Pentagon Revises Iran Count

The Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System revised its Iran-war accounting, lowering Operation Epic Fury deaths from 18 to 14 and placing four troops killed in Jordan and Iraq in July under a new “Overseas Operations Casualties” category. The category covers killed and wounded personnel “starting July 7,” separate from the 14 deaths still listed for the Iran war. A subsequent update added more than 140 wounded service members, raising the casualty count tied to the conflict above 600. The Pentagon attributed earlier omissions to “temporary data disruptions.”