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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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In late 2014, the General Court of the European Union (GC) annulled, on due process grounds, several measures that kept Hamas and the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) on the EU terrorism sanctions list.
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A cautionary note yesterday from the Washington Post. Here is the opening:
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The first of the presidential debates takes place tomorrow evening.
Last week, I found myself in Las Vegas, giving a pair of addresses on the election, national security, and the challenge of Donald Tru...
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Editor's Note: The West's relationship with its Saudi ally is one of the world's most troubling alliances. Saudi Arabia's conservative culture rejects many Western ideals, and many observers see the King...
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Last week, the National Security Division of the Justice Department celebrated its 10th anniversary by holding a major conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Judge Laurence Sil...
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Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes argued that President Obama should not pardon Edward Snowden but should consider commuting Chelsea Manning’s sentence.
Wittes also responded to critics of the Washing...
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Efforts to revitalize U.S.-Russian cooperation have stalled after the collapse of the Syrian ceasefire, reports the Washington Post. American officials have confirmed that, despite previous hopes, there ...
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The largest DOS attack in history, ongoing right now, has serious technical, legal, and policy implications.
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[I am happy to report that Lawfare once again is partnering with InterCross and EJILTalk! to present posts stemming from a summer roundtable at Oxford concerning international law and armed conflict.
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Today, President Obama is likely to veto the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), a bill that would amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to strip the immunity of Saudi Arabia from sui...
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New revelations about the NSA's knowledge of the Shadow Brokers compromise raise hard questions, once again, about the agency's commitment to its defensive mission.
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Satellite Imagery of Construction on Taiping Island Raises Eyebrows
Satellite image of construction on Taiping Island (Photo: Google Maps)
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democratic members of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, have released the following statement on Russian att...
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The U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement in Syria has collapsed, reports the Financial Times. Diplomats may still nominally seek to salvage the political agreement, but fighting has erupted again in Aleppo. ...
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I'm off in Las Vegas this week, but it turns out that Rational Security does need me. The gang discusses how the bombings in New York and New Jersey have fixed us again on the threat of lone wolf terrori...
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Since August 24th, Turkey has conducted a military operation—known as Euphrates Shield—in northern Syria. The objective of Euphrates Shield is to clear the border area between the towns of Jarablus and a...
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The United States is blaming Russia for the attack yesterday on an aid convoy in Syria, the BBC reports. Anonymous American officials claimed two Russian Su-24 attack aircraft were overhead when the conv...
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Last week, the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) released a new policy paper on how it selects and prioritizes cases. The report generated plenty of media attention, largely because of its references ...
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The Justice Department has now issued a press release on the charges leveled against Ahmad Khan Rahami for his suspected role in the bombings this past weekend in New York and New Jersey. With the glut o...
