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U.S. service member killed in Iraq while destroying an Iranian drone's ordnance

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Local time
3:22 PM in New York
Where
Northern Iraq

CENTCOM said a U.S. service member died on July 18 in northern Iraq during the controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone, and that another was wounded.

Why it matters

It raised the U.S. death toll since the war began on February 28 to 17, a day after two troops were killed in Jordan.

Sources (4)

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Correction

  • Corrected the time from 10:00 AM Baghdad time, Jul 18, 2026 to 3:22 PM New York time, Jul 19, 2026; corrected the headline (it read "Service member killed in Iraq; U.S. war dead reach 17"); revised the summary; revised the context note; reclassified it from incident to casualties; updated the sourcing note; added 2 sources: Al Jazeera live blog; removed Reuters via Investing.com as a source (an aggregator copy of another outlet's report). Why and evidence