Geneva Conventions

International humanitarian law emerged from the extreme experience of the twentieth century. The Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols were not conceived as abstract moral declarations, but as a concrete attempt to impose limits on violence even in war. That…

The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked and destroyed most of the Syrian Navy in port at Latakia, and invaded Syria from the…

In simultaneous, if not necessarily coordinated operations, there are attacks against the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh in its Arabic abbreviation) in Syria and Iraq. ISIS had, in practice, abolished the frontier between Iraq and Syria which…