War crime

March 28, 2024 | |

Palestinian Terrorist Confesses to October 7 Rape

A Palestinian terrorist captured by Israeli forces confessed to carrying out a rape during the October 7 rampage, his interrogation video showed. In the more than five minutes of...

March 27, 2024 | |

Former Israeli Hostage Recounts Sexual Assault, Torture in Captivity

A former Israeli hostage said Hamas terrorists sexually assaulted her in captivity in an eight-hour interview published on March 26. Amit Soussana, a 40-year-old lawyer from kibbutz...

March 12, 2024 | |

Iranian Official Calls to Expel Israel From Women’s Rights Conference

A senior Iranian official on March 11 called for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to expel Israel from its ranks. In a speech before the commission’s...

July 9, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘Statesman Abe’s strategic vision was impressive’

Abe recognised the usefulness of India in the Indo-Pacific. The Japanese, and Abe, really pushed for India, including with the Quad: Grant Newsham.

April 11, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden, like Obama, talks tough but does little about Putin’s war crimes

Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Lofty words; noble intentions, for sure. But Obama came and went....

March 15, 2017 |

Assessing U.S. Sanctions on Russia: Next Steps

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July 24, 2012 | |

The Morality of Suicide Bombings

The bombing last week in Damascus that killed Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajiha, internal security chief Hafez Makhlouf, and Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat (who also happened to be the b...

May 21, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly |

Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics

Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics Edited by Raimond Gaita. Crawley, Aus.: UWA Pub...

February 29, 2012 | Robert Barnidge The Washington Times |

U.N. Fact-Finding Mission

Mark Twain once wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction,” and the largely negative international reaction to Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s military effort to stop thousands of Ha...

February 29, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

War Crimes and Punishment

“To the justice of the firing squad!” That was the toast proposed by Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill over dinner in 1943 in Tehran. They were meeting for the first time and...

April 18, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Decision Time in Nigeria

Over the course of the last year, this column has regularly chronicled developments in Nigeria; including Islamist activism in the north, evidence of growing connections to international terroris...

February 20, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss The American Thinker

See Cynthia and Mohamad Play Tag Team

Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebano...

August 4, 2006 | Orde Kittrie Wall Street Journal |

A War Crime at Qana?

The Qana tragedy has intensified accusations that Israel's actions in Lebanon violate international law. Every death of an innocent person is extremely regrettable; but there is no evidence...

March 31, 2003 |

Progress in Iraq

Opponents of the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein are now criticizing the campaign's progress. Anti-war activists and a number of European and Arab leaders continue to call on the United States to withdraw and leave Saddam in power. Meanwhile, Arab media such as al-Jazeera portray the allied forces in Iraq as “invaders.” It is worth highlighting a few key points to put the war in Iraq in perspective.