Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Pentagon says an American F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing after a combat mission in Iran.

NPR's Quill Lawrence reports the pilot was wounded by any fire but is in stable condition.

U.S. Central Command acknowledged that the F-35 made a safe but unplanned landing and said the incident is under investigation.

But a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to NPR that the F-35 fighter was hit

by enemy fire and that the pilot is stable after requiring stitches.

It's the first known instance of Iran's anti-aircraft defenses damaging a manned American plane. This news broke

hours after Secretary of Defense Pete Hexas said Iran's air defenses have been, quote, flattened.

Still, Iran has not shot down a single U.S. or Israeli pilot over nearly three weeks of war

and thousands of bombing sorties over Iranian airspace.

Quill Lawrence NPR News.

Israel is hitting Iran's capital, Tehran with news strikes today. Iran is firing at its neighbors.

Trump administration officials say that President Trump will decide when the war is over.

Thomas Wright served in the National Security Council under former President Biden.

He tells NPR Trump could increase the attacks in an effort to end the war quickly.

President Trump could take greater risks to try to achieve a major tactical victory that would allow him to say that he has achieved his objectives and to end the war, so he could try to take

Karg Island, where a lot of Iran's oil is. And he could order a military raid on some of the

nuclear facilities in Isfahan or Nance to take the highly enriched uranium.

But he warns that's very high risk.

He says the U.S. could possibly take casualties.

Global crude oil prices remain volatile.

At about $107 a barrel, gas prices continue to climb.

NPR's Kamila-Dominowski reports the scale of the disruption to global oil markets is profound.

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