The 2026 Iran war has resulted in thousands of casualties, mostly in Iran and Lebanon but also in Iraq, Israel, and other countries and regions.
The following table lists casualties by citizenship.
| Country | Killed | Injured | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 3,785–9,009+ | 39,526+ | |
| Iran | 2,076–7,300+ [a] | 26,500 [b] | [2] [5] [6] [1] [4] |
| Lebanon | 1,497 [c] | 4,639 | [9] [7] [8] |
| Iraq | 112 [d] | 224 [e] | [f] |
| Israel | 39 [g] | 7,263 [h] | [i] |
| United States | 15 [j] | 520+ [k] | [52] [53] [49] [50] [51] |
| United Arab Emirates | 12 | 169 | [54] [55] |
| Palestine (West Bank) | 10 [l] | Unknown | [57] [58] [56] |
| Kuwait | 10 | 109 | [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] |
| Qatar | 4 | 16 | [64] [65] |
| Bahrain | 3 | 42 | [66] [67] [68] [45] |
| Oman | 3 | 5 | [69] [6] [70] |
| Turkey | 3 | 0 | [65] |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 16 | [6] |
| Philippines | 2 | 0 | [71] [72] |
| France | 1 | Several | [73] |
| Syria | 1 | 0 | [74] |
| Jordan | 0 | 19 | [6] |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | 4 | [75] |
As of 6 April, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), a US-based non-governmental organization, documented 3,597 deaths in Iran due to strikes, including 1,665 civilians, 1,221 military personnel, and 711 unclassified. According to HRANA, "[i]t is believed that military casualties are significantly higher than the figures reported in [its] reports" as confirmations depend largely on government data that are obscured "due to the sensitive nature of military information". Because of HRANA's limited access "to locations where military forces are present, [its count] largely reflects reports of senior officers or military personnel who were present in urban areas." [2]
On 28 February 2026, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated in an Israeli air attack on his compound. [76] Early on 1 March, Iranian state media announced that Khamenei had been killed. [77] The Fars News Agency, which is controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced that Khamenei's daughter, son-in-law, grandchild, and daughter-in-law Zahra Haddad-Adel had also been killed in the strikes. [78] [79] [80] The Iranian government declared 40 days of mourning. [81]
Iranian defense minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour were killed by Israeli airstrikes. [82] [83] Defence Council secretary Ali Shamkhani was killed [84] [85] along with four top Ministry of Intelligence officials. [86] The IDF later stated that it had confirmed the deaths of seven Iranian security leaders, including Shamkhani, Nasirzadeh, and Pakpour. [87]
Additional senior officials confirmed to have been killed were Salah Asadi, head of intelligence for Iran's emergency command, Mohammad Shirazi, head of the military office of Khamenei, and Hossein Jabal Amelian and Reza Mozaffari Nia, incumbent and former heads of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, respectively. [88] On 1 March, chief of staff Abdolrahim Mousavi and former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were reported by Iranian state media to have also been killed by strikes. [89] [90] However, later reports confirmed that Ahmadinejad was alive. [91]
On 17 March, Israel assassinated Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. This was confirmed by Iran. [92] His assassination caused anxiety among Iranian officials who were concerned "that Israel would not stop until all of Iran's leaders were killed and the Islamic Republic toppled" as well as questions over who would be targeted next. [93]
On 6 April, the head of the IRGC's intelligence organisation, Major General Majid Khademi, was assassinated in a joint US-Israeli airstrike, according to the IRGC. [94]
On 28 February, intelligence and military sources said to CBS News that 40 Iranian officials had been killed in the strikes but that they were not "clear whether these officials were in one location or multiple locations". [95] [96] On 1 March, US president Donald Trump said that 48 leaders had been killed. [97]
On 13 March, the Israel Defense Forces estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 Iranian soldiers and commanders had been killed in the war. [98] On 15 March, Israel Defense Forces intelligence claimed that over 6,000 members of the IRGC had been killed and about 15,000 wounded. [4] According to Iran International, at least 4,700 Iranian security forces had been killed and 20,880 injured as of 31 March. [99] On 2 April, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based non-governmental organization, estimated that 6,410 members of the Iranian military forces had been killed in the attacks, up from over 1,300 on 2 March, 2,090 on 4 March, 3,910 on 10 March, 4,420 on 14 March, 4,789 on 17 March, 5,305 on 18 March, 5,890 on 24 March, and 6,180 on 28 March. [3]
According to the Hengaw , after Tehran Province the highest number of reported Iranian military casualties from the war occurred in the Kurdish provinces of Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and West Azerbaijan. On 4 March, Hengaw reported that in these provinces, including Ilam, 109 military bases and security facilities had been targeted, and approximately 400 Iranian military personnel had been killed over the preceding three days. [100] On 10 March, Hengaw reported that 180 military bases and security facilities had been targeted and that approximately 900 Iranian military personnel had been killed in the four Kurdish provinces since the start of the war. [101] On 2 April, Hengaw reported "heavy military casualties in Kurdistan" and alleged continued concealment of official statistics, claiming that approximately 1,600 Iranian military personnel had been killed in the Kurdish provinces. [102]
