Annie Shiel

May 30, 2024 | thenation.com | Nick Turse |Joanna Naples-Mitchell |Annie Shiel

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May 28, 2024 | rsn.org | Joanna Naples-Mitchell |Annie Shiel |Nick Turse

Each year, Congress mandates the US military disclose how many civilian deaths it was responsible for globally. In its latest report, the Pentagon refused to acknowledge any — following a long history of failures to own up to documented killings of civilians. There are constants in this world — occurrences you can count on. Sunrises and sunsets. The tides. That, day by day, people will be born and others will die. Some of them will die in peace, but others, of course, in violence and agony.

May 24, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Nick Turse |Joanna Naples-Mitchell |Annie Shiel

There are constants in this world — occurrences you can count on. Sunrises and sunsets. The tides. That, day by day, people will be born and others will die. Some of them will die in peace, but others, of course, in violence and agony. For hundreds of years, the U.S. military has been killing people. It’s been a constant of our history.

May 7, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Joanna Naples-Mitchell |Annie Shiel

In late April, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its 2022 report on civilian casualties caused by U.S. operations – almost a full year past the congressionally-mandated deadline of May 1, 2023. (The report for 2023, due May 1, 2024, has not been released as of this publication.)Once again, the Department reported that it made zero ex gratia payments to civilians harmed in its operations, following the trend from 2020 (zero payments) and 2021 (one payment).

Nov 8, 2023 | justsecurity.org | John Chappell |Annie Shiel |Seth Binder |Elias Yousif |Bill Monahan |Amanda Klasing

Hamas’ attacks and the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza that followed have rightly drawn critical attention to the applicable international humanitarian law standards governing the conduct of hostilities. As U.S. weapons transfers to Israel increase, and in light of the unparalleled U.S. security assistance and arms sales relationship with Israel, relevant U.S. policies and laws that apply to arms transfers merit similar attention.