Hizbollah

human rights, International Law, Iran, Lebanon, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council November 25, 2011

Crisis in Lebanon: Hezbollah versus the United Nations, International Law, and the World Community

(Developing Story) Following the death of Antonio Cassesse, the former president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the new president, Judge Sir David Baragwanath, visited…

China, coverage of foreign events, Crimes Against Humanity, Dictatorship, extrajudicial execution, France, History, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, NATO, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, State Department, syria, Torture, Turkey, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, united arab emirates, United Kingdom, United States, use of force, war crimes November 19, 2011

REPRISE: Syria and the Shame of the World

Originally published August 20, 2011 Bashar Al-Assad is pursuing the Libyan solution to civilian demonstrations–turn your tanks and your weapons on the demonstrators, and kill…

Barack Obama, China, Crimes Against Humanity, Czechoslovakia, extrajudicial execution, History, human rights, International Law, Lebanon, Libya, NATO, Russia, State Department, syria, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, United Kingdom, United States, use of force, war crimes August 20, 2011

Syria — And the Shame of the World

(Developing) Bashar Al-Assad is pursuing the Libyan solution to civilian demonstrations–turn your tanks and your weapons on the demonstrators, and kill as many of them…

human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Iran, Israel, Lebanon July 12, 2011

Der Spiegel on Nasrallah, Hezbollah, and the STL Indictments

Der Spiegel, in a crtical review of the position taken by Hezbollah with respect to the STL and the indictments related to the 2005 assassination…

Afghanistan, Argentina, Baltasar Garzón, Barack Obama, CIA, Crimes Against Humanity, Germany, Hamid Karzai, History, human rights, Intelligence, International Law, Justice Department, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, State Department, Taliban, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Convention Against Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, United States July 1, 2011

Update: Torture, The STL in Lebanon, and Obama’s “Way Forward” in Afghanistan

Today we introduce a new feature in The Trenchant Observer, an occasional column commenting on some of the more important events of the previous weeks…