(Kenny Holston | The New York Times) The transfer case of a U.S. soldier is carried during a dignified transfer for soldiers killed amid the conflict with Iran at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Three military officials said that one reason behind for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list — three in Jordan and one in northern Iraq — because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April.