{"id":67691,"date":"2026-03-01T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-military-says-three-of-its-service-members-killed-in-iran-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:23:07","slug":"us-military-says-three-of-its-service-members-killed-in-iran-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-military-says-three-of-its-service-members-killed-in-iran-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says three of its service members killed in Iran operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five additional personnel have been reported seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, US military said<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/01\/us-israel-war-on-iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-i-dead-latest-reports\">US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three US service members have been killed in action as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">US military operations against Iran<\/a>, the US Central Command said in a statement on Sunday. These are the first confirmed deaths since the US began launching strikes against Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Five additional personnel have been reported seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, the US military said. Authorities have not yet publicly identified the three soldiers who were killed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/01\/iran-attack-us-service-members-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five additional personnel have been reported seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, US military said US-Israel war on Iran \u2013 latest updates Three US service members have been killed in action as part of US military operations against Iran, the US Central Command said in a statement on Sunday. These are the first &#8230; <a title=\"US military says three of its service members killed in Iran operation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-military-says-three-of-its-service-members-killed-in-iran-operation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US military says three of its service members killed in Iran operation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}