Jordan base attack
The three US service members killed when an Iranian missile hit their sleeping barracks at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on Friday were First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, Sergeant Angel S. Rampersad, 28, and Private Isabella Gonzales, 19.
All three were assigned to US Army air defence brigades.
The fourth death, of Sergeant Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, occurred on Sunday in a separate incident in Erbil, Iraq, during a controlled detonation of an attack drone.
The Pentagon said on Monday that 100 service members have been injured since July 7 and 96 percent have returned to duty.
Four in five Americans expect the US war with Iran to drag on for an extended period, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll conducted earlier this month. Some 37 percent of respondents approved of US military strikes against Iran.
Trump’s approval rating has hovered near the lowest levels of his political career since the conflict began, with Republican strategists warning that rising living costs have neutralised the political benefits of his tax cuts.
Higher gas prices and cost of living concerns pose a political risk to Trump’s Republican Party ahead of November’s midterm elections, in which it risks losing its House majority and possibly its control of the Senate.
