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International Law Commission holds special commemorative event.

Letter to the Editor – Germany’s Extradition Request for Gen. Jamil Hassan, with U.S. Support

I very much appreciate Just Security’s bringing to your readers’ attention the German extradition request to Lebanon for Syria’s General Jamil Hassan, who is under suspicion…

Mar. 13, 2019 Claus Kress

An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle and F-16 Fighting Falcon return from an Operation Iraqi Freedom combat mission.

Reflecting on the Civilian Casualty Executive Order: What Was Lost and What Can Now Be Gained

What information did the public just lose with Trump's decision, and what can Congress do beyond just restoring it? Civilian casualties in wartime reporting and minimization.

Mar. 12, 2019 Larry Lewis

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56), the Philippine navy frigate BRP Gregaorio del Pilar (PF-15) and the Philippine navy frigate BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF-16) steam in formation during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines 2014.

The US-Philippines Defense Treaty and the Pompeo Doctrine on South China Sea

A major statement by Sec. Mike Pompeo on U.S. coming to the military defense of the Philippines against China. A legal expert explains the implications.

Mar. 11, 2019 Mark Nevitt

I Helped Write the Exec Order on Public Reporting of Lethal Operations. Here’s What Trump Has Undone.

"Multiple press accounts have cited some of the key problems with the rescission, the backlash from transparency advocates, and why, unsurprisingly, the Trump administration has…

Mar. 8, 2019 Luke Hartig

Trump’s Revocation of Reporting on Lethal Strikes: All Eyes on Congress, Now

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order revoking a section of President Barack Obama’s Executive Order on civilian casualties that required annual reporting…

Mar. 8, 2019 Rita Siemion

Colombian commanders of the FARC-EP leftist guerrillas Jesus Santrich and Victoria Sandino arrive at Convention Palace in Havana for the peace talks with the Colombian government, on November 9, 2015.

Colombian President’s Veto Threat Challenges Peace Process

Colombian President Ivan Duque is threatening to veto legislation that would endorse and regulate a special tribunal established to address atrocities committed during the country’s…

Mar. 7, 2019 Juan Franco

Tear gas is fired by Israeli forces at Palestinian protestors during a demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 8, 2019.

Report of the Independent UN Commission of Inquiry on Gaza Strip – An Initial Evaluation of a Problematic Report

Bottom line up front: "The Commission chose to infer far reaching conclusions from the limited evidence before it, thus discrediting much that should be appreciated in the report."

Mar. 7, 2019 Amichai Cohen

Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) (C) speaks as Syrian Army defector "Caesar," who has smuggled out of Syria more than 50,000 photographs that document the torture and execution of more than 10,000 dissidents, listens through an interpreter during a briefing before House Foreign Affairs Committee July 31, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photos in the background show disturbing images of the torture and deaths.

BREAKING: United States Supports Germany’s International Arrest Warrant for Accused Syrian War Criminal

"On Tuesday, the United States government issued a statement supporting Germany’s request to Lebanon to extradite a high-ranking Syrian official accused of war crimes and crimes…

Mar. 6, 2019 Ryan Goodman

St. Peter's Lutheran Church in the Liberian capital Monrovia.

Liberian War Crimes Claims Survive in Alien Tort Statute Case

Victims of human rights abuses abroad scored a win recently, when the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania ruled in Jane W. et al. v. Thomas that claims involving war crimes…

Feb. 27, 2019 Ela Matthews, Nushin Sarkarati and 2 more

Nawaf, a 22-year-old Bahraini suspected of collaboration for the Islamic State Group (IS) and currently detained by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), gives an interview at a house near a police station in Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on February 13, 2018.

Shifted Burdens: The U.S. as Detainer of Last Resort

The United States should resist become a detainer of last resort when states refuse to repatriate their nationals being detained in Syria.

Feb. 26, 2019 Benjamin R. Farley

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir delivers a speech to the nation on February 22, 2019, at the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum.

“Just fall, that is all!” Is Sudan on the Brink of Change?

Sudan has entered the third month of widespread and sustained protests across the country, and there is now some indication that President Omar al-Bashir’s grip on power is weakening.…

Feb. 25, 2019 John Hursh

Cars wait 02 October 2004 at a checkpoint at the Syrian-Iraqi border point of Al-Tanf, 270kms northeast of Damascus.

What’s the Mission in Syria? The Answer May be Illegal and Without U.S. Allies’ Support

Statements about a US "peacekeeping" force and a mission to counter-Iran raise serious legal questions and threaten to unravel U.S. allies' support for future U.S. operations inside…

Feb. 25, 2019 Tess Bridgeman

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