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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force
Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr On Wednesday morning, Israel killed the Chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. To do so, it reportedly...
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Peter A. Dutton
| Apr 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Palestine’s Quest for Full United Nations Membership Amidst the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, the United States vetoed Palestine’s latest bid for full acceptance as a member State of the United Nations (UN). In the view of the United States, the only...
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Nolan Koon,
Sean Zehtab
| Mar 25, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Weapons Law
MARWAN 1: How U.S. Central Command Transferred Seized Iranian Ammunition to Ukraine On December 1, 2022, the USS Lewis B. Puller, an expeditionary mobile base ship assigned to the U.S. 5th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, intercepted a fishing trawler, the...
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Benjamin R. Farley
| Mar 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency? Hours after Hamas launched a horrific and unprecedently large-scale terrorist assault on Israel, the Israeli Security Cabinet invoked, for the first...
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Russell Buchan
| Jan 31, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force
The Law of Self-Defense and the U.S. and UK Strikes against the Houthis The Houthis are an Iran-aligned armed group that controls large swathes of territory in northern Yemen. Since 19 November 2023, and to support Hamas during its ongoing armed conflict with Israel,...
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Benjamin R. Farley
| Nov 6, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
International Law, Political Will, and Regulation of the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon Editor’s Note: This post is based on an article, “Regulating the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon” published in the Virginia Journal of International Law, available here. Across at least...
