Look up hors de combat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hors de combat (French: [ɔʁ də kɔ̃ba]; lit. 'out of combat') is a French term used in the laws...

disabled aircraft during wartime. Such parachutists are considered hors de combat and it is made a war crime to attack them in an interstate armed conflict...

Human's Rights Office, "allegations of summary executions of people hors de combat should be promptly, fully and effectively investigated, and any perpetrators...

important human rights provisions. Protected persons are those hors de combat (outside of combat) or not taking part in hostilities in a situation of armed...

Geneva Conventions, adopted in June 1977); combatants who are placed hors de combat; and neutral persons, such as peacekeepers, who are not involved in...

members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances...

summary execution and torture of Russian prisoners of war and persons hors de combat reportedly perpetrated by members of Ukrainian armed forces." As reported...

third possible derivation but says "The assertion of De Brieux (Origines [...] de plusieurs façons de parler (1672) 16) that it arose in an agreement between...

face a trial for any alleged part in the war crimes based on these hors de combat killings. Mohnke strongly denied the accusations against him, telling...

a captured, drunken Japanese officer. This resulted in more than 20 US combat deaths from the Japanese soldiers the Americans assumed would surrender...