Nearly 100 American service members have been injured in a series of Iranian airstrikes on bases across the Middle East this month, U.S. officials told CBS News.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed the figures, saying almost 100 personnel “were deemed to have some degree of injury since July 7, 2026,” with 96 percent having already returned to duty. “They are determined to get back in the fight. The vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions,” Parnell said.
The injuries come amid a sharp uptick in hostilities as a monthslong ceasefire between Washington and Tehran continues to unravel. The U.S. military has carried out nightly strikes on Iranian targets for more than a week, saying the goal is to stop Iran from attacking commercial shipping, while Iran has responded by striking American assets in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and other U.S.-allied states. CBS News reported Friday that several service members had been injured at Jordanian military bases the previous week.
Over the weekend, the Defense Department announced that two American soldiers were killed at a military base in Jordan, and unidentified remains were recovered at the site where a third service member had gone missing. A separate service member was killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone.
The Pentagon has not disclosed the exact number of injuries or damage assessments from the most recent wave of Iranian attacks. The military’s Defense Casualty Analysis System lists 413 service members wounded in action since the conflict with Iran began, though that figure does not yet include injuries from this month. A separate DCAS listing puts total injuries at 427. Fourteen Americans have been killed in the conflict, not counting last weekend’s deaths.
President Trump has vowed retaliation for the deaths in Jordan and Iraq, writing on Truth Social Monday afternoon that “every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over,” and said the directive had been passed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, and other military leaders. The White House said Monday that Trump would attend the dignified transfer of the service members killed.
