Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

Verkhovna Rada propose to the parliament to introduce a single deadline for courts to declare the death of persons who went ...

South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, has called on Rwanda to halt its support ...

The British Palestine Committee is accusing the UK of failure to uphold international law through its continued military ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries, hired by Congo to combat M23 rebels, surrendered to UN peacekeepers after being cornered near Lake Kivu. Their involvement, aimed at supporting Congo's army, worsened ...

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, ...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s regional and international partners must exert pressure on all parties to the ...

On January 21, 2025, the M23 and Rwandan forces captured Minova, a town 40 kilometers from Goma, cutting off supply routes to the city’s one to two million people. The fighting has caused people in at ...

The pardons “flew in the face of admonitions from Republican allies who’d voiced opposition to the notion of pardoning Jan. 6 ...

Amnesty International has accused Congo’s army and a rebel group ... development in a three-decade conflict already rife with human rights and humanitarian law violations,” Agnès Callamard ...

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 ...