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The Pentagon has raised the official toll of U.S. service members who have died in the Middle East since the outbreak of military operations linked to the war with Iran on February 28 to 22 fatalities, following an update to casualty data and the inclusion of non-combat deaths. This move came on the heels of a Washington Post report revealing that the actual death toll exceeds officially announced figures.
The updated data showed that 865 U.S. service members were wounded during operations related to Iran. Meanwhile, the Pentagon added two additional deaths to the tally of operation-linked fatalities: one being Major Surfly Davius, 46, of the U.S. Army National Guard, who died in Kuwait on March 6, and the other being the suicide of an unidentified U.S. Navy service member in September, according to a U.S. official who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
Last month, The Washington Post reported, based on information from six U.S. officials, that the number of fallen service members is higher than what appears in the Pentagon's public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS).
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the time described the report as a "complete lie" in a social media post, prior to the Pentagon updating its data on Friday evening to add new deaths to the announced toll.
In a related context, the U.S. military acknowledged the death of another soldier in a training accident in Iraq during May, confirming that the incident was not directly related to operations against Iran.
With the inclusion of the death of Sergeant Devin A. Seibel, 26, the total number of U.S. service members who have died in the Middle East since the onset of operations against Iran rises to 22, according to the report.
