Six months into a war that has yet to find its end, a United Nations fact-finding panel has placed the weight of international law squarely on the United States, concluding there are reasonable grounds to believe American airstrikes on February 28 constituted war crimes — strikes that killed at least 178 civilians, among them children gathered at a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab. The finding arrives as the conflict hardens into stalemate, diplomatic channels remain largely symbolic, and the costs of the war — measured in lives, in displacement, and in the price of a gallon of die
U.N. experts cite war crimes grounds in U.S. Iran strikes; oil prices ease
At least 178 civilians killed in two U.S. airstrikes on Feb. 28, including women and children; 168 reportedly killed at a school in Minab; over 100,000 displaced in Yemen in September alone.