Drone strike in Cyprus, US fighter jets crash in Kuwait

0:00Al Jazeera podcasts. Well, the president of Cyprus has confirmed the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force based on the island has sustained minor damage in a drone strike. In Nicos, at Christo de Liedes, it says it struck the base in Nakaturi on Cyprus' southern coast overnight. It's located in British territory, and marks the first time the UK or EU territory has been impacted since the conflict began. He says authorities have been put on alert and confirmed the country has no intention of taking any military action or participating in any way. Several U.S. warplanes have crashed. That's according to Q8's Ministry of Defence. The Ministry says all the pilots are safe. So several U.S. warplanes have crashed. All the pilots are safe according to the Q8's. Let's now get to the Zemper's Ravi Hussain Doha. So Zeynert, tell us more about what you know of this. Well, this report of an F-15E U.S. fighter jet, a strike evil, crashing in Kuwait

1:04emerged about an hour or two ago. We saw images on social media of a spiraling aircraft with the back end of the jet on fire, smoke trailing, falling to the ground. Other social media footage showed that the two pilots in that aircraft seemed to have been able to eject. And later on, the ground were being assisted by locals being put into the back of a vehicle and transported away. They appeared to be safe and in good health. And there appears to be now another separate looking clip. Another video showing what appears to be another jet crashing in a different area. All of this is, of course, pending confirmation, but we can't at least see what seemed to be two different videos of U.S. fighter jets crashing in Kuwait. Now the cause is still unknown. The Kuwaiti Defense Ministry has said that it is coordinating with U.S. forces to investigate exactly what has happened according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense.

2:04It stated, as you said, several U.S. military aircraft crashed this morning, but the Kuwaitis did confirm their complete safety. The relevant authorities immediately initiated search and rescue procedures whereby crews were evacuated and transferred to the hospital to check on their health status. Now there is direct coordination going on with U.S. military on the ground and between the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense to exactly ascertain what the cause of these crashes were, but we can confirm that the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense has sent several crashes to a place. We can tell you that of the social media footage we've observed, there appear to be at least two separate incidents at this moment. Coming up in the take, the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran and the information war, we break down what you need to know. That's the take by Al Jazeera. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.