The Pentagon website that informs the public about the dead and wounded in military conflicts now lists four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July under "Overseas Operations Casualties" — separate from 14 other service members who have been killed during the war with Iran.The other 14 appear in the database as casualties of Operation Epic Fury, the Defense Department's name for the conflict. At one point last week, the four service members' deaths also appeared on that list, but by last Thursday, their names no longer appeared there, and the database said that 14 were killed in the war with Iran, as opposed to 18.The New York Times first reported the database's missing numbers and cited three sources who said it was because the four service members who were most recently killed died after the Trump administration had declared a ceasefire in April. But the four service members were killed about a week after President Trump notified Congress by letter that the ceasefire was over and military action had resumed on July 7. The four who died are 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales and Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.Sean Parnell, the chi...










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