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16 Oct 2015, 12:56 pm by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
Turkish fighter jets have shot down a drone flying in Turkish airspace near the Syrian border, the New York Times reports. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 1:53 pm by Alex R. McQuade
At least 38 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured in a eruption of violence throughout Aleppo. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 10:14 am by Quinta Jurecic
More news has come in on the discovery, made yesterday, of a truck filled with bodies abandoned east of Vienna. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 12:47 pm by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
After intercepting communications suggesting that ISIS may have downed the Russian jetliner that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, British investigators now strongly believe that a bomb in the plane’s hold was responsible for the crash, the Wall Street Journal reports. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 12:03 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
With about a week or so to go until the halfway point of the congressional review period, President Obama is intensifying his campaign to rally support for the nuclear deal with Iran. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 10:43 am by Elina Saxena, Quinta Jurecic
The Islamic State is now ransoming two foreign hostages kidnapped in Syria, one Norwegian and one Chinese citizen. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 1:09 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Calling South Korea’s decision to suspend operations at the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone a “declaration of war,” North Korea has moved to kick out all South Koreans from the area. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 11:37 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
The Kremlin has denied accusations that it hacked the Democratic National Committee’s emails in order to interfere with the U.S. presidential election in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump, dismissing the allegations as “an old trick” and a “maniacal attemp[t] to exploit the Russian theme in the U.S. election campaign. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 10:16 am by Jordan Brunner
The Wall Street Journal tells us that President Donald Trump has rolled back another Obama-era national security policy by granting the CIA increased authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 12:56 pm by Elina Saxena
In a new exposé about the Islamic State’s oil trade, the Daily Beast’s Matthew Reed writes that while the “majority of ISIS oil is purchased by locals inside ISIS territory," the Syrian regime itself “has done business with ISIS from day one, just as it did with al Qaeda’s Nusra Front and other rebels who took over energy assets early in the war. [read post]
27 Jul 2023, 8:56 am by Guest Author
As readers of this blog know well, the major questions doctrine (MQD) has become a staple of contemporary administrative law practice. [read post]
27 May 2016, 6:30 am by Jim Sedor
Florida – Facing Bribery Charges, Opa-locka Commissioner Rams SUV into Tree, Killing HimselfMiami Herald – Charles Rabin, Jay Weaver, David Ovalle, and Michael Sallah | Published: 5/24/2016 Days before Opa-locka Commissioner Terence Pinder was ordered to turn himself over to prosecutors on corruption charges, he agonized to a friend over the shame of his imminent arrest. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 8:37 am by Ken White
WAKE UP WAKE UP THEY'RE COMING FOR ME I NEED BAIL MONEY wat THE FBI THEY'LL BE HERE ANY MINUTE BECAUSE I ATE THAT NO-GLUTEN BROWNIE AT AN OSCARS PARTY IN LOS FELIZ What the hell is going on? [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Russia has started to move artillery to areas in northern Syria where Syrian government forces have begun to group up, potentially in preparation for a return to fighting. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 12:48 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory this week. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 6:00 am by Hayley Evans
According to Lawfare contributing editor and senior staff researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, Nicholas Weaver, autonomous weapons are not a “hypothetical threat tomorrow,” but rather “a real threat today. [read post]
11 May 2023, 2:32 am by centerforartlaw
By Sophia Williams From 1933 to 1945, during the Nazi party’s rise to power, the Nazis looted, confiscated, or involuntarily transferred more than half a million artworks owned by Jewish art collectors and other victims.[1] Following Nazi party looting before and after World War II, thousands of artworks ended up in museum collections around the world, including in New York, and remain there today.[2] A recent act passed in August 2022 “to amend the education law, in relation to notice… [read post]