{"id":260510,"date":"2026-08-22T19:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260510\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:58:06","slug":"more-than-750-us-troops-wounded-in-iran-war-341-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/260510\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 750 US troops wounded in Iran war, 341 since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Get Task &amp; Purpose in your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Task &amp; Purpose Today to get the latest in military news each morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">The number of U.S. troops wounded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/iran-war-timeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a> passed 750 this week, as the Department of Defense updated its casualty report. Nearly half of those were service members wounded since fighting restarted last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">The Department of Defense\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oo\/byCategory\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">casualty database<\/a> was updated this week, showing dozens more troops wounded. The latest figure, as of Friday, Aug. 21, shows 341 service members listed as wounded in action since July 7. The casualty database lists those as part of \u201cOverseas Operations\u201d, a distinct category created last month separate from Operation Epic Fury, the initial military campaign launched at the end of February. Combined with data from Epic Fury, 758 troops have been wounded since Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">The Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/iran-war-us-troops-casualty-numbers\/?_thumbnail_id=378983\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">created the new category<\/a> last month, after fighting between the United States and Iran reignited. According to the Defense Department, Epic Fury ended July 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">The overwhelming majority of those wounded are from the Army, with 310 soldiers listed as wounded in action. The Navy accounts for 21 and the Air Force the remaining 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">The Pentagon\u2019s data does not specify what type of injury troops incurred or when and where they happened. The database\u2019s figures also do not mean those injuries happened the day of the update. Injuries such as traumatic brain injuries can take time to be discovered and diagnosed as well as logged in the official database. However their placement in the Overseas Operations category suggests they were all within the last month and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">Despite the June 17 memorandum of understanding, reached in Islamabad, calling for a ceasefire, fighting has continued in spurts. Iran has repeatedly targeted American positions around the Persian Gulf as well as in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">In addition to the wounded, 18 service members have died in the war, four of whom died since July 7. Three of those were soldiers killed in an Iranian strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph article-paragraph skip\">The updated figures come as <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/iran-war-timeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the war<\/a> remains at an impasse. The June deal called for a 60-day window to reach a peace deal. The deal expired on Aug. 17. Fighting restarted in early July following disputes on traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Alongside days of airstrikes on Iranian sites, the U.S. also reimposed its blockade of the strait. Attacks stopped this month, although U.S. forces have fired on ships trying to break the blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Slayton is a Contributing Editor for Task &amp; Purpose. In addition to covering breaking news, he writes about history, shipwrecks, and the military\u2019s hunt for unidentified anomalous phenomenon (formerly known as UFOs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get Task &amp; Purpose in your inbox Sign up for Task &amp; Purpose Today to get the latest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9911,2656,34],"class_list":["post-260510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-adsafety","tag-central-command","tag-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117140934028311051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}