The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Iran entered its third day with more Iranian missile attacks directed at Israel and its Arab neighbors as the U.S. military death toll climbed to four. The strikes have also killed at least 11 people in Israel, and the Iranian Red Crescent says 555 people have been killed in Iran.
Kuwait shot down three U.S. F-15s in what CENTCOM calls a "friendly fire incident," but all crewmembers were safe. Smoke rose, meanwhile, from the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait after an apparent Iranian missile strike.
Air travel is snarled as the war forces the closure of key hub airports in the Mideast, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded in the Gulf region — as the U.S. declines to join other countries planning to help evacuate their citizens.
President Trump said Sunday that the joint military operation would continue "until all of our objectives are achieved," and that could be "four weeks or less," but that more American casualties are possible.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his administration was coordinating with its international partners to monitor events in Iran, calling it "important that this chance for change for Iran be used properly."
"The Iranian people have long effectively been alone against violence — against the Iranian regime. This regime, which has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens just in recent months, which has always fueled and organized wars in the region, which provided Russia with 'shaheds' [drones] and the technology for their production — this regime has brought this attitude upon itself," Zelenskyy said in a social media post.
"It is important that there be a clear position in support of people and human life," he added, offering his personal thanks to "everyone who is trying to prevent the war from expanding and who is defending against strikes from Iran."
"I also thank everyone who tells Russia — now, based on the experience of the Iranian regime — that justice does come," Zelenskyy said.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday that the four American service members who were killed over the weekend died when an incoming munition hit a tactical operations center in Kuwait.
"We have incredible air defenders. Every once in a while you might have one, unfortunately we call it a squirter, that makes its way through," he said. "And in that particular case, it happened to hit a tactical operations center that was fortified, but these are powerful weapons."
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