US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that five others have been \u2018seriously wounded\u2019 in the operation.<\/p>\n
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The United States military has announced that three service members have been killed in its operation against Iran, the first US casualties in the continuing attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n
The announcement on Sunday comes on the second day of strikes by the US and Israel that have killed the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and drawn retaliatory fire from Iran towards targets across the Middle East.<\/p>\n
US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed in a statement that three US service members were killed and five others have been \u201cseriously wounded\u201d in the operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions \u2014 and are in the process of being returned to duty. Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
The United States and Israel continued to launch attacks across Iran on Sunday, the second day of a campaign that US President Donald Trump says is aimed at removing Iran\u2019s government from power. Iran has responded to the assault with attacks targeting US assets across the Middle East, raising fears of a wider regional war.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported on Sunday that it had targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with four ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n
A US official told Al Jazeera that the Iranian attack did not cause any damage.<\/p>\n
CENTCOM said on X that the aircraft carrier \u201ccontinues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM\u2019s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime\u201d.<\/p>\n
CENTCOM later said that the military had carried out strikes on more than 1,000 Iranian targets since it started its attacks. According to a fact sheet, the targets included the Iranian Revolutionary Guards headquarters and Iranian navy submarines.<\/p>\n
Reporting from Washington DC, Al Jazeera\u2019s Alan Fisher said that the deaths of US troops would \u201cchange a lot of things for the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump, of course, campaigned on the idea of being a president who wasn\u2019t going to take the US into wars. He said that [former US Vice President] Kamala Harris, if she were elected, would start a fight with Iran that would lead to World War III,\u201d Fisher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many on the Democratic side who now want an emergency debate in Congress about this [the US operation in Iran] because what they want to know is, what are the administration\u2019s plans? Where does this go? How long is this going to last?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the big question, of course, is how many more service personnel will be put at risk,\u201d Fisher added.<\/p>\n
Still, Trump told Fox News on Sunday that things were \u201cmoving quickly\u201d during the US operation on Iran following the killings of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other members of the political top brass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not worried about anything, and things are going well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks if it weren\u2019t for our strikes against its nuclear facilities, and then this type of attack wouldn\u2019t have been possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Iran has vowed retaliation for the killing of Khamenei and the ongoing US-Israeli attacks on the country, as Foreign Minister Abbas Argachi told Al Jazeera that there were no \u201climits to our self-defence\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement that five others have been \u2018seriously wounded\u2019 in the operation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,43,5897,1259,14207,44,41,39,42,40,772,1690],"class_list":{"0":"post-508037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}