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Noun
Plural for a person who engages in combat without meeting the requirements for a lawful belligerent according to the laws of war as specified in the Third Geneva Convention
“Prisoner-of-war status would have allowed detainees to limit their responses to their name, rank and serial number, while unlawful combatants can be interrogated.”