Iraq

Increased corruption is a common unintended consequences of sanctions. Alongside considering humanitarian consequences, the U.S. should account for corruption risks, and ways to…

Alongside humanitarian and logistical barriers, the lack of social acceptance is a factor barring 1.2 million people from returning home.

"The sheer number of over-the-horizon operations in the past two decades indicates significant mission creep in the war on terror."

Turnout may be dismal, as many Iraqis feel elections fail as a channel for their voices or an instrument for change.

A majority of the approximately 72,000 detainees from 57 countries are children, and the militant group is targeting youths for recruitment.

Amal Clooney pens an article based off a speech delivered at the United Nations.

The country's Iran-backed militias are not law-abiding, but they know Iraqis care about rule of law and have adopted the law as a battlespace.

There is an immediate need to triage a coordinated response to the ongoing detention of roughly 10,000 ISIS fighters and 60,000 women and children in northeast Syria.

Insights from UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting

"We need to grapple with the legal mechanisms through which presidential administration after administration has legally justified escalating, elongating, and expanding conflicts…

"While Iran has significant control over the militias, Iraq also bears legal responsibility for illegal militia attacks against the coalition. This is because the militias, despite…

Key legal questions that remain unanswered about the legality of the Syria strike under domestic and international law.