The change in the number to 14 from 18 this week has prompted scrutiny over the Defense Department’s accounting and reporting practices.
The death count from the Iran war has risen to 17 as the U.S. military suffered three deaths in recent days in the Middle East, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said. Two service members died in an Iranian attack on U.S. troops in Jordan on Friday, the Pentagon said, and another service member died in northern Iraq on Saturday during a “controlled detonation” of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone. The U.S. has ramped up its strikes in retaliation, targeting multiple Iranian military sites and communications networks to “further diminish Iran’s ability to attack commercial vessels and civilian mariners transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” Centcom said. #iran #straitofhormuz #pentagon
The conflict in the Middle East has entered a third week, with Israel announcing a barrage of new strikes on western Iran on Sunday, while the U.S. defense department released the names of six service members who died when their military refueling aircraft crashed.
A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The service member killed was not publicly identified, but U.S. Central Command said the death was caused by injuries after an attack on a Saudi military base.