For 11 consecutive days, the U.S. has conducted major air strikes against Iran, while Iran has carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on U.S. forces and allied targets across the region. The rapid return to war follows the collapse of a shaky cease-fire between the two countries. And though negotiations appear to be continuing at least in some form, there does not seem to have been any progress back toward peace. On Tuesday, Donald Trump vowed to bomb Iran’s underground military facility at Pickaxe Mountain, where Israel reportedly told the U.S. Iran had moved some of its nuclear centrifuges. The war may pause again, but it appears unlikely to happen anytime soon. Below, a look at all the costs of a resurgent conflict.
Over the weekend, two U.S. service members were killed, and another is still missing, after Iranian ballistic missile attacks on a U.S. base in Jordan. And in Iraq, a U.S. Army soldier was killed after being struck by debris during the disposal of a downed Iranian drone. That raises the total number of U.S. service members killed during the war to at least 17. Trump has vowed revenge against Iran over the latest casualties and is reiterating that the soldiers died for something important:
