War Crimes

Late on Saturday, March 7, the Israeli military conducted a series of strikes against several oil storage facilities in and around Tehran, igniting large fires at the facilities. By the following morning, Iran’s capital was reported to be covered in thick smoke from the burning depots. Later on Sunday, reports emerged that “black” rain,…

The use of artificial intelligence in military operations is a topic of enormous relevance, as the ongoing conflict in Iran well demonstrates. In particular, the United States has been using Anthropic’s Claude AI model, as part of its Maven project, as a decision support system in targeting. The Israeli military’s use of AI systems in…

In July 2025, forty-one OSCE participating States, in cooperation with Ukraine, invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to examine the treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by the Russian Federation. This activation reaffirmed the mechanism’s continuing importance as an instrument for addressing serious violations of international law. Embedded within the OSCE framework, the Moscow Mechanism allows participating States…

This week, a UN commission of inquiry found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. NGOs and various other bodies have of course made that finding before. Proving genocide, in Gaza or elsewhere, invariably turns on proving the specific intent of the perpetrators. In this post, I do not want to get into the Gaza…