The 2026 Iran war has resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries, mostly in Iran and Lebanon but also in Iraq, Israel, Palestine, countries around the Persian Gulf (particularly Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates), and other countries and regions. Casualties in these countries have included a diverse range of nationalities. Various sources have provided casualty estimates that have not been finalized/verified.
Total +Casualties by countryCountryKilledInjuredPrisoner-of-warTotal8,000–10,60048,775–54,8053Lebanon4,383 (Lebanese Health Ministry)2,500 (Israel Defense Forces)1,000 (Hezbollah)12,406 (Lebanese Health Ministry)10,000 (Israel Defense Forces)Iran6,000 (Israel Defense Forces)3,684 (HRANA)3,528 (Iran)3,400 (OCHA)33,000 (OCHA)27,170 (Iran)15,000 (Israel Defense Forces)3Iraq146522Israel727,841United States military19 (CENTCOM)25 (Independent estimates)861 (CENTCOM)905 (Independent estimates)United Arab Emirates16246Oman1635Kuwait12190Yemen66Palestine413Syria46Saudi Arabia323Bahrain251Qatar121French military17Jordan029Azerbaijan04 United Nations Interim Force in LebanonIndonesia45France22Serbia10Ghana04Malaysia02Spain01El Salvador01Poland01Nepal01
Iran As of 7 April, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), a US-based non-governmental organization, documented 3,636 deaths in Iran due to strikes, including 1,701 civilians, 1,221 military personnel, and 714 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." An additional 48 people were documented by HRANA to have been killed between 8 and 17 July, including 20 civilians.
Military and officials
On 28 February 2026, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated in an Israeli air attack on his compound. Early on 1 March, Iranian state media announced that Khamenei had been killed. 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 been killed. The Iranian government declared 40 days of mourning.
Iranian defense minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour were killed by Israeli airstrikes. Defence Council secretary Ali Shamkhani was killed along with four top Ministry of Intelligence officials. The IDF later stated that it had confirmed the deaths of seven Iranian security leaders, including Shamkhani, Nasirzadeh, and Pakpour.
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. 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. However, later reports confirmed that Ahmadinejad was alive.
On 17 March, Israel assassinated Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. This was confirmed by Iran. 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.
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.
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". Israel's Channel 12 News specified three separate locations. On 1 March, US president Donald Trump said that 48 leaders had been killed.
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. On 15 March, Israel Defense Forces intelligence claimed that over 6,000 members of the IRGC had been killed and about 15,000 wounded. According to Iran International, at least 4,700 Iranian security forces had been killed and 20,880 injured as of 31 March. On 8 April, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based non-governmental organization, estimated that at least 6,620 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, 6,180 on 28 March, and 6,410 on 2 April.
Iranian Kurdistan
Civilians Civilians killed numbered 1,701 (including at least 254 children), while 714 were unclassified as of 7 April.
At least 20 civilians, mostly families that had gathered after breaking their fast at Ramadan, were killed in Tehran's Niloofar Square on 1 or 2 March, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency. On 3 March, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said that over 600 civilians had been killed in the attacks while HRANA reported that 1,097 civilians had been killed. 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. The US reportedly used double tap airstrikes. An Israeli airstrike on 9 March in the Resalat neighborhood 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. 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. On 15 July, Iran said that over 30 civilians were included in those killed in recent American attacks in the country's south. On the same day, the Iranian Health Ministry stated that over 260 people including at least three women and six children were injured in American attacks in Iran.
Minab school attack
Lamerd sports hall attack
Karaj B1 bridge attack
Iraq
Israel
As of 5 August, 40 soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict in northern Israel or southern Lebanon, including one soldier killed by friendly fire. One civilian IDF contractor was also killed while performing demolitions in Lebanon.
As of 5 August, 26 civilians died in Israel due to Iranian missile strikesAs of 15 July, 22 civilians have been killed in Israel in direct Iranian missile strikes and four died while seeking shelter from the Iranian strikes, for a total of 26 conflict-related deaths during the war. and five were killed in Hezbollah strikes on northern Israel. This brought the total number of deaths among Israeli citizens or residents to 72. In addition, 7,841 people had been injured since the start of the war, including 1,468 soldiers.
On 28 February, the first connected Iranian attack struck a residential building in Israel, leaving one Israeli civilian injured. 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, while a direct hit in Tel Aviv killed a civilian woman and injured 22 others, one seriously. On 1 March, an Iranian strike hit a synagogue and residential buildings in Beit Shemesh, killing nine people and injuring 49 others. On 9 March, two workers were killed while working outdoors at a construction site in Yehud, outside of Tel Aviv, after they were struck by submunitions from an Iranian missile equipped with a cluster bomb warhead.
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. 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 the day before the Iranian attack. According to CNN, the use of cluster munitions violates international law. N.R. Jenzen-Jones of Armament Research Services stated that this type of warhead was being used "primarily to sow terror amongst a civilian population". The executive director of the Arms Control Association described the Iranian targeting of cluster munition warheads at residential sections of Israel as deliberate, saying that "Iran appears to be launching them into relatively populated areas, probably with the goal of producing potential civilian harm." Neither Iran nor Israel is party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and both are among 17 countries that either produce cluster munitions or reserve the right to do so.
Lebanon
United States As of 21 July, 20 service members and 1 civilian contractor had been killed, while at least 820 service members and 5 civilian contractors had been injured.
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 assigned to the 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command. On 8 March, CENTCOM reported that a National Guard soldier had died from a "health-related incident in Kuwait on March 6 during a medical emergency". 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.
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 from an incident involving another US aircraft inside "friendly airspace". By 13 March, the US military had publicly announced that about 140 American servicemen had been injured. 1 civilian contractor from Kenya was killed during a night strike against a military base in Erbil on 24 March, with 5 others having been wounded. 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.
The , the largest aircraft carrier in the theatre, was damaged by a fire that broke out 12 March. The US Navy said that the fire, which injured multiple sailors, had started in a laundry area and was not combat-related. The carrier had already been dealing with other mechanical issues, including a malfunctioning sewage treatment system, since before it arrived in the Middle East. According to multiple reports on 17–18 March, Gerald R. Ford paused launching airstrikes and sailed toward the Crete Naval Base for repairs. Many US service members had 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.
On 1 July 2026, a US Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS George H. W. Bush crashed in the Arabian Sea. Three crew members were rescued in stable condition but one went missing. The US military launched a search to locate the missing sailor but concluded their extensive search on 5 July 2026 without finding the body and declared him dead.