A third US service member has now been confirmed dead after Iran’s ballistic missile and drone attack on a military base in Jordan, taking the total number of American military deaths since the conflict began to 18. The Pentagon identified Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad of New York after earlier confirming the deaths of Tyler James Feehan and Isabella Gonzales. The attack marks one of the deadliest direct Iranian strikes on US forces in the ongoing regional conflict. As tensions continue to escalate across the Middle East, the US and Iran remain locked in an increasingly dangerous military confrontation.

The US military said two more service members were killed in Jordan, bringing the American death toll in the Iran conflict to 16.

Three US soldiers killed in Iranian missile and drone strikes in Jordan and Iraq push the conflict death toll to 17, with retaliatory strikes targeting

The U.S. military shared the identities of two service members killed in an Iranian attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, a U.S. base in Jordan.

BREAKING: The US Department of Defense confirmed that 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, and Pvt.