The US military says it has begun a new round of strikes against Iran to "further degrade" its capabilities to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Republicans now face a worst-case political scenario of being asked to fund an unpopular war over which they have exercised little oversight.

The service member's death bring the number of US troops killed to 17 since the Iran war started on February 28, when joint US-Israeli strikes were carried out on sites across Iran.

The Pentagon has been slow to disclose injuries to US troops during the ongoing war with Iran, avoiding publicly confirming the fallout from Iranian attacks and mostly reserving totals to a military website that lags events by several days or even weeks with officials saying the delay is intended to protect service members.

In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes against U.S. forces in the coun...

The Pentagon said a U.S. service member was killed in Iraq on Saturday during the "controlled detonation" of a downed Iranian drone, and human remains were found at a military base in Jordan hit by Ir...