Honoring Lives Lost to Conflict

The crew of IRIS Dena were Iranian Navy sailors killed on 4 March 2026 when the US nuclear submarine USS Charlotte torpedoed and sank their frigate in international waters south of Sri Lanka. Eighty-seven bodies were recovered by the Sri Lanka Navy; Iran confirmed 104 dead in total. Thirty-two survivors were hospitalised at Galle. The Dena had been returning from India's MILAN 2026 naval exercise ? attended by 74 countries including the United States ? when it was struck without warning. No individual crew names have been publicly released as of 12 March 2026.

Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Emad Al-Sharrah was a Kuwaiti officer with the General Directorate of Land Border Security. He was killed in the line of duty at dawn on 2 March 2026, during Iranian retaliatory strikes across Kuwait, in the second day of the US-Israel?Iran war.

Major Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Mujammad was a Kuwaiti officer with the General Directorate of Land Border Security. He was killed in the line of duty at dawn on 2 March 2026, alongside Lt. Col. Abdullah Emad Al-Sharrah, during Iranian retaliatory strikes across Kuwait.

Sergeant Walid Majid Sulaiman was a Kuwaiti Navy serviceman killed on the evening of 2 March 2026 while performing his national duty as part of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces' operational response to the Iranian missile and drone campaign against Kuwait.

Sergeant Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Dakhil Nasser was a Kuwaiti Navy serviceman killed on the evening of 2 March 2026 while performing his national duty as part of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces' operational response to Iranian missile and drone strikes on Kuwait.

U.S. Army Reserve Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida, was killed on March 1, 2026, in an Iranian drone strike on a U.S. operations center at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait.

Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska, was a US Army Reserve senior non-commissioned officer. He was killed on March 1, 2026, in an Iranian drone strike on a US operations center at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait.

U.S. Army Reserve Major Jeffrey O'Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa, was killed in an Iranian drone strike on the Port of Shuaiba operations center in Kuwait on March 1, 2026.

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California, was a US Army warrant officer with the 1st Theater Sustainment Command. He was killed in an Iranian drone strike on the Port of Shuaiba operations center in Kuwait on Mar

Hana Dehqani was an eight-year-old Iranian civilian. She died on 28 February 2026 in a missile strike on her school in Minab, Hormozgan province.

Fatemeh Salari, 34, was an Iranian civilian from Minab. She was killed in a missile strike on a school building in her city on 28 February 2026.