The first convictions took place after the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after World War Two - but what are modern examples of ...

Opinion: The authors of this op-ed argue the U.S. military is only at its best when lethality works in concert with its ...

President Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza and remove the entire Palestinian population would be ethnic cleansing, pure and simple, and a blatant violation of international law. Utah ...

Amid the bloodiest war in American history, President Lincoln codified fundamental aspects of the laws of armed conflict in the Lieber Code, which formed the foundation for the Geneva Conventions.

The last legal document considering starvation as a legitimate means of warfare was the Lieber Code of 1863, used during the American Civil War, he said. However, international humanitarian law ...

In recent times, it began with the Lieber Code. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Abraham Lincoln “wanted to provide instructions to Union officers on the particularly complicated legal ...