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5/12/2026 Reuters : US war in Iran has cost $29 billion so far, Pentagon says
The ​United States' war in Iran has cost $29 ‌billion so far, a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday, an increase of $4 billion from an estimate provided ​late last month. With just six months before ​midterm elections in which President Donald Trump's ⁠Republicans may face an uphill battle to ​keep their House majority, Democrats are riding high ​in public opinion polls as they attempt to link the war with cost of living issues.
5/12/2026 NYTimes : Trump Says Iran Must Make Deal or Face Renewed Attacks
As he departed for China on Tuesday, President Trump sought to assuage concerns that the cease-fire with Iran was in peril, telling reporters at the White House that “we have Iran very much under control.” But he also reiterated that “we’re either going to make a deal or they’re going to be decimated.” Iran’s government showed no sign of backing down from its hard-line negotiating stance. On social media, Kazem Gharibabadi, a deputy foreign minister, said Iran’s position was that any peace deal must include reparations for Iran, Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, and an end to U.S. sanctions.
5/12/2026 NYTimes : U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors, according to classified assessments from early this month that show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities. Most alarming to some senior officials is evidence that Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, which could threaten American warships and oil tankers transiting the narrow waterway.
5/11/2026 WaPo : Trump calls Iran’s response to peace plan ‘unacceptable’ as ceasefire is tested
President Donald Trump called Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war “totally unacceptable.” Trump’s comments Sunday came hours after Tehran said, according to state media, that it sent a response to the peace plan through Pakistani mediators. The back and forth follows an exchange of hostilities around the Strait of Hormuz in recent days that highlighted the fragility of a ceasefire the two sides reached more than a month ago.
5/10/2026 NYTimes : Iran Responds to U.S. Proposal to End the War, Iranian State Media Says
Iran has formally responded to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war, Iranian state media said on Sunday, after a tense week of attacks and counterattacks in the Persian Gulf has rattled the fragile truce. But the announcement provided few details about whether a comprehensive agreement could follow. Negotiators for Iran passed their response to Pakistan mediators, who have been brokering the talks, according to Iran’s state broadcaster. White House officials did not respond to a request for comment on Iran’s response.
5/10/2026 NYTimes : Mass Layoffs in Iran as Businesses Buckle Under Wartime Pressures
In mid-March, Babak, a 49-year-old Iranian product designer at a tech company in Tehran, was called into his boss’s office and told that his position was being eliminated. Iran’s government had shut down the internet two weeks earlier, at the outset of U.S.-Israeli war on the country, throwing the country’s tech industry into chaos and making Babak’s job impossible.
5/9/2026 TOI : Israel built and defended secret base deep in Iraqi desert to support Iran air campaign
Israel set up a secret military base in the Iraqi desert to support its aerial campaign against Iran, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials and other sources. According to the sources, Israel built the base shortly before the war began in late February to serve as a hub for logistics to support the Israeli Air Force.
5/9/2026 Reuters : US, Iran no closer to ending war as Tehran's response awaited
A state of relative calm prevailed around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after days of sporadic flare-ups, as the United States waited for Iran's response to its latest proposals to end more than two months of fighting and begin peace talks. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that Washington expected a response within hours. But a day later, there was no sign of movement from Tehran on the proposal, which would formally end the war before talks on more contentious issues, including Iran's nuclear program.
5/9/2026 MO : Iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ of small attack boats has struck 26 ships since the war began — and the US Navy can’t sink them all
Sometime before dawn on May 3, 2026, a bulk carrier transiting the Strait of Hormuz was swarmed by multiple small craft operating near Iranian waters. The vessel reported the attack to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center and kept moving. The next day, a tanker north of Fujairah, the major bunkering port on the Gulf of Oman side of the strait, was hit by unknown projectiles. Neither ship’s name, flag state, nor cargo has been publicly confirmed. What is confirmed is that these were not isolated events. They were the latest in a campaign of fast-boat raids that has made the world’s most important oil chokepoint a combat zone.
5/7/2026 NYTimes : Tehran Says It Is Discussing Plan With U.S. to End Hostilities
Iranian officials said on Thursday that their country is discussing with the United States a one-page proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end hostilities for 30 days while they try to reach a comprehensive peace settlement. The plan has three main points, according to three senior Iranian officials: the lifting of the U.S. blockade on Iranian ships and ports, the opening of the strait to commercial traffic, and an end to the fighting. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. U.S. officials did not respond to requests for comment

