{"id":520505,"date":"2026-03-13T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520505\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:48:09","slug":"united-states-evacuates-19-wounded-service-members-from-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520505\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Evacuates 19 Wounded Service Members from Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"Subtitle\">The US evacuated 19 wounded troops from the Middle East to Germany, including two injured in a drone explosion, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>ERBIL (Kurdistan24) &#8211; The United States has evacuated 19 wounded service members from the Middle East to a military hospital in Germany, according to US officials cited by CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Officials familiar with the matter said the evacuation flight took place Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft departed from Saudi Arabia, stopped in Oman, and then continued to a US base in Germany located near a military hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Among the evacuated personnel were two service members injured when a drone exploded next to their vehicle, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evacuation comes after earlier transfers of wounded US troops from the region.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the US military evacuated dozens of service members injured in a strike on a US facility in Kuwait that killed six people.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 service members arrived Tuesday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany with injuries classified by the military as urgent.<\/p>\n<p>Sources cited by CBS News said those injuries included traumatic brain injuries, memory loss, and concussions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/story\/900134\/us-central-command-confirms-loss-of-kc-135-refueling-aircraft-over-western-iraq-during-operation-epic-fury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The evacuation comes amid ongoing US military operations in the region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, United States Central Command confirmed the loss of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft over western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>CENTCOM said two aircraft were involved in the incident, with one going down in western Iraq while the second landed safely.<\/p>\n<p>The command emphasized that the incident was not caused by hostile fire or friendly fire, adding that rescue operations remain underway as authorities gather additional information.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation of wounded personnel reflects the growing human toll on military forces operating across the region amid expanding conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US evacuated 19 wounded troops from the Middle East to Germany, including two injured in a drone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,228030,24],"class_list":["post-520505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-israel-iran-war","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}