The Airstrike Killing Members of the Syrian Armed Forces was not an International Crime

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Joanna Nicholson is a postdoctoral researcher at Pluricourts, University of Oslo. Her PhD thesis is entitled 'Fighters as Victims in International Criminal Law' and was written at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

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The Airstrike Killing Members of the Syrian Armed Forces was not an International Crime

October 19, 2016

Joanna Nicholson

The US coalition formed to combat the Islamic State was recently involved in a drone strike in Syria which mistakenly killed at least 62 Syrian government troops. The air strike involved US, British, Danish and Australian forces. An investigation into how the incident occurred is currently underway. The attack was described by Syria’s president Bashar…