Pentagon concealed dozens of US military injuries in latest Iran strikes: Report

A new report says the Pentagon concealed dozens of injuries to U.S. service members after strikes from Iran killed two individuals in Jordan. Several U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to The New York Times concerning the unreported harm to service members and helicopters caused by a wave of Iranian strikes on American assets in Jordan. So far, the conflict has resulted in the deaths of 17 U.S. service members and 427 injuries as outlined by the Pentagon on its Defense Casualty Analysis System. The Pentagon has noted that it's not required to release information about U.S. military injuries, and a spokesperson said it has not concealed any injuries to date. "Injuries in the military encompass everything from minor sprained ankles during routine training to incidents entirely unrelated to combat operations," spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a Monday statement on the matter. "Cherry-picking raw numbers without context paints a deliberately misleading and incomplete picture," he added. Parnell said claims that the Pentagon was obscuring casualty numbers were "baseless" and "malicious," alleging that the article was published to create "distress" surrounding the Iran war.