{"id":2644399,"date":"2026-08-13T13:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-reed-calls-for-hegseth-reckoning-over-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:08:09","slug":"jack-reed-calls-for-hegseth-reckoning-over-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-reed-calls-for-hegseth-reckoning-over-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Reed calls for Hegseth &#8216;reckoning&#8217; over civilian casualties in Yemen strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjack-reed-calls-for-hegseth-reckoning-over-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-strikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2644399&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) criticized War Secretary Pete Hegseth for the deaths of 153 civilians in Yemen caused by three U.S.military strikes in 2025, calling it part of a troubling pattern and demanding accountability. The PentagonS annual civilian casualty report confirmed these deaths,including 80 victims in the Ras Isa terminal bombing. Reed accused hegseth of mismanaging the Yemen campaign, weakening civilian protections, and sharing classified strike details, which endangered pilots. he also expressed frustration over the delayed release of the report and the lack of facts on other incidents, such as the killing of over 100 schoolgirls during an attack on a school. Reed condemned the leadership for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-paul-faucis-emails-prove-he-knew-about-gain-of-function-research\/\" title=\"Sen. Paul: Fauci&#039;s Emails Prove He Knew About Gain of Function Research\">poor decision-making<\/a> and called for transparency and responsibility for the civilian casualties and the broader conduct of the military campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-reed\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4285\">Jack Reed<\/a> (D-RI) blamed War Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1991\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> for 153 civilian deaths in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/yemen\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"601\">Yemen<\/a> across three U.S. strikes, saying it was the continuation of a \u201cpattern\u201d with him and calling for a \u201creckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The War Department released its <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2025_1057_report.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.armed-services.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2025_1057_report.pdf\">annual civilian casualty report<\/a>, revealing that 153 Yemeni civilians were killed and 243 wounded in three strikes during the U.S. campaign against the Houthis, with 80 of these being killed in the Ras Isa terminal bombing on April 17, 2025. Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, cast personal blame upon Hegseth for the casualties, connecting the numbers to his actions as war secretary.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4686322\/jack-reed-pete-hegseth-civilian-casualty-yemen-strike\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jack Reed calls for Hegseth \u2018reckoning\u2019 over civilian casualties in Yemen strikes<\/h3>\n<p>                       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                                       <\/div>\n<h3>How Grassley got Todd Blanche\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >attorney general nomination back<\/a> on track<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am disturbed by this report and by the pattern it represents under Secretary Hegseth\u2019s leadership,\u201d Reed said, calling the 2025 campaign in Yemen \u201cpoorly conceived.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis did not happen in a vacuum,\u201d Reed added. \u201cDuring his tenure, Secretary Hegseth has gutted the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, pushed out senior [judge advocate general] officers who advise commanders on the laws of war, and boasted about discarding what he calls \u2018stupid rules of engagement.\u2019 The same Yemen campaign that produced these casualties is the one where the [War Department] Inspector General found Secretary Hegseth shared classified strike details over Signal, putting the pilots flying that mission at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reed complained that the Pentagon had delayed the release of the civilian casualty report for months and has not submitted an assessment of the Minab school strike, where over 100 schoolgirls were killed in a strike on a school during the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAccountability for these losses is required by law and basic decency,\u201d Reed concluded. \u201cSecretary Hegseth owes the families of these victims, our service members, and the American people a direct and honest reckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4683876\/us-civilian-deaths-yemen-bombing\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4683876\">US KILLED 153 CIVILIANS IN THREE STRIKES ON YEMEN IN 2025, PENTAGON SAYS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Pentagon civilian casualty report, the 153 civilian deaths during Operation Rough Rider in Yemen accounted for all civilians killed by the U.S. military in 2025, meaning no civilians were killed in strikes in Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, the other named active conflicts in the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subsections of the report were devoted to each of the three strikes, saying that sufficient information was available through U.S. intelligence sources, imagery, and open-source reporting. In every case, it noted that \u201cex gratia was determined to not be appropriate for this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reed Blames Hegseth for Yemen Civilian Deaths, Calls for Accountability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2644400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jack-reed-rhode-island-e1786638504421.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55571,48493,5517],"class_list":["post-2644399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civilian-casualties","tag-jack-reed","tag-yemen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jack-reed-rhode-island-e1786638504421.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644403,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644399\/revisions\/2644403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}