U.S. Military Operations in the Middle East

The Pentagon says about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded in the Iran war — eight classified as severely injured — and seven killed, with 108 of the wounded already returned to duty; the seventh fatality was identified as Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, who died of wounds from a March 1 strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Many of the casualties occurred at U.S. bases in countries neighboring Iran amid repeated missile and drone attacks, with intercepts reported in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq and near‑constant air‑defense activity across the Gulf.