U.S. Central Command announced the death of another U.S. service member on Sunday, just a day after an Iranian attack in Jordan claimed the lives of two members of the U.S. military engaged in the war with Iran.
A third service member involved in Saturday’s attack remains missing, though CENTCOM said “unidentified remains” have been found. “An examination process to verify the remains is ongoing,” CENTCOM announced on X.
The service member whose death was announced Sunday was killed in a separate incident.
“A U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed in action July 18 during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone,” CENTCOM said. Another service member is receiving medical treatment for a “minor injury” from that incident, CENTCOM said.
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The Pentagon on Monday also released the names of the two service members who died in Jordan, identifying them as First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.
The latest fatalities bring the total to 17 service members killed since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. With strikes launched Sunday, the U.S. has attacked Iran on nine consecutive nights as negotiations for a peace deal and a ceasefire have crumbled.
President Donald Trump, on his way back to the White House from attending the World Cup final in New Jersey, said the Sunday night strikes would be in honor of those fallen service members.
“We feel very badly but you know those great people, those great patriots were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. “We hit them very hard again tonight.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia), who is vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, offered his condolences Sunday and denounced the conflict with Iran.
“This is what happens when you start a war of choice,” Warner told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I can say unequivocally there was no imminent threat from Iran.”
One of the Trump administration’s central goals in the war is to prevent Iran from retaining any enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon, but Warner estimated that it would take “15,000 troops on the ground” to secure the material.
“Nobody wants to do that,” he said.
Earlier Sunday, Trump called for Congress to pass additional sanctions on Iran in addition to those that lawmakers are debating on Russia in memory of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“That’s what Lindsey wanted to do, and it was going to happen,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
This story has been updated with additional comments from Trump.
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