The Pentagon raised the official number of U.S. service members who died during operations against Iran to 21 late Friday by updating its Defense Casualty Analysis System database.

The revision added two noncombat deaths. Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, an Army National Guard member from Queens, New York, died in Kuwait on March 6. An unidentified Navy service member died by suicide in September. The update also shows 865 service members wounded in the operations.

Operations against Iran began Feb. 28 under the name Operation Epic Fury. The Pentagon later shifted some casualty reporting to a category called "overseas operations" after President Donald Trump announced an end to the named operation amid a lull in large-scale fighting.

The change follows earlier reporting that the Pentagon's public tally understated the total. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had called one such report a complete lie. The Friday update occurred quietly on the database website without a formal announcement.

A separate death, that of Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, who died in a training accident in Iraq in May, was recorded under Operation Inherent Resolve against the Islamic State and not counted in the Iran war total. That brings the broader Middle East death count since Feb. 28 to 22.

Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee have criticized the Pentagon's casualty accounting practices and called for greater transparency. The database adjustments reflect ongoing scrutiny of how noncombat and post-ceasefire deaths are categorized.