War in the Middle East: casualty figures from across the region
MISSILE strikes by Iran target U.S. bases across the Middle East, prompting evacuations and while more casualties are expected.
Photos courtesy of AFP
Daily TribuneMISSILE strikes by Iran target U.S. bases across the Middle East, prompting evacuations and while more casualties are expected.
Photos courtesy of AFP
Since the United States and Israel unleashed strikes on Iran on 28 February, war has spread across the Middle East, with casualties reported in countries across the region.
AFP has not been able to independently verify all of the following tolls, which are based on numbers released by governments, militaries, health authorities and rescue organizations in the affected countries.
Iran's government has not released an updated overall casualty toll in recent days.
However, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on 23 March that at least 3,268 people had been killed, including 1,443 civilians -- among them at least 217 children -- as well as 1,167 military personnel and 658 people whose status had not been classified.
Due to reporting restrictions, AFP is not able to access the sites of strikes nor to independently verify tolls in Iran.
Lebanon's health ministry said on 24 March that 1,072 people had been killed and 2,966 injured since the start of fighting on 2 March, including 121 children.
The ministry said the toll also included 42 healthcare workers.
Hezbollah has not announced its losses.
Israeli emergency services and authorities say attacks have killed 16 civilians on the Israeli side since the start of the war.
They said Iranian missile attacks have killed 15 civilians, including 13 Israelis -- among them four minors -- as well as one Filipino caregiver and one Thai national.
Another Israeli civilian was killed in the north of the country by Israeli artillery fire supporting ground operations in southern Lebanon, following "severe issues and operational errors", according to the army.
Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, said around 450 people have been injured since Iran began firing missiles at the country in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.
The Israeli military has separately announced the deaths of two personnel in combat in southern Lebanon.
The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah said four women were killed by Iranian missile fire in the occupied West Bank.
Armed groups and officials have said at least 89 people have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war, according to an AFP tally based on their announcements.
France said an Iranian drone killed a French soldier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.
The US military said a refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members, in an incident not caused by hostile or friendly fire.
Pro-Iran armed factions and security sources say 64 Iran-backed fighters were killed in strikes they blame on the United States and Israel.
In Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, a ballistic missile attack killed six peshmerga fighters on Tuesday, with the region accusing Iran of conducting the first such deadly attack on Kurdish security forces since the war began.
An Iraqi officer was killed on Saturday in a drone attack targeting an Iraqi intelligence services building in a residential Baghdad neighbourhood, the agency said.
Kurdish rebel groups said at least five Iranian Kurdish militants were killed in strikes attributed to Iran on their positions in northern Iraq.
Kurdish security sources said one airport guard was killed in a drone attack on Erbil airport.
Officials said one civilian was killed by rocket shrapnel following a strike southeast of Baghdad.
Authorities said four people were killed in a strike on a house in Baghdad last week, with initial reports suggesting two of the victims were Iranian advisors to Tehran-backed factions.
Authorities in Gulf states and the US Central Command (CENTCOM) have reported 36 people killed -- including 17 civilians and one civilian military contractor -- since the start of the Iranian attacks.
The rest of those killed were military or security personnel, including seven US service members.
Kuwait's military and health ministry have reported six deaths: two soldiers, two border guards and two civilians, one of them an 11-year-old girl.
The United Arab Emirates' defence ministry has reported eight deaths: six civilians and two military personnel who died as a result of a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction.
Saudi Arabia's civil defence agency has reported two civilian deaths.
Bahrain's interior ministry has logged two civilian deaths and the UAE defence ministry has said a contractor for the Emirati military, a Moroccan, was killed following an Iranian attack in Bahrain.
Oman's maritime security centre reported the death of a mariner at sea and two other people in a drone attack on an industrial area.
Qatar's defence ministry said four Qatari servicemen and three Turkish nationals -- including one serviceman and two civilians -- were killed in a helicopter crash in Qatar's territorial waters.
CENTCOM has confirmed six US service personnel killed in Kuwait and one killed in Saudi Arabia.
In Jordan, security officials said 29 people have been injured by falling debris from Iranian missiles and drones in various parts of the kingdom.
No deaths have been recorded so far.
Syrian state media reported eight people injured by falling debris from exchanges of fire between Iran and Israel.
In addition to the deaths of seven US personnel confirmed by CENTCOM in the Gulf and six in Iraq, the United States has said around 200 of its military personnel have been injured in seven countries across the Middle East since the start of the war.
Ten were categorised as seriously wounded and more than 180 have already returned to duty, CENTCOM said.