Pentagon Report on 2025 Civilian Casualties Sparks Official Criticism

The War Department delivered an unreleased “1057” annual report on civilian casualties to members of Congress. The document, which examines U.S. Officials told The Intercept that the report “severely undercounted the carnage” and called it a “total whitewash.”

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The report covers only operations conducted in 2025, including a planned boat-strike slated for September 2, 2025. The Trump administration has repeatedly asserted, without presenting evidence, that the strike’s victims—now numbered at more than 220—were “narcoterrorists.” A classified briefing cited by The Intercept noted that some of those killed in the September 2 attack may have been victims of human trafficking.

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• The World Health Organization placed the death toll in Iran at 3,375 people — an established figure.

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• Airwars, a U.K.–based air-strike monitoring group, recorded civilian injury reports every day from the war’s start on February 28 to the first ceasefire on April 8.

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• The Pentagon’s 1057 release identified only three incidents that “likely” harmed civilians and listed another 15 attacks still under review.

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• CENTCOM’s civilian-harm mitigation team has been reduced from ten staffers to a single individual, raising concerns about the ability to process “hundreds of cases for Iran” while Yemen cases remain pending.

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They warned that the backlog of war-dead investigations in Iran could extend for several years given the staffing shortfall.

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• “The idea CENTCOM still has fifteen cases on Yemen to adjudicate doesn’t bode well for the war in Iran,” — the first official — the first official

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