How many people have been killed in the US-Israeli war on Iran?

More than a thousand people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and personnel as well as Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict.

Here are the death tolls as reported as of Thursday, approaching two weeks into the conflict. Reuters has not independently verified the data.

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* IRAN - The latest death toll reported by state media on Monday ‌was at least ⁠1,270 people. ⁠But Iran's ambassador to the U.N. said on March 6 that at least 1,332 people had been killed since the war began. There has been no clarification of the discrepancy. It was not clear if those figures include at least 104 people that the Iranian military said were killed in a U.S. attack on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast on March 4.

* LEBANON - At least 687 people have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to Lebanese authorities. The World Health Organization said at least ⁠98 of ‌those killed were children.

* IRAQ - At least 30 people have been killed, according to Iraqi health authorities. Most of those were members of the Shi'ite Popular Mobilisation Forces.

* ⁠ISRAEL - Twelve people have been killed, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on March 1, according to Israel's ambulance service Magen David Adom. The military said two soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops since hostilities with Hezbollah resumed last week.

* UNITED STATES - Seven service members have been killed in action during operations against Iran, the U.S. military said.

* SYRIA - Four people were killed when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city of ‌Sweida on February 28, state news agency SANA said.

* UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Six people have been killed in Iranian attacks, according to the UAE's defence ministry.

* SAUDI ARABIA - Two people were killed when a ⁠projectile fell on a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast of the capital Riyadh.

* BAHRAIN - Two people were killed in two separate Iranian attacks, with the most recent hitting a residential building in the capital Manama, according to the interior ministry.

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* KUWAIT - Kuwaiti authorities have reported six deaths including two people killed in Iranian attacks, two interior ministry officers and two army soldiers.

* OMAN - One person was killed after a projectile hit the Marshall Islands-flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coast of Muscat, its manager said.