Tag Archives: Operation Epic Fury

More than 3,500 U.S. troops, including roughly 2,500 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli, have arrived in the Middle East as the conflict with Iran intensifies, U.S. officials said Saturday. U.S. Central Command confirmed the deployment, saying the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have entered the …

Four American service members have been killed and four others seriously wounded during Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, U.S. Central Command said Monday. CENTCOM said one of the wounded troops died overnight after initially surviving Iran’s first wave of retaliatory attacks, raising the death toll …

Iran’s state media confirmed Saturday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation, marking a dramatic escalation in a widening regional war and the first assassination of a sitting Iranian supreme leader since the Islamic Republic was founded in 1979. The Iranian government …