Twenty-six members of Congress have called on President Barack Obama to provide a legal justification for so-called “signature” drone strikes that the CIA and special operations forces have been launching in Pakistan and Yemen. Signature strikes are drone bombings...
US Drone Strike Kills 9 in Yemen
A US drone strike on Wednesday in Yemen's southeastern Shabwa province killed nine people, described by anonymous tribal and Yemeni government sources as 'al-Qaeda militants.' "A US drone struck a house where al-Qaeda militants were meeting, and a car nearby," in the...
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