Nearly 100 US service members have been injured over the last two weeks of escalating strikes on Iran, the Pentagon has said, as Tehran continues its retaliation to US strikes by targeting American military sites in the Gulf countries, according to The Guardian.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the vast majority of those injured only experienced “minor concussions” and 96 per cent had since returned to work.

Parnell was responding to a New York Times report that the Pentagon has withheld information about troop injuries from Iranian strikes. He denied that the Pentagon was hiding data about injuries, The Guardian added.

In the last week, two US soldiers have been killed in action in Jordan and one in Iraq.