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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Democrats demand answers over treatment of wounded US troops after Iran strike

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Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defense, and Donald Trump arrive for a dignified transfer event at Dover air force base in Delaware on 22 July 2026. Photograph: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Trump administration is facing growing demands to explain why wounded US soldiers went more than a week without adequate hospital care after a March drone strike in Kuwait, just days into the US-Israel war on Iran.

In a letter to the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, congressional Democrats urged the Pentagon to answer their questions – which include why the Pentagon’s public casualty count for the war with Iran briefly changed – by 12 August.

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