{"id":301042,"date":"2026-02-20T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301042\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:47:09","slug":"bbc-verify-tracking-shows-us-military-jets-heading-towards-middle-east-as-trump-warns-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/301042\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify: Tracking shows US military jets heading towards Middle East as Trump warns Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday at BBC Verifypublished at 10:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ba9dfd94-7425-40e6-8383-0146a644d6db.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Rob Corp<br \/>BBC Verify Live editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re keeping across popular flight-tracking sites like Flightradar24 to help us build a picture of what military aircraft the US is deploying to the Middle East. President Donald Trump has said the world will find out &#8220;over the next, probably, 10 days&#8221; whether the US will reach a deal with Iran or take military action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This morning alone we\u2019ve seen six US Air Force transport aircraft flying into and out of the region. Previously we\u2019ve tracked aerial refuelling tankers flying from the UK to the eastern Mediterranean region, along with surveillance and communication aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re also keeping an eye on ship-tracking to see where the US aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford is. It has been deployed from the Caribbean and last broadcast its position off Morocco on Wednesday. It\u2019s expected to continue east into the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, the Iranian government says one of its fighter jets has crashed during military exercises in the west of Iran. We\u2019re looking to see whether footage or pictures have been posted online that can be verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More on those stories to come this Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC Verify banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e087df8e-d48a-442b-9f6d-c62e4c6ddae4.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"315\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday at BBC Verifypublished at 10:41 GMT 10:41 GMT Rob CorpBBC Verify Live editor Good morning. We\u2019re keeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-301042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}