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All 6 U.S. crew are dead after a military aircraft goes down in Iraq
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The U.S. military confirmed that all six crew members on an KC-135 aircraft died after the refueling plane went down in western Iraq, raising the U.S. death toll after two weeks of war with Iran.
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