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Attacks on Iran Intensify by Land and Sea as U.S. Takes First Casualties
| UN peacekeeper | 03/01/26 |
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Date: March 1st, 2026 8:41 PM Author: UN peacekeeper The United States and Israel unleashed a second day of intense airstrikes and bombing runs on Iran, hitting more than 2,000 targets, as Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones against Israel and Persian Gulf countries. One strike killed three U.S. soldiers at a base in Kuwait.
President Trump expressed condolences for the slain American troops and predicted there would be more causalities in the coming days. “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends,” he said. “That’s the way it is. Likely be more.”
In an interview with The New York Times, the president said the United States intends to keep up the attack on Iran for “four or five weeks,” but he didn’t lay out a clear plan for how power might be transferred to a new government.
On Saturday, the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation succeeded in killing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died in an Israeli missile strike based on U.S. intelligence. In a video on Sunday, Trump repeated his calls for the Iranian people to take over, but later refused to say how — or if — his administration would defend them.
Amid fears of a wider conflagration with no clear endgame, Mr. Trump also said that Iran’s new leadership had let him know they wanted to speak to him and that he was willing to do so. The Iranian government did not publicly respond to his remarks.
The three U.S. troops killed in action in Kuwait, who were not identified, were the first Americans to die in the war with Iran. At least nine people were killed in Israel, and at least four people were killed in attacks across the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, according to official reports tallied by The New York Times. Iran has fired at least 370 missiles and launched 830 drones at Israel and Persian Gulf states since the conflict started on Saturday morning.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that its air force was again bombarding “the heart of Tehran,” the Iranian capital. The military said it had struck Iranian missile launchers, air defense systems, missile launchers, and command centers and the headquarters of the government.
The United States kept up a barrage of strikes on Sunday targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program and trying to sink the Iranian Navy, a U.S. Central Command official said. American stealth bombers, armed with 2,000 pound bombs, struck Iran’s “hardened” ballistic missile facilities. American strikes destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and sank at least one warship, the military said.
Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, earlier on Sunday announced that an interim committee would run the country until a successor to the supreme leader was chosen. |