India, March 3 -- Two US Department of Defense personnel were wounded in an Iranian drone strike that hit a hotel in Bahrain's capital on March 1, according to a US State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.

The diplomatic cable identified the injured as "US DOW personnel," using an acronym for the Department of Defense, but did not clarify whether they were uniformed service members or civilian employees. The US Embassy in Bahrain issued a warning urging American citizens to avoid hotels in Manama due to ongoing security threats.

The incident occurred amid a dramatic escalation in the Middle East conflict following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iranian territory and subsequent widespread Iranian retaliatory attacks across t...