{"id":5709,"date":"2026-07-24T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/2026\/07\/24\/pentagon-list-of-service-members-killed-in-iran-war-removes-most-recent-four\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:51:18","slug":"pentagon-list-of-service-members-killed-in-iran-war-removes-most-recent-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-gu-name=\"media\" class=\"dcr-14sl0e4\">\n<div class=\"dcr-17l77cs\">\n<figure id=\"b7b1e733-3fbd-4d56-b157-058906af6d98\" class=\"dcr-191xnya\">\n<div id=\"img-1\" class=\"dcr-1t7hdmw\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soldiers in dress uniforms with yellow stripes down pants carry a coffin out of an aircraft.\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/feded9a3ee9adb4c41c167da54cd36b605b26b00\/3_0_7200_5760\/master\/7200.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"465\" height=\"372\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"dcr-up96pv\"><span class=\"dcr-kogzpx\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-18mnkpm\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1294qmb\"><label for=\"the-checkbox\" class=\"dcr-4sl2vt\"><\/label> <\/p>\n<div id=\"the-caption\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1mfxiaj\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">A US army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, on 22 July 2026 at Dover air force base in Delaware.<\/span> Photograph: Matt Rourke\/AP<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"#img-1\" data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-zwabc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><button data-element-id=\"b7b1e733-3fbd-4d56-b157-058906af6d98\" type=\"button\" class=\"open-lightbox dcr-1bitgpn\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><span class=\"dcr-1shbixy\">View image in fullscreen<\/span><\/button><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-qda0hp\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1e9iiy9\"><span class=\"dcr-13i4yc9\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1cipnsy\">A US army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, on 22 July 2026 at Dover air force base in Delaware.<\/span> Photograph: Matt Rourke\/AP<\/figcaption><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"headline\" class=\"dcr-ql9l8l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6mja0y\">\n<h1 class=\"dcr-l0wuod\">Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"standfirst\" class=\"dcr-1xpojbf\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1gm5ptv\">\n<p>New York Times reports that list of those killed changed from 18 on Wednesday to 14 on Thursday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"body\" class=\"dcr-x1al2c\">\n<div class=\"dcr-11gq2tx\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1w2vkyc\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-ogvvui\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Pentagon\u2019s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war does not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend, despite the fact that their names were included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/4552653\/nations-leaders-honor-the-fallen-during-dignified-transfer\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a Pentagon press release<\/a> on the formal transfer of their remains back to the United States on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A review of <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oefu\/byMonth\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the current list<\/a> on the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Casualty Analysis System website shows that, despite having been last updated on Wednesday, the number of US military personnel killed during Operation Epic Fury, the Pentagon\u2019s name for the US-Israeli war on Iran that Donald Trump launched on 28 February, remains at 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A separate <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oefu\/namesOfFallen\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Names of Fallen list<\/a> on the same Pentagon casualties site currently includes just 13 service members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/23\/us\/politics\/iran-troop-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.tEg0.Q-cw8cUlwBvw&amp;smid=url-share\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">a New York Times report<\/a>, the Pentagon website listed 18 American service members as having been killed during the war on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Iran<\/a> on Wednesday, but was changed on Thursday to exclude three service members killed last Friday, Saturday and Sunday as Iran retaliated for new US strikes with an attack on a base used by US forces in Jordan. The list also excluded a fourth soldier who was killed during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone at Erbil air base in Iraq.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"b1673004-9bb3-4abd-ae74-9306f8ecc91e\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-1oq85qr\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-4 | 4\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1rx5ky9\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-uyoh2p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/23\/iran-war-us-troops\" class=\"dcr-f35c0u\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-vvxpdt\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6z6e7\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zh9rih\">The latest US troops killed in Trump\u2019s Iran war are remembered for lives of service<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-oj13vq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-ef9nua\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">By Thursday, the defense department had lowered that number, reporting that 14 American troops had been killed in the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Three military officials told the Times that \u201cone reason behind the change was that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Trump administration<\/a> decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list \u2026 because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A Pentagon spokesperson disputed that contention, telling the Times that the