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War & International Law

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After Ras Laffan, the Record

In April 1999 bombs fell on the chemical plants of Pančevo. A quarter of a century later, a study of the bombing records that the quantities released are "impossible to determine" and that no research has said what they did to people. In March 2026 Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan, the heart of Qatar's gas industry. The Balkans cannot tell Qatar what will happen. They can tell it what is lost when nobody writes the record down.

By What Comes Next · Legal Smart·
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Niš, Before Noon

Srđan Aleksić's study of the 1999 bombing reconstructs, from the reports of Niš doctors, what a single cluster attack did to a hospital, a market and the people in them.

By Conflict & History Desk·
8 min read

The Fire Does Not Stop at the Border

In 1991, the oil wells of Kuwait burned for most of a year and their smoke and oil crossed into neighbouring states. It remains the only time the world made a state pay for the environmental damage of a war. Thirty-five years later, oil is burning again in the same region.

By Conflict & History Desk·