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ODNI’s Latest Guantánamo Reengagement Numbers Are Encouraging

Earlier this month, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its bi-annual assessment of the “reengagement” of released Guantánamo Bay detainees.…

Sep. 16, 2015 Adam Jacobson

Watching the En Banc Clock in al Bahlul

Just a friendly reminder that the government’s petition for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit in al Bahlul v. United States remains pending… Al Bahlul’s…

Sep. 16, 2015 Steve Vladeck

When Do Countries Have to Investigate War Crimes?

In late August, the New York Times and others reported that the US Army had reopened a criminal investigation into the murders of at least 17 civilians in Afghanistan in 2012 and…

Sep. 14, 2015 Nathalie Weizmann

A Weapon That Keeps on Killing

When the cluster bombs fell on the town of Kaunda in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains in late May, local authorities collected the bomblets that were scattered about and placed them in…

Sep. 11, 2015 Mary Wareham

European Countries Are Edging Toward Their Own War on Terror

A version of this article first appeared on the European Council on Foreign Relations website. The United States looks less lonely in its use of drone strikes against terrorist…

Sep. 11, 2015 Anthony Dworkin

The UK’s Letter to the UN Security Council Leaves Plenty of Unanswered Questions About Last Month’s RAF Drone Strike

Yesterday, I wrote a post helping to untangle some of the international law questions involved in last month’s UK drone strike in Syria that killed three individuals, two of…

Sep. 11, 2015 Noam Lubell

Fourteen Years

Each of the last thirteen September 11ths, I’ve pulled out my copy of W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1, 1939. As I said last year, the lines of this work have always seemed…

Sep. 11, 2015 Steve Vladeck

The Legal Questions About the UK’s Drone Strike in Syria

The recent revelations of a UK drone strike in Syria targeting British individuals alleged to be linked to the Islamic State has generated much discussion, and the British government…

Sep. 10, 2015 Noam Lubell

Amb. Stephen Rapp on Sri Lanka’s War Crimes Investigation

At the end of August, the United States announced that it would support Sri Lanka’s plan for investigating alleged war crimes that occurred during the final years of the country’s…

Sep. 9, 2015 Just Security

Two More British Citizens are Dead From a Targeted Killing in Syria

UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaking before Parliament on Sept. 7 revealed that in addition to alleged ISIL hacker, recruiter, and propagandist Junaid Hussain, two other Britons…

Sep. 7, 2015 John Reed

What’s Lost in the Move-Guantánamo-North Debate

Defense Secretary Ash Carter has been doing a lot of public hand-wringing lately over what he’s going to do with the Guantánamo detainees he’s decided will have to be moved…

Sep. 3, 2015 Daphne Eviatar

Armed Opposition Groups’ Courts: Challenging the Lawfulness of Detentions in Light of the Serdar Mohammed Appeals Judgment

Much has already been written on the authority to detain in non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) (see here, here, and here for recent posts). So much so, in fact, that it…

Sep. 2, 2015 Ezequiel Heffes

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