Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth "should be potentially charged and prosecuted for war crimes," said the advocacy group Just Foreign Policy.
Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on Iran
President and defense secretary try to link worst terrorist attack in US history to current unpopular war
Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school in Minab and sports facility in February constitute war crimes
US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime
An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026 that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today.
Pentagon Erupts Over Report on Classified Warnings Against Iran War
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers have warned against extending the Iran war.
Preliminary Inquiry Finds U.S. Responsible for Iran Elementary School Attack
Iran: US School Attack Findings Show Need for Reform, Accountability
Reported findings that the United States is responsible for the recent deadly school attack in Iran, and that it was based on outdated targeting data, highlight the need for reform and accountability within the US military to minimize civilian harm during conflict.
Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger
A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.
Revealed: A catalogue of failures and the devastating aftermath of Iran school bombing
UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity
A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
UN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes
The US has not acknowledged carrying out February's deadly strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd.
Senators grilled Hegseth on Iran. Here are 3 big moments from the hearing
Hegseth said at the top of the hearing that the supplemental funding was an “urgent, necessary injection of resources” for the department’s needs. He didn’t directly mention the Iran war in his opening statement.
Bombed Iranian School Was On List Of Targets, Possibly As A Military Site: Report
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Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties — ProPublica
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principles: more aggression, less accountability.
Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds
Trump administration accused of cutting military’s civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls’ school in Iran
Hegseth Brags of a Deadlier War Machine as U.S. Unleashes “Devastating Civilian Harm Globally”
While testifying to Congress on Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth lobbed threats and brushed off queries about civilian harm.
USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school that killed over 100 children must be held accountable
Those responsible for planning and executing an unlawful US strike on a school in Minab, Hormozgan province in Iran that killed 156 people, including 120 children, must be held accountable, Amnesty International said today. Evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic […]
