Pentagon updates death toll of troops during Iran war to 21

This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. The Pentagon updated the American service member death toll of the U. S. military’s operations against Iran to 21 late Friday, raising the tally in the department’s public database. The two noncombat deaths newly added to the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) were Maj. Sorffly Davius and an unidentified Navy sailor, a U. S. official familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Hill Saturday. Davius served in the 42nd Infantry Division at Camp Buehring, Kuwait and died of “undetermined causes” in March. The Pentagon acknowledged Davius’s death earlier this year, at the time stating the major had been deployed to Kuwait last summer in support of Operation Spartan Shield. But the department did not immediately add him to the DCAS database, which has come under fire from Democrats in Congress. The official did not identify the Navy sailor, but the service member was a woman between the ages of 25 and 30, according to DCAS. Since the U. S. war with Iran kicked off in late February, 865 U. S. service members have been injured, according to DCAS. Sgt. Devin Seibel — assigned to the Air Ambulance Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, Fort Carson, Colo. — died in late May at Erbil Air Base, Iraq, during a “training-related incident, the Pentagon said this year. Seibel’s death was not included in the DCAS database earlier this year but has since been added into the portal under Operation Inherent Resolve. Last month, The Washington Post reported that more U. S. service members had died in the Middle East during the war in Iran than what the Pentagon had disclosed on DCAS. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed the news outlet and called the report “DISGUSTING and FAKE.” Lawmakers have scrutinized the DCAS database and the way the Pentagon has reported casualties since the Iran war began on Feb. 28, particularly after the portal briefly excluded names of several U. S. service members who were killed by Iranian attacks. The Pentagon later restored their deaths to the portal. This summer, the Pentagon divided the deaths and injuries in the war with Iran into two separate categories. One for Operation Epic Fury, the name of the Trump administration’s conflict with Tehran, and “Overseas Operations,” listing the casualties since July 7. Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.