New Delhi, July 27 -- The US Pentagon has revised the casualty figures for Operation Epic Fury, bringing down the number of troops listed as killed from 18 to 14 and removing dozens of wounded service members from the tally after it abruptly updated its public casualty database last week.

In its Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS), the Defense Department appears to be tracking casualties under a new category labeled "Overseas Operations" rather than "Operation Epic Fury," the previously used name for the military campaign in Iran, effectively resetting its accounting of the war's dead and wounded, ABC News reported Monday.

While the public casualty database has previously posted shifting casualty figures since the war began in Febru...