Ten U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials.
The attack consisted of Iranian missiles and drones, sources told CBS News.
Two of the Americans were very seriously injured, sources said. Eight were seriously injured, which is a different category of injury under the military’s classification system.
More than 300 American service members have been wounded in action as part of the U.S.’s war with Iran, most of whom have returned to duty, a U.S. Central Command spokesperson said Friday.
Since the war began, 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
One was wounded in an earlier attack on Prince Sultan Air Base and later died from his injuries, and six were killed in an Iranian strike on a U.S. facility in Kuwait hours after the war began. Another six were killed in a crash of a U.S. refueling aircraft over Iraq.
Over the last four weeks, Iran has launched retaliatory strikes against U.S.-allied Gulf states, including facilities with an American military presence like Prince Sultan Air Base. Located about 60 miles from the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the base is operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force and is used by the U.S. Air Force’s 378th Air Expeditionary Wing.