MADRID (AP) — Jude Bellingham scored an 87th-minute equalizer for Real Madrid which extended its winless streak to three matches with a 2-2 draw at Elche in the Spanish league on Sunday.
Madrid needed Bellingham's goal to salvage the away draw after twice coming from behind.
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Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham reacts after the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe controls the ball during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe, centre, tries to score past Elche's goalkeeper Inaki Pena during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Elche's team players celebrate after Aleix Febas scored the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Rodrygo reacts during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
The result moved Madrid one point ahead of Barcelona, which routed Athletic Bilbao 4-0 on Saturday in its return to the renovated Camp Nou Stadium.
Madrid was coming off a 0-0 draw at Rayo Vallecano in the Spanish league, and a 1-0 loss at Liverpool in the league phase of the Champions League. Xabi Alonso's team had won 13 of its previous 14 matches to start the season.
“The team continues to compete,” Alonso said. “The results and our game could be better. We are self-critical but the team's spirit remains good. We must persevere in the face of adversity. This is Real Madrid, we have to live with criticism.”
Aleix Febas put Elche ahead in the 53rd and Dean Huijsen leveled for Madrid in the 78th for his first goal with the club. Álvaro Rodríguez put the hosts ahead again in the 84th but Bellingham equalized from inside the area three minutes later.
Madrid foward Vinícius Júnior came on in the second half.
"We had talked about it, as we often do," Alonso said about Vinícius. "He understands. He knew his role and the impact he could have. We had done it before. He’s still engaged. Today we are not as happy as we’d like but everyone is energized and eager to get back to a good result and a positive momentum."
Madrid's next game is at Olympiakos on Wednesday in the league phase of the Champions League.
Elche's Víctor Chust was sent off deep into stoppage time.
Sitting in 11th place, Elche hasn't won in six consecutive league matches.
An own-goal by Domingos Duarte in the 82nd gave Atletico Madrid a hard-fought 1-0 win at seventh-placed Getafe.
It was the fifth win in a row for Atletico in all competitions, since a 4-0 loss at Arsenal in the league phase of the Champions League last month. Diego Simeone's team has won five straight in the league.
Veteran midfielder Koke made his 700th appearance for Atletico.
Atletico's Marcos Llorente had to be replaced less than 15 minutes into the match because of an injury.
Simeone couldn't count on goalkeeper Jan Oblak because of an injury sustained with Slovenia's national team during the international break. Forward Giuliano Simeone also was out.
Fifth-placed Real Betis couldn't manage more than a 1-1 draw with relegation-threatened Girona.
Vladyslav Vanat put Girona ahead in the 20th before Valentín Gómez equalized for Betis in the 75th. Betis forward Antony was sent off in stoppage time for hitting an opponent in the head with his leg while going for a bicycle kick.
Last-placed Oviedo and 13th-placed Rayo Vallecano drew 0-0 in Oviedo. Oviedo's Ilyas Chaira was shown a red card in the 52nd, and Rayo saw Pathé Ciss ejected in stoppage time.
Oviedo is winless in seven consecutive matches in all competitions, while Rayo hasn't won in three straight league games.
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Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham reacts after the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe controls the ball during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe, centre, tries to score past Elche's goalkeeper Inaki Pena during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Elche's team players celebrate after Aleix Febas scored the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Rodrygo reacts during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Elche and Real Madrid in Elche, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. service member who has been missing since Iran shot down a fighter jet has been rescued, President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post early Sunday.
A frantic U.S. search-and-rescue operation unfolded after the crash of the F-15E Strike Eagle on Friday, as Iran also promised a reward for anyone who turned in the “enemy pilot.”
A second crew member was rescued earlier.
“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour,” Trump wrote.
Trump said that the aviator is injured but “will be just fine,” adding that the rescue involved “dozens of aircraft” and that the U.S. had been monitoring his location “24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue.”
The fighter jet was the first U.S. aircraft to have crashed in Iranian territory since the conflict in late February.
Trump said last week that the U.S. had “decimated” Iran and would finish the war “very fast.” Two days later, Iran shot down two U.S. military planes, showing the ongoing perils of the bombing campaign and the ability of a degraded Iranian military to continue to hit back.
In Kuwait, an Iranian drone attack caused significant damage to two power plants and put a water desalination station out of service, according to the Ministry of Electricity. No injuries were reported from the attack, the ministry said.
In Bahrain, the national oil company said that a drone attack caused a fire at one of its storage facilities, which was extinguished. It said the damage was still being assessed and no injuries had been reported.
In the United Arab Emirates, authorities responded to multiple fires at the Borouge petrochemicals plant, a joint venture of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis of Australia. They say the fires were caused by falling debris following successful interceptions by air defense systems, but production at the plant in Ruwais, near the UAE’s western border with Saudi Arabia, has halted.
The strike came a day after Israel struck a petrochemical plant in Iran that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said generated revenue that it had used to fund the war.
The war began with joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Feb. 28 and has killed thousands, shaken global markets, cut off key shipping routes and spiked fuel prices. Both sides have threatened and hit civilian targets, bringing warnings of possible war crimes.
The other jet to go down was a U.S. A-10 attack aircraft. Neither the status of the crew nor exactly where it crashed was immediately known.
Trump renewed his threats for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global energy shipments that has been choked off by Tehran, by Monday or face devastating consequences, writing Saturday in a social media post: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.”
“The doors of hell will be opened to you” if Iran’s infrastructure is attacked, Gen. Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi with the country’s joint military command said late Saturday in response to Trump’s renewed threat, state media reported. In turn, the general threatened all infrastructure used by the U.S. military in the region.
But Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tahir Andrabi, told The Associated Press that his government’s efforts to broker a ceasefire are “right on track” after Islamabad last week said that it would soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said that Iranian officials “have never refused to go to Islamabad.”
Mediators from Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt were working to bring the U.S. and Iran to the negotiating table, according to two regional officials.
The proposed compromise includes a cessation of hostilities to allow a diplomatic settlement, according to a regional official involved in the efforts and a Gulf diplomat briefed on the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door diplomacy.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, issued a veiled threat late Friday to disrupt traffic through a second strategic waterway in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb.
The strait, 32 kilometers (20 miles) wide, links the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. More than a tenth of seaborne global oil and a quarter of container ships pass through it.
“Which countries and companies account for the highest transit volumes through the strait?” Qalibaf wrote.
More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began.
In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel and 13 U.S. service members have been killed. In Lebanon, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 1 million people have been displaced. Ten Israeli soldiers have died there.
Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Samy Magdy in Cairo; Munir Ahmed in Islamabad; Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia; and Seung Min Kim, Will Weissert, Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro and Ben Finley in Washington, contributed to this report.
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