{"id":48757,"date":"2026-02-28T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2026\/02\/28\/no-us-casualties-reported-following-irans-retaliatory-strikes-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:29:16","slug":"no-us-casualties-reported-following-irans-retaliatory-strikes-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2026\/02\/28\/no-us-casualties-reported-following-irans-retaliatory-strikes-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"No US casualties reported following Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Editor\u2019s note: This report has been updated to reflect that President Donald Trump announced Saturday that Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A barrage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-launch-major-combat-operations-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/28\/us-israel-launch-major-combat-operations-in-iran\/\">Iranian retaliatory strikes on U.S. military<\/a> installations across the Middle East on Saturday resulted in no casualties to American personnel, U.S. Central command officials said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With dust still settling from a U.S. and Israeli air, land and sea bombardment on targets across the Islamic Republic \u2014 part an operation dubbed Epic Fury \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2026\/02\/26\/last-ditch-effort-in-geneva-to-avert-war-between-us-iran-wraps-with-significant-progress-omani-official-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2026\/02\/26\/last-ditch-effort-in-geneva-to-avert-war-between-us-iran-wraps-with-significant-progress-omani-official-says\/\">Iran<\/a> responded by firing hundreds of missiles and drones at U.S. bases that were \u201csuccessfully defended against,\u201d a CENTCOM release stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere have been no reports of U.S. casualties or combat-related injuries,\u201d the release stated. \u201cDamage to U.S. installations was minimal and has not impacted operations.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DVTl6OcAO6u\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DVTl6OcAO6u\/\">Video circulated earlier on Saturday<\/a> purportedly showed the U.S. Navy\u2019s 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain being hit in an Iranian strike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 201 people have been killed and more than 700 injured across Iran, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/video\/130631510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/video\/130631510\/\">Iranian Red Crescent Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/28\/us-confirms-first-combat-use-of-lucas-one-way-attack-drone-in-iran-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/28\/us-confirms-first-combat-use-of-lucas-one-way-attack-drone-in-iran-strikes\/\">assault by U.S. and partner forces<\/a> began Saturday at 1:15 a.m., CENTCOM officials stated, with the goal of knocking out \u201cthe Iranian regime\u2019s security apparatus, prioritizing locations that posed an imminent threat.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the primary targets of the operation were Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and military airfields, according to the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe president ordered bold action, and our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, guardians and Coast Guardsmen are answering the call,\u201d Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The compound of Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/middle-east\/2026\/02\/24\/iranians-worry-over-american-military-buildup-as-last-chance-round-of-talks-with-us-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/middle-east\/2026\/02\/24\/iranians-worry-over-american-military-buildup-as-last-chance-round-of-talks-with-us-nears\/\">Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> was also targeted in the operation. A senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28\/\">Israeli official told Reuters<\/a> that Khamenei was killed in the strike. President Donald Trump later confirmed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116150413051904167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116150413051904167\">Truth Social post<\/a> on Saturday that Khamenei was killed in the attack, calling the moment \u201cthe single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems and, working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do,\u201d wrote Trump, adding that \u201cheavy and pinpoint bombing\u201d would continue \u201cuninterrupted throughout the week\u201d or longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation is the culmination of what CENTCOM officials called \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/26\/us-military-assembles-largest-force-of-warships-aircraft-in-middle-east-in-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/26\/us-military-assembles-largest-force-of-warships-aircraft-in-middle-east-in-decades\/\">largest regional concentration<\/a> of American military firepower in a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to strikes carried out by U.S. fighter aircraft and naval vessels, the operation also saw the first combat use of the U.S. military\u2019s new autonomous kamikaze drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone, is a one-way attack drone reverse-engineered after the Iranian Shahed-136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troops carrying out those strikes make up the newly formed Task Force Scorpion Strike squadron, a first-of-its-kind one-way-attack drone squadron led by U.S. Special Operations Command-Central personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CENTCOM officials also claimed that &#8220;damage to U.S. installations was minimal and has not impacted operations.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":47,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3498,3405],"class_list":["post-48757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-mideast-africa"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"JZ6U76LLQZBW3F5DJUFZMAL6CM","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2026\/02\/28\/no-us-casualties-reported-following-irans-retaliatory-strikes-officials-say\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No US casualties reported following Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes, officials say - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CENTCOM officials also claimed that &quot;damage to U.S. installations was minimal and has not impacted operations.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No US casualties reported following Iran\u2019s retaliatory strikes, officials say\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CENTCOM officials also claimed that &quot;damage to U.S. installations was minimal and has not impacted operations.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/mideast-africa\/2026\/02\/28\/no-us-casualties-reported-following-irans-retaliatory-strikes-officials-say\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-28T20:23:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T17:29:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"J.D. 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