New Delhi, July 19 -- AMMAN - Two United States service members were killed in Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes on an American military installation near Azraq in northeastern Jordan on Thursday, US Central Command confirmed Saturday, marking the first confirmed American combat deaths in the open military conflict between Washington and Tehran that has been running for three weeks. A third service member from the same base remains missing in action.

The Central Command statement said four additional personnel were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and were later discharged, while others received treatment for minor injuries on-site. The agency did not disclose the names of the dead or the missing, stating it would wit...