns about overreliance on AI in high-stakes targeting without adequate human verification.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/us-strike-on-iran-school-tied-to-old-data/gm-GMD09B94C3
And to add insult to injury, a double tap:
Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school
Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US–Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” one of the Red Crescent medics said, citing conversations he had at the time with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.
Previous reports have suggested that parents were asked to collect their children from the school when US-Israeli strikes began on Saturday morning.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-killed-double-tap-strikes-minab-school
Many people online — as well as Grok, X’s AI assistant — disputed the photo, saying it was miscaptioned and instead showed an aerial shot of graveyards in Jakarta, Indonesia, or Sao Paolo, Brazil, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Snopes readers asked us to confirm whether the image was actually from Brazil or Indonesia during the pandemic.
Contrary to the claims disputing the location of the photograph, we have confirmed that it is indeed authentic and shows the graves of people killed by airstrikes in Minab. Using photos and footage from Iranian government and media sources, as well as satellite imagery on Google Maps and Google Earth, Snopes was able to confirm where the graves were dug and authenticate the image in question.
As such, we rate the claim that the photo shows the airstrike victims’ graves as true.
The image was originally released by the Iranian government and its press affiliate. On March 2, 2026, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi shared the aerial shot of the grave sites with the caption: “These are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school. Their bodies were torn to shreds.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-photo-shows-graves-230700227.html
About General Dan “Razin” Caine:
Whilst shooting down Shahed drones over UAE:
However, on Mar. 9, the UAE MoD also announced the passing of “two members of the Armed Forces following a helicopter crash due to a technical malfunction while performing their national duty.” There were little details at the time of writing.
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