“Amid this chaos there has been one consistent target for Trump’s contempt: the constraints imposed by international law, and its value system built around national sovereignty, including the prohibition of the use of force to change external borders.” www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

Operation Hawkeye Strike: Attacking ISIS in Syria and International Law By Michael Schmitt and Ryan Goodman @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

The further legacy of DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The number of people the U.S. has declared killing since September in strikes on small boats allegedly smuggling drugs has risen above 100, following attacks on six vessels in the past week. See our interactive tracker here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s...

Some US Navy activity off the Venezuelan coast, about 200km out with an E-2 Hawkeye, two EA-18G Growlers for electronic spectrum warfare and two others F-18 'rhino' with either likely running CAP over carrier USS Truman

Europe establishes #Ukraine #reparations commission amid push to end war www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Honored to serve on the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The 22 boat strikes have triggered an international obligation to investigate potential illegalities. Michael Schmitt and Marko Milanovic discuss - legal sources for the obligation to investigate - criteria for carrying out independent investigation www.justsecurity.org/127136/inter...

Britain threatened to defund #ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK banks have pushed back against plans to use about £8bn in frozen Russian assets they hold, warning that the British government has not offered to indemnify them against potential retaliation by Moscow, - FT

“The way the majority [of private security contractors] dealt with us was savage” - Ibrahim In our new investigation, Airwars visualises a GHF aid distribution on June 8th, revealing the violence aid-seekers endured as they tried to get food under the system ghf.airwars.org

Police apologise to family of first child killed in Troubles Patrick Rooney, 9, with compensation paid to his 88 year old mother Patrick's brother Con said "It was never about the money, you can't put a price on life, but the police must be apologising for something." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Latest Conflict Index from @acleddata.bsky.social suggests that conflict levels stabilised in 2025 while violence targeting civilians increased, described by analysts as a troubling ‘new normal’

Allegations of a US night raid with a local partner force going bad, this time in Syria. apnews.com/article/syri...

📄 20 years on, reassessing the @icrc.org’s 2005 study on customary IHL offers a timely lens on how the law applies today Its findings continue to clarify gaps left by treaties and strengthen the practical application of IHL Read more → bit.ly/49aXM9R #IHL #CustomaryLaw

More than 30 dead after Myanmar military air strike hits hospital www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know what, I have literally millions of words written over 40 years that could be compiled into an LLM representing "me" and still wouldn't come close to being me at all, your grandma's recorded history is confined to a bunch of extremely brief Facebook posts, how's that gonna go

«Micheál Martin, [said] the report was “very clear about the unacceptable nature of state involvement and utilisation of this agent, which led to so many deaths, …also very clear about the campaign of terror the Provisional IRA waged within their own communities” www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

UN says 200,000 people in DR Congo flee M23 rebel group's advance toward Burundi border www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Sudan air force bombing of towns, markets, hospitals, displaced person camps and schools has killed at least 1700 civilians and injured over 1200 in past two years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least 4 Cambodian civilians have been killed and 9 injured in Thai military strikes inside Cambodia, according to Information Minister Neth Pheaktra.

Seizure of South Yemen by UAE-backed STC forces could lead to independence claim www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Reports of Nigerian airstrikes in Benin to stabilise the constitutional order per ECOWAS protocols

Deadly RSF drone attack on kindergarten reported in Sudan, with at least 50 civilians killed including 33 children www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"At some point the men began waving to something overhead, which three people familiar with the briefing said logically must have been U.S. aircraft flying above them. All three interpreted the actions of the men as signaling for help, rescue, or surrender."

Our interactive tracker has been updated to include this latest strike which reportedly killed 4 people. We have now recorded 22 incidents in which 86 people were declared dead. You can view the tool and specific incidents here: airwars.org/conflict/u-s... x.com/Southcom/sta...

“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service.”

The US government is now targeting anyone applying for a H-1b visa that have worked on "activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Bellingcat's latest, which has a very cool interactive map used to tell the story, which is worth the price of admission alone: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

A U.S. official said the U.S. military struck the boat on Sept. 2 four times, twice to kill the 11 people on board, and twice more to sink the vessel.-PBS

In a time of despair of international law falling down around us, Katharine Fortin as editor of NQHR writes elegantly on the individual as the ultimate unit of international law and hope with human rights journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

EXCLUSIVE: Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

🌍 Armed conflict leaves behind environmental impacts that cripple communities. In this post, @unep.org’s Disasters & Conflicts Branch reflects upon decades of helping countries address the toxic legacies of war, from emergency response to long-term recovery. Read more → bit.ly/4payfE9

List of world's greediness people

🚨 Major #ICC news: Libyan national Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri is in ICC custody in The Hague following his surrender from Germany. He faces charges relating to alleged war crimes & crimes against humanity committed in Libya's detention centres. icc-cpi.int/news/situati... #ASP24

Important piece by my @justsecurity.org colleague and former Navy JAG @marknevitt.bsky.social. www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...

“At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations for victims of colonialism.” Colonialism still shapes our present. Colonial states need to make reparations for their harms.

An exhaustive and utterly damning assesment. "In sum, there is simply no plausible argument that the reported killing of two survivors clinging to the burning wreckage of their stricken vessel could be anything other than an extrajudicial killing." www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

SAS war crimes in Afghanistan evidence suppressed by senior officers, inquiry hears www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not a war, just blatant murder with excessive force

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Some thoughts on how and why the obligation to respect the right to life applies to U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers on the high seas. open.substack.com/pub/craigxma...

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Russian Frozen Assets: A Necessity for European Stability 💶 Still, many European leaders expect Brussels to finalize the mechanism soon and unlock these funds under clear guarantees. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/russian-froz...

💔 A 12-year-old girl has died in Ternopil after attack on the city on November 19. Medics fought for Adriana's life for 9 days. Her mother was also killed in the attack, and her sister is currently in hospital. The death toll in Ternopil has risen to 35.

This summer, Donald Trump announced that he had “stopped” the war in the Congo—one of eight (or perhaps nine) conflicts that he claims to have resolved in his quest for a Nobel Peace Prize. But the reality is more complex, Jon Lee Anderson reports. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AnnWRT

The Evolving Jihadist Drone Threat to the West www.militantwire.com/p/the-evolvi...

Taliban accuses Pakistan of killing 10 – including nine children – in strikes on Afghanistan www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...