Lawmakers: Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Civilian Protection Efforts — ProPublica

Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon

 

Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations

The job posting warns deployment locations "are not negotiable" and conditions "could be austere". Assignments last up to 180 days at facilities along the border and throughout the US interior, and detailing means the staff keeps their salary and benefits...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-hegseth-pentagon-ice

 

New Mexico is training civilians to answer mental health calls. Will it reduce tragedies?

"God forbid you have a mental health crisis in New Mexico," said Loren Gomez, an organizer with the social justice nonprofit Southwest Organizing Project. "Because you're going to get shot."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/27/new-mexico-police-mental-health-crises-intervention-programs

Afghanistan Faces Future Under Taliban as U.S. Withdraws & Drone Strikes Continue to Kill Civilians

As the last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, ending the longest war in U.S. history, we go to Kabul to speak with Danish Afghan journalist Nagieb Khaja, who was once kidnapped by the Taliban and later embedded with them on a reporting assignment. He has been investigating Sunday’s U.S. drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children.
https://youtu.be/EwsljGFe6to

Report: U.S. Air Strikes Are Killing Civilians in Somalia in Wave of Attacks Under Trump - The Intercept

Amnesty International investigated five U.S. attacks on al-Shabaab and uncovered civilian deaths. The attacks may be war crimes, the group says...
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/19/u-s-air-strikes-in-somalia-kill-civilians-in-wave-of-attacks-under-trump-amnesty-report-says/

13 Civilians Reported Killed in U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan - The New York Times

At least 13 civilians, including several children, were killed in American airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan that were carried out in support of an Afghan-led operation against the Taliban, local officials and tribal elders said on Sunday...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/asia/airstrikes-nangarhar-afghanistan.html

War Crimes in Yemen? U.S. & U.K. Arms Killed & Injured Nearly 1,000 Civilians in Saudi-Led Attack

As Yemen faces the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a major new report has been released documenting the role that the U.S. and Europe have played in the deaths of hundreds of civilians in the Saudi- and UAE-led war on Yemen. A group of organizations, including a Yemen-based human rights organization, released the damning report on Wednesday, claiming that between April 2015 and April 2018, 27 coalition attacks killed at least 203 civilians and injured at least 749 people. The report found that 22 of the attacks likely involved weapons produced in the United States. The other five attacks were carried out either with weapons produced in the United Kingdom or with parts produced in both the U.S. and the UK. We speak with Ruhan Nagra, the executive director of the University Network for Human Rights, and Radhya Al-Mutawakel, chairperson of the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights. They are co-authors of “Day of Judgment: The Role of the US and Europe in Civilian Death, Destruction, and Trauma in Yemen.” ...
https://youtu.be/Momn5KcYSJc

Israeli soldiers shoot and kill a disabled Palestinian man on International Day of Disabled Persons - Mondoweiss

Israel, along with the rest of the world, commemorated International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Monday, December 3rd, by promising greater integration of the country's 1.5 million disabled citizens. As Monday's activities came to a close, just across the Green Line in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli forces shot and killed a disabled Palestinian man in the back of his head. ....
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/12/disabled-palestinian-international/

US vetoes UN resolution offering 'protection' for Palestinians - The Hill

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, vetoed an Arab-backed Security Council resolution on Friday that sought to offer "international protection" for Palestinian civilians. The resolution, introduced by Kuwait, was intended to respond to the escalation of violence in Gaza last month during protests at the border with Israel....
http://thehill.com/policy/international/390347-us-vetoes-un-resolution-offering-protection-for-palestinians

The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians | Editorial - the guardian

It is inexcusable for soldiers of a military, especially those under democratic civilian control, to shoot and kill protesters, almost all of whom were unarmed, and who pose no credible threat. Yet at the boundary between Gaza and Israel today Israeli soldiers seem to have done just that. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/the-guardian-view-on-gaza-shootings-stop-killing-unarmed-civilians

U.S. Police Killed Over 1,000 Civilians in 2017 While the News Was Watching Trump | Alternet

Sixty-eight of those killed by police this year were unarmed.....
https://www.alternet.org/human-rights/police-violence-2017

Trump administration has killed nearly as many civilians in ISIS strikes as Obama’s did in 8 years

Donald Trump has done a lot in very little time to mark himself as a different leader than his predecessor, President Barack Obama. One of those ways is how the US is handling its war on ISIS through airstrikes. The folks over at the Daily Beast did some digging into the number of civilian deaths happening now compared to under Obama—and the numbers are pretty bleak. As Daily Beast politics editor Sam Stein noted on Twitter, during Trump’s few months in office, the Trump administration has already killed nearly as many civilians as Obama’s did during his eight years....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681334

Civilian deaths from US-led strikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq rise sharply

Nearly 60% of civilian deaths from the three-year military campaign have been reported this year – but human rights groups say true figure is far higher ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/us-syria-iraq-isis-islamic-state-strikes-death-toll

The Recent History of Bombing the Shit Out of ’Em

At a campaign rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Donald Trump, speaking of the Islamic State, once told supporters, "I would bomb the shit out of 'em. I would just bomb those suckers." During Trump's nascent tenure as Commander-in-Chief, air strikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria have increased. So have civilian casualties: coalition strikes killed more civilians in March than in any other month since our mostly aerial war against the Islamic State began, in late 2014. ...
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-recent-history-of-bombing-the-shit-out-of-em?mbid=rss

Radioactive Weapons Are Killing Innocent Civilians in Iraq—and It's the US Military's Fault

"Everyone seems to be dying of cancer. Every day one hears about another acquaintance or friend of a friend dying."...
http://www.alternet.org/world/us-killing-innocent-civilians-iraq