Salon.com: A report by a UN expert urges the US to ‘release its own data on the level of civilian casualties’ caused by drone strikes and attacks the lack of transparency surrounding CIA and US special forces drone operations. Ben Emmerson, a British barrister and UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, […]
by Chris Woods The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Bureau is publishing in full a leaked internal document – titled Details of Attacks by NATO Forces/Predators in FATA – which […]
by Frédéric Burnand in Geneva, swissinfo.ch May 20, 2013 – 11:01 The intensive use of drones by the Obama administration is feeding a wave of protest and criticism which reaches […]
A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in […]
Le Figari report based on an interview with a Western military source based in the Middle East and has not been confirmed by anyone else; Jordanian decision reportedly made following […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 24 February 2013 WASHINGTON: The United States has deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali, a US defense official said Friday. The unarmed robotic aircraft are flying out of Niamey at a base with a […]
By Rami G. Khouri STORY SUMMARY If you want to better understand the best and worst aspects of the American system of government and the morality that underpins it, you should follow one of the most fascinating developments taking place in Washington these days: the debate that has opened on […]
By Nicola Abé SPIEGEL.DE A soldier sets out to graduate at the top of his class. He succeeds, and he becomes a drone pilot working with a special unit of […]
By Heather Hurlburt US NEWS Heather Hurlburt is the executive director of the National Security Network in Washington, D.C. Heather previously served in the Clinton administration as speechwriter to the […]
By Barbara Lochbihler The Daily Star, Lebanon “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the American poet Carl Sandburg wrote hopefully in 1936. His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic. Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones – or […]
Jennifer Gibbson reports on LA Times Last week, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving but never-ending war on terror. Unfortunately, many commentators missed the report’s key message: Drones are terrorizing an entire civilian population. I was one of […]
Israel has entered the airspace beyond the Lebanon border with impunity, yet is in uproar over the existence of Ayoub. by Belen FernandezBelen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial […]
Drone warfare is one of the greatest inventions of civilization. It has allowed us to take Anwar Awalaki out (One of the top Al-Qaeda operatives) with least collateral damage and minimal revenge multiplier. However, the abuse of drone warfare has gone too far….. We don’t like the terrorist killing innocent […]
Russian TV: Despite continuing pleads to abolish drone strikes in Pakistan, the United States used an unmanned aircraft to target a girls’ school over the weekend, executing four suspected militants […]
HOAN:Djibouti City A US drone strike has killed at least 15 civilians and injured dozens of others in the southern region of war-torn Somalia, Press TV reports. The unmanned plane […]
WASHINGTON — US officials suspect that Yemen fed them false intelligence for a 2010 strike against Al Qaeda suspects that killed a local leader locked in a dispute with the president’s family, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The disclosure of such an incident would complicate relations between the two […]