Donald Trump attends return of first US troops killed in Iran war

US President Donald Trump salutes as the first US troops killed in the Iran war are brought home. Photo / Getty Images

United States President Donald Trump has attended the return of the bodies of the first six US soldiers killed during the escalating war with Iran.

Trump, wearing a white USA baseball cap and accompanied by several Cabinet members, saluted as each flag-draped case was carried from a military transport plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where the remains of US troops killed overseas are returned to American soil.

The troops were killed last Sunday when a drone struck a key US command centre in Kuwait, a day after the US and Israel attacked Iran.

- Agence France-Presse