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.”
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It looks like all the deaths so far happened at the same place in Kuwait, as a “projectile had made it through air defenses and struck a fortified U.S. military position”
There were also around 18 service members wounded as well.
According to [CNN article](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/politics/six-soldiers-killed-in-iranian-strike-kuwait?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit),
*The source familiar said it was a direct hit just after 9 a.m. local time, on the center of the building they described as a triple-wide trailer with office space inside. The attack came quickly and with no warning or sirens to alert troops to evacuate or get into a bunker, the source said. Hours after the strike, fire was still smoldering in some parts of the building, the source described – the inside of the makeshift operations center blackened and the walls blown outwards from the blast, some parts peeling away from the building.*
*A satellite image taken Sunday morning showed a building at the port on fire and dark smoke billowing into the sky.*
*US Central Command initially said that three service members were killed but didn’t specify the location of the strike. There were dozens of people at the site, the source said, but the final service members who were declared killed in action were unaccounted for when the dust settled. With the building still burning in some places, it took time to recover the remaining service members, the source said.*