U.S. military operations killed 153 civilians and wounded 243 others in 2025, according to Pentagon assessments cited by a U.S. official on Tuesday.

The figures mark a sharp increase from 2024, when the Pentagon assessed that two civilians were killed and two injured as a result of U.S. military operations.

A Pentagon report submitted to the U.S. Congress said all civilian deaths and injuries recorded in 2025 resulted from three U.S. strikes in Yemen in April 2025.

The U.S. Central Command assessed that the three strikes “more likely than not” resulted in civilian harm, the report said.

As of February 2026, Central Command was also assessing 15 other incidents in Yemen following reports received through non-governmental organizations.

The U.S. military has said its operations in Yemen are aimed at degrading the capabilities of Iran-backed Houthi militants.

The Pentagon report did not include casualties from U.S. strikes against vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. It said the U.S. Southern Command had assessed that no incidents in its area of responsibility in 2025 were more likely than not to have resulted in civilian casualties.

Meanwhile, U.S. strikes on vessels accused by the Trump administration of transporting narcotics in the Eastern Pacific have killed more than 200 people since September 2025, according to a tally based on reported death tolls.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have described such strikes as unlawful extrajudicial killings, while the American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the Trump administration’s claims about those targeted as unsubstantiated.

– with Agencies inputs --