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Middle East conflict: Casualty figures from across the region

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People carry the coffin of a person killed during a drone attack on a high-rise apartment building in Bahrain's capital, Manama. Photo / AFP

People carry the coffin of a person killed during a drone attack on a high-rise apartment building in Bahrain's capital, Manama. Photo / AFP

Since the US and Israel unleashed strikes on Iran on February 28, war has spread across the region and casualties have been reported in countries around the Middle East.

Because of reporting restrictions, AFP has not been able to independently verify all of the following tolls.

The figures are based on numbers released by governments, militaries, health authorities and rescue organisations in the affected countries.

Iran

Iran’s health ministry said on March 8 that more than 1200 people had been killed, including around 200 women and 200 children under the age of 12, with more than 10,000 civilians injured.

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Iran’s state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said on Thursday that the death toll from US and Israeli strikes had reached 1230. The Iranian Red Crescent previously said on March 3 that 787 people had been killed.

The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on March 9 that at least 1761 people had been killed, including 1245 civilians – among them at least 194 children – as well as 189 military personnel and 327 people whose status had not been classified.

Debris litters a street as smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Haret Hreik neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on March 10, 2026. Photo / AFP
Debris litters a street as smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Haret Hreik neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on March 10, 2026. Photo / AFP

Israel

Israel’s first responders and the country’s authorities have reported 14 people in total killed on the Israeli side.

First responders and local authorities say Iranian missile fire killed 12 people in Israel, including four minors, since the start of the war, according to an AFP tally based on their announcements.

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The Israeli military has separately announced the deaths of two soldiers in combat in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon

Lebanon’s health ministry said on Monday that 486 people had been killed and 1313 wounded during a week of strikes. On Sunday it said that an earlier death toll of 394 people included 83 children and 42 women.

AFP has not been able to view a detailed breakdown of the figures.

The Lebanese army said three of its soldiers had been killed.

Hezbollah has not announced its losses.

The Gulf

Authorities in Gulf states and the US Central Command (Centcom) have reported 24 people killed in neighbouring states since the start of the Iranian attacks.

People attend the funeral of a person killed during a drone attack on a high-rise apartment building in Bahrain's capital Manama on March 10, 2026. Photo / AFP
People attend the funeral of a person killed during a drone attack on a high-rise apartment building in Bahrain's capital Manama on March 10, 2026. Photo / AFP

Most of those killed were military or security personnel, including seven US service members, and 11 civilians.

Kuwait’s military and health ministry have reported six deaths – two Kuwaiti soldiers, two border guards and two civilians, one of them an 11-year-old girl.

The United Arab Emirates defence ministry has also reported six deaths. They include four civilians and two military personnel who died as a result of a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction.

Saudi Arabia’s civil defence agency has reported two civilian deaths.

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Bahrain’s interior ministry has reported two deaths.

Oman’s maritime security centre reported the death of a mariner at sea.

Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has reported 16 injuries and no fatalities.

Centcom has confirmed six US service personnel killed in Kuwait and one killed in Saudi Arabia.

Iraq

Pro-Iran fighters in Iraq said 20 of their members had been killed in airstrikes they blamed on Israel and the United States.

In Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, authorities said one airport guard was killed in a drone attack on Erbil airport, while at least two Iranian Kurdish fighters were killed in Iranian strikes.

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Jordan

Jordan’s military spokesman Brigadier General Mustafa al-Hiyari said 14 people had been injured in various parts of the country because of falling debris from Iranian missiles and drones.

No deaths have been reported in Jordan.

Syria

Syrian state media reported eight people injured by falling debris from exchanges of fire between Iran and Israel on Monday.

- Agence France-Presse

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