The laws of war are complicated and often entirely inadequate to the goal of protecting civilians, but they contain basic principles at their foundation. According to the Red Cross, “The main ...

How should we evaluate the role played by Western powers in the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people — from their ...

Israel, like the United States, is party to some but not all the U.N. conventions and agreements that, taken together, constitute international humanitarian law and the laws of warfare.

And of course, you have to respect the rules of the laws of war. For example, you cannot just send missiles and anything on Israel without discriminating between military targets and civilian ...

Relations between Israel and the European Union have become even more fraught after the bloc found that Israel’s actions in Gaza, including the blockade of aid to the enclave, may have ...

On June 8, 2024, Israeli forces executed a hostage-rescue operation in Nuseirat, central Gaza. The Israeli operation was widely reported to have utilized ...

Israel is intensifying its war on Iran, bombing the headquarters of the country’s national TV network on Monday and assassinating another top military leader. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Its liberal-democratic institutions have all but crumbled. The Founders’ experiment may be coming to an end. War with Iran is likely to hasten its demise. Not that it matters, but count me out.

So much for Donald Trump’s “12 Day War.” The U.S. president said Tuesday that both Israel and Iran have violated a ceasefire. Trump was furious when speaking to reporters Tuesday morning ...