Since Russia first began its military invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, several videos of Russian prisoners of war (POWs) have gone viral. The videos often show the POWs speaking out against Russia’s ...

"There's a reason why we sign these treaties: to protect my son in the military," Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware hissed at the attorney general through his enormous teeth. "That's why we have these ...

The first Geneva Convention was signed in 1864 to protect the sick and wounded in times of war. Since then, there have been numerous additions and revisions to this statute. The Geneva Conventions ...

On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, twenty-nine leading experts in the field of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) from around the world gathered at Case Western Reserve University ...

With a total of 196 state parties, there are no other international treaties as widely ratified as the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War. But these important treaties are showing their ...

GENEVA (AP) – The International Committee of the Red Cross says South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, has signed on to the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare, making the treaties “truly ...