March 10 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 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 10, more than a week after it began. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
* IRAN – At least 1,630 people have been killed, accordingto state media reports, including 40 people who were killed onMonday in an Israeli strike on a residential area in Tehran.Itwas unclear if the overall death toll included IslamicRevolutionary Guard Corps military casualties. The Iranian armyhas said that at least 104 people were killed after a U.S.submarine sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast lastweek. Those deaths were not included in the toll given by theRed Crescent. * LEBANON – At least 486 people have been killed in Israelistrikes, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. * IRAQ – At least 15 people have been killed, according toIraqi police and health officials. One commander from IslamicResistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armedfactions, was killed in an airstrike on his vehicle on March 5,police sources told Reuters. * ISRAEL – The military said two soldiers were killed insouthern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops sincehostilities with Hezbollah resumed last week after the groupattacked Israel in support of Iran. Eleven civilians have beenkilled, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike onBeit Shemesh near Jerusalem on March 1, according to Israel’sambulance service Magen David Adom. * UNITED STATES – Seven service members have been killed inaction during operations against Iran, the U.S. military said. * SYRIA – Four people were killed when an Iranian missilestruck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida onFebruary 28, state news agency SANA said. * UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Six people have been killed inIranian attacks, according to the UAE’s defense ministry. * SAUDI ARABIA – Two people were killed when a projectilefell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast ofthe capital Riyadh. * BAHRAIN – Two people were killed in two separate Iranianattacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building inthe capital Manama, according to the interior ministry. * KUWAIT – Two people, including a child, have been killedin Iranian attacks on the country, according to Kuwait’s healthministry. Two interior ministry officers and two army soldierswere 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 coastof Muscat.
(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)
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