US-Iran escalation intensifies as troop deaths mount and civilian infrastructure targeted

17 US service members killed since conflict began; one missing after Friday attack; civilian populations at risk from infrastructure targeting affecting water and power supplies across Gulf region.

In the second week of a conflict that began with calculated strikes and was briefly interrupted by a fragile interim agreement, the United States and Iran have settled into the ancient, terrible logic of reciprocal violence — each death demanding another response, each response generating the next death. Seventeen American service members have now been killed, civilian infrastructure across the Gulf is being systematically dismantled, and the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's energy flows, has fallen dangerously quiet. What began as a targeted military exchange has become som

US-Iran escalation intensifies as troop deaths mount and civilian infrastructure targeted

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