One strike killed three U.S. soldiers at a base in Kuwait. President Trump expressed condolences for the slain American troops and predicted there would be more causalities in the coming days. “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends,” he said. “That’s the way it is. Likely be more.”
In an interview with The New York Times, the president said the United States intends to keep up the attack on Iran for “four or five weeks,” but he didn’t lay out a clear plan for how power might be transferred to a new government.
Amid fears of a wider conflagration with no clear endgame, Mr. Trump said that Iran’s new leadership had let him know they wanted to speak to him and that he was willing to do so. The Iranian government did not publicly respond to his remarks. In a video on Sunday, Trump repeated his calls for the Iranian people to take over, but later refused to say how — or if — his administration would defend them.
The three U.S. troops killed in action in Kuwait, who were not identified, were the first Americans to die in the war with Iran. At least nine people were killed in a strike in central Israel, the country’s worst casualty event since the start of the conflict. One person was killed in the United Arab Emirates and four people were killed in Syria, according to official reports tallied by The New York Times.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had struck Iranian missile launchers, air defense systems, missile launchers, and command centers and the headquarters of the government. The United States kept up a barrage of strikes on Sunday targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program and trying to sink the Iranian Navy, a U.S. Central Command official said. U.S. forces struck Iran’s “hardened” ballistic missile facilities and destroyed the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and sank at least one warship, the military said.