Iraq News

4/3/2026 NYT : Iraqi Militia Offers to Negotiate Release of Kidnapped U.S. Journalist
An Iraqi militia allied with Iran offered on Wednesday to negotiate with the Iraqi government for the release of a kidnapped American journalist, according to two Iraqi security officials. The group, Kataib Hezbollah, is a powerful militia in Iraq outside the control of the state. In March 2023, it abducted an Israeli-Russian dual national who was a doctoral student at Princeton University, Elizabeth Tsurkov, and held her hostage for more than two years, torturing her while in captivity.
3/12/2026 Cetcom : Loss of U.S. KC-135 Over Iraq
U.S. Central Command is aware of the loss of a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft. The incident occurred in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury, and rescue efforts are ongoing. Two aircraft were involved in the incident. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq, and the second landed safely.
12/14/2025 BBC : Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US military says
Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by an Islamic State (IS) gunman, the US Central Command (Centcom) has said. Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was "engaged and killed".
2/2/2024 CNN : US launches strikes in Iraq and Syria as Israel-Hamas war rages
The US has begun conducting strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria, the start of what will likely be a series of larger-scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to two US officials.
1/29/2024 DoD : DoD Identifies Fatalities
Three U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were injured following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border. Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett of Savannah, Georgia.

Afghanistan News

8/1/2022 Reuters : US kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in drone strike in Afghanistan
10/15/2021 AP : Suicide attack on Shiite mosque in Afghanistan kills 37
10/7/2021 Reuters : U.S. charges former Taliban commander with killing U.S. troops in 2008
9/26/2021 WaPo : How Afghanistan’s security forces lost the war
9/26/2021 WaPo : Taliban puts bodies of alleged kidnappers on public display, in a sign of return to harsh Islamic justice

Iran
Year
US
Other
Total
2026
13
0
13
Total
13
0
13
Iran Fatalities Details
Iraq
Year
US
UK
Other
Total
2003
486
53
41
580
2004
849
22
35
906
2005
846
23
28
897
2006
823
29
21
873
2007
904
47
10
961
2008
314
4
4
322
2009
148
1
0
149
2010
62
0
0
62
2011
58
0
0
58
2012
2
0
0
2
2014
4
0
0
4
2015
8
0
2
10
2016
20
0
0
20
2017
22
1
1
24
2018
17
1
0
18
2019
12
0
0
12
2020
11
1
0
12
Total
4586
182
142
4910
Iraq Fatalities Details
Afghanistan
Year
US
UK
Other
Total
2001
12
0
0
12
2002
49
3
18
70
2003
48
0
10
58
2004
52
1
7
60
2005
99
1
31
131
2006
98
39
54
191
2007
117
42
73
232
2008
155
51
89
295
2009
317
108
96
521
2010
498
103
109
710
2011
415
46
102
563
2012
310
44
48
402
2013
128
9
25
162
2014
55
6
14
75
2015
22
2
2
26
2016
13
0
2
15
2017
15
0
2
17
2018
14
0
5
19
2019
24
0
2
26
2020
11
0
0
11
2021
13
0
0
13
Total
2465
455
689
3609
Afghanistan Fatalities Details
Iran
Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2026
0
0
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13