On 6 March, Euractiv described casualties among Iranian forces in Iranian Kurdistan as "large scale." [103]
At least 20 civilians, mostly families that had gathered after breaking their fast at Ramadan, [104] were killed in Tehran's Niloofar Square on 1 or 2 March, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency. [105] On 3 March, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said that over 600 civilians had been killed in the attacks [106] while HRANA estimated that 742 civilians had been killed. [107] On 7 March, the Red Crescent reported that over 6,668 civilian units had been targeted by US-Israeli strikes, including 5,535 residential units, 1,041 commercial units, 14 medical centers, 65 schools, and 13 centers affiliated with the Red Crescent. [108] The US reportedly used double tap airstrikes to maximize casualties. [109] [110] An Israeli airstrike on 9 March in the Resalat neighbourhood of Tehran destroyed a Basij-affiliated building as well as three residential buildings, resulting in 40 to 50 deaths. According to a BBC analysis, Israel used Mark 82 bombs in the attack. [104] As of 23 March, HRANA estimated that at least 15% of the total human casualties of the war had been under the age of 18. [111]
On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh [m] girls' elementary school [n] of the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighbourhood in Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran was destroyed by a missile strike. According to witness accounts verified by satellite-based analyses, the school was triple tapped by three distinct strikes. [114] The roof of the school collapsed on students. At least 175 civilians were killed, over 100 of which were schoolchildren. [115] [116] [117] [118] As of 15 March 2026 [update] , the attack was the deadliest strike in terms of civilian casualties in the ongoing war. Multiple independent investigations concluded that the United States was responsible for the strike.
Sources involved with the US military's internal investigation of the incident corroborated that the strike was likely perpetrated by the US, despite the internal investigation not yet having reached a final conclusion. The attack was condemned by the Iranian government, UNESCO, and other international human rights organizations and activists as a violation of international humanitarian law.
At least 175 people were killed in the strike, [115] [116] with fatalities being raised from 168 people after recovery efforts on 4 March. [o] The day prior, Mizan News Agency claimed to have confirmed 66 boys, 54 girls, 26 teachers, and four parents had died. [125] A majority of those reportedly killed were schoolchildren. [121] [122] [126] Teachers were also killed, [127] including the school's principal. [113] According to a local official, the fatalities included multiple parents who had come to pick up their children. [128] [129] [130]
The victims were mostly schoolgirls aged between 7 and 12. [131]
On 28 February 2026, a sports hall in Lamerd, Fars province in southern Iran was attacked by a two‑missile strike while a women's volleyball team was using the facility, killing at least 21 people, including 4 children, and injuring 100 people. [132] The attack took place shortly after the 2026 Minab school attack. While the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) denied responsibility and accused Iran, investigations by The New York Times , BBC Verify, and independent analysts concluded that a United States Precision Strike Missile was used in the attack. [133] [132] [134] [135]
On 2 April 2026, the unfinished B1 bridge in Karaj, Iran was attacked by the United States with two missiles, causing it to partially collapse. 8 people were killed and at least 95 were wounded. [136] [137] According to Iran's Fars News Agency, the second strike (double tapped) occurred once first responders had arrived to assist victims of the first strike. [138] The deputy governor of Alborz province said the victims were civilians celebrating Sizdah Be-dar in the area below the bridge. [139] The attack came amid President of the United States Donald Trump's threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure amid the ongoing 2026 Iran war. [140]
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As of 6 April, at least 1,497 people have been killed and 4,639 wounded by Israeli strikes in Lebanon during the 2026 Lebanon war. [141] Internal Hezbollah sources said that over 400 Hezbollah fighters had been killed in the war [142] while the Israel Defense Forces said that it had killed about 1,000 fighters. [143] According to Lebanon, more than one million Lebanese nationals, [144] corresponding to one-sixth of the country, [145] were displaced. [146] [147]
On 2 March, the first day of the war, Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that at least 31 people had been killed and 149 injured in the initial Israeli strikes, including 20 killed and 91 wounded in Beirut's southern suburbs and 11 killed and 58 wounded in southern Lebanon. [148] Civilian displacement became significant, with families fleeing southern areas toward cities like Sidon. [149] In the afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces announced that Hussein Makled, head of Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters, had been killed in overnight strikes in Beirut. Local media also reported the death of the brother of the late Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah along with his wife as a result of strikes in Haret Hreik. [150] Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon announced that its commander, Adham Adnan al-Othman, had been killed in Beirut's southern suburbs. [151] At night, casualties rose to 52 deaths and 154 injuries, according to the Health Ministry. [148]
By 12 March, the death toll in Lebanon had reached 687 while 1,774 had been wounded. [152]
