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Before you try and educate me.. let me help you.. US didn't declare war on anybody. They used a authorized use of military force (AUMF). Thus the US is not at war with anybody so rules of warfare don't apply and was the basis of the argument for detaining those captured without trial. So US hasn't declared war in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, or even the Philippines. So by law it's not a War.
Not exactly. The terrorists are "unlawful combatants" as defined by the laws of war. Moreover, prisoners of war may be detained without trial for the duration of the conflict. In the case of this war, that could be several decades.