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NPR News: 04-05-2026 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 5 April 2026

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says the U.S. military has rescued the missing airman whose F-15E plane was shot down over Iran Friday.

0:13.3

The Air Force officer was extracted in a massive operation involving hundreds of military personnel.

0:19.0

The other crew member was rescued earlier. And

0:21.5

peers Greg Mirey has more. Trump said the Iranians were closing in on him, but the U.S. forces

0:26.8

found him first. They picked him up, flew him out of Iran. Trump says he's safe and sound,

0:32.3

though we don't know exactly where he is or the extent of his injuries. Still a lot of

0:36.7

details we don't know. The New York Times

0:39.1

is reporting that two U.S. planes landed to pick up the injured colonel and the other troops,

0:45.2

but we're not able to fly out. NPR's Greg Myrie. Israeli attacks have killed at least 39 people

0:51.7

across Lebanon today, according to health officials there.

0:55.0

And Fares Lauren Freer reports one of the biggest attacks targeted Beirut's southern suburbs,

0:59.9

where Iran-backed Hezbollah has offices.

1:04.1

Residents posted this video to social media, showing people covered in gray dust,

1:08.7

ferrying the wounded out of a collapsed building on slings

1:12.1

made of blankets. Israel often issues evacuation orders, but this attack in Beirut's coastal area

1:18.1

of Jinnach came without warning, hitting a dense residential area near a public hospital.

1:23.7

Health officials say a four-year-old girl was among those killed in another Israeli airstrike near the coastal city of Saidan,

1:30.0

which has absorbed thousands of displaced people from farther south. Israel had warned her entire village to flee.

1:36.7

And a Vatican-led aid convoy was canceled on Easter Sunday for security reasons.

1:42.4

It was trying to bring aid to Christian villages under siege in

1:45.7

southern Lebanon, where fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli ground troops is heaviest.

1:50.8

Lauren Freyer and PR News, Beirut. Russian authorities report more damage to energy infrastructure

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