Armed Conflict

Just Security’s expert authors provide analysis on the legal, policy, and strategic dimensions of armed conflict, including the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas war, counterterrorism operations, conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, and other armed conflicts across the globe, with a focus on international humanitarian law, war crimes and accountability, mitigating and remedying civilian harm, and the humanitarian impacts of warfare.

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Lethal Targeting of US Citizens: AP Report Raises More Questions Than Answers

In a highly provocative piece this morning, Kimberly Dozier writes that the Obama administration is weighing another drone strike against a U.S. citizen.  That is obviously a…
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CJEU’s Definition of “Internal Armed Conflict:” The Diakité Case

On January 30, the Court of Justice for the European Union discussed the criteria for determining when an internal armed conflict exists, and held that it does not require the…
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An al Qaeda Armed Conflict with France or Malaysia?: The Legal Question at the Heart of the al Darbi Case

Yesterday the Acting Convening Authority of the GTMO Military Commissions, Navy General Counsel Paul Oostburg Sanz, referred charges against Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi,…
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10 Things We Need to Know Now About the US Drone War

A year ago today, NBC News published a leaked copy of a Justice Department memo that justified the killing of a U.S. citizen without a trial in a foreign country outside a war…
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Fugitive Du Jour: Sylvestre Mudacumura

Following yesterday’s post about President Al-Bashir of Sudan, it might be useful to examine other fugitives from justice and the state of U.S. policy toward their capture.…
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Another (Dubious) Guantánamo Precedent

As Wells Bennett flagged over at Lawfare, the D.C. Circuit’s latest foray into the Guantánamo detainee litigation came two weeks ago in Al-Janko v. Gates, in which a…
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UK Government Issues Major Statement on Legality of Humanitarian Intervention

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has submitted an official response to questions posed by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the legality of humanitarian…
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President Bashir Is No Michelangelo

Earlier this week, President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, announced a “political…
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U.S. Operations Against al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda: The Targeting of Godane

As Sarah Knuckey’s post explains, CNN is reporting that the latest US drone strike in Somalia targeted Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of Al-Shabaab. Sarah asks whether the strike…
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What rules is the US applying to its Somalia drone strikes?

CNN today provided the most detailed account yet of the latest U.S. drone strike, carried out this past weekend in Somalia. US officials (quoted  anonymously by CNN) said the…
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First “Public” PRB Hearing Raises More Questions Than it Answers

As expected, today’s Periodic Review Board hearing, the first so-called “public” one of these events, was completely uneventful.  In the case of Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel…
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Quasi-public Guantanamo Detainee Hearings Start Tomorrow

On Tuesday morning, select members of the media and human rights groups will, for the first time, be allowed to observe a portion of a Periodic Review Board hearing for a detainee…
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