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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello by Dr Saeed Bagheri
This book looks at the aim of the Islamic State to create an effective government with an economically independent regime which focused on key oil fields in Syria and Iraq. The question asked is whether the targeting of energy resources should be regarded as a violation of the laws of armed conflict despite the war with Islamic State being classified as a non-international armed conflict. Ambitious in scope the study also explores the relevant oil pollution precedents in the First Gulf War (1990–1991) and the Israel-Hezbollah War in 2006.