The US military has acknowledged that civilians "were likely killed" during the January 29 attack — President Donald Trump's first counterterrorism operation. But The Intercept reported that at
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Survivors of US military raid in Yemen say at least 17 women and children were killed
Survivors of the recent US military raid in a remote Yemeni village provided more details concerning the civilian deaths that resulted from the attack in a report published by The Intercept on Thursday.
Yemenis at the site of the January 29 US military attack
Sinan was asleep in a one-room stone hut with his mother, aunt, and twelve other children when they awoke to gunfire and military helicopters bombarding the village from above.
About 30 members of Navy Seal Team 6 killed 14 Al- life of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens — the first US military death under Trump's watch.
The attack was the fourth ever US ground operation in Yemen and by far the most destructive and deadly, marking a possible shift from the Obama administration's presidential policy guidelines, which required "near certainty" that civilians will not be injured or killed in American operations.
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Following news of the attack, White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the raid "very, very well thought out and executed" and "a successful operation by all standards."
Spicer told reporters that the goal of the raid had been to gather intelligence, and that it was successful in doing so.
In the weeks following the January attack, the US military has conducted dozens more airstrikes on targets in Yemen, including several consecutive days of new attacks on
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