Army review of Iran conflict's deadliest attack on U.S. soldiers to be shared with families

Source: CBS News

July 9, 2026 / 11:07 AM EDT


The Army has completed its investigation into the deadly Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait earlier this year, sources told CBS News, and Gold Star families are expected to be briefed Thursday on its findings.

Six Americans were killed in the March 1 strike on a tactical operations center at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait, one of several U.S.-allied countries in the Persian Gulf region that faced intense Iranian missile and drone attacks after the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, starting the war with Iran. The strike was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in the Iran War to-date.

U.S. Army Central and Third Army ordered the Pentagon probe "to determine the facts and circumstances" of the Iranian attack. But even before the review was underway, a CBS News investigation began shedding light on what several survivors of the attack described as "strategic failures" ahead of, during and after the strike.

One day after the deadly strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the Iranian drone as a "squirter" — suggesting that the drone managed to slip past the defenses of a fortified unit inside Kuwait. In April, one of the injured soldiers told CBS News that "painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood. The soldier said the unit was "unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position."

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