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Five US officials told The Washington Post at least 22 service members have died since Feb. 28, four more than the Pentagon's public database shows, and a sixth put the toll at 23 plus three contractors. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the report a 'complete lie.'
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The Trump administration informally notified Congress of a planned $2.8 billion package for Israel of 20,000 2,000-pound Mk84 bombs and 20,000 BLU-117s, mostly paid with US military financing, AP reported; the deal was not final. On Sep 16 the top House Foreign Affairs Democrat, Gregory Meeks, said he would place a hold on it.
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, with partner agencies, publicly identified an Iranian state-linked spyware family called 'CHOSEN BRICK' used in spear-phishing campaigns against dissidents and journalists via WhatsApp and Telegram. NCSC Director of Operations Paul Chichester said the malware steals emails, messages, contact lists and social media data and can access a device's microphone and screen content.
More than 300 fighters and civilians have been killed since the Houthis launched an offensive on Sep 3 toward government-held areas near the Red Sea coast, AFP reported, citing military and medical sources on both sides. The WHO counted 676 casualties in three days and about 21,000 people displaced.
Four weapons experts who reviewed images and video verified by Reuters said the Sept. 1 explosion at a wedding in Kuhestak, which killed four people and injured at least 68, was consistent with a direct hit rather than a ricochet; three said the munition was likely American rather than an errant Iranian air-defense missile.
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Sept. 3 that at least six Iranian service members, three of them pilots, were killed in the U.S. strikes of Sept. 1; Al Jazeera described the six as navy personnel. Iran's health ministry had put the toll from those strikes at 18 dead without separating civilians from military personnel.
The Defense Department said Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, missing since Iran's July 17 missile strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, is believed to have been killed. She is the third soldier believed killed in that attack; counting a soldier who died in Iraq while disposing of an Iranian drone, 18 U.S. service members are believed to have died in the war.
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.
CENTCOM said two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action on July 17 as U.S. and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks, and that another was missing in action.
India's shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said three Indian crew members of the Palau-flagged MT Settebello, first reported missing after a U.S. strike, were confirmed dead after their bodies were found and identified. CENTCOM said a U.S. aircraft fired into the tanker's engine room after it violated the blockade on Iranian ports; India lodged a 'strong protest'.
The Health Ministry said Israeli strikes killed 29 people and wounded 133 in the previous 24 hours, bringing the toll since March 2 to 3,666 killed and 11,321 wounded. Beyond Tyre, dawn strikes killed four people in Adshit, Habboush and Kfar Reman, drone strikes around Ansarieh killed a Syrian on a motorcycle and wounded three people at a roadside café, and jets hit the Jezzine highlands.
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UNIFIL said a peacekeeper died early on June 4 of injuries from mortar rounds that hit his position near Marjayoun in south Lebanon the previous night, and two others were wounded; it did not say who fired. Serbia's defence ministry named him as Staff Sergeant Milovan Jovanović.
Israeli air strikes killed 13 people across southern Lebanon, including two civil defence paramedics in Nabatieh who the Health Ministry said were 'directly targeted' while rescuing a wounded man, and a Lebanese army soldier in Jebchit, the National News Agency reported. The government's disaster unit put the toll since March 2 at 2,883.
Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli attacks directly targeted two emergency response centres in the Bint Jbeil district, killing a paramedic in Qalawiya and another in Tibnin and wounding five. It said 2,846 people had been killed since March 2, including 552 since the ceasefire began on April 16; the UN relief chief said the next day that Israel carried out more than 100 strikes on Lebanon in 24 hours.
Israeli attacks killed at least 18 people across Lebanon, including seven killed and 15 wounded in a strike on a building housing displaced families in Saksakiyeh, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Israel said it hit Hezbollah members in a structure used for military purposes and was reviewing reports of civilian harm.
Israeli air attacks killed at least 31 people across southern Lebanon on Friday, including five in Toura and a civil defence worker, Lebanon's National News Agency reported, one of the deadliest days since March 2. The Health Ministry put the overall toll at 2,759 dead and 8,512 wounded.
An Israeli strike on Majdal Zoun near Tyre hit an army patrol escorting civil defence teams at the site of an earlier strike, killing at least five people, including three paramedics, and wounding two soldiers, Lebanon's Health Ministry and army said. President Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned it as an attack on rescuers, with Salam calling it a war crime.
Al-Akhbar reporter Amal Khalil was killed and photographer Zeinab Faraj wounded in Israeli strikes on al-Tiri; Lebanon’s Health Ministry and journalists’ union said Israeli fire kept rescuers from reaching Khalil for hours after the house she sheltered in was hit. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called it a war crime; the Israeli military said it struck militants posing a threat and denied blocking rescuers or targeting journalists.
Staff Sgt. Florian Montorio was killed and three other French peacekeepers wounded when a UNIFIL unit came under small-arms fire near Ghandouriyeh on Saturday morning. Macron said “everything suggests” Hezbollah was responsible and the UN secretary-general said an initial UNIFIL assessment pointed to Hezbollah; the group denied involvement. A second wounded soldier, Cpl. Anicet Girardin, died on April 22.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli strikes had killed 2,020 people, including 248 women, 165 children and 85 health workers, and wounded 6,436 since March 2, with nearly 100 killed in the previous 24 hours.
The Israeli military said four soldiers were killed in one incident in southern Lebanon and two others were wounded, bringing its troop deaths in the Lebanon fighting to 10. Lebanon's Health Ministry put the toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 at 1,268 killed and 3,750 wounded.
UNIFIL said two peacekeepers were killed when an explosion of unknown origin destroyed their vehicle near Bani Hayyan, and two others were wounded; the UN said all three peacekeepers killed in 24 hours were Indonesian. The Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting at France's request, and Israel later blamed Hezbollah without providing evidence.
UNIFIL said a peacekeeper was killed and another critically injured when a projectile exploded at its position near Adchit al-Qusayr, and that the projectile's origin was unknown. Indonesia said the dead soldier was Indonesian and that three others were wounded by what it called indirect artillery fire.
An Israeli strike in the Jezzine area killed Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib and Al-Mayadeen reporter Fatima Ftouni; Al Jazeera reported that her brother and colleague Mohammed was also killed. Israel said Shoeib was a Hezbollah intelligence operative, without providing evidence, and Lebanon's president called the strike a blatant crime.
Israeli emergency services found a 52-year-old man dead in Tel Aviv after an Iranian missile salvo aimed at central Israel, and police said the cluster munition wounded four others in different areas. Israel's military reported three Iranian launches overnight.
Magen David Adom said a man in his 30s was killed by shrapnel in Nahariya after a barrage from Lebanon, and a man in his 50s was hurt, in moderate-to-serious condition. Lebanon's Health Ministry put the toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 at 1,116 killed and 3,229 wounded.
Abu Dhabi authorities said two people were killed and three wounded when shrapnel from a ballistic missile interception fell on a main road. In Iran, IRNA reported that two teenage brothers were killed Wednesday evening in a strike on a residential area in Shiraz county.
Magen David Adom said a woman of about 30 was found critically wounded by a road south of Safed and pronounced dead after rocket fire from Lebanon, and two other people were lightly hurt; the military said dozens of rockets were fired at the area.
Iran's state broadcaster, citing the Health Ministry, said late Saturday that the death toll in Iran since the war began had risen to more than 1,500.
Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said 232 service members had been injured in the Middle East, 30 more than Monday's tally, with 207 back on duty and 10 seriously wounded; 13 U.S. service members have been killed since the war began.