{"id":143644,"date":"2026-03-02T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143644"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:18:30","slug":"nyt-front-page-u-s-troops-killed-as-blasts-jolt-mideastfear-of-wider-war-after-irans-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143644","title":{"rendered":"(NYT front page) U.S. Troops Killed As Blasts Jolt Mideast; Fear Of Wider War After Iran\u2019s Response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the United States and Israel pounded Iran from land and sea for a second day, a defiant Iranian regime unleashed deadly retaliatory strikes across the Middle East on Sunday, amid fears of a wider, protracted<br>conflagration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Three U.S. troops were killed in Kuwait, the Pentagon said on Sunday, the first Americans to die in President Trump\u2019s high-stakes war with Iran. And at least nine people were killed in a small Israeli city near Jerusalem. Explosions resounded in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, killing at least four people, as local air defenses sought to repel Iranian drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/02\/nytfrontpage\/scan.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cU.S. troops killed as blasts jolt Mideast,\u201d The New York Times says on Monday\u2019s front page. \u201cRetaliatory strikes widen war with Iran,\u201d the San Francisco Chronicle says.<br><br>Read more of today&#39;s newspapers here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LINQxUp88K\">https:\/\/t.co\/LINQxUp88K<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Week (@TheWeek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWeek\/status\/2028500684518388183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States and Israel pounded Iran from land and sea for a second day, a defiant Iranian regime unleashed deadly retaliatory strikes across the Middle East on Sunday, amid fears of a wider, protractedconflagration. Three U.S. troops were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143644\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,143,564,565,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-iran","category-israel","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143648,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143644\/revisions\/143648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}