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/PRNewswire/ -- Sexual violence is unacceptable in any shape or form, in all contexts, including those of conflict. As we come together on the International...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s prudent navigation of nascent legal concepts to diminish his force’s reliance on supply lines and forage for provisions enabled battlefield success. Today, Grant’s actions provide a cogent legal blueprint for contemporary military leaders in future operational planning.

The setbacks being suffered by the supposedly very powerful Russian army in Ukraine, the disbanding disguised as a retreat to regain momentum and the astonishing reconquest of cities and countryside by Ukrainian patriots, are allowing the atrocities committed by the Russian president's occupying forces to be seen in the heat of the moment.  

Freeing Ukrainian wheat by facilitating its return to world markets is an urgent and timely imperative. But at the same time, warring parties around the world continue to use famine as a weapon, as old as war itself. The authors of this article, researchers in international law, argue that the time has finally come to prosecute the tactical use of starvation for what it is: a war crime.

Despite legal advances, starvation crimes have been evident in recent or current conflicts in Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

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So, my regular (and maybe some irregular) coffee guys got together, seated at the big rectangular round table last week and were, for the first time since late January "All

No magic carpet bombing...For four months in 2017, an American-led coalition in Syria dropped some ten thousand bombs on Raqqa, the densely populated capital of the Islamic State. Nearly eighty per cent of the city, which has a population of three hundred thousand, was destroyed.

A thorough examination of legal precedent is necessary before coming to snap conclusions about Russia's invasion, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News As Michael Brenner humorously pointed out in these pages last week, it has apparently become obligatory for any c

It is widely believed that war is the business of man, and patriarchy glorifies wars and conflicts. ‘Courage’ and ‘gallantry’ are said to be the domain of men, which is why...