Airstrikes

The involvement of lawyers allows combatants to absolve themselves from thinking about human rights considerations as long as they believe the military functions as part of a democratic…

If the U.S. government requires metadata to prove evidence of civilian harm, it essentially means researchers will have to find the exact person who took the original image, speak…

The Pentagon's investigation into the May 3 drone strike in Syria is a litmus test for broader efforts to address civilian harm.

Increased transparency is needed to ensure the United States makes a definitive turn away from endless war.

If the new CHMR-AP is to have a meaningful impact, it must address families making requests of the Pentagon now.

The path to peace in Somalia cannot rest on counterterrorism operations alone.

The Biden administration's latest war powers report to Congress and letter to the UN Security Council raise questions about the domestic and international legal basis for hostilities…

Failing to ensure reparations for civilian harm is choosing to impose the war’s costs on those who had no say in the decision to go to war.

Last month’s New York Times report that the American air wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan have been plagued by flawed intelligence, poor targeting, and thousands of civilian…

Recent months have seen a flood of revelations concerning civilian harm resulting from U.S. military operations. The last U.S. airstrike of the war in Afghanistan, which killed…

The U.S. airstrikes taken on Friday in Syria almost certainly violated international law, for two basic reasons.

A core component of post-9/11 counterterrorism policy has been the use of secretive and unaccountable killings of terrorism suspects. The killings must stop. Here's how the president…