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The last few months have seen a spree of lawsuits filed against social media companies for allegedly providing material support to terrorists groups, particularly ISIS, by effectively allowing those grou...
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In a much-anticipated verdict, an international tribunal ruled on Tuesday that China’s claims to historic and economic rights across most of the South China Sea have no legal basis. The tribunal ruled in...
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The wait is over: a judgment has been issued in the Philippines v. China South China Sea arbitration. A five-judge tribunal constituted under the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague has rel...
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Military Commissions Deputy Chief Prosecutor Robert C. Moscati issued the following statement yesterday prior to this week's military commission pre-trial hearings in the case of Abd al Hadi al Iraqi. Ke...
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I am still digesting the award issued very early this morning by the UNCLOS arbitral tribunal on the Philippines claims against China in the South China Sea. Lawfare plans to post more comprehensive dis...
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The Chilcot report—the report of the UK Iraq Inquiry that was released last week—includes a detailed account (more than 160 pages) of the development of the international law basis for the UK’s use of fo...
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said that the United States will send an additional 560 troops to Iraq as Iraqi and U.S. security forces close in on recapturing Mosul from the Islamic State. The announce...
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The Chilcot Inquiry into the Blair Government’s 2003 decision to go to war with Iraq examines at length the role of the lawyers under immense policy and political pressure.
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Whatever economic problems China and Russia may be experiencing, the foreign policy of both countries of growing importance to global peace and security. Russia’s military intervention in Syria and Ukrai...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on July 13, when Ben interviews Steve Budiansky about his new book, Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers ...
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A review of Charles Lister's The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Oxford, 2015).
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The confrontation this week between FBI Director James Comey and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would have been a riveting drama-filled showdown over the Clinton email investigation....
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Rishabh Bhandari published FBI Director James Comey’s public statement after Comey had announced that the Bureau would not recommend charges be filed against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private emai...
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Guess what we talked about on Rational Security this week. That's right: Hillary Clinton will not be prosecuted over her use of a private email server. The death toll of a bombing in Baghdad approaches 3...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Although there has been some progress in forming a national unity government in Libya, “unity” is a rather inapplicable word for th...
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At least one sniper, who said he wanted to target white police officers, killed five officers and wounded another seven along with two civilians in Dallas last night. According to the city’s police chief...
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Let me start by saying that I do not dissent from FBI Director James Comey's decision to give the remarkably fulsome account we saw this week of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, both in his lengt...
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Last Tuesday, the FBI arrested a 26 year-old man just outside Washington, DC in Sterling, Virginia. According to the Justice Department’s press release, Bailor Jalloh was charged with attempting to provi...
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National Security Council veterans Ari Schwartz and Rob Knake recently released a paper entitled Government’s Role in Vulnerability Disclosure. The paper, published by Harvard’s Belfer Center, catalogues...