Defense secretary appeared to endorse killing prisoners, a violation of international law, during press briefing<\/p>\n
A top Democratic lawmaker with a military background has reacted strongly to US defense secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u2019s call for \u201cno quarter\u201d for US enemies during a Friday press briefing at the Pentagon, calling such an order \u2013 if followed by troops \u2013 a potential violation of international law<\/a>.<\/p>\n The US senator Mark Kelly, of Arizona, posted on Friday on X that \u201c\u2018No quarter\u2019 isn\u2019t some wanna be tough guy line \u2013 it means something. An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defense secretary appeared to endorse killing prisoners, a violation of international law, during press briefing A top Democratic lawmaker with a military background has reacted strongly to US defense secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s call for \u201cno quarter\u201d for US enemies during a Friday press briefing at the Pentagon, calling such an order \u2013 if followed by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}