by Michael N. Schmitt, William Casey Biggerstaff | Aug 5, 2022
The al-Zawahiri Strike and the Law of Armed Conflict Just after daybreak on July 31, the United States killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s former deputy and the current leader of al-Qaeda. Two Hellfire missiles struck him on the balcony of his home in Kabul....
by Hanne Cuyckens | May 16, 2022
Foreign Fighters: The Terrorism/IHL Conundrum and the Need for Cumulative Prosecution The attack launched by ISIS on 20 January 2022 against the Al-Sina’a Prison in Al-Hasakah, an area situated in North-Eastern Syria and currently under the authority of the...
by Thomas Van Poecke, Frank Verbruggen, Ward Yperman | Feb 24, 2022
Terrorist Offences and IHL: The Armed Conflict Exclusion Clause In our current article in the International Review of the Red Cross, we discuss the so-called “armed conflict exclusion clause” (also known as an “international humanitarian law (IHL) exclusion clause” or...