decreased total of service members killed was due to \u201ctemporary data disruptions\u201d that would be quickly fixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Pentagon did not immediately return the Guardian\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The reported removal of the recent service members killed from the Pentagon list comes one day after Trump traveled to Dover air force base in Delaware to salute the remains of the four soldiers killed in the past week and as he continues to demand credit for the number of people killed being so much lower than in years-long conflicts like the US wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a65925d5-e55c-42c6-ade2-738f3af2014d\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-1oq85qr\">\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-10 | 10\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-name=\"placeholder\" class=\"dcr-1rx5ky9\">\n<div data-format-theme=\"5\" data-format-design=\"0\" data-format-display=\"0\" class=\"dcr-uyoh2p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/20\/democrats-trump-iran-war\" class=\"dcr-f35c0u\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-vvxpdt\">\n<div class=\"dcr-6z6e7\">\n<div class=\"dcr-zh9rih\">\u2018It needs to end now\u2019: Democrats urge Trump to halt Iran war after US troop deaths<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-oj13vq\">\n<div class=\"dcr-ef9nua\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">On Wednesday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116961030891139357\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">posted a chart<\/a> on his social media platform comparing the death toll of 18 in his Iran war with those previous wars, which misstated the number of people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with the caption: \u201cThese are the real facts. REPORT THEM!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Speaking to reporters on Thursday, on his way to what the Pentagon calls the \u201cdignified transfer\u201d of the killed service members\u2019 remains, Trump claimed that the dead soldiers had supported his claim that the war on Iran is necessary to prevent that nation from developing a nuclear weapons \u2013 an effort <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/congressional-testimonies\/congressional-testimonies-2025\/4059-ata-opening-statement-as-prepared\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US intelligence assessed<\/a> Iran abandoned in 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to Dover,\u201d Trump said, \u201cto honor our heroes, and they\u2019re indeed great heroes. All of them said, very strongly, that we can\u2019t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">At an event on Thursday, Trump again argued that the death toll from his war on Iran was low compared to that of Vietnam, the war he did not serve in as a young man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cYou know, we were in Vietnam for 20 years, lost thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/ebICSW2yVww?si=eDxUvzmXf7bt4QdD&amp;t=1429\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Trump said<\/a>, inflating <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/vietnam\/vietnamSum\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the actual death toll<\/a> among US troops of 58,220.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe were in Afghanistan for years. We were in all these wars that you heard about for years and years,\u201d Trump added. \u201cWell, we\u2019re in for four months and we \u2013 I had a very sad day yesterday. I went to Dover, four great American patriots killed. That\u2019s 18 \u2026 and one is too many, but it\u2019s 18. Whereas in Vietnam, we lost 200,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman of Kentucky, suggested that the reason the Pentagon death toll for the Iran war excludes the four soldiers killed in the past week is that the Trump administration claims that the war technically ended in June, when Trump signed a temporary ceasefire with Iran over dinner at the palace of Versailles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cLet me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been two Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2080462422838505555\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Massie wrote<\/a> on social media. \u201cThe reality: By going more than 90 days without congressional authorization,\u201d the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, \u201cIS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-print-layout=\"hide\" class=\"dcr-swayiu\"><span class=\"dcr-1xhbmzr\">Explore more on these topics<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-2c03t5\">\n<ul class=\"dcr-p7nd18\">\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/trump-administration\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Trump administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/us-military\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">US military<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">US-Israel war on Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/us-news\/us-politics\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">US politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-r721ee\"><a href=\"\/tone\/news\" class=\"dcr-856iwi\">news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-313bdz\"><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Pentagon%20list%20of%20service%20members%20killed%20in%20Iran%20war%20removes%20most%20recent%20four&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/23\/pentagon-service-members-killed-iran?CMP=share_btn_url\" class=\"dcr-ncybeu\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-19bkree\"><a data-link-name=\"meta-syndication-article\" href=\"https:\/\/syndication.theguardian.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2026%2Fjul%2F23%2Fpentagon-service-members-killed-iran&amp;type=article&amp;internalpagecode=us-news\/2026\/jul\/23\/pentagon-service-members-killed-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"Reuse this content\" class=\"dcr-1c41onw\">Reuse this content<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-gu-name=\"right-column\" class=\"dcr-1kq7f60\"><span class=\"dcr-1ryr20k\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}