The U.S. launched a drone strike in the southern Philippines early this month that reportedly killed 15 members of the Islamic terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, raising concerns about the legality of U.S. drones in the country. One of those killed was...
The Obama administration’s top Pentagon lawyer on Wednesday said that courts have no business questioning executive branch decisions about whom to target for extra-judicial execution in the war on terror, even if that target is an American citizen. "Belligerents who...
Two U.S. drones strikes in north-west Pakistan have killed up 21 people on Thursday and wounded several others, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistani officials said that the first attack launched two missiles and killed at least five "militants," and wounded...
A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region on Thursday, killing three people and wounding three others, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The attack was the second strike in two days, with another on Wednesday that...
Congress this week has passed a bill that will give commercial, private, and military drone aircraft greater access to U.S. airspace that’s currently reserved only for manned planes. By September 30, 2015, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) like the kind used by the CIA...
A U.S. drone attack fired missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Wednesday, killing eight people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, barred from speaking about foreign...
President Barack Obama readily confirmed the drone war in northwest Pakistan in an interview Monday, breaking with the protocol which normally demands U.S. officials not speak publicly about the classified program. "I want to make sure people understand actually...
Iran's foreign minister on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan stop allowing the U.S. to launch spy drones from Afghan bases to be flown over Iranian airspace, or else it will be received as a threatening act. “We have demanded the government of Afghanistan study the...
The United States has removed Predator drones from Iraq and deployed them to Turkey in support of Ankara's fight against Kurdish rebels. In one aspect of the precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, equipment like drones are being freed up for use in other countries in the...
Drone technology is advancing faster than the public or the legal system has time to catch up to their now ubiquitous use in America's many war zones. US troops in Afghanistan will soon be able to deploy what's called the Switchblade, a miniature drone that can be...
