Why is President Donald Trump so committed to having the minimally qualified Pete Hegseth at the head of the Department of Defense? Trump tends to like telegenic people that he’s seen on TV. Check.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The Clint Eastwood movie the military disowned was 'Heartbreak Ridge', which allegedly featured a scene of Eastwood's ...

The Geneva Conventions and Protocols try specifically to protect all human beings affected by armed conflict, especially those who are not, or no longer, directly engaged in hostilities.

The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols ... in the Field that obliged armies to care for wounded soldiers, no matter their allegiance, and introduced the emblem of a red cross ...

Although there is no treaty that specifically regulates cluster munitions, Additional Protocol I of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions offers internationally accepted legal standards for evaluating ...

The 1951 Refugee Convention, supplemented by its 1967 Protocol, help protect them. They are the cornerstone of refugee protection and the key legal documents that form the basis of UNHCR’s work. The ...

The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties – four, to be precise – agreed by representatives of national governments between 1864 and 1949. Further protocols were added in ...

At his confirmation hearing, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, refused to say whether the U.S. should abide by the Geneva Convention. Hegseth has also called a two-state solution to the Israeli ...

The four Geneva Conventions, agreed by every country, set out how soldiers and civilians should be treated in war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern ...

The Geneva Conventions are four separate treaties negotiated and re-negotiated by international committees between 1864 and 1977 to govern human rights during wartime. Henri Dunant, founder of the ...

No international rules existed. In 1864, twelve nations signed the first Geneva Convention, which guaranteed neutrality to medical personnel who would be identified by the special emblem of a red ...