For a campaign of this duration, which is a year’s worth of fighting in a heavily urban environment where you have an adversary that is hiding in amongst that environment, then you would expect an ...

“He is not in any way advocating that anybody not follow the Law of Armed Conflict,” Parlatore said. “He is saying that the way that has been interpreted at the local level is overly ...

In 2019, Ukraine and Gaza were categorised ‘minor conflicts’. By 2023, both wars were drivers of data on hostilities. According to the Geneva Academy’s Rule of Law in Armed Conflict portal ...

This note outlines and explains the role of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies during international armed conflict under international humanitarian law (IHL). While it primarily focuses on ...

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict (LOAC) aims at reducing the disastrous effects of armed conflicts by regulating the means and methods of warfare and by establishing ...

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At least 12 Indians have died while serving in the Russian armed forces, with 16 others missing. This revelation comes in ...

The M23 and FARDC, as well as their allies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in the DRC, the Rwanda Defence Force and the myriad militia allied to the Congolese army, ...

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict (LOAC) aims at reducing the disastrous effects of armed conflicts by regulating the means and methods of warfare and by establishing ...

The idea is that legal advisors are involved in the planning stages: their job is to see that the laws of armed conflict are incorporated into the plans and into what we call the ‘target bank’. This ...

The protection of civilians in war zones is required under the laws of armed conflict, and senior commanders draft rules of engagement for their forces to comply with them. Long considered a ...

To do so, he said, would require each strike and operation to be assessed to determine whether they adhered to the laws of armed conflict and whether all were proportional, but he did not think ...