Two more American service members have been killed in the war in Iran, U.S. military officials said Monday afternoon. That brings the number of dead troops so far to six.
The U.S. Central Command had reported three service members were killed and five were seriously wounded on Sunday; military officials said those troops were killed after an Iranian strike on a base housing American troops in Kuwait.
On Monday morning, the Central Command said that one of the injured service members had died of his wounds. Then, on Monday afternoon, the Central Command said that officials had recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted troops “from a facility that was struck during Iran’s initial attacks in the region.” With that, the number of Americans killed in the first three days of the war rose to six.
The Defense Department does not release the names of troops killed until at least 24 hours after their families are notified.
Administration officials have recently taken to repeating that they expect more U.S. casualties. Earlier Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth picked up that mantra.
“War is hell and always will be,” Mr. Hegseth said during a Pentagon news conference. “A grateful nation honors the four Americans we have lost thus far.”
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he expected the United States to “take additional losses.”
Helene Cooper is a Pentagon correspondent for The Times. She was previously an editor, diplomatic correspondent and White House correspondent.
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