Iraq
Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2003
0
0
92
80
42
36
49
43
33
47
110
48
580
2004
52
23
52
140
84
50
58
75
87
68
141
76
906
2005
127
60
39
52
88
83
58
85
52
99
86
68
897
2006
64
58
34
82
79
63
46
66
77
111
78
115
873
2007
86
85
82
117
131
108
89
88
70
40
40
25
961
2008
40
30
40
52
21
31
13
23
25
14
17
16
322
2009
16
18
9
19
25
15
8
7
10
8
11
3
149
2010
6
6
7
8
6
8
4
3
7
3
2
2
62
2011
7
3
3
11
2
15
6
0
4
4
2
1
58
2012
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2014
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
1
4
2015
0
0
1
1
2
2
0
0
2
1
1
0
10
2016
2
0
2
3
3
0
1
1
3
0
5
0
20
2017
4
1
3
3
1
0
0
5
1
1
2
3
24
2018
2
1
8
2
0
0
2
1
0
2
0
0
18
2019
3
0
2
3
0
0
1
2
0
1
0
0
12
2020
1
0
6
0
1
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
12

Afghanistan
Period
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
2001
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
5
4
12
2002
10
13
15
10
1
3
0
3
1
5
1
8
70
2003
4
7
12
2
3
7
2
4
2
6
8
1
58
2004
11
2
3
3
9
5
2
4
4
8
7
2
60
2005
2
3
6
19
4
29
2
33
12
10
7
4
131
2006
1
17
13
5
17
22
19
29
38
17
9
4
191
2007
2
18
10
20
25
24
29
34
24
15
22
9
232
2008
14
7
20
14
23
46
30
46
37
19
12
27
295
2009
25
25
28
14
27
38
76
77
70
74
32
35
521
2010
43
53
39
34
51
103
88
79
57
64
58
41
710
2011
31
38
38
51
56
66
53
82
53
42
27
26
563
2012
35
24
39
40
45
39
46
52
27
24
17
14
402
2013
8
1
17
16
26
27
14
13
13
10
4
13
162
2014
7
10
3
10
4
12
9
5
6
2
3
4
75
2015
0
1
0
1
1
1
0
3
3
10
0
6
26
2016
2
0
0
0
2
1
0
2
0
3
4
1
15
2017
0
0
1
3
0
3
1
3
2
1
2
1
17
2018
1
0
0
1
0
0
2
4
2
2
5
2
19
2019
2
0
2
4
1
3
5
3
3
0
2
1
26
2020
4
3
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
1
0
11
2021
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
13
0
0
0
0
13
Iraq
Country
Total
Australia
2
Azerbaijan
1
Bulgaria
13
Canada
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
7
El Salvador
5
Estonia
2
Fiji
1
France
1
Georgia
5
Germany
1
Hungary
1
Italy
33
Kazakhstan
1
Latvia
3
Netherlands
2
Poland
23
Romania
3
Slovakia
4
South Korea
1
Spain
11
Thailand
2
Ukraine
18
United Kingdom
182
United States
4586
Total
4910
Afghanistan
Country
Total
Albania
1
Australia
41
Belgium
1
Canada
158
Croatian
1
Czech Republic
14
Denmark
43
Estonia
9
Finland
2
France
86
Georgia
29
Germany
54
Hungary
7
Italy
48
Jordan
2
Latvia
3
Lithuania
1
NATO
18
Netherlands
25
New Zealand
11
Norway
10
Poland
40
Portugal
2
Romania
25
Slovakia
3
South Korea
1
Spain
34
Sweden
5
Turkey
14
United Kingdom
455
United States
2465
Unknown
1
Total
3609
Iraq
Year
Total
2003
2423
2004
8004
2005
5945
2006
6415
2007
6121
2008
2052
2009
680
2010
392
2011
221
2012
0
2013
0
2014
0
2015
5
2016
25
2017
32
2018
13
2019
11
2020
116
Total
32455
Afghanistan
Year
Total
2001
33
2002
74
2003
99
2004
217
2005
270
2006
403
2007
751
2008
798
2009
2157
2010
5264
2011
5227
2012
2971
2013
1368
2014
457
2015
77
2016
71
2017
107
2018
115
2019
192
2020
11
Total
20662