NPR News: 07-20-2026 1PM EDT

Lakshmi Singh· Host0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Defense says another service member has been killed in the war with Iran, and it has identified two other casualties of an Iranian attack in Jordan Friday. We have more from NPR's Jane Arraf.

Jane Arraf0:18

Central Command says a service member was killed in a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. And the Pentagon announced the names of two military personnel killed in an Iranian missile strike Friday on an air base in Jordan. It said they were First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, twenty-five, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Private Isabella Gonzalez of Carrollton, Texas, died a day later. She was nineteen. Both were with air defense artillery regiments. The U.S. military says seventeen service people have now been killed in the war with Iran. Iran says about three thousand Iranians have been killed, many of them civilians. Jane Arraf, NPR News, Amman.

Lakshmi Singh· Host1:02

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