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President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
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President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Read this reportQatar denies holding any Iranian pilots.
Read this reportTehran said the three pilots "were captured alive" by Qatari forces after their fighter jets were shot down in the early days of the US-Israel war with Iran. Qatar has denied Iran's claims.
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Iran claims they have been held since Qatar downed two fighter jets at the start of the US-Iran war.
Read this reportIran claims three Iranian pilots were captured alive by Qatari forces after ejecting from fighter jets.
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Iran said the airmen have been held since March 2 when their fighter jets were shot down. The Qatari government denies detaining any Iranian pilots.
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TEHRAN - An Iranian military official said on Saturday that three Iranian pilots were captured alive by Qatari forces after their Su-24 fighter jets went down during retaliatory strikes against US bases nearly six months ago.
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Doha denies holding the pilots, who it says failed to respond after violating Qatari airspace in March; UAE accuses Tehran of launching fresh strike on one of its ships in Hormuz The post Iran calls on Qatar to free three pilots it says were downed, captured in war appeared first on The Times of Israel.
Read this reportTehran said the pilots had not been allowed to meet or contact their families.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 11 reports from 9 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Iran live updates: Qatar denies capture of 3 Iranian military pilots.” The covered outlets are based across 5 regions — Other, Middle East, US, Europe, and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Straits Times (Aug 15, 2026, 12:50 UTC); the most recent came from ABC News (Aug 16, 2026, 07:34 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 6 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “iranian pilots”.
8 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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