The Pentagon has updated its public-facing casualty database after abruptly revising its Iran war casualty figures last week, when it reduced the number of U.S. troops listed as killed in Operation Epic Fury from 18 to 14 and removed dozens of wounded service members from that tally.

The Defense Department now appears to be tracking casualties in its Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) under a new category labeled Overseas Operations rather than Operation Epic Fury, the namesake previously used for the Iran campaign – in effect restarting its accounting of dead and wounded in the war. 

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth salute as a U.S. Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

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It’s unclear how defense officials are defining “overseas operations” and whether that’s exclusively counting Iran war dead and wounded. The Pentagon did not return an ABC News request for comment.

DCAS is the Pentagon's primary public repository for tracking U.S. military casualties from current and past conflicts and serves as the federal government's authoritative public record of war dead. The Defense Department maintains the database using casualty data submitted by the military services.  

Parsing out individual phases of a war from a broader campaign, as the Defense Department is now appearing to do, is unprecedented and can make it difficult to get a clear accounting of U.S. casualties. 

The new Overseas Operations category also lists 207 U.S. troops wounded since July 7, marking at least 624 wounded since the U.S. and Israel launched the war in February.