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On 26 July 2026 the The Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System was revised, revised on 26 July 2026, adding more than 140 newly wounded service members and restoring reinstating four previously omitted deaths. deaths that had been omitted. The update raised brings the official toll for the war that began started on 28 February 2026 to 18 killed and roughly 624 wounded, up from the 482 wounded reported by CNN earlier in the conflict. A new “Overseas Operations” tracking category, also listed as “Denizaşırı Operasyonlar,” now category records casualties dated from 7 July, the same day President Donald Trump issued a War Powers notification that marking a new phase of the Iran conflict had started. conflict. The restored deaths include three soldiers killed in Jordan on 17 July and one soldier killed in northern Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone. Twelve Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asking why the numbers had changed. Acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez said the fluctuations stemmed from temporary data disruptions on the DCAS website, not an attempt to conceal losses. Critics continue to charge the administration with politicising casualty figures ahead of the November midterm elections, keeping transparency concerns prominent as the war persists.