United States President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Iran that it had 48 hours to “make a deal or open up the Hormuz Strait”.

Trump said that time is running out for the Iranian government, and that if it did not make a deal within two days, “all hell will [rain] down on them”.

The US president had on March 26 said he would pause attacks on Iranian energy plants for 10 days and had claimed that talks with Tehran were going “very well”.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• The Iranian and United States forces were on Saturday attempting to find a crew member from the first American fighter jet to be shot down inside Iran since the beginning of the conflict, AFP reported. While Tehran said it had shot down the F-15 warplane, the news agency quoted US media as reporting that American special forces had rescued one of its two crew members. The other crew member was still missing.
• Additionally, Iran’s military said that it shot down a US A-10 ground attack aircraft in the Gulf. Iran shooting down two American military aircraft marks an exceedingly rare assault for the US that has not happened in over 20 years, AP reported.
• On the loss of the F-15, White House Press Secretary Karoline...

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