US SERVICE MEMBER KILLED IN IRANIAN DRONE DETONATION

At least one American service member was killed during a controlled detonation of an unexploded Iranian drone on Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command. A second service member was wounded in the same operation, military officials announced on Sunday. U.S. forces also recovered unidentified remains following a search for a missing service member after an earlier attack on Friday that killed two other service members.

The deaths bring the recorded U.S. military death toll from the conflict to at least 16 service members, with more than 400 troops recorded as wounded throughout the campaign. Six service members died when two refuelling jets collided above Iraq, whilst six others were killed in an Iranian drone strike on a command post in Kuwait. A Navy pilot also died in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea earlier this month. A tenuous ceasefire has effectively collapsed, with American forces conducting eight consecutive nights of strikes on Saturday as Iran intensified missile and drone attacks on U.S. allies and assets in the Persian Gulf.

Donald Trump's administration launched a new wave of strikes after accusing Iran of attacking merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran then conducted attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Syria and Jordan, warning of a "full-scale offensive" should U.S. attacks continue. A statement issued on behalf of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Trump's signature on a memorandum of understanding was "worthless and invalid" and accused the U.S. of repeatedly breaching commitments of the temporary peace deal.