{"id":828141,"date":"2026-07-27T00:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:05:12","slug":"iran-war-casualty-count-passes-600-as-pentagon-changes-accounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/828141\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war casualty count passes 600 as Pentagon changes accounting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Pentagon updated<\/a> its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 additionally wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last week amid questions about a lack of transparency over the war\u2019s toll.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Defense Casualty Analysis System<\/a>, or DCAS, also featured a new tracking category \u2014 \u201cOverseas Operations\u201d \u2014 for killed and wounded \u201cstarting July 7.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n When the new Pentagon data is combined with updated totals for Operation Epic Fury, 18 troops have died and another 624 have been wounded since the US launched its war against Iran on Feb. 28. The number of wounded is a significant increase from the previous peak of 482 observed by CNN last week.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Pentagon drew scrutiny from media outlets and lawmakers last week when killed and wounded numbers decreased in the DCAS system as Iranian attacks continued. The 12 Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter<\/a> to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday requesting answers on what was causing the changes.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Defense Department\u2019s acting press secretary, Joel Valdez, insisted in a Thursday social media post<\/a> that the decreases were due to \u201ctemporary data disruptions on the (DCAS) website.\u201d CNN observed data glitches that led to fluctuating casualty totals<\/a> when monitoring the DCAS site on a minute-by-minute basis last week.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Friday, CNN asked the Pentagon for more details about the data interruption, but the department neither acknowledged nor responded to the inquiry as of Sunday afternoon.\n <\/p>\n

\n Beyond the July 7 starting date, the new \u201coverseas operation\u201d category on the DCAS site does not include any distinguishing details or specify the conflict in which the casualties occur, and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to questions seeking clarification on what the category covers. The category features a by-name list of fallen troops, though, that includes the three Army soldiers killed in Jordan due to an Iranian strike and the soldier killed in northern Iraq last weekend during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone.\n <\/p>\n

\n The July 7 date coincides with when President Donald Trump claimed a new conflict with Iran began in a War Powers notification the administration sent to Congress earlier this month. (The War Powers Act of 1973 requires the president to end military operations within 60 days unless authorized by Congress to continue; the Trump administration argued that the April ceasefire with Iran stopped the clock<\/a> on May 1 for the conflict\u2019s initial period.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Lawmakers of both parties have argued against the administration\u2019s interpretation of the War Powers clock, though some analysts and officials contend that the act itself represents an unconstitutional limit on presidential war-making authority. Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued the law is \u201cunconstitutional, 100 percent\u201d during a May press briefing at the White House.\n <\/p>\n

\n Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said to Hegseth during a July 21 hearing that she is \u201cconcerned\u201d the administration is circumventing Congress through the ceasefire clock reset.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe claim essentially allows the president to extinguish the War Powers clock just at the moment that it becomes legally inconvenient \u2026 avoiding the congressional authorization that the Constitution requires and the War Powers (Act) intends,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Davis Winkie\u2019s work at CNN is supported by a partnership between\u202fOutrider Foundation<\/a>\u202fand Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 additionally wounded and restoring the four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-828141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}