As US involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan comes to an end after twenty years, it is worth taking stock of how things stand in relation…

Two recent posts in the recent joint blog series on international law and armed conflict concluded that the siege of a defended locality was permitted under the…

Editor note: This piece is cross-posted on Just Security. In December 2018, the International Law Programme at Chatham House published a report, “…

Editor’s Note: This post is part of the joint series of posts hosted by the ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare, and arising out of…