The Pentagon said those on board the KC-135 plane were: John Klinner, 33, from Alabama, 31-year-old Ariana Savino from Washington, Ashley Pruitt, 34, from Kentucky, 38-year-old Seth Koval from Indiana, and Ohio natives Curtis Angst, 30, and Tyler Simmons, 28.
A specialist took the gold artefact from a Cairo museum and sold it through a jeweller, officials say.
An Indian air strike damaged a mosque and some houses Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who ended a 16-day-long hunger strike this week, says his fight is not over.