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Robert Mackey

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

Soldiers in dress uniforms with yellow stripes down pants carry a coffin out of an aircraft.
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

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.

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