India, July 24 -- The US Department of Defense lowered the reported number of American troops killed in the Iran war from 18 to 14 within a day. The change appeared on the Pentagon's casualty website on Thursday after the site had listed 18 troop deaths the previous day.

The four soldiers who lost their lives during the fighting over the weekend are not listed on the Pentagon's official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war.

However, their names were mentioned in a press release on Wednesday regarding the official return of their remains to the United States.

According to The New York Times, three US military officials said the casualty total was reduced after the Trump administration decided to remove four serv...