In Iraq, 85 members of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces have been killed and 139 injured during the war as of 4 April. [f] Two Popular Mobilization Forces fighters were killed and three injured in a US-Israeli attack on 28 February. [153] Later that day, a report from The New York Times estimated three dead. [154]
As of 6 April, 39 Israeli citizens have been killed, including 27 civilians, and 7,263 injured, including 312 military personnel, during the war. [i]
On 28 February, the first connected Iranian attack struck a residential building in Israel, leaving one Israeli civilian injured. [155] Magen David Adom reported that Iran's initial attacks had left 89 injured, with three directly wounded and the rest indirectly, most of them civilians. [156] On 28 February, a direct hit in Tel Aviv killed a civilian woman and injured 22 others, one seriously. [157] On 1 March, an Iranian strike hit a synagogue and residential buildings in Beit Shemesh, killing nine people and injuring 49 others. [158] On 9 March, two workers were killed in Yehud, outside of Tel Aviv, after being struck by submunitions from an Iranian missile equipped with a cluster bomb warhead while working outdoors at a construction site. [159] [160]
On 17 March, a cluster munition from the warhead of an Iranian missile hit an apartment building in Ramat Gan and killed two residents in their 70s, who were found just outside their safe room. [161] A statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called the barrage that killed the two civilians "revenge for the blood of martyr Dr. Ali Larijani and his companions", who had been killed a day before the Iranian attack. [162] According to CNN, the use of cluster bombs is against international law, with N.R. Jenzen-Jones of Armament Research Services telling CNN that this type of warhead is being used "primarily to sow terror amongst a civilian population." [163] The executive director of the Arms Control Association called the Iranian targeting of cluster munition warheads at residential sections of Israel during the war as deliberate, saying that "Iran appears to be launching them into relatively populated areas, probably with the goal of producing potential civilian harm." [164] Neither Iran nor Israel is party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, [165] and both Israel and Iran are among 17 countries that either produce cluster munitions or reserve the right to do so. [166]
On 1 March, six US soldiers were killed and more than 30 were injured in an Iranian drone attack against a US military installation near Camp Arifjan in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. All of those killed were soldiers of the United States Army Reserve assigned to the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. [167] [168] [169] [170] [171] On 3 March, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson Ali Mohammad Naini claimed that more than 650 US soldiers had been killed or wounded in the first two days of the war. [172]
On 4 March, US Marine Corps lance corporal Kevin Melendez died in Saudi Arabia in a non-hostile incident. [173] On 8 March, CENTCOM reported a National Guard soldier died from a "health-related incident in Kuwait on March 6 during a medical emergency". [174] Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, a soldier of the 1st Space Brigade wounded in an attack against Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on 1 March, died from his injuries on 9 March. [175] [176] [177] }}</ref>
Six American military airmen were killed on 12 March when their KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq while supporting US military operations. CENTCOM said that the crash was not the result of hostile action and that it had resulted during an incident involving another US aircraft inside "friendly airspace". By 13 March, the US military publicly announced that about 140 American servicemen had been injured during the war. [53] A 27 March attack on Prince Sultan Air Base damaged "multiple" refueling aircraft and destroyed a Boeing E-3 Sentry as well as wounding at least 15 US soldiers. [178] [179] [180]
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the theatre, was damaged by a fire that broke out 12 March. The US Navy said the fire, which injured multiple [p] sailors, started in a laundry area and was not combat-related. [185] The carrier had already been dealing with other mechanical issues, including a malfunctioning sewage treatment system, since before it arrived in the Middle East. [186] According to multiple reports on 17–18 March, Gerald R. Ford paused launching airstrikes and sailed toward the Crete Naval Base for repairs. [182] [184] [187]
Many US servicemembers have been relocated to "hotels and office spaces", raising concerns that the US has used civilians as human shields. Indeed, an Iranian attack on a hotel in Bahrain injured two employees of the Pentagon. [188]
In addition to its strikes against Israel, Iran launched strikes against multiple Gulf states. Strikes against Bahrain killed three people. [190] [191] Strikes against Kuwait killed four soldiers and four civilians. [192] Strikes against Oman killed three people. [193] Strikes against Saudi Arabia killed two people. [194] [195] Strikes against the United Arab Emirates killed two soldiers and six civilians. [196]
On 18 March 2026, during a broader exchange of missile attacks in the 2026 Iran war, a missile struck a location next to a beauty salon in the town of Beit Awwa in the West Bank, near Hebron. The strike killed four Palestinian women and injuring more than a dozen others. The incident was the first time a missile struck a territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority during the war.
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