U.N. Report: U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Constitute War Crime

On a single day in Iran, U.S. military strikes killed more than one hundred children inside a school and twenty-two civilians at a separate location — and a United Nations investigation has now concluded that the failures behind these deaths were not the ordinary fog of war, but something graver. The investigators found that the chain of decisions leading to the strikes 'went beyond negligence,' a phrase that carries specific and serious weight under international law. Humanity has long struggled to draw a line between the tragic and the criminal in armed conflict; this report places both stri