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War in the Middle East: casualty figures from across the region
Dubai, March 21 (AFP) Mar 21, 2026
Since the United States and Israel unleashed strikes on Iran on February 28, war has spread across the Middle East, with casualties reported in countries across the region.

AFP has not been able to independently verify all of the following tolls.

The figures are based on numbers released by governments, militaries, health authorities and rescue organisations in the affected countries.


- Iran -


Iran's government has not released an updated overall casualty toll in recent days.

However, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on March 20 that at least 3,220 people had been killed, including 1,398 civilians -- among them at least 210 children -- as well as 1,165 military personnel and 657 people whose status had not been classified.

Due to reporting restrictions, AFP is not able to access the sites of strikes or independently verify tolls in Iran.


- Lebanon -


Lebanon's health ministry said the death toll had risen to 1,024, including 827 men, 79 women and 118 children, since the start of the war on March 2.

The ministry said the toll also included 40 healthcare workers, while 2,740 people have been wounded.

Hezbollah has not announced its losses.


- Israel -


Israeli emergency services and authorities say Iranian missile attacks have killed 15 civilians since the start of the war, including 13 Israelis -- among them four minors -- as well as one Filipino caregiver and one Thai national.

Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, said around 260 people have been injured since Iran began firing missiles at the country in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.

The Israeli military has separately announced the deaths of two personnel in combat in southern Lebanon.


- West Bank -


The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah said four women were killed by Iranian missile fire in the occupied West Bank.


- The Gulf -


Authorities in Gulf states and US Central Command (CENTCOM) have reported 28 people killed -- 15 of them civilians -- since the start of the Iranian attacks.

The rest of those killed were military or security personnel, including seven US service members.

Kuwait's military and health ministry have reported six deaths: two soldiers, two border guards and two civilians, one of them an 11-year-old girl.

The United Arab Emirates' defence ministry has reported eight deaths: six civilians and two military personnel who died as a result of a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction.

Saudi Arabia's civil defence agency has reported two civilian deaths.

Bahrain's interior ministry has also logged two civilian deaths.

Oman's maritime security centre reported the death of a mariner at sea and two other people in a drone attack on an industrial area.

Qatar's interior ministry, meanwhile, has reported 16 injuries and no fatalities.

CENTCOM has confirmed six US service personnel killed in Kuwait and one killed in Saudi Arabia.


- Iraq -


Armed groups and officials have said at least 68 people have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war, according to an AFP tally based on their announcements.

France said an Iranian drone killed a French soldier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.

The US military said a refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, killing all six crew members, in an incident not caused by hostile or friendly fire.

Pro-Iran armed factions and security sources say 49 Iran-backed fighters were killed in strikes they blame on the United States and Israel.

An Iraqi officer was killed on Saturday in a drone attack targeting an Iraqi intelligence services building in a residential Baghdad neighbourhood, the agency said.

Kurdish rebel groups said at least five Iranian Kurdish militants were killed in strikes attributed to Iran on their positions in northern Iraq.

Kurdish security sources said one airport guard was killed in a drone attack on Erbil airport.

Officials said one civilian was killed by rocket shrapnel following a strike southeast of Baghdad.

Authorities on Tuesday said four people were killed in a strike on a house in Baghdad, with initial reports suggesting two of the victims were Iranian advisors to Tehran-backed factions.


- Jordan -


In Jordan, security officials said 29 people have been injured by falling debris from Iranian missiles and drones in various parts of the kingdom.

No deaths have been recorded so far.


- Syria -


Syrian state media reported eight people injured by falling debris from exchanges of fire between Iran and Israel on Monday.


- US casualties across Mideast -


As well as the deaths of seven US personnel confirmed by CENTCOM in the Gulf and six in Iraq, the United States has said around 200 of its military personnel have been injured in seven countries across the Middle East since the start of the war.

Ten were categorised as seriously wounded and more than 180 have already returned to duty, CENTCOM said.


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