{"id":77783,"date":"2026-09-20T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/77783"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:29:10","slug":"us-troop-deaths-during-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/77783","title":{"rendered":"US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>More \u200bUS troops have died during \u200cthe US-Israeli war with Iran than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed, the Washington Post reported \u200bon Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u200bdenied the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Post, citing five unidentified \u2060officials, reported that there had been \u200bat least 22 military fatalities, four \u200bmore than were listed in the data available on the Pentagon\u2019s public database.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The newspaper also reported, \u200bciting another unidentified official, that not \u200ball of the undisclosed deaths were directly tied \u200cto \u2060the months-long conflict but involved US personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hegseth, in a \u200bpost on \u200bX, called \u2060the report \u201ca complete LIE.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Post did not immediately respond \u200bto a request for comment. \u200bIn \u2060its story, the newspaper said the Pentagon had declined to address its questions \u2060about \u200bthe discrepancy in casualty \u200baccounting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/us-troop-deaths-during-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-at-least-four-washington-post-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More \u200bUS troops have died during \u200cthe US-Israeli war with Iran than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed, the Washington Post reported \u200bon Friday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u200bdenied the report. The Post, citing five unidentified \u2060officials, reported that there had been \u200bat least 22 military fatalities, four \u200bmore than were listed in the data available on the Pentagon\u2019s public database&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/US-troop-deaths-during-Iran-war-exceed-Pentagon-count-by-at-least-four-Washington-Post-reports-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":5781,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":5781,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77785,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77783\/revisions\/77785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}