SAUL LOEB via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who has mocked “stupid rules of engagement” for U.S. service members, on Friday declared that Iranians under attack in President Donald Trump’s war would receive “no quarter” — a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,” he said at a Pentagon news briefing. “Denying quarter is a war crime and recognized as such by the United States,” said Brian Finucane, a lawyer who spent a decade in the State Department. Advertisement“The U.S. is party to the Geneva Conventions and bound by international humanitarian law,” Warner said. “The comment is entirely at odds with the concepts of honor and good faith that are part of the underpinnings of the law of war,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post March 13, 2026 22:23 UTC