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From my piece Friday on Shaker Aamer: "Aamer was 'cleared for transfer,' after all, and that translates in a lot of people's minds and in a lot of news stories to 'cleared,' which translates in turn in a...
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Editor’s Note: The Kurds are the largest nation in the Middle East without a state of their own and their quest for more rights and at times independence has led to civil wars, unrest, and near-genocidal...
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The past few days have witnessed two huge developments in the South China Sea. On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy conducted a long-anticipated freedom of navigation (FON) patrol in the Spratly Islands. Two days l...
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In light of the scientific consensus that substantial increases in atmospheric CO2 will inevitably lead to solar-driven global warming, the nations of the world are seeking to obtain agreement on proposa...
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Charlie Savage has a nice story, drawn from his book (out Tuesday), about the challenges President Obama faces in trying to meet his first-week-in-Office pledge to close GTMO:
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Perhaps you’ve heard, but tensions between the United States and Russia are heating up. With Putin upping the ante in Syria, Marvin Kalb, journalist, scholar, and a nonresident senior fellow in Foreign P...
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Bobby discussed the recent White House decision to deploy special operations forces to Syria and asked how the decision fits into the larger discussion surrounding the evolving U.S. combat roles abroad.
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Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen and British resident, was transferred from his detention at Guantanamo Bay this morning. The Department of Defense, Reprieve (the organization whose lawyers have represented...
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[UPDATE: The Pentagon has released the transcript of a press briefing today, addressing the SOF deployment to Syria among other things. The DOD official explained that, for now, these operators will not...
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No, I'm not going write a grouchy piece on the release of Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer to Britain listing all the reasons to think this might not be the world's greatest idea.
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All the accused, except one, appeared in court after a day’s recess in the trial against the alleged orchestrators of the September 11th attacks. Only Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi exercised his right no...
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Leaders from over 17 countries, the European Union, and the United Nations opened talks in Vienna today to discuss the future of the Syrian conflict.
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Pre-trial motions continued on Monday in the case of the five Guantanamo detainees charged with involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
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This is not an issue I follow, but still, this news seemed worth highlighting for our readers:
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In the midst of armed conflict, accurate and comprehensive information is notoriously difficult to come by.
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The second issue of al-Risālah, the purported English-language magazine of Jabhat al-Nuṣrah, was released a few days ago, complete with soldier-of-fortune-esque cover showing a masked (stock?) photo horr...
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Breaking news from Capitol Hill this morning.
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This morning, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in ACLU v. Clapper declined to issue a preliminary injunction halting NSA's bulk collection under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act as authorized b...
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In U.S. federal courts, questions about the existence and contours of customary international law (CIL) arise in a variety of cases, both civil and criminal. These have generated a number of interesting ...
