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8 May 2020, 5:00 am
” Those words were spoken by Liu Zhenmin, then the vice foreign minister for the People’s Republic of China, at a July 2016 press conference in Beijing. [read post]
4 May 2020, 8:07 am
., a Dutch corporation, has been attempting in litigation in Quebec to garnish assets of the Republic of Iraq. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
These include four that the State Department placed on that list in December 2019—Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, and Uzbekistan—as well as 11 others—Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Central African Republic (CAR), Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and Turkey....The 2020 Annual Report further recommends to the State Department six non-state actors for designation as “entities of particular concern” (EPCs) for systematic, ongoing,… [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 3:34 am
Executions in Iraq almost doubled from at least 52 in 2018 to at least 100 in 2019, while Saudi Arabia executed a record number of people from 149 in 2018 to 184 in 2019.Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Zimbabwe either took positive steps or made pronouncements in 2019 which may lead to the abolition of the death penalty.Barbados also removed the mandatory death penalty from its Constitution. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 5:00 am
The camp arguing for a muscular response to Iran’s proxies in Iraq sees the Islamic Republic as particularly vulnerable now while it is being devastated by the spread of the coronavirus within the country and among its leadership and military. [read post]
9 Apr 2020, 8:21 am
-initiated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; ongoing conflicts in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and eastern Ukraine—proxies have featured prominently. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 3:41 pm
Soon after Taiwan’s Vice President-elect William Lai Ching-te visited the United States in early February, People’s Republic of China (PRC) military aircraft crossed the dividing line in the Taiwan Strait into Taiwan’s airspace two days in a row. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 10:05 am
It has provided ventilators and other supplies to Italy, given protective equipment to Liberia, furnished testing kits to the Philippines, given masks to the Czech Republic, and sent medical teams to Iraq. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 5:26 pm
Elsewhere in the region, Iraq is on a one-week lockdown. [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
This third kind of propaganda operates by undermining the structural checks that a free press plays in a democratic republic. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 3:41 pm
Following intense negotiations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Russian Federation late Monday night, new language was added to the resolution. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 12:57 pm
There has been some, but really not much, effort to report on what had become one of the great networking and narrative controlling events in the West for the "security" crowd--the Munich Security Conference, whose 56th meeting was recently held. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:11 am
Both the Bush and Obama administrations construed the 2002 AUMF to provide the domestic legal authority for armed conflict against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, and for military force against armed militia groups that sought to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq after the regime fell.14 I personally do not believe the 2001 AUMF covers armed conflict against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, or, as some have argued, that the 2002 AUMF for Iraq can be stretched to have… [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 2:43 pm
In his report, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security recognized a close cooperative relationship between the United States and the democratically elected government of Iraq, the strong United States diplomatic presence in Iraq, the significant presence of United States forces in Iraq, and Iraq’s commitment to combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). [read post]
26 Jan 2020, 7:00 am
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the administration wants Iran to reverse course on its entire regional strategy, given that it blames Iran for the ongoing horrors in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 12:12 pm
As of this writing, no evidence is available that Iraq consented to the strike, and it is unlikely that Iraq would give permission to its longtime enemy to conduct a strike against US forces on its soil. [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 7:04 am
Presumably, this does not mean removing U.S. soldiers from Iraq, almost all of whom are engaged in activities that have no bearing on Iran. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 1:36 pm
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Sean Quirk analyzed new movements by the People’s Republic of China in the South China Sea. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 8:37 am
In December 2016, The United Nation’s General Assembly has set up “the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to assist in the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for the most serious crimes under International Law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 1:32 pm
ICYMI: This Weekend on Lawfare In Water Wars, Sean Quirk analyzed new movements by the People’s Republic of China in the South China Sea. [read post]
