Hundreds of people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, with Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and personnel as well as Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict.
Here are the death tolls from the war as reported by countries as of March 11, more than a week after it began. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
IRAN – At least 1,270 people have been killed, according to state media reports, including 40 people who were killed onMonday in an Israeli strike on a residential area in Tehran. Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid said more than 1,300civilians were killed in the war. The reason for the discrepancy was not clear. The Iranian army has said that at least 104 people were killed after a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off SriLanka’s coast on March 4.
LEBANON – At least 594 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Lebanese authorities. The World Health Organisation said at least 84 of those killed were children.
IRAQ – At least 16 people have been killed, according toIraqi police and health officials. One commander from IslamicResistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, was killed in an airstrike on his vehicle on March 5, police sources told Reuters.
ISRAEL – Twelve people have been killed, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh nearJerusalem on March 1, according to Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom. The military said two soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops since hostilities with Hezbollah resumed last week after the group attacked Israel in support of Iran.
UNITED STATES – Seven service members have been killed in action during operations against Iran, the U.S. military said.
SYRIA – Four people were killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Feb. 28, state news agency SANA said.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Six people have been killed inIranian attacks, according to the UAE’s defence ministry.
SAUDI ARABIA – Two people were killed when a projectile fell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast of the capital Riyadh.
BAHRAIN – Two people were killed in two separate Iranian attacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building in the capital Manama, according to the interior ministry.
KUWAIT – Two people, including a child, have been killed in Iranian attacks on the country, according to Kuwait’s health ministry. Two interior ministry officers and two army soldiers were also killed on duty, the army said.
OMAN – One person was killed after a projectile hit theMarshall Islands–flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coast of Muscat, its manager said.
Compiled by Nayera Abdallah, Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magid and Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Cynthia Osterman, Aidan Lewis and Christian Schmollinger, Reuters
