US Casualty Figures Keep Fluctuating in War with Iran

Images of the Pentagon, Washington DC. Credit: Kevin Doyle / Unsplashby Thalif Deen (united nations)Friday, July 31, 2026Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) - An age-old axiom in Statistics reads : Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure.And more so, in military conflicts, including the five-month-old US-Iran war, where casualty figures are difficult to track down because of lack of transparency and false accounting. According to CNN, the Pentagon updated its war casualty database last week, recording more than 140 additionally wounded, and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes amid questions about a lack of transparency over the war’s toll. The Pentagon drew scrutiny from media outlets and lawmakers last week when the number of US troops killed and wounded decreased in the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, as Iranian attacks continued. CNN observed fluctuating casualty totals when monitoring the site on a minute-by-minute basis last week. Pentagon updates Iran war casualty count to 624, restoring 4 deaths to tally, CNN’s Davis Winkie reports on why casualty numbers decreased & were later revised.The Iranian government, not surprising...