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One of the six principal organs of the UN, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security
If one NATO member attacks another, the alliance’s core legal instrument—Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—creates a collective-defence obligation, but it does not automatically prescribe how All...
Republican leaders have invoked Barack Obama’s drone campaign—often citing a figure of roughly 500–550 strikes—to defend or contextualize recent “double-tap” maritime strikes in the Caribbean; reporti...
Counting UN resolutions aimed at Israel is contested and depends on which UN body, timeframe and classification one uses; NGOs and the UN press both document large numbers of recent Israel-focused tex...
International law treats a naval blockade as an act of war governed by longstanding treaties and custom: it must be declared, effectively enforced and applied impartially, and in peacetime a blockade ...
Congress reacted with immediate questions, legal challenges and symbolic rebukes: the White House notified Congress under the War Powers Resolution within 48 hours , members filed lawsuits and demande...
Since 2020, states and regional bodies have pushed the legal boundaries for seizing vessels to enforce sanctions and interdiction regimes: UNCLOS and customary law generally bar non‑flag states from b...
President Trump ordered a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela and demanded Caracas “return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Ass...
The world is not "controlled" by a single actor; control is distributed across overlapping centers of power—states with military and economic reach, multinational corporations and tech elites who gove...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague can, in limited circumstances, investigate and seek to try U.S. citizens for core international crimes — genocide, crimes against humanity, and war ...
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted far more country-specific condemnatory resolutions targeting Israel than for other states in recent years — monitors report, for example, 173 GA resolutions ...
The Hague’s permanent criminal court, the International Criminal Court (ICC), has not tried a U.S. citizen as a defendant in The Hague because the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, tho...
Ahmed al‑Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammed al‑Jolani) has a documented history as a jihadist leader tied to al‑Qaeda and as the founder/leader of Hayat Tahrir al‑Sham (HTS); multiple governments and ...
During the Trump administration’s recent term, the administration brokered a high-profile Gaza ceasefire and hostage-release deal — presented as the first phase of a broader 20-point Gaza peace plan s...
The Obama administration justified strikes against ISIS in Syria mainly by relying on existing congressional Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs) and the President’s ...
The ICC can exercise criminal jurisdiction over nationals of non‑party states in limited circumstances: when the alleged crimes occurred on the territory of a State Party, when the UN Security Council...
Venezuelans are not uniformly happy with the current state of the country; reactions range from ecstatic celebration among many in the diaspora to cautious hope, deep uncertainty and outright anger in...
As of December 2025 the dispute remains live and tense: the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has jurisdiction and issued provisional measures in 2023 ordering Venezuela not to change the status qu...
Since 2021 the published accounts portray : limited but verifiable West Bank figures count in the low thousands, while Gaza figures tied to the October 7, 2023 war run from depending on the reporting ...
The materials provided contain that President Joe Biden led or brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians; the documents repeatedly center on a peace initiative tied to former President ...
Available reporting shows Jeffrey Sachs has spoken to Russian outlets, been invited by Russian authorities to speak at international forums, and traveled to Russia for conferences; explicit, reliably ...