India, Nov. 15 -- US President Donald Trump said no American service members had been killed in the Iran war over the past five months, despite Pentagon figures showing that 23 US military personnel have died in the Middle East during the conflict.

Trump made the remarks in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that aired on Thursday. Defending the US military campaign against Iran, he said: "Nobody's been killed in the last five months."

"We haven't lost a soldier in five months, and we control the Gulf," Trump said.

However, figures reported by The Washington Post show that the Pentagon has recorded 23 American service member deaths in the Middle East during the war. Of these, 11 were attributed to enemy fire, while 1...