The War Powers Act, noble in its intent, is largely a relic built for a bygone era of clearly defined conflicts. The law ...

The Israel Defense Forces bend over backward to comply with the law of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions in their ongoing fight with Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.

On Aug. 12, 1949, the international community ratified the Geneva Conventions, also known as the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), establishing the rules and guidelines during armed conflict. The ...

It is worthwhile acquiring the following books: Yoram Dinstein, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict (Cambridge UP, 3rd ed., 2016), Roberts and Guelff, Documents on ...

Many humanitarian law experts would argue that Hamas and Israel are engaged in what is known as a "non-international armed conflict."In other words, it would be classified the same way as a civil ...

As a basic principle of the international law of armed conflict—as well as basic humanity—attacks against civilian sites are prohibited, unless, for example, those civilian sites are used for ...

When analyzing an Israeli attack on Hezbollah using the principles of the law of armed conflict (LOAC)—specifically military necessity, proportionality, discrimination, and unnecessary suffering—it is ...

V. International Humanitarian Law and the Armed Conflict in Somalia. ... Somali law, like the laws of most nations, proscribes basic domestic crimes including murder, assault, arson, ...

A Palestinian child wounded in an Israeli bombardment is carried into a hospital south of the Gaza Strip, Nov. 2, 2023. International humanitarian law seeks, for humanitarian reasons, "to limit ...

Anyone who actually takes the time to research the international Law of Armed Conflict (LARC) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL), however, will quickly learn that they do not prohibit sieges ...

Once conflict begins, every organized armed group participating is bound by international humanitarian law. The second point is that those laws are universal, not reciprocal.