BREAKING: Seventh US service member killed in Middle East

This marks the seventh American killed in action during Operation Epic Fury.

Earlier in the week, the Pentagon identified six service members who died in a drone strike by Iran over the weekend in Kuwait. They were Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa; Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, 45, of Waukee, Iowa; and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California.

All six were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, an Army Reserve unit in Iowa, and were serving with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command at the time of the strike. The attack targeted a fortified operations center at the port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. According to CNN, the facility was a triple-wide trailer surrounded by concrete barriers designed to protect against car bombs and IEDs, but had no overhead protection against drones or missiles.

Operation Epic Fury, launched by the Trump administration on March 1, involved coordinated US and Israeli strikes aimed at dismantling Iran’s command structure, including the death of the country’s supreme leader. Following the operation, Iran launched retaliatory attacks across the region.

US forces were targeted in Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Israel also reported incoming fire amid the escalating conflict.