Trump’s Middle East Death Toll on American Troops Increases

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Another U.S. service member has been killed in Donald Trump and Israel’s war on Iran, bringing the total to 17.

U.S. Central Command announced Sunday that a soldier in northern Iraq was killed Saturday during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone.

Another service member was wounded, according to the statement.

The death marks the third confirmed U.S. military fatality this weekend in Trump’s war, despite his claiming months ago that he had brokered a ceasefire.

Two soldiers were also killed in an Iranian missile strike on a base in Jordan on Friday, while a third service member remains missing.

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