Furthermore, a lack of trust between the belligerents could reduce the likelihood of an agreement and complicate effective monitoring and verification. Here, the conclusions of IR research are ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. Of course, the United States has its own notable history of territorial expansionism — ...

“The belligerents must respect international human rights norms particularly in areas they have captured or are in control of, by ensuring the rights of all are protected,” Ndasi says.

Meant to appease the former belligerents, it created a complicated system of checks and balances, said to be the world's most complex democracy. On Thursday, Dodik — who has rejected the ...

This followed Burhan’s declaration that the UN envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, would no longer be tolerated in the country, a stark sign of the belligerents’ refusal to cooperate with ...

To assist a fragile 1983 ceasefire in Lebanon, the Reagan administration deployed Marines to separate the belligerents. Tragically, 241 were killed when their barracks were destroyed by a ...

He insisted that the country belongs to all Kenyans and what one is or what a person believes in does not matter. The President said we all share a country and its success is the success of all ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the ...

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said Paris was “not preparing to send ground troops as belligerents to the conflict, to the front” in Ukraine. In an interview with French regional ...

In the name of his good relations with Putin, the Republican president could have played the role of an honest mediator between the belligerents. He did the opposite. Even before the opening of ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.