Anthony Clark Arend

The  New York Times is reporting:
A French appeals court on Tuesday overturned terrorist conspiracy convictions for five former inmates of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp who had been tried and convicted in 2007, after they were returned to France.
The court ruled that information gathered by French intelligence officials in interrogations at Guantánamo Bay violated French rules for permissible evidence, and …

Earlier today, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court, issued a press release indicating that it would rule on March 4 on the question of whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan.
Stay tuned.

My friend and Georgetown colleague, Robert J. Lieber, has an extremely thoughtful op ed in today’s Washington Post on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. He offers “four hard truths” about the conflict:
First, despite the tragic deaths of civilians, Israeli’s airstrikes have been precisely aimed at Hamas fighters, installations and rocket launchers. Inevitably, the use of force causes injury and …

The New York Times is reporting this morning:
Pakistan is moving some troops away from its western border with Afghanistan, where the United States has pressed it to combat Taliban militants, and stopping many soldiers from going on leave amid rising tensions with India, senior Pakistani officials said Friday. A senior military official said in an interview that the decision to …

The New York Times reports:
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced Monday that it would end its 16-year mission in Georgia early next year because it had been unable to resolve a deadlock with Russia over whether to treat the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign nations.The mission has overseen negotiations between clashing sides in …