Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four

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. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP View image in fullscreen 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. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four New York Times reports that list of those killed changed from 18 on Wednesday to 14 on Thursday The Pentagon’s 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 Pentagon press release on the formal transfer of their remains back to the United States on Wednesday. A review of the current list on the Pentagon’s 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’s name for the US-Israeli war on Iran that Donald Trump launched on 28 February, remains at 14. A separate Names of Fallen list on the same Pentagon casualties site currently includes just 13 service members. According to a New York Times report , the Pentagon website listed 18 American service members as having been killed during the war on Iran 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. The latest US troops killed in Trump’s Iran war are remembered for lives of service Read more By Thursday, the defense department had lowered that number, reporting that 14 American troops had been killed in the war. Three military officials told the Times that “one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list … because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April”. A Pentagon spokesperson disputed that contention, telling the Times that the decreased total of service members killed was due to “temporary data disruptions” that would be quickly fixed. The Pentagon did not immediately return the Guardian’s request for comment. 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.