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When Congress passed the law that will govern how terrorist suspects can be tried in military tribunals, it acted just like the Founding Fathers would have wished.

Violence in Sudan has reached the level of an armed conflict to which international humanitarian law applies.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision, theU.S. should focus on providing a legal process that does not treatunlawful combatants as regular criminals or traditional prisonersof war.

News and Press Release in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 4 Apr 2023 by ICRC

This report documents torture, killings, rapes, forced expulsions, and other war crimes committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces against Kosovar Albanians between March 24 and June 12, 1999, the period of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia. The report reveals a coordinated and systematic campaign to terrorize, kill, and expel the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo that was organized by the highest levels of the Serbian and Yugoslav governments in power at that time.

The Bush Administration suffered a crushing defeat this week … according to the mainstream media. Front pages across the nation reported that the president "bowed" to the wishes of the Supreme Court and "reversed" his long-standing policy for handling military detainees, including those held in Guantanamo.

Analysis of the ICRC's updated Commentaries to the Geneva Convention for Prisoners of War (POWs).

“Persons taking no active part in hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, color, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or

It is a personal honor to join The STAR family as a columnist.

A number of leading medical professionals and a US lawyer have written an open letter pointing out that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to block the passage of vital medical supplies to th...