Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law Volume 18, 2015

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950975Cover picture: Musa, a 25-year-old Kurdish marksman, stands atop a building as he looks at the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish frontier on 30 January 2015, after Kurdish forces recaptured the town from the jihadists on 26 January of that year. Photo: Bulent Kilic. Reproduced with permission: www.anpfoto.nl Collection AFP The views expressed in this Yearbook are not necessarily those of the members of the Editorial Board, the Board of Advisors to the Editorial Board, the Board of Recommendation and/or those institutions they represent, including the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and T.M.C. Asser Press.© t.m.c. asser press and the authors 2016 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.