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Factbox: How many people have been killed in the US-Israeli war on Iran?

Photo caption: Mourners react as they attend a funeral ceremony for victims of Israeli and U.S. strikes, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

 

Funeral of victims of Israeli and U.S. strikes, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran

 

Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28 and Iran launched strikes in response.

Here are the tolls reported ‌by Thursday, which Reuters has not independently verified.

IRAN

U.S.-based rights group HRANA said on Tuesday that 3,114 people have been killed. ‌It said 1,354 of those were civilians including 207 children.

The group says its data comes from field reports, local contacts, medical and emergency sources, civil society networks, open ​source materials and official statements.

The latest figures reported by state media last week put the toll at 1,270 people.

Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. said on March 6 that at least 1,332 people had been killed since the war began. There has been no clarification of the discrepancy.

It was not clear if those figures included at least 104 people who the Iranian military said were killed in a U.S. attack on an Iranian ‌warship off Sri Lanka on March 4.

LEBANON

At least ⁠968 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2, according to Lebanese authorities. The World Health Organization said more than 100 of those killed were children.

IRAQ

At least 60 people have been killed, according ⁠to Iraqi authorities. Most of those were members of the Shi’ite Popular Mobilisation Forces. One foreign crew member was killed in an attack on tankers near an Iraqi port, according to port security officials.

ISRAEL

Fifteen civilians have been killed, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on ​March 1, according to Israel’s ambulance service. The Israeli military said two ​of its soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon. ‌In addition, three Palestinian women were killed in an Iranian missile attack in the occupied West Bank.

UNITED STATES

Thirteen service members have been killed. Six were confirmed dead after a U.S. military refuelling aircraft crashed over Iraq, the U.S. military said, while seven others have been killed in action during operations against Iran.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Eight people have been killed in Iranian attacks, including two army soldiers, according to the UAE defence ministry.

KUWAIT

Authorities have reported six deaths, including two people killed in Iranian attacks, two interior ministry officers and two army soldiers.

SYRIA

Four people were killed ‌when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city ​of Sweida on February 28, state news agency SANA said.

OMAN

Two people were killed in ​a drone strike on an industrial zone in Sohar province, ​marking the first fatalities inside the country, which has been hosting mediation talks between the U.S. and Iran. ‌One person died earlier when a projectile hit a ​tanker off the coast of Muscat, ​the vessel’s manager said.

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 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.

FRANCE

One French ‌soldier was killed and six others were wounded after a drone attack in northern Iraq, where they were providing ​counterterrorism training.

=== Reuters ===

 

 